34 PCWorld JUNE 2020

NEWS

IMAGE: CRYSIS REMASTERED

Crytek announces Crysis remaster

releasing this summer

Can your PC run Crysis...Remastered? BY HAYDEN DINGMAN

C

an it run Crysis?” has been a

PC-building meme for over a

decade now, but once upon a

time it was a legitimate question.

When Crysis released in 2007, very few PCs

could run it, and even fewer could run it well.

The game itself was fine, but the foliage? The

foliage was incredible. It felt like Crysis pulled

back the curtain on the future and showed

people what games might look like in 2012 or

2013. Those moments come once in a
      hardware generation, at best. And now it runs
      on a Nintendo Switch. Go figure.

On April 16, Crytek announced Crysis

Remastered, due to release this summer on

PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and yes, the

Nintendo Switch. Lumping all those consoles

in with the PC version does not give me high

hopes for seeing a second coming of the

“Can it run Crysis?” phenomenon. If two

2013-era consoles and a handheld can run

this remaster, your PC almost certainly can.

Still, the list of visual bells and whistles

goes deep. Maybe the max settings will make

your PC sweat a bit? From the announcement:

“Crysis Remastered will focus on the