Crysis: Warhead arriving 19th September

[Golem]

In case you weren't aware, the follow up (note - not the sequel) to Crysis is available from Friday the 19th of this month.

Warhead puts you in the nano-shoes of that lovable mouthy Brit you saw in the first game - 'Psycho'. Warhead deals with what adventures he went through while not at your side during the events of vanilla Crysis. Initial reviews are rating it rather well, stating more varied action, a more optimised engine, improved visuals and better AI.

Here's one review.

Play.com sell it for about fifteen quid. When I get hold of it I can tell you more, unless someone beats me to it.

[CyberDrac]

Steam are doing quite a good deal on it, personally I find Steam's pricing to be all over the place, some games work out very reasonable, others remain extortionately high for ever. I may well be getting this, I like the idea of them tweaking the graphics so that it's actually playable.

edit: a case in point ... Crysis Warhead a very reasonable $29.99 so about £15.00 plus taxes, roughly equivalent to the boxed price, if you add Crysis to it and you jump to $79.98 a leap of $49.99 for the older game that's been out for over 6 months ... bizarre

[Golem]

Unfortunately it's often the tax that stuffs up Steam's pricing even on their better deals. Through Steam we can get the Crysis Complete Pack. This is up for $69.98. xe.com makes this about £39.20.

If you go to play.com (no delivery charge) and buy both Crysis (£27) and Warhead (£15), that's £42. I'd guess that, after the Steam purchase taxes are added, I'd be better going with the UK retailer.

I want to buy both as well; I borrowed antiflow's copy for ages and I returned it to him at LLX.


EDIT: Interesting interview with the one of the Crytek team discussing the lessons they learned from Crysis and the public's response, and how Warhead benefitted: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3 ... aking_.php