Minimum Requirements:
OS: Windows XP / Vista / 2000
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz
RAM: 512 MB
HDD: 4.0 GB Free
Graphics Card: Any nVidia GeForce6 series GPU or ATI equivalent
Recommended Specifications:
OS: Windows XP / Vista / 2000
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz
RAM: 1024 MB
HDD: 4.0 GB Free
Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce 7800 or ATI equivalent
Still, Taking example of how awesome and how good optimized game engine can be cry-engine 3 is a living proof
Crysis 2 for what i saw in trailers have a better graphic overral over crysis 1 and BBC2 and BF3 ( Trailer ), i'm not saying "Everyone must use cry-engine 3 for makes games", i just say Most of the enterprises that makes the game engines ( frostbite, havok, X-ray, Anvil, Gamebryo and others ) have to tink how to exploit the best performance over a game engine using low system resources as cry-engine 2 did
Hope you understand my poit, still the day i have a sandy-bridge or a i7 or similar proccesor, i will play it anyway
BBC2 system requirements
Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP
Processor: Core 2 DUO @ 2 GHz
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 15 GB for Digital Version, 10 GB for Disc Version
Video Memory: 256 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT/ATI X1900)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard and Mouse
DVD Rom Drive
Asuming bf3 is gona use the same engine ( Frostbite 2 ) the requirements to play BF3 are gona be the same, with a C2D as minimun, counting with the BF3 things ( Airplanes, choppers, tanks, jeeps, boats, etc etc etc ) that gona add a bit more of system requirements...
I hope to the end of 2011 gona try to change to i7 or sandy-bridge with some good VC
You can't compare the Cry-engine 2 with the Frostbite 2, Crysis work good even in my pc with all in High, And BF3 is gona ask Dual core, Damn even Cry-engine 3 is better that Frostbite 2 and ask less resources that crysis/cryengine 2
Most of the enterprise's that makes games should take the crytek/cryengine 3 example and make a exelent game engine that offers exelent visual and effect and all with so low resources system
In short
Crysis 2 with cryengine 3 ask same or less system resources that crysis 1 offering exelent visual in every aspect
BF3 is gona use Frostbite 2 that need dual core, that a "Good" bad optimized game engine that offer the "same" visual as Crysis 2 but with higher system requirements
After battlefield 2 come's battlefield 3, Battlefield bad company 2 is other "Type" of game from battlefield franchise
So, Jet's still there, Prone still there maps for 64 players still there, they only updated the game engine and new maps and new models and etc etc etc, the game core still the same