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Ahead of its time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

Graphics + Gameplay = Gaming Heaven

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you enjoy FPS games like Far Cry AND you have a system capable of running this beast, then do yourself a favor and purchase a copy of Crysis. I've been playing it for a few days now and I love it. It feels like you are the star of an action movie - the brief but well-done cut-scenes add to the effect; the graphics are gorgeous and make we want to go on vacation to the Caribbean or Hawaii; the sound is pretty good - music is by-the-numbers but sound effects are good; the AI is a mixed bag; sometimes it's really smart, other times it's a bit broke (on Delta).

Overall, Crysis doesn't add anything new to the genre, it simply gets the existing pieces just right, and that's 9.0/10.0 in my book.

Graphically pleasing and fun first-person shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Amazing graphics, especially if you have the equipment to run it the way it was meant to be. Fun to play. Only complaint was the game is a bit short. Was able to finish most of the game over one weekend.

Graphics and little else

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: December 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Graphics
The game has good graphics and physics. Even that is overrated. I am not impressed with it. I was 10x more impressed with graphics from another MODERN game about WARFARE.

Gameplay
After shooting down a couple of trees the game quickly becomes stale. The suit is useless because you can only use abilities for about 3 seconds. People say that the game is open exploration. Yeah, it is, but there isnt much to explore besides jungle and the occassional Korean outpost. You mostly have one mission and you follow the nav point to get there. You are extremly weak; running into a camp full blast is useless. I had to sneak everywhere invisible and snipe with my machine gun to keep from getting killed.

My final thought? Overrated. and BORING

Cray Supercomputer Required!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 18
Date: December 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Listen, I am sick and tired of seeing the ads for this game in magazines and on the web. If you see them then you are forced to believe that the graphics shown are actually attainable. They are not. Yes, the graphics are "amazing" but only if you have a Cray supercomputer to run the game on. This is very upsetting to me. My system is very solid and I refuse to be forced to "dummy down" my graphics settings to play a $50 game. Doing so makes it look like FarCry from 5 years ago. Obviously, the graphics you see in the ads cannot be run on most machines...even gaming enthusiast's machines. So, why buy this game if you cannot enjoy its biggest asset (great graphics)???

There are no graphic optimizations done by this company. What a let down.

Also, anyone who has played Battlefield 2142 knows that EA does not support multiplayer at all. It barely has forums on its website. You can forget any meaningful technical support from this company.

BF2 + 1

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is more like BF2 than Far Cry.
It's a lot less buggy than BF2 when it first came out.
The multiplayer is almost a copy of BF2.
I am writing this from observing my sons play.
They seem to enjoy it.
It plays fine on three year old PCs, no need to get latest hardware,
my PCs with X800XT, X850XT, 7900GS cards all play fine.
WinXP and Vista about the same, no problem on either.

Almost half of a game!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just finished Crysis, and wow... what a tremendous disappointment.

I had some of the bugs other people mentioned, but I am used to bugs. I thoroughly enjoyed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, and thats one of the buggiest games I have ever seen. Bugs are, apparently, a part of pc gaming, and I can live with them up to a point.

I didn't have much trouble with the system specs either. I couldn't play it with everything maxed out, but it looks very nice and the performance was not bad for me at medium/high quality settings. I will admit Crysis is quite pretty to look at it.

The thing that really destroys this game is that it beings by leading you through a boring labyrinth of utterly plotless sequences, all the time building up to an "alien invasion" which looks like a promising second half of the game. On and on you travel thinking that at any time you will be fighting aliens in frozen jungles... just like in the trailers!

Then, just about the time you think its going to actually get to that second half, the game suddenly and abruptly ends with a "cliff hanger."

I was literally sitting there looking at the credits rolling and thinking that perhaps there had been a glitch or that maybe it was a joke.

This is one of the shortest games I have played in years, on par with the half life 2 sequals, and it ends up being nothing but a trailer for an idea that was never realised. Its absolutely brainless and I have seldom felt so ripped off. The tiny bit of it that is available to play was just the basic run of the mill shooter game with better than average graphics. Graphics are nice, but please.... how about some content? How about a game that lasts more than 10 hours and actually has something even remotely like an ending??

Honestly, if I'd had any idea, I would never have bothered, and as far as Crytek goes, thats going to be my approach from now on.

This game lacks imagination and inspiration in every concievable way, and if thats the "next generation," then I probably need to find a new way to entertain myself.

Blah.

Overrated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: November 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Let's get one thing straight: when people talk about GRAPHICS relative to Crysis what they really mean is PLANTS. Yes, it has pretty PLANTS. Hours and hours of them. But if your definition of "graphics" goes beyond "plants" then Crysis graphics are dead generic. For the, ahem...Best Graphics Of All Time I could have used a bit more variety, is all I'm saying. Apart from the end when things get otherworldly, you're looking at the same stuff the whole time. It's much the same for the enemies. Not much changes between baddies apart from the weapons they use. I should add that the "Korean" enemies you mow down are voiced with such badly stereotyped, fake accents they left me cringing. I'm not known for my PC sensibilities, but if Asians start returning this game I wouldn't blame them.

Like Halo, Crysis suffers from Slow Running Character Syndrome. You'd think that between sprint mode and powered super sprint mode you'd be spared that "feet in molasses" feeling. But super sprint is--bizarrely--only good for 2 second bursts, so you're left "sprinting" everywhere in unpowered mode no matter how hard you mash that shift key. So, cajillion dollar power armor notwithstanding, you leisurely jog through Crysis. A pretty big design flaw of the Nano suit, if you ask me. I hope they kept the receipt. You'd also think all the vehicles would help, but the vehicles are fragile, gutless clunkers, which lurch around so alarmingly you're happy to ditch them. Have none of these designers played that swamp boat level in Half-Life 2 that wore out my grin muscles it was so fun? What are they teaching in game design school these days that drains all the fun out of vehicular mayhem?

And what ever happened to BOSSES? You know, those things that you occasionally fight at the end of levels which make games vastly more interesting and non-repetitive? Crysis doesn't do bosses. It doesn't even do "boss situations" where things ramp up in intensity before the level ends. Your character is there to mark off his checklist and punch out. Where's the pacing?

What Crysis does do well is firefights. There is endless, chaotic, gun-blazing fun to be had. The enemy AI is pretty good which is rare. They'll surprise you with flanking maneuvers and strategic use of grenades. So if this is your main prerequisite for an FPS you may want to check it out. But the game disappoints on most other levels.

oh boo hoo.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 19
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

so you cant play it on your multimonitor setup. big deal! does that mean it's a lousy game? NO! Demo is great, and so should be the Finished version.

Awsome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the best first person game yet.
You will need the latest hardware to play this game.

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