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Crysis Review (continued)
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Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
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ESRB Rating: Mature
Platform(s): Windows XP, Windows Vista
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Date: 2008-10-27
Best Game Ever
I bought this game last month and I'm still playing with downloaded customs maps, I played it at high settings and it looks great, the enviroment is really cool, nice gameplay too.
Date: 2008-10-21
Addictive
This game has turned out to be pretty addictive when playing. Time just slips away as you progress thru the game. Graphics are wonderful, levels interesting and once in awhile a little overwhelming until you try another approach to solving the level. All in all, a game that is worth the price, doesn't become boring, levels usually offer something new, and is just plain fun to play.
Date: 2008-10-18
Best shooter I ever played, but has a few flaws
The short version is that this is the best shooter I ever played.
The longer version is that especially during the first half of the game, this provides an unprecedented experience. The graphics are great. The game play is great. There is not a frustrating moment in sight. Immersion is awesome. I never had as much of a feeling of "being there". Vehicles drive great. It is an experience you want to go on and on...
Unfortunately, the whole thing gets visible worse in the later part of the game, once you get inside the alien compound. First, you have no ammo, as you go through one of the most disorienting levels I ever played. So you end up literally punching the aliens if you happen to start out the level wrong.
Once you get out of there, things get chaotic and you just kinda blow your way through without much aiming. Then you get to a flying sequence that is borderline broken, the thing is so unresponsive. Aliens are flying around you, and it takes you 20 seconds to turn your ship around. Not fun. (A patch made this a little better but it is still like a low-budget, awful game mixed in for no real reason other than making the game longer perhaps). All of a sudden, random tornadoes creep up behind you and suck you in and there is nothing you can do about it. (And it will probably take you 5 or 10 attempts before you even realize what is going on. At first you think it is just random crashes).
In the later levels, the game also tends to leave you without much guidance or even misguidance. At one point you need to walk into a chamber. Over your comm system you hear "can your suit handle this level of radiation?", which your character confidently answers "yes it will". So you walk in, and - whack - you are dead. Too much radiation. What the...?!?
Luckily, the game automatically saves often and at fair spots. In addition, you can go to the menu and save anywhere you want. I felt that that was a great system. You don't quick-save all the time, but if you really do end up at a spot where you wish you could save yourself, you can.
I should also mention that the game crashes a lot, even with patch 1.2. I must have experienced 10+ blue-screens playing this game as well as a number of crashes to the desktop. I am not sure why, but it seems that is one characteristic that all German games share. Where is that German engineering?!? (I can say this, because I am from Europe myself :-)
This is still a great game and I had a blast. With better quality control and the game play fun staying up in the last 3rd of the game, this would have been a 5-star game no questions asked. As things stand, with the last parts of the game I remember having been bad, I am tempted to give it 3 stars, but 4 is more appropriate overall.
Date: 2008-10-17
Finest graphics, film-like immersion, adrenaline pouring FPS
Crysis is from the makers of FarCry. It uses a very similar engine, island design and science-fiction type atmosphere to produce what has to be one of the top edge-of-your-seat frenzied blasters ever. You play platoon member Nomad who wears a special Nano suit that gives him extraordinary powers such as maximum armour, strength and speed that allow him to behave in superhuman ways as he is sent to a mysterious island to find out why the local militia has started a hotbed of fighting over something unexplained from another dimension. Cue lots of mowing down trees with high calibre rifles to floating around inside extraterrestrial spacecraft trying to pick off shark-like aliens.
Crysis is a two part FPS starting off with island village raids, developing into full scale war maps to eventually become a science-fiction deep space boss beating battler. While it may start off a bit slow as the story progresses (and your guns get bigger) it takes some interesting turns and the graphics and virtually film-like in places. The design inside of the alien ship has to be best level design for any game, ever. In fact like FarCry it is the island and the spaceship that are the stars.
While Crysis is simply a must have for any FPS fan, especially those who enjoyed FarCry, it does have some failings. The first is that the graphics are so overkill even on a high-end machine with the latest tech you will not be able to run some parts on anything more than medium settings, especially the cut scenes and the end boss battle. Even on a quad-core with an 8800 card only SLI will stand a chance at greater than medium settings for certain parts. So quite simply many people will not be able to play Crysis and no one has played it on the very highest settings because those PCs are not on the market. The other failing is that for some reason the first quarter of the game is quite boring as you just seem to be raiding village after village doing the same stuff over and over again. It takes a few levels, maybe 4, before Crysis actually kicks in.
All in all this is a well made FPS game with lots of new ideas, many features to come to terms with and replay value. FPS lovers shouldn't hold back on trying to play Crysis, the question is if the world was really ready for it but when it will be Crysis will go down as a game that showed that there are no limits to how the FPS can evolve.
Pros:
Graphics
The island
The alien ship
Guns and Nano suit
Cons:
High spec requirements are beyond even the best of PCs
Boring 1st quarter
AI underperformance at times
Date: 2008-10-14
Good, Almost Great Game
Good game, you are immersed in game play almost immediately, stunning graphics, good story line. This is a very fun game to play!
Now for the bad news...you have to have a pretty high end computer to play this game.
My system: Intel Core 2 Quad Processor, 4 Gig of Sdram, 768MB Nividia GeForce 9600GS Graphics Card, and a TB of hard disk...I still had problems in two areas of the game ( this was towards the end of the game while battling the aliens...against the N. Koreans no problems with highest graphic setting )
If not for those problems I would have given this Game 5 stars. These game designers need to learn how to give us cutting age games on systems that won't break the bank !!!!!
Anyway, if you can get this game to run on your system, you will really enjoy this game!!!!!
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