Yeah - get some dough ready for the game itself AND new hardware ;). I'm excited about a console version of Crysis ... we'll see.

Maybe I should really give the Demo a chance, currently I'm more like....Hmmm a shooter...meh!
But I have the hardware to run it on some Dx10 High Settings, I should really check out, how beautiful it really is.

Due to the limitations of my Macbook, I can't play the demo, but i've seen the techdemo and the effects are awesome. This game is gone be one of the reasons I'm gonna buy new hardware as soon as I'm back in Germany. I envy you guys. :)

Crysis=Game of the Year
Unreal Tournament 3=Multiplayer game of the Year

2 of the greatest games from this year.

It would be stupid for me to buy new hardware now, because I'm in the UK til May next year and can't afford to buy new hardware here. But when I'm back in Germany in June, I will buy myself a new desktop-PC. Probably the PC that manages to get "Crysis" running on very high details without any problems will be invented by then.

But there are definitely more reasons than "Crysis": "Bioshock", "The Witcher", "Kane and Lynch" etc.
And these are just the new releases: since one year my laptop is definitely too old for all the newer stuff.

But to be honest: I've never played "Far Cry" beyond the third level.
So I really hope that "Crysis" has not only got beautiful graphics but high quality in many other aspects too.

And the Crysis hype goes on and on :-)
If we take a look at the graphics aspect there is no reason to doubt it - the CryEngine2 is a huge advance in computer graphics. About gameplay or storytelling I wouldn't be that sure (haven't played the demo, only saw some videos). According to what I've read (correct me if I'm wrong) Crysis seems to be a really straight-forward-shooter with the additional gadget in form of that nanosuit. About storytelling: we already saw a lot of great scenes in lots of videos e.g. the giant alien robot attacking the carrier or when you first encounter the smaller aliens - these are fantastic but we still have to hope that Crytek can hold this suspense up for a (hopefully) long time of gameplay.
If I try to anticipate the story as a whole and put this into some phrases:
Humans fight war against another - aliens come up attacking both - humans cooperate to get rid of the aliens - humans win.
That's all that I expect of it.

My own GotY would by the way be Bioshock - I think it was great although it didn't live to it's high expectations but story and how the story was told is just great.

I hope you guys tell me that I was all wrong when you play it - since I don't have the hardware for it right now I just have to wait a little bit. Still hoping for the great RayTracing-Hardware that would exceed even Crysis in the point of global illumination (yeah I still remember that bit from GameStar - I just don't remember if Jörg was still with the team then).

Oh, now that we arrived at that point:

My Game of the Year up to now is "Portal". And if it was only for the last level, the showdown and the credits, even then it would still be my Game of the Year. Oh Heavens, this game was just so ... picture perfect. And that completely caught me by surprise.