Following a fair amount of speculation regarding just what the system requirements for Electronic Arts' upcoming shooter, Crysis, will be, the publisher has come clean.

Back when SPOnG had a chat with Alex Werner, designer of Crysis, he told us of the then-undisclosed system requirements, “We are still optimising the game, and any specifications we would give now will be obsolete later. But we can tell you that a gamer’s PC you would buy now will be enough to handle the game. Our motto for benchmarking always has been that we will benchmark against any great game on the same PC to stay cutting-edge.”

The message seems to have changed a mite, however, with Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crysis developer Crytek, putting emphasis on future PC capabilities. Yerli commented, “... while these specs affect how Crysis will perform now, we have also optimized Crysis so that the game scales forward 1-2 years --we want to make sure that Crysis' gameplay, visuals and performance improves as technology does."

That said, Yerli reckons Crytek has done a pretty good job of making Crysis accessible now. “Like putting the proverbial quart into a pint pot, scaling this back through optimization to our stated goal of rigs 2-3 years old has been a huge challenge, but we are very happy with the results so far and specific tweaks are still happening as I type”, he said. “Our recommended and minimum specs have been released today, so we hope this finally puts people at ease about what hardware they will need to get the most out of the game on November 16th."

Cast your eye over the full specs below and let us know what you think in the Forum.



You can catch SPOnG's in-depth chat with Alex Werner here.