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3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Ahead of its time, 2007-11-20
I am writing this review to add to the wealth of knowledge regarding system requirements. I am running a Core 2 Duo E6550, 2 GB DDR2 800 RAM and a XFX 8800 GTS 320MB XXX edition (the factory overcocked version). I have tested the game at 1280 x 1024 and 1024 x 768 on a 20 inch dell lcd. At 1024 x 768 I was rewarded with smooth frame rates (probably in the 55 to 60 fps range) with most settings on high and 2x AA. At 1280x1024 I was forced to turn off the AA to receive the same frame rate and avoid ghosting with the same mixture of high and medium settings, again mostly high.
18 of 26 customers found the following review helpful:
 Eye Candy Galore, But Way Too Short, 2007-11-20
This game feels more like a long demo rather than a complete title. Just when you think the game is going to move onto the next chapter, the soundtrack builds to a crescendo and the credits start rolling. The game abruptly ends after a few hours of gameplay. It seems to me that this game was more of an experiment with the new CryEngine 2 and DirectX 10 support rather than an actual game. As in "The Empire Strikes Back", the storyline in Crysis leaves you hanging. It does not end when the game does! The game ends with your squad leader going AWOL and you have to find him. You know they're going to charge you more money later on to find out what happens when you meet up with him. If people pay the full retail price for a game, shouldn't they get the full game all at once up front? Pay $50 now and wait a year to spend another $40 on an "expansion pack" just to finish the game. What kind of underhanded garbage is that? That should have happened in the first place! If it's not finished, don't sell it!
The audio is atrocious. It's just bad. I mean, the audio in this game is so unsynchronized with the rest of the game that during an in-game movie, the computer *appeared* to freeze, but was just trying to sync the game up with the dialogue. It took about 30 long seconds of waiting to see if the problem was with my computer or not. This is a recurring problem on many other peoples' computers, even with the latest Sound Blaster cards. There have been many times during an intense battle where the sound of the guns has dropped out altogether, and the dialogue is extremely choppy. EA needs to work on a patch for this audio problem. I ran the game with the -DX9 command line parameter to play the game in DirectX 9 mode, and the audio was *STILL* choppy and full of delays.
Please, please wait until the price on this game has gone down. I know you want to see how the game looks with DirectX 10 graphics, but there is a demo of this game available for free online. Crysis is yet another expensive big-name game you can complete over the weekend on the most difficult setting without any cheating (which I did - unless you consider using the quicksave and quickload feature cheating).
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[Now onto the good stuff - yes, there are good things about this game....]
I really liked the motion blur, and the shading in DX10 is out of this world. I have not seen a more beautifully rendered computer or video game on the market. Even BioShock, which is supposed to support DirectX 10, doesn't come close to the realism of the graphics in this game. The close-ups with the enemy are breathtaking. If you have all the video settings to "Very High" and are running on DX10, when you go toe-to-toe with a bad guy in the middle of the day while on the beach, and decide to melee attack him, it looks so incredibly real that you might forget you are playing a game. The facial expressions are very detailed and well put together. It's just scary real. There was a time in computer/video gaming where you were doing a great job if you used three triangles to make a nose. This is by far light years ahead of those days (and the rest of the competition, for that matter).
The gameplay is good. I love the quick save/quick load feature. I hate when games don't have it. The different abilities of the character's suit are fun, too. Too many bad guys flanking you? Turn the cloak on and retreat. Can't jump high enough to reach that ledge? Use the maximum strength setting and try it now. Need more info on gameplay? Download the demo.
There is no way to upgrade your suit or your character's attributes. This is not one of those kinds of games. One major beef I have with the AI is that they can see me through the thick vegetation that is all throughout the game, but I can't see them. Yes, there are more of them, but even when I move around, they keep shooting at me perfectly, regardless of how many trees there are between me and them. The only real way to hide in this game when you're close to the enemy is to use the stealth mode. When you so much as throw a grenade at them, the stealth mode is deactivated and you are exposed. I can understand the stealth mode deactivating itself when I open fire, but lobbing a grenade? Shouldn't there be a distinction?
The stealth mode is so incredibly useful when you're floating around in the alien ship. The faster you move, the quicker the stealth mode will expire, so when you remain still, it will last much longer than if you are sprinting. Using the stealth mode, I sneak up to the aliens and get close enough to grab them, then I blast them into smithereens, turn the stealth mode back on and do it again.
All in all, a very good half of a game, but we'll have to wait a while to pick up where this game leaves off. Good gameplay, engaging storyline, outstanding graphics, way too short. It'll be a while before we see a Crysis 2. The big wigs are going to milk Crysis by putting out expansion packs, when they should have just made the complete product and sold it all at once. I guess the days of buying a complete game are over (as are the days of getting gas for 89 cents a gallon).
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
Good game, terrible distribution, 2007-11-19
This product installs securom malware without asking the user just like Bioshock. The graphics would be amazing if you could have a GPU from the future but with the same graphics card, Bioshock looked awesome while Crysis left a lot to be wished for. The single player is very short which makes it very similar to Call of Duty games. The multi-player "Power Struggle" is very nice but as with other previous MP games, it is easy for some players to dominate the game.
Definately buy the game but don't expect a lot.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 An Excellent FPS, 2007-11-19
I am a big fan of FPS games and in recent years I have noticed a disturbing trend. They are getting easier. Some in part to my own skill increasing but also, I think, because they are being made easier. F.E.A.R took me alittle while to get used to, but after I found the rythem, I was able to finish it off fairly quickly, the same with Doom 3 and Quake 4. Bioshock, while beautiful and having a great story, was even easier. This makes me sad. In most FPS's now I start off at max difficulty and go from there. Even Halflife 2 and its children while being wonderful games were not particularly difficult for me (Portal was awsome and should be played by all).
Not so with Crysis. I started on normal and stayed there. From the begining I was challenged, having to learn to adapt to the nano-suit and its many uses and also to the wiley North Korean adversaries. And just when I got that figured out and felt fairly confident with single person vs group tactics, they switch it up and introduce the aliens, who require a totally different strategy to fight. The Zero-G was fascinating and very difficult and the wonderful end boss fight took me right back to me early days in FPSing.
So go Crysis. A good selection of weapons though the sniper rifle seemed a bit superflious when you could outfit your AK with a slincer and scope to perform the same function. Shot-gun, assult rifle combo which is my regular stand by for all FPS's served well here, except in the end game when I switched up for the Gauss Gun, my persoal favorate weapon...if only it had extened clips...
Graphically wonderful. Don't know what else to say. Jungle was awsome, buildings exploded and fell down, the alien ship was suitably alien. You will need a high end computer to play this. I have a laptop built expressly by my friend (who is much more tech savy than I. Gamer, me.) for gaming and while I got by on High for most of the game, there were moments when I had to dial it down to medium graphics. However, even on medium it is gorgious.
The only reason I dont give this game five stars and have done with it is that is crashed my computer four times, once resulting in the dreaded blue screen of death. Now I was able to re-sent my comp and everything is fine, but it worried me. This bug be bad and should be fixed.
So in conclusion, the game play is excellent, the graphics are for high end machines but well worth it, and the story is epic, especially the bits where you are in country with the US Army against eith the Koreans or the Aliens. Fighting with allies is awsome, especially when they are yellin stuff at you and dying and everything. I remember at least two times I was actually moved by the death of an NPC. Made the movie effect stand out. This game left me wanting the sequal. I would highly recomend it to anyone, though fair warning. It's a challenge.
I think maybe I'll go back and try to beat it on hard now...pray for me...
14 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
Incredible but short, 2007-11-18
In spite of having to run the game on med-low resolution settings I found the game to be excellent. The story flows very well and you never get bored with it. The graphics are excellent, characters are well played for the most part, and the final battle is epic. Even the escort mission (the achillies heal of most games) felt realistic and worked well.
So why 3 stars? I'm taking off .5 because for some reason it won't allow me to map the flight functions to my joystick (wingman extreme). Not that big of a deal since the mouse keyboard does actually work in the game but not very well.
Now for the big hit. I'm taking off 1.5 stars because of the length. I just don't get games these days. They make them with flashy graphics, hopefully a good story, and if it's a really good game it feels epic. However, they make them so short that it just leaves you feeling empty. After the final battle in Crysis I was sitting there waiting for the next section to load when the credits came up. I sat looking confused for a few minutes before I turned the monitor off in disgust.
It's like if they had released Deus Ex and it ended the game after you retrieved the virus or System Shock after you got to the second level of the station or Far Cry after find out about trigens. I brought the game home Friday, played from about 7pm-11pm. Got up the next morning and played from about noon-11PM. I finished the game just after 11PM and I was playing on the hardest difficulty level, took breaks for meals, and ran out to the store to pick up snacks.
It used to be that when you bought a game, you expected to get at least a week of play out of it. Are we now reduced to less than 24 hours? Personally, I'd give up the years worth of work on graphics flash that they spend, for more game time in the story. The multi-player doesn't make up for this either as that's a common excuse.
I loved the game (what little of it there was), but I can't go any higher than 3 stars.
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