Here’s the rundown: you’ll be needing Windows XP, which pretty much everybody has by now and many even prefer, though it’ll also run on Vista and 7. You’ll need a Core 2 Duo processor minimum running at two GHz, or an AMD Athlon 64 x2 at the same speed.
Further, you’ll need two gig of RAM, as well as nine gigs of hard drive space, an 8x DVD drive, a DirectX 9.0c compatible audio system, and at least an Nvidia 8800GT or an ATI 3850HD, both with 512 meg.
See what I mean? It’s really not that egregious a hardware profile, which is determinedly odd given how the last time we saw Crysis it had die-hard geeks freaking out all over, even leading to the aforementioned Penny Arcade cartoon in which components from other dimensions were required.
Perhaps the folks out at EA actually learned from previous mistakes and toned down the hardware requirements so that monodimensional mortals like most of the population of Earth could actually play the thing. That would be great, if that were the case, and I choose to believe that’s just what happened. Either way, though, from the looks of it most anyone will be able to walk into the Crysis 2 demo and get started, and if you can’t, well, there are always good possibilities for new computers out there. Turning once again to Best Buy reveals several species of computer ready to do the job with a little boost in the graphics card department.
So if you’re ready for a chunk of new game, make sure your hardware is up to snuff and then get ready to go! This is, of course, why I console game. No one ever asks if your Xbox 360 has enough RAM to handle some game or another. But then, that’s me.
