For all those looking forward to having their PC hardware pawned all over again or just looking for a game that will show how PC will always be the big daddy of gaming, Crysis: Warhead is looming just in the horizon. Crytek’s lastet game, Crysis: Warhead will be seeing a 17th September release in North America and a world-wide release the very next day.

Ofvcourse, for us poor souls here in India, release dates hardly matter. For all those prepared to relive the month long wait just like Crysis, there is some good news in form of Steam. Crysis: Warhead will be available on Steam at a price-point of INR 1601.50 (USD 34.99). If you have some more dough to spare, you can grab the combo pack of Crysis and Crysis: Warhead for INR 2745.30 (USD 59.98). Both the packs are available for pre-purchase here.

Now if you’re done collecting your jaw…

With the madness of September and October behind us, one would have hoped to find some time to sit down and breathe. But do the folks at Crytek love to prove us wrong! Crysis is due out November 16, while the single-player demo was supposed to flood gamers’ desktops with happiness way back on the-day-nothing-happened. Fortunately, the demo finally found its way to the light, on the 26th of October.

The Multiplayer demo had slipped out with much less fanfare a few weeks ago. Concerns were raised over graphics and performance, and dark clouds were beginning to gather in gamers’ minds: Was the game over-hyped? Will the factors of the Valenzetti Equation never change? Are we all doomed to die and burn in hell?! The answers lie ahead… Some of them, at least.

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That’s right, among all the action happening these days, with BioShock getting leaked, the upcoming Call of Duty 4 beta and tomorrow’s demo for Medal of Honor: Airborne, it looks like we’ve all but forgotten our DirectX 10 poster child - Crysis. Talking to Eurogamer about Crysis‘ multiplayer modes, Crytek boss Cevat Yerli has confirmed that it will just have two multiplayer modes to choose from, instead of the previously announced four.

Dropping the Team Action and Capture The Flag modes, Crysis will just feature the good ol’ deathmatching called Instant Action and the UT2004 Onslaught-ish Power Struggle modes. Explaining that these two modes were the ones that saw the most action from playtesters, Cevat Yerli said:

“Team action mode was a bit more of a tactical mode… The closest game to it was Counter-Strike.

We had to drop it because we didn’t feel that people were favouring Team Action. The fact it was similar to Counter-Strike was another reason not to have it, but not the number one reason - internal tests showed that people gravitated either to Instant Action or Power Struggle.

For us it was a matter of focus and saying, ‘Let’s make sure power struggle is really big’ and focusing on that. We balanced the hell out of it to make sure everything’s tuned and tweaked, so we’re sure we have something strong in multiplayer.”

Powered by GameSpy matchmaking services, Crysis‘ multiplayer beta will soon go up as a FilePlanet exclusive, whereas the game itself is set for a big launch in November, that is, provided, another delay announcement doesn’t come through.

[via Eurogamer]

More release date frenzy going around this week, and what bigger name to kick off the rabid masses on a posting frenzy than the DirectX 10 poster child, Crysis. Developed by the geniuses at Crytek and distributed by the greedy pigs at EA, Crysis will hit retail shelves across the United States and Europe on November 16, 2007. While the release is exclusive to the PC, Crytek head honcho Cevat Yerli has hinted that its not entirely impossible that we will never see an Xbox 360 or PS3 version of the game in the near future. With an original musical score by award-winning composer Inon Zur, featuring “sweeping themes, immersive setup pieces, intense action music, and “otherworldly” musical soundscapes”, Crysis will be the one of the first games that is hyped to stress out all existing computer hardware well beyond any limits seen so far, thanks to its photorealistic environments. Apart from the much touted single player campaign, Crysis will also ship with a new multiplayer gametype called “PowerStruggle” - which will see 32 players battling for control of advanced weapons and vehicles, as well as a regular “Instant Action” deathmatch mode. One thing’s for sure, thanks to this time, I’ve all but forgotten how to spell “crisis”.