«Crysis Remastered» is coming soon – and it has ray tracing
The iconic game with its legendary high hardware demands will be relaunched. High-resolution textures and ray tracing, among other features, are added to «Crysis Remastered».
«But can it run Crysis?». It's the running gag of the game scene and yet the sentence still has some truth to it. The first-person shooter «Crysis» was for years the benchmark for games in terms of graphics and hardware. Even today, the game melts some PCs, but the reason for that is to do with the nature of the engine.
Now it seems that a remastered version of the 2007 shooter is in the making. This announcement was briefly posted on the website of the German developer studio Crytek. By the way, EA is the owner of the rights. The site has been taken offline again, but the pictures are spreading all over the internet already. One of the few known pieces of information is that «Crysis Remastered» will be released soon on PC, PS4, Xbox One and even the Switch. Among the new improvements are new graphic features, high resolution textures and ray tracing, which isn't supposed to depend on the hardware.
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