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Crysis Single Player Demo
The Crysis single player demo is now available from a mirror near you.
Who has tried it? What are your thoughts?
Downloaded it this morning. It is about 1.8 gigs so a decent size download.
I haven't played very much, but already it looks amazing. A considerable improvement from Far Cry, which when it was released was amazing in its own right.
The graphics look great, especially the island in the daytime. Items in the environment (for example, trees) can be destroyed, so your own or enemy fire may cut down parts of the landscape, destroying cover.
Gameplay seems good, although I haven't gone very far. The enemy hides/uses cover. Can't really comment on how good the AI is due to the limited time I have spent with it.
Needless to say, this is all quite system-intensive. I have Vista, an E6600 overclocked to 3.2ghz, 2gb of 800mhz RAM, an 8800GTX, and lots of drive space, and I can run the graphics on "very high" for everything, but without AA. If I turn on AA, I get noticeable drops in FPS when there are enemies around, to the point where things get very jerky.
Without AA, it still looks amazing!
I recommend giving this one a go, but unless you have a reasonably high-end system, be prepared to turn the details way down.
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