Monolith reveals Project Origin system specs - new Mech video

According to IGN, the kind of hardware capabilities you need to be looking at if Monolith's F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin floats your boat is as follows:

Minimum System Requirements:

• CPU: P4 2.8GHz (3.2GHz Vista)/Athlon 64 3000+ (3200+ Vista)
• GPU: DX9-capable graphics card with 256MB (SM 2.0b). NVidia 6800 or ATI X700.
• RAM: 1GB (1.5GB Vista)
• Hard Drive: 12GB
• OS: Windows XP SP2/Vista SP1
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Sound: DX9.0c compliant
• Optical drive: DVD (boxed only)
• Internet: Broadband

Recommended System Requirements:

• CPU: Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz processor family/Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (required for MP host)
• GPU: Fully DX9-compliant graphics card with 512MB (SM 3.0). NVidia 8600 GTS or ATI HD 2900 XT.
• Ram: 1.5GB
• Hard Drive: 12GB
• OS: Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Sound: DX9.0c compliant
• Optical drive: DVD (boxed only)
• Internet: Broadband (768kbit/sec upstream required to host 16 players)

Project origin is release next month.

Update: There's a rather tasty new Mech video after the break. Watch it.

By Mike Bowden