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Crysis Demo 24 Hour Crisis

By John Walker on October 26th, 2007.

The Crysis demo is yours to download today! Er, if you’re willing to buy Crysis first.

EA, in their non-stop waterfall of wisdom, have decided that it’s an extremely clever idea to ask people to pay money for an advert – an advert that will be available for free tomorrow.

Jungle Boogie!

For those who are buying the game anyway, they can gain access to the brief section for a whole 24 hours, when the non-pre-ordering plebs must sit outside in the cold. Which includes us, so we’ve no idea what the demo’s like. Sorry about that. Read on for more moaning.

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