PCnauts have become pretty complacent about system requirements of multiplatform games, knowing even a modest gaming PC is faster than the consoles so they should be fine. Crysis 3 is a little less forgiving. The system requirements are confirmed, so you may want to start eying an upgrade if you fancy playing Crytek's super-suit shooter with all the bells and whistles on.

The official Crysis site (via Evil Avatar) offers the following:

Minimum requirements:

• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8

• DirectX 11 graphics card with 1Gb Video RAM

• Dual core CPU

• 2GB Memory (3GB on Vista)

• Example 1 (Nvidia/Intel):

  • Nvidia GTS 450

  • Intel Core2 Duo 2.4 Ghz (E6600)

• Example 2 (AMD):

  • AMD Radeon HD5770

  • AMD Athlon64 X2 2.7 Ghz (5200+)

Recommended requirements:

• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8

• DirectX 11 graphics card with 1GB Video RAM

• Quad core GPU

• 4GB Memory

• Example 1 (Nvidia/Intel):

  • Nvidia GTX 560

  • Intel Core i3-530

• Example 2 (AMD):

  • AMD Radeon HD5870

  • AMD Phenom II X2 565

High performance requirements:

• Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8

• Latest DirectX 11 graphics card

• Latest quad core CPU

• 8GB Memory

• Example 1 (Nvidia/Intel):

  • NVidia GTX 680

  • Intel Core i7-2600k

• Example 2 (AMD):

  • AMD Radeon HD7970

  • AMD Bulldozer FX4150

Crysis 3 comes to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in February 2013, published by EA.