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The official spec sheet for Crysis Warhead, which launches next month, has been released. See if your PC can match it.

Crytek has made a song and dance about how the expansion will cater for more players' systems: "We designed Warhead to be more accessible. It is a 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."

Here's what you need to be packing inside your tower of power:
  • CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista), Intel Core 2.0 GHz
  • (2.2 GHz for Vista), AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or better
  • RAM: 1GB (1.5GB on Windows Vista)
  • Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
  • (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or better
  • VRAM: 256MB of Graphics Memory
  • Storage: 15GB
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
  • ODD: DVD-ROM
  • OS: Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Microsoft Vista
  • DirectX: DX9.0c or DX10

And just in case you were wondering, Crysis Warhead is a standalone release and does not require the original Crysis to play. Everyone's a winner, except console kids.