Back in April, Crytek revealed that its 13-year-old shooter Crysis is being remastered. Now the developer has revealed the use of the most well-known Crysis meme in the game's settings.
As Eurogamer reports, Crysis Remastered includes a number of graphical settings that help bring the first-person shooter bang up-to-date. In order to support the highest performance graphics cards, Crysis will offer an unlimited settings option for graphics, which Crytek describes as being designed to "demand every last bit of your hardware."
In a tweet including a screenshot of what this unlimited mode can achieve, Crytek also revealed the name of this mode is "Can it Run Crysis?" Those well-versed in the history of Crysis will recognize the name as a meme. When Crysis first launched in 2007 it was renowned for requiring high system requirements in order to run well. That soon resulted in graphics card reviews asking the question "can it run crysis?" and the same question is asked regularly of any and all hardware promising big performance gains. We've all seen, "yeah, but can it run Crysis?" written multiple times, I'm sure.
The use of the phrase is sure to help with marketing the remaster, which is set to release on Sept. 18 alongside Nintendo's Super Mario 3D All-Stars, so every little helps in terms of grabbing attention away from that Switch title. And it will be interesting to see just how hard Crysis Remastered pushes the latest hardware when using the Can it Run Crysis? graphic mode. Will it put a strain on the latest Core i9 processor and the RTX 3080? We don't have too long to wait to find out.
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