Crysis 3 belongs to the most popular genre of computer entertainment - shooters. Such games were always the first to step forward in terms of graphics. They are at the top of technology. But Crysis is not just a shooter, its action takes place in a fantasy world, and the quality of special effects and their quantity for creating other worlds is always an order of magnitude higher than those that distinguish other PC games. System requirements are described in the same way - faster, stronger more powerful.
History tour
The best benchmark in the history of video games - with these words, the gaming press described the first part of the trilogy. In it, the developers laid on their shoulders an impossible task - to put three drinks in one jug at the same time - an open world, an exciting story, and chic graphics. Something turned out well, something ugly, but no one blamed Crytech for its disgusting graphics.
The game has become a reference model, dividing the shooters in two - before and after Crysis. The image painted almost photographic landscapes. Naturally, a game that raised the bar for quality required maximum resources. The developers of the Crisis shooter themselves joked about this topic without hiding. System requirements for playing on ultra-high quality were immensely high. At the time of its release, no user computer could provide the necessary configuration.
The computer hardware has long overtaken the maximum of those years, and the authors went ahead without fear. Is there no more reference? The standard will be! Trying to take into account the mistakes of the previous project, they presented Crysis 2 - a completely different game to the public. Without an open world, but with interesting gameplay. And again, they got a beautiful picture, which many were equal to, but did not get a good game. Excessive system requirements also forced gamers to break piggy banks for an extraordinary upgrade, and for good reason - I wanted to admire the picture. Only ... I did not want to play.
Our days
In 2013, the public appeared a new brainchild of Crytech with the old name - the game "Crisis 3". System requirements again made any top-end hardware obsolete before our eyes. Of course, graphics came to the fore again, starting with light and shadow and ending with facial expressions of characters. Everything is done at the highest level. Even the videos on the game engine fade compared to the gameplay. The picture that CryEngine draws of the latest generation is admirable. Few will be able to take this bar of detail in 2015.
A good picture is not only about bright colors
Still, the clouds will have to thicken. The world inside the game is made of plastic. Incredibly beautiful grass, rain, high-resolution effects, high-quality lighting - all this is atmospheric, but only when they become the main characters from the scenery. It is necessary to dull attention, leaving all these little things in the background, and Crysis begins to remind a demo of what is really achievable today. Advertising a native engine, but not a finished product.
From words to numbers
Well, let's move on to the dry numbers, reflecting reality, not subject to deformation, depending on the degree of subjectivity of the author of the review of the game "Crisis 3". The minimum system requirements for a comfortable game are as follows:
- Video card: 1 GB (mandatory DirectX 11 support).
- Dual-core processor with a frequency of 2.4 GHz.
- RAM: 2 GB
Recommended computer settings:
- Video card: 1 GB (mandatory DirectX 11 support).
- Central processor with four cores.
- RAM: 4 GB.
These are the system requirements. Crisis 3, however, in reality requires twice as much. Get an Intel Core i7 processor (or Bulldozer FX4150 if you're an AMD fan). The video card Nvidia GTX 680 (or Radeon HD7970 for AMD) is suitable. 8 GB RAM. Do not forget to stock up 20 GB of free space on the HDD, regardless of the quality settings.
HDD size matters
Someone will exclaim: "Twenty gigabytes! This is a lot!" But without increasing the size of the final product, no one can cope today. Textures become larger, so they require more space. The number of polygons increases in the models, and the record about each vertex needs to be stored somewhere, the rules for their interaction should also be specified strictly.
Developers refuse strong compression of graphic materials, because the quality deteriorates as a result. Videos connecting chapters or levels are also placed in games today without being squeezed in HD quality. You can sing the same ode to the sound. And a few minutes of a beautiful melody without compression takes about a hundred megabytes.
Therefore, it turns out that the “Crisis 3” system requirements are many times greater than those for the first part. And this happens not only with this title.
Why so much?
Everything is growing, everything is developing. Games are also growing. Over time, they evolve, and more resources are needed to feed the “processor” for processing textures, animations, and effects (which is the game engine).
Naturally, each game has different system requirements for hardware. "Crisis 3" is much more capricious than competitors. How can this be explained?
Crytech specialists are not just game maidens, they create a standard over and over again, for the graphic achievements of which many others have to chase for several more years. It is such breakthroughs that make fans run to the store for a new video card for their laptop, engineers - to develop better methods of processing information, developers - to create better products. And the overpriced system requirements for Crisis 3 are worth following. Such games provide an opportunity to at least approximately look into the future of computer entertainment.