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Yes. The answer is yes. It can. It can run Crysis . It's 2023, of course it can. Today we're going to have a look at Crysis , a popular video game from 2007, but first we're going to wind back a little, to 2004. The year of Doom 3 , Half-Life 2 , and Far Cry . It was a good year for PC games, especially single-player first-person-shooters.
All of those games had multiplayer, but no-one cared. People bought them for the single-player experience. They were released in a little gap that opened between the first wave of multiplayer hits - Unreal Tournament , Quake III Arena , the original Counter-Strike and Team Fortress etc - but before the Battlefield and Modern Warfare franchises really took off. For a while the PC market was bored with multiplayer games and hankered for single-player action.
The PC gaming scene was also going through one of its periodic blue funks. Up until the late 1990s the PC and console markets were totally different, but by the early 2000s the XBox and PlayStation 2 had achieved a degree of technical parity with gaming PCs, at which point the vastly greater sales and profit margins of console games sent a shiver through the PC gaming scene.