Crytek announces Crysis Warhead Goes Gold.

Today both Crytek and Electronic Arts are extremely happy to announce to the community that Crysis Warhead and Crysis Wars (the multiplayer package included with Warhead) have gone gold! Both will ship to stores on September 12th in Europe and September 16th in North America. For those of you who want to reserve your pre-order copy now, simply visit your favourite games retailer and place your order!
Thanks everyone! See you in September!
Cry-Eddy & Cry-Alex

Crysis War is the slice of multiplayer that comes along with Crysis Warhead. Here is the first trailer.

It certainly looks good and you can check it out over on Gametrailers.

Today EA/Crytek announce the release date for Crysis:Warhead! Here is what they had to say.

Find out if you are ‘Psycho' Enough this September

Redwood City, Calif. – August 13, 2008 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Crytek GmbH announced today that Crysis Warhead®, the pulse-racing new installment of the Crysis® universe, will ship to retail stores in North America on September 16th and in Europe on September 12th. Beginning today, gamers can pre-order Crysis Warhead at the EA Store (EA Store (US) Online Store) for only $24.95; $5 less than the full retail price, or receive $10 off when purchasing both Crysis Warhead and Crysis. Crysis Warhead recently recognized by IGN PC as being the Best First Person Shooter and showcasing the Best Graphics Technology of E3 2008.

“We think Crysis Warhead is going to offer a tremendous experience to a wide range of gamers,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. “Fans of Crysis are going to enjoy more of the open-ended gameplay, cutting-edge visuals and huge, epic battles from the first game, while also finally finding out what kind of havoc Psycho was wreaking on the other side of the island.

At the same time, we designed Warhead to be more accessible for gamers new to the Crysis franchise. It is a standalone game with a story that can stand on its own, it has been optimized to run better on a wider range of PCs, and we are introducing Crysis Wars®, a tailor-made experience for multiplayer gamers within the Crysis universe – all at a great value.”

Crysis Wars features three multiplayer modes, including TeamInstantAction, a new match type that mixes fast-paced action in a team-based environment, in addition to the insanely frenetic gameplay style of InstantAction and the hardcore team-based PowerStruggle, both of which return from Crysis. The game will include 21 maps, six new maps for TeamInstantAction and InstantAction, and one for PowerStruggle and Crytek will also have a support team dedicated to meeting the needs of the Crysis Wars community.

A brand new trailer for Crysis Warhead will premiere exclusively on “GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley” this Friday, August 15th on Spike TV (check your local listings) and will be available online at Gametrailers.com - The Source For Video Game Media immediately following the show.

Crysis Warhead is a standalone title and does not require the original Crysis to play. The game has been rated ‘M' for Mature by the ESRB and ‘16+' by PEGI. For more information about the game, please visit the game's new web site launching today at: Crysis Warhead.

A mixed bag here. 10 high resolution images, some new and some not so. Most of the images have been swirling around the Internet tubes in a much lower resolution so enjoy them in all their pixel glory.

Check out the big screenshots.

PCAction have posted up six new screenshots for Warhead. 3 of the screenshots so the quality difference between the graphic settings, Mainstream, Gamer and Enthusiast.

These three settings tie nicely into the fact that EA is rumored to be selling PCs built to play Warhead.

Check out the screenshots over on the PCAction.DE site.

Looks like EA is going to be selling PC rigs in conjunction with the release of Crytek's upcoming PC-exclusive shooter Crysis Warhead.

Apparently, the rigs will come in various configurations, which will correspond to Crysis Warhead's levels of graphical detail, with a likely price range being $600-$800 (I doubt EA will want to market a machine that meets only the game's minimum spec), and they will probably be named accordingly–the Crysis Warhead Performance PC, and so on.

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