Crysis expected mid 2007

WE HAD the chance to talk to CEO of Crytek, an old friend called Cevet Yerli here in Vegas.

This lad told us that Crysis, the highly-anticipated game we played today is still in pre-Alpha only. He expects it to go to Alpha by March, while the real beta and final version are pushed toward middle of 2007.

The demo of the game we played showed a great potential. The game was running in DirectX 10 mode on 32-bit Vista. The code may still have some infant illnesses but it looks great on a G80, Geforce 8800 GTX, Core 2 duo and it provides 60 FPS+, at almost all times. It certainly works and looks much better than Rainbow [buggy] Six Vegas.

The game is Cevet's baby and he wants to make it as great as possible.

We have a few more details about the game and a short video that we will try to share later as we are about to jump on another meeting. Crysis looks and feels great and we're looking forward to playing it in all its polished glory.

But it looks like gamers won't be flocking to Vista from launch. There will be no games you can exclusively play on it. µ