Crysis and Crysis Warhead Head to Steam

[DigiQ8]

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Crytek and Valve today announced that Crysis Warhead and Crysis are coming to Steam, Both games will be available for pre-purchase via Steam starting this weekend, and expected to be released in mid September.

"The millions of gamers logging into Steam every week to play today's best PC games are going to love Crysis Warhead," said Avni Yerli, Managing Director at Crytek. "Crytek Hungary has done a terrific job creating this new experience while optimizing CryEngine 2, and we're looking forward to delivering it and the original Crysis as our first offerings on Steam."

"Crytek is one of the industry's great success stories, emerging new technology and talent," said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. "Crysis is one of today's leading PC franchises and delivering the original and Crysis Warhead via Steam is landmark for the platform."

The follow up to Crysis, one of the highest rated PC games of last year, Crysis Warhead will take players through the parallel story of Sergeant Michael 'Psycho' Sykes as he embarks on an intense, explosive adventure on the other side of the island. With waves of more challenging human and alien enemies to navigate through, players will once again be outfitted with the revolutionary Nanosuit and an arsenal of new weapons and vehicles to help Psycho complete his critical mission.Crysis Warhead will also come with Crysis Wars?, a tailor-made experience for multiplayer gamers, featuring three diverse match types and 21 maps.

This deal is more between Crytek and Valve than EA and Valve, so don't expect EA games on Steam anytime soon.[br] UPDATE: This is now available

 

[ríomhaire]

Crysis had such a laughablely bad last level.

 

[Ren.182]

Awesome. I'll probably get both!

<3 steam.

 

[Lobster]

This deal is more between Crytek and Valve than EA and Valve, so don't expect EA games on Steam anytime soon.

One day, our people will be free!

 

[DigiQ8]

One day, our people will be free!

One day, We will buy our games and patches from EA Stores.

 

[staticprimer]

Awesome, if I get Warhead I'll get it from Steam. I'd get Crysis too if I didn't already own it.

 

[mocho loco]

aww i wish my pc can run Crysis

but anyways cool

 

[highlander]

yay...maybe.

 

[Asuka]

Valve is conquering the WORLD and that means greatness for gamers!

 

[Avoidist]

Hah, finally an international release! Too bad my comp can't run it... yet.

 

[Nibwoddle]

Man, I didn't think Crysis'd get Steamed. But it happened. And now I must get it once I upgrade my computer.

 

[soulslicer]

That's dam bloody awesome!

 

[Operator]

Now I have a reason to finally buy Crysis

 

[Kadayi]

One day, We will buy our games and patches from EA Stores.

EA store is a complete joke, esp the pricing which is normally much higher than off the shelf retail (look at the price of Spore Vs Amazon/play etc) . I think it merely exists as an entity in order for EA PR dept to be able to tick a box when wooing developers to say 'yes we've a DD platform' but as a point of service I can only imagine the clinically insane or bed ridden actually use it (I'd love to see the figures).

You buy a game at much more than it costs say Amazon to ship you a physical copy for free, and you are only entitled to redownload it for 6 months, though you can extend that time by another 2 years by paying even more cash. And EA CEO John Riccitiello wonders why his company is seen as Evil....:dozey:

Anyhows good to see Crysis coming to Steam. I'm now glad I held off on buying this retail. If the pricing is reasonable I might well get this later in the year.

Oh yeah The Witcher: Enhanced Edition is also coming to Steam as is Multiwinia by introversion.

 

[[Matt]]

You can buy warhead separately?

 

[Deleted member 56031]

I didn't expect this :O

 

[Unfocused]

What's with the "damn, now that it's on Steam, I must get it" logic?

 

[Deleted member 56031]

does warhead have an install limit?

 

[Xendance]

Not that I'm complaining, but why does a 'worldwide' release follow one day after the North America release?

 

[Kadayi]

What's with the "damn, now that it's on Steam, I must get it" logic?

It's not a case of 'must' more 'I'm more likely to'. Personally I absolutely loathe buying games retail now, the discs get scratched, you have tonnes of DVD cases cluttering up the place, etc etc, buying games through Steam suite me perfectly. I can download them, play them, and delete them and then later on download them again if I want. Having something on Steam is infinitely more preferable to me. I've actually bought quite a few games I already own retail copies of through Steam (like the GTA series) simply for the convenience, and because the price point was very acceptable.

 

[Burning Fish]

You can buy warhead separately?

It's a standalone expansion, so yes.

 

[MaDMaXX]

Just bought warhead on steam now, i wish this had happened when crysis came out as i had to get a boxed copy

Just tried to add my boxed crysis code to steam and it wouldn't accept it though, maybe after the weekend?

 

[Hunter-Killer]

Steam is a great place to buy games though I do have a few games (none Valve games may I add) on my Steam account that I will never play again. When they have more compaines up and running on Steam I think they should introduce some kind of trade system or something along those lines.

 

[dogboy73]

I think Warhead is going to have more alien parts. That puts me off because I hated that part on Crysis.

 

[MaDMaXX]

I think Warhead is going to have more alien parts. That puts me off because I hated that part on Crysis.

You think?? lol

No, it doesn't, check out pczone's review of it, they like it a lot and even state the alien parts are better because they usually include Koreans and they have much better AI.

 

[Paulaner]

EA store is a complete joke, esp the pricing which is normally much higher than off the shelf retail (look at the price of Spore Vs Amazon/play etc) .

Steam pricing can be equally... disturbing. Read this.

 

[MaDMaXX]

Yeah, other publishers games get marked up and sold at the RRP by the publisher on Steam.

 

[freakyflor]

Good 4 steam.

 

[dogboy73]

Check out pczone's review of it, they like it a lot and even state the alien parts are better because they usually include Koreans and they have much better AI.

Cool. That's good news then. Hopefully they have just improved on everything that was awesome about the first game & got rid of all the crap. It just felt sloppy & rushed towards the end. The big tank battle was awesome ...... it was pretty much all down hill from there on in. The flying section was so bad.

 

[joule]

Warhead received a 9.4 over at IGN as well.

Full read here.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Crysis had such a laughablely bad last level.

Its a shame considering the Carrier was impressively designed :cheers:

What's with the "damn, now that it's on Steam, I must get it" logic

No DRM guarenteed
No lose of none existent CD/DVD
Patch it through Steam (Download rate determined by Service Provider), not EA (Some stupid low figure)
Great community possibilities

 

[Paulaner]

No DRM guarenteed

Not entirely true: Bioshock Steam still had SecuROM and all the DRM stuff.

 

[dogboy73]

Looks good. New weapons, new vehichles. You don't get that with a HL2 sequel

 

[diluted]

Its a shame considering the Carrier was impressively designed :cheers:



No DRM guarenteed
No lose of none existent CD/DVD
Patch it through Steam (Download rate determined by Service Provider), not EA (Some stupid low figure)
Great community possibilities

- There's no guarantee there will not be DRM, as someone else pointed out, Bioshock still had the ridiculous DRM in the Steam version.
- True, but that's never been a problem for me. All my game boxes/disks are kept in one place, I've never lost any.
- *shrug* I don't mind patching games manually...
- I guess..

But yeah whether a game is on Steam or not doesn't determine whether I will buy it. I don't see why it should..

 

[Paulaner]

But yeah whether a game is on Steam or not doesn't determine whether I will buy it. I don't see why it should..

For me the choice between Steam and retail is for the cheaper one.

 

[MaDMaXX]

For me i'd rather have the ultra convenience of Steam.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

http://www.crymod.com/uploads/mediapool/WarheadBack/647387_lback.jpg

back of the box confirms online activation is necessary so we can assume the game PROBABLY has limits on it (including steam) and considering EA and crytek have deliberately kept there mouth shut might add to this (not to hurt their sales perhaps?)

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Just a quick update to the main news post.

Crysis Warhead Now Available Via Steam
Crysis Warhead is now available for purchase via Steam and to play for gamers in North America. In addition, the original Crysis is now available for purchase and play by gamers the world over. Outside of North America, Crysis Warhead will become available for play tomorrow (Thursday) via Steam.

 

[saratos]

So... SecuROM or not? If it IS on, I will find, "other venues".

 

[Ennui]

Crysis is currently making its way to my PC via Steam at a healthy 3200kb/s. God I love uni internet, it goes straight to the Big Tubes of the intertubes.