7 Reasons Why Crysis Should Come To Consoles

Crysis, that last bastion of PC gaming one might say, a technical tour de force and a brilliant FPS. In these rough times, it definitely occupies a spot of pride on PC gaming's mantelpiece.

PC purists might not think bringing Crysis over to the consoles is the best of ideas. Crysis however needs a much bigger audience to pull it out of the uber PC owning circle of gamers and introduced to a whole new legion of gamers.

Here are 7 reasons why GameGuru.in feels Crysis should come to consoles:

[octodope]

Xbox Live is one reason Crysis should be developed for the consoles, that is the Xbox 360... multiplayer would be great.

[fishd]

Crysis isn't anything special gameplay wise,but visually...damit

[WANNA GET HIGH]

The PS3 dose not need crysis because it has KILLZONE2.
IMO i think killzone2 graphics are better than crysis.I know i sound crazy but im in the beta and what im seeing is amazing.

But if it dose comes to consoles i will buy both killzone2 and crysis.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

If you like LAG, sure...why not put it on Live.

Otherwise, bring that sucker to the PS3!

I've played and beaten it on the PC. I LOVE IT! If the sandbox editor is included on the PS3...we'll have ourselves a second LBP!

[JsonHenry]

Killzone does look crazy good, but there is no comparing it to the PC version of Crysis.

However, the console version of Crysis if it ever comes to pass would probably be trumped by Killzone easy.

[donstar]

You cant compare Crysis and Killzone 2... Killzone 2 will have to be bought to the PC to look half as good as Crysis does! :)

[Marceles]

lol you guys are nuts who don't believe Crysis is the most amazing looking game ever...that's the true benchmark of gaming right now. Console only owners really need to see Crysis in person because there's alot that just don't have a clue. And the gameplay was amazing, super-speed, strength, cloaking...it was like being a Predator. You can't really can't hate on the game...I'm in the Killzone beta and I own and beat Crysis and Warhead. I even have saved screenshots of my own gameplay of Crysis on my computer...console wise Killzone owns, but in gaming in general, nothing touches Crysis. Killzone might be breathing on Crysis, but it's not there yet

[pp]

It will come to Xbox360 first and maybe a port to ps3.

[shadowghost752]

What is this "Xbo360" console you speak of i have never heard of it

/sarcasm

[pp]

I don't know what is it.

[shadowghost752]

It is your piss poor spelling pp, get it? pp= piss poor

[j4gs14]

theres been crisis on the xb360 since launch. and it cost them 1bn. RRO something or other...

[Pennywise]

LOL!!! I love wit!! Keep it up.

[kopicha]

Crysis might be the benchmark for visual quality at the time of release on PC. But it doesnt have the right gameplay that accommodate with the visual. It may have great visual on PC but gameplay wise is a pretty boring game. I dont feel that its worth coming to console. I rahther spend that $60 else where.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Have you played it?

The gameplay is amazing!

[WANNA GET HIGH]

Killzone 2 has both graphics and gameplay.The online beta is very fun...

[kopicha]

yup i heard. i have a friend who is on beta and told me the same thing as well. its a day 1 purchase. :)

[Charmers]

Just buy a cheap PC set Crysis to Low settings and hey presto you are playing the console version (now lets just wait and see all the disagrees mount up).

[Statix]

Didn't Crytek themselves state that the CryEngine 2.0 can run at around High settings on "consoles?"

Source: http://pc.ign.com/articles/...

Granted, that's referencing the engine itself, not necessarily any game in particular, but one can reasonably take it mean that Crysis is thought of as the hypothetical benchmark in mind for how the engine would perform on consoles in an actual in-game situation (being on the sole released game that's ever used that engine, and all). I think that's a fair assumption to make.

[zagibu]

The engine can certainly run at high settings on consoles, IF they limit the content to a single 6 sided room and maybe a few triangles for the enemies.
Otherwise, forget it. It's also not worth it, the game is rather dull.

[Statix]

Personally, the PC can keep it. I don't think there's much interest in seeing this (year-old) FPS ported over.

[Egzekutor]

7 Reasons Why Crysis Should Come To a console (PS3)

PS3 is the only powerful console in the market that can handle Crysis...
360 would simply overheat.

[kevnb]

it was simply a fun FPS with great graphics, if it didn't have great graphics I wouldn't even remember it.

[I Call 9MM]

I own both Crysis games, but I really see no need for this game to come to consoles. Other then pretty graphics it's a pretty standard FPS. Now, an original game in the Crysis series brought over to the Xbox 360 and PS3, that I wouldn't mind too much. The suit powers are kind of neat.

But really, it's just not worth it in my opinion. Graphically, it would loose too much being ported. If you really want achievements, go beg EA to make a patch to turn it into a Games for Windows Live game, see how that works.

[PotNoodle]

Asking for a ps3 programmer to port the cryengine over to the ps3 a few months ago.

[GWAVE]

I hate to sound like a parrot saying the same thing PC fanboys said when Crysis first came out, but Crysis in its current form could not be accomplished on consoles. Here's the deal. Crysis's awesomeness comes from three things:

- excellent visual effects (nice textures, lens flare, lens blur, etc)
- incredibly far draw distances and open-world gameplay
- fully integrated physics engine

I'm sure that a console version could pull off two out of those three things (like nice textures and far draw distances), but not all three. Consoles simply don't have the architecture for that sort of stuff unless you REALLY reworked the Crytek2 engine to focus on CPU power (which is the strength of the PS3 and 360) as opposed to RAM and GPU power (which is what it currently does on PC).

[zagibu]

If you want to sound like an expert, google some expert terms to throw around. Lens flares are extremely resource-unintensive, and could easily be reproduced on any console in the same quality. Lens blur doesn't even exist, you probably meant motion blur. This is also not THAT demanding on the GPU, though. What really sucks GPU-cycles in Crysis is the lighting and the resulting shadows.

[ReTarDedFisHy]

Is already coming to the PS3, but with a TBA release date.
Crytek said that it would be the original Crysis, but with more added features, most likely an extended SP or maybe more MP modes. They said it was going to be Crysis with 50% newer stuff, a Crysis 1.5 if you would.

They also said that it wouldn't be on the 360. I'm pretty sure any one of us can point out what the reason is.

This is yet to be double confirmed (because apparently it was confirmed), but Crytek said they were seriously interested in developing a PS3 version.

[8BitSoul]

It's Crysis for cryin out loud! Just port it to already! I know porting a game form one format to another has it's risks, but as long as it maintains an acceptable visual quality and the awesomenes of the gameplay, it should work out just fine:D I played through Crysis on my laptop with pretty low settings, and I still think it looked great! I would love to see this one on consoles.

[I Call 9MM]

I think the real big hurdle to get this game running on the consoles is their RAM limitations. Both consoles have less the 512 megs available for the game to run (yes, each has 512 megs I know, but some is not available to games due to it being used by the OS of the console. I think both are down quite a bit now thought. 360 uses about 20-30 megs and the PS3 a bit more, but it used to be up to like 70-90 megs while games were running, less now though).

You need memory to store all those textures and other niceties. The PC has room for that, with most users (who have Crysis anyway) have at least 2 gigs of RAM and 256 or more for the video card (more like 512 megs now. Hell, there's 2 gigs in a 4870 X2 and 1 gig in a 280 GTX or some regular 4870s now). This is the big hurdle for this game I think. I'm sure the PS3 has the processing power to handle the physics, and the 360 probably as well, but it's just too limited to be honest without the RAM. And the video chips are pretty weak too on both compared to what is out there in the PC world now.

[Magic_The_Celt]

i dont want it

so it has amazing graphics, but from what iv heard the gameplay is average and the AI, well i dont need to tell you how bad the AI is

[TABSF]

the A.I is only bad when n00bs play on easy, try delta and they are very advanced and will take any good player down

[etownone]

IF this game does come out and it IS multi-plat.....

If it turns out that it looks better on one console, that console is going to have some major braggin rights, for sure! Because it is in fact the best looking game to date.

[Marquis_de_Sade]

But that won't happen so....

[cruckel]

they want to play it and don't have $800 dollars to spend on a new pc?

Here is a reason that they shouldn't port Crysis. Have you played Farcry 2 yet? It was built with the same Engine, but optimized, so it should run and look better?

I hate to say this, but the game looked like crap compared to Crysis. Yes it is open world, and built to be more of a sandbox, but come on, I was upset when i saw Farcry 2 in action on my machine.

Now hear me out, I think Farcry 2 looks beautiful, and I do own both Xbox 360 and a PS3. But after seeing all 3 machines in action, my pc is more capable, and struggles with Crysis.

Optimizing it for console would be great, but don't expect the same thing.

[I Call 9MM]

Uhh, just to point out that Farcry 2 has it's own proprietary engine (Dunia I believe it's called), while Crysis uses the Cryengine2. Both very different (Crytek sold the rights to Ubisoft for FarCry, since they originally designed it be went to EA).

[zagibu]

The Dunia engine is similarly demanding, though.

[TABSF]

all wrong people as far as im am aware non of the yerli have said nothing about Crysis on any console, and that they were making and new exclusive series for both the 360 and ps3.

i know it and u know it and if u dont then ur just fanboys simple as, my 9800 GTX is 70% for powerful than the cell and the RSX put together.
the GTX 280 GPU does 933 GFLOP/s were as the PS3 whole system only does 218 GFLOP/s

and that can play at very high with full AA, AS, shader and high res
my card will play at very high with 4 X AA, 4 X AS, full shader and 720p res which is very low in terms of resolution range for PC and i get about 52Fp/s

[zonetrooper5]

I also think that Dunia has some code from the Farcry 1 engine but not much of it. The only problem I have with Crysis is that the engine was not optimized enough even if you do have a decent computer.

[Lethal_Venom]

Just get over it consolites, it's been over a year and you guys still can't shut up about Crysis. That's really sad.

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

it's too old by now... people are too hooked on Gears, Resistance, and are awaiting KZ2... to even worry about Crysis!

[Marcan21]

I want it so bad! Crysis 1 and Warhead + Crysis 2 on a dual-layered BD might fit :) Crysis isn't that great on my PC...

[cpuchess]

Crysis is not that great. Looks really good but the game itself was kind of boring to me.

[vmartin12]

if you tried to put crysis on it..

lol.