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With Great PC Power Comes a Great Game...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Sadly the headline of this says it all. You need great power in your PC to play this game and fully feel like you got your monies worth.

Before you read any further I will say that if you do not have a minimum of a 256mb GForce 8800 GT then this game will not be as spectacular as it was intended to be.

Secondly if you do not have a minimum of 2gb of RAM you will be disappointed as well because the frame rate will chug your computer down to a stand still. I have 3gb of RAM and it brings my computer to a stand still in some instances. Of course I am playing on the full settings.

This game is made for power PC gamers. Those of us, in the realm of super computers, have gaming rigs powerful enough to play Doom 3 at it's fullest potential. This is however is not to say that you cannot get this game and play it on a minimum spec machine at the lowest settings and still enjoy it.

If after all that you are still here and I have not deterred you from buying one of the most CPU intensive games, that will push your computer to the limit then read on. On a side note the game is rated a 5.0 for recommended CPU power and I am at 5.6 with my PC.

Crysis is an absolutely beautiful game. From the water to the environment you will find yourself in awe of the pure graphic power that is created on screen. You'll almost think you are on vacation out in the tropics. The story is great (Not as good as say BioShock) but great. You are dropped onto an island inhabited by crazy military Koreans who sound like American voice actors more often than not. They also have a firm grasp of our swear words which they use frequently to try and entice you to poke your head out from your hiding spot.

Your character is Nomad and you have other squad mates as well, but I tend to think they are there because the government doesn't want to drop you in alone, but doesn't want to give you any help either. Needless to say they are as useless as the pistols are in this game.

Onto the actual nuts and bolts...

Within seconds you are realizing there is more to the island than just Koreans hanging out on the beach drinking Mai-Thais and watching the sunset. This is obvious as one of your squad mates is killed in a fashion very similar to what you would find in the movie Predator. This game is rated M for mature so you youngins need to ask your parents before playing. Of course most of you don't have the power in your PC to run this anyways so continue on.

The basics are that the Koreans are protecting something they don't want you to find. Could be electronic Kim-Chi noodle bowls for all you know until 10 minutes into the game where you see... well don't want to spoil it for you. Just fight the Koreans...

The driving portions in the game are downright pathetic and poor. Crashing into a wood fence is like hitting a brick wall. Hitting a brick wall is like running over a land mine and so on. Like this implies all environmental objects will hinder your movement forward.

The bad part of this game is that you need to take it upon yourself to constantly save the game or you'll find yourself going back and doing your last task that took you an hour over again once you die and you will die because Koreans and very adamant about killing you once they see you.

All in all Crysis is a game that all gamers over 15 will enjoy. However most gamers who are 15 - 18 probably don't have the latest computer and 5 years from now when they do they will probably not remember that Crysis came out.

4 out of 5 Gamer Points.

Best Game In a While

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my 15 year old son. He says it has killer graphics but you must the system to handle them. He has an AMD FX62 with an 8800 GTX and can run this under max quality. He says that this is great game play and is totally different than any game he has played in the past.

the first casualty

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

OK to start - my platform specs ;) May be the most important part of this review? The Vista performance for games rating on my computer is 5.9 - not sure how that figures into everything though.

ASUS Maximus Fusion Special Ed. Motherbaord - running stock no O/C'ing or tweaking.
CPU Intel E6850 dual core 3Ghz (1333 FSB) (Zalman Cooling - give it 5 stars).
MEMORY 4GB 800MHz DDR2.
GPU Card XFX 8800GT 512 MB (Alpha Dog Edition - whatever that means? // (also using Zalman cooling)).
MS Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit.
17" lcd flatpanel running 1200 by 1000.

First off my drive kept whacking the heads against the stops to read the flippin' disk... several games seem to do this and I am clueless why. I have 2 drives both brand new, both did this. It is terribly annoying. Once this ceased, the install ran smoothly. Easy to change difficulty, save game, and really makes you almost invincible and no need to look for cheat codes or tricks to make it through the levels.

I never experienced any real bad technical issues while running the game, it does on rare occasions hang after (over 4) hours of continuous play (in fairness so have several other newer games in similar circumstances). The auto detect ran fine and I actually kicked all the graphics, etc. to very high.

The graphics were 'stunningly beautiful' and sound effects seemed to match (although much like COD - terribly overdone in group combat sits with everyone screaming their fool heads off). There were many times I just stopped and looked around and was pretty darned impressed. To be in that part of the world and not see any bugs or spiders or snakes or weird animals or anything is a real pleasure!!

You have a high tech set of combat pajamas that will do amazing things for a short period of time and really the game seems to be just how and when to use the features. I saw to my satisfaction that it would not compensate for poor judgement.

The weap's use and physics was really nice - and I like that there were - untill the end - no 'ace in the hole super duper mega weap's' to save a plot running out of steam, and lost for credibility. I can't really be too into a 'current day' RPG that has me using (hand holdin that is)any type of rotary machine or chain gun to discourage interest or otherwise cause my foe to become terribly homesick. When I see this I think 'youngster that's still livin with parents and never been in the military'.

The game mostly relies on conventional weapons though and you can hunt around and scavenge ammo from enemies dead bodies... I mainly used their weapons after I ran dry with my standard issue. Oh - another comment - I was sent on a special op with just a rifle and pistol! no frags or flasbangs, and no 'fixins' to blow up anything, no flares to mark anything. Had to scavenge all those things as well. Also there seemd to be no way to get a supply drop when mission params changed... so had to get it all from the enemy at no small risk. The whole op seemed very high tech and well planned yet totally inept at the same time... well ok it's just a game. I think the need to gather inventory seemd to eclipse the tactical goals.

There is a real annoting part of the game that has this floatation thing going on - it is at best irritating - and at worst why i dont want to play it again.

I agree with comments of others that the VTOL part was extremely "lamed"... in stark contrast to how great all works with the land vehicles and their weapons. I ran the scenario several times and just couldn't get the flight feeling.

Driving and using weap's on the land and water taxis was very fun and I love that about the game.

The last major portion of the game is really lame in my opinion. This after the 'floatation fiasco' Plot running dry... "send in more monsters!! and More monsters... and more monsters... It became a sort of "cro-mag" brownstorm in the "QUACK" tradition.

So I am the first casualty... it was fun at points, but those enjoyable things rapidly evaporated along with my interest. I give it a 3 for all the great eye candy and use of vehicles and boats, and the great jungle combat.

An overall good, beutiful FPS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Crysis is a fun FPS with great graphics. You will def need a fast pc- I have a Q6600 (core 2 quad) with 3GB ram and a 512mb 8800GT and was getting smooth gameplay at 1440x900 with most of the graphics on medium and a few on high with 2X AA. The vehicles are fun, the guns are fun, and the enemies are numerous and fairly smart. Not sure about any online component, but I bet it doesnt compare to COD4 or TF2. Definitely worth playing through once (around 15-20 hrs). Oh yes... the quick save and quick load work VERY well.... even if you die a lot (playing on delta, you will die a bunch:) ) you get right back to the action.

easy, fast, cheap

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i was dissapointed that there is no rank or ladder system with online play however the grafics and gameplay are superb

Ground breaking in all aspects

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game from the get go was off the chain! I recently custom built a PC, and this game sure put it's graphical capabilities to the test! The game ran really smooth, and never once had an issue with it. The game is compatible with Windows Vista-64bit in case any of you were curious. The visual effects were stunningly beautiful, every detail was almost beyond realism. I would highly recommend this game to any fan of FPS. The storyline was fairly decent, just a little different from your typical alien shooter (1/2 of the game you deal with the Koreans, the other 1/2 of the game you deal with the alien encounter). Definitely leaves the ending open to a sequel, and we shall see it if the sales of this one are good. The game controls are fairly easy to use and can be learned to navigate through within the first 30min (The tutorial HUD as you progress in the beginning is easy to keep up with). I put probably a little over 25+hrs on normal mode, after considering all the deaths. Hurry up, there's a Crysis that awaits your assistance!

best game ever made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Crysis is easily the best game ever made.

Graphics are AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME. A lot of people whining because their spec is four years old. That isn't acceptable now. Get with the times. My mid-spec machine runs it in on Very High, 1440x900 resolution, with only water turned down to medium and Volumetric Lighting at High. I get between 25-40fps which is amazing and it looks like a dream. The cut scenes were going at 15fps and a couple of places in-game but I accept my machine isn't high spec.

Use of sound is also brilliant. Screw the potato guns of UT3, Crysis has the best weapons.

The story is amazing. Characters are decent. Action is AWESOME in every sense - 100%. The game lets YOU decide how YOU play. If you don't like stealth and want to go in guns blazing so be it. Or you can kill every enemy in the level and then demolish their buildings. Did I mention the physics are the best ever? I destroyed three buildings by throwing a barrel through them. Owned.

Don't take notice of these whingers who are still using the family PC bought in 2000, this is the real deal.

Wow!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Absolutely great but make sure you have the hardware to play it at its full potential. This game requires some high-end hardware.

Made for Next-Generation Hardware

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Crysis is a relatively fun game with varying environment design and constant action. However, almost all of the objectives are the same and the sheer amount of enemies (even on normal difficulty) becomes aggrivating. There are certain levels where a seemingly endless number of Korean troops are attempting to kill you. Despite my gripes, I do like the game and continue to play regularly.

My biggest complaint is the fact that to play this game on its highest settings at a decent resolution, you need a $3,000 computer. I have a decent rig (Intel E6750, nVidia 8800GT, 2Gb PC2-8500 ram, etc.) and I can devour any game on max settings up to 1680 resolution. But I can only run Crysis smoothly on all high settings, but not very high or with any anti-aliasing. Even 8800 Ultras and a QX9650 struggle with this game at high resolutions. Now, the game is beautiful, especially the foliage, but it should not be as demanding on hardware as it is. There exists other games which look nearly as good with nowhere near the hardware requirement (COD4, for instance).

I hope that the eventual Far Cry 2 will be coded better to be more resourceful with harware.

Good game. Not great. Fantastic technology.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well this game is the new benchmark for gaming rigs. So if you want to put your hardware to the test, put this game on medium settings... That's a joke, but seriously, this game is hefty on the requirements. Despite that, I was able to run it fairly well with my 256MB ATI x800s in Crossfire configuration.

The game itself is really fun and supports the Microsoft Xbox Wireless Adapter really well. I played through this game with my 360 controller and never had to refer to the keyboard.

Most of the game you are pretty much ripping through North Koreans, which was the fun part. Towards the end though, you start fighting these crazy mechanical aliens and it's just not as fun.

Overall, it does add some new things to the way overdone FPS genre. So that's nice. It's a well-polished game, but it could use some improvements like character developments and suit upgrades and stuff like that.

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