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ALL LOOKS, NO GAME

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: January 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There was a lot that went into the making of this game. Unfortunately it was all looks and no content. I feel like i'm playing FARCRY on STEROIDS only without the interesting story, levels AI etc. that FARCRY had. I too was VERY MUCH looking forward to this game. Sadly to say, I was SORELY DISAPPOINTED when I finally got to play it. It only left me appreciating S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or BIOSHOCK even more. Sure the game looks good and has some great phyiscs effects on the higher levels (which my system didn't qualify for, but I cranked up all the settings just to see what it could do.) But if you look past all the "bells and whistles" there isn't much there in the way of gameplay. replayablity.
I too was somewhat disappointed with the ending. I didn't mind the brevity of the game as I was just looking to be put out of my misery. Normally i don't even write reviews, but this game disappointed me soooo that I just had to. In closing, Crysis is like a HOT BLOND, all looks, NO substance.

An Excellent FPS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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...

Issues asside it's still a benchmark

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have not completed this one yet. I'm taking my time with it because I am tryint to take in every rich detail this game has to offer.
Many might dissagree with me about this, but here is what I think (so far).

This is by far the best looking FPS I have ever seen or played. It will never, or course beat games like wolf3d and doom/doom2. Still, with the help of good hardware it looks incredible. You DO need a monster machine to be able to get the best from this. My motherboard is a 6000 pci express, my graphics card is the very latest Radeon to hit the market. I have 6 gigs of the very latest ram and some other bells and whistles. This game still won't run completely silkily with everything maxed out, but this is simply because it was engineered to beat the very latest tech to hit the market. I have so much fun trashing buildings or throwing objects into things; or merely looking at the environment. I won't give it away, you have to experience it.
Hopefully they will release patches soon to assist with the many technical glitches causing system crashes etc.

Just my thoughts.

A great game that is ahead of it's time.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I read about this game over a year ago. I waited for a year and it's finally here. The problem is, Crytek should have sat on this game for another year. You see I built a brand new computer aimed at playing this game. It has an Intel Q6600 quad-core processor, 2 gigs of ram, 2 ATI Radeon video cards running in Crossfire mode, I have well over $1000 in computer parts invested in this and guess what? I have to run this game at the same crummy "medium" detail settings as everyone else who is reviewing this game and running it at an equally crummy 1028X762 resolution. So just know going in that you will not able to run this game at it's highest settings. I feel like it is kind of foolish on Crytek's part to release a game that the hardware almost doesn't exist to run.

Having said all that, it really is a neat game. It has some nice touches that I have not seen in any other FPS games, such as weapons customization on the fly and the armour/strength/cloaking suit. It has nice environments, challenging gameplay and a nifty level of interaction with your surroundings. All in all, it's an excellent game that loses one star due to the fact while we are ready and the game is ready, sadly our computers are not.

First class game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There are dozens of positive reviews for this game and I will add mine to them. The game ran great in Windows XP on an 8800GTS. No installation issues or performance issues.

Single Player: One of the best FPS games yet. While the game is somewhat linear in sequence, each situation has many, many solutions. There is also no ticking clock so you can take your time to plot attacks if you'd like to. Of course, jumping into the middle of a crowd, dropping explosives, vanishing, and running off to detonate them is a real crowd-pleaser. There are so many ways to play. Like to snipe? You can play the whole game that way if you like. Like to sneak around and avoid fights? You can do that too. How about picking up guys and bouncing them off each other? Yup. Thoroughly enjoyable. Suit management and weapon management made for highly varied play. Plus, the story [...] in. Absolutley great single player game.

Multiplayer: I am a Counter-Strike fan, still playing after all these years. I have tried a lot of others but somehow, I never get hooked. This game and Team Fortress 2 are threatening my CS play now, especially Crysis. The maps are great, lots of opportunity to play using whatever style you like. This would be a tremendous game for clans that work well as a team.

The only negative I can spot so far is it looks like there might be a few minor sound glitches in the MP game. Occasionally, (once every few hours-ish) whatever sound was heard as I die will hang and repeat endlessly. Until the patch fixes it, I'll just try harder to die less often!

Happy hunting!

Crysis/PC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

An awesome rendition to be compared to X-Box's Halo, but better.
An eerie, suspenseful storyline with all the action of a Hollywood movie.
I spent hours playing this game because I couldn't peel myself from the action. the only downside is, you run out of ammo way too fast.
I recommend for anyone who wants to open up a can of... well, you know. The multiplayer is excellent, with all the vehicles and specials.

Crysis has flaws, but is extremely compelling.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Looking back at playing Crysis, having beaten it twice since I bought it, I have my criticisms of the game.

However, the first time I played it, I was completely hooked. I didn't want to stop. I think it had to do with the nano-suit functions, I loved using them. The second time through was just as fun, and I tried out a whole different set of ideas for nearly the whole game, just because the nano-suit functions can alter the gameplay enough to change the whole strategy for a level. Also, the on the fly weapon customization was VERY cool and handy. By leaving the suit on armor and leaving the guns un-modded or by just equipping your favorite sight on each weapon you can make the game just like any other, however, this would certainly be a huge waste. The graphics are excellent. I fiddled with my settings a few times, just to see what happens, and on low they aren't fantastic, however, on High or Very High, the game is quite spectacular. I could do without the motion blur, I don't really think it looks cool, it is actually slightly disorienting at first, at least for me. It also detracts from the gameplay, because it makes it much more difficult to turn quickly and shoot accurately. It does add difficulty to the game, and I do enjoy a challenge, so after cursing it for a few minutes, I embraced the challenge.

A list about the things I didn't like about the game. (besides the motion blur)

1. The DVD (and this could just be my copy) makes a terrible sound in my drive. It also seems to take a long time to load the DVD menu. However, the actual functions in the menu work fine, and it has never locked up or crashed my machine.

2. The game needs to be longer. I only got the rushed out to stores feeling when playing the final level on the aircraft carrier, when I encountered a few random bugs that I couldn't repeat.

3. For the most part, I dislike FPS levels where I'm in a vehicle. This has been true of the COD games, Hidden and Dangerous games (fantastic games, once patched), Medal of Honor series, and so on. Controllable vehicles where I can jump in and out at will can (and have) been a great asset to a game. I digress slightly, my main point here being that the VTOL level is terrible. The controls are awful and mushy, and I frequently crashed. However, I stuck with it, and after I adjusted to the controls, I rarely crashed. It is still very tough to complete the mission because you have to shoot things that are zipping around you.

4. I wanted more weapons to use. Farcry had many weapons, and while I'd say that most of them were similar (it had 5 or 6 automatic weapons, and two had grenade launchers and zoom sights) but they still had their purpose, and they sort of 'upgraded' as you went through the game. In Crysis, you never really get 'better' weapons. The FY71 and the SCAR are what I've been using the whole time for nearly every level. The gauss rifle didn't do it for me, I liked the precision rifle better, but that could be my imagination. Maybe the weapon fittings I liked so much should account for *some* of the lack of weapons, but I still would have liked a few more weapons.

Having said all that stuff makes it seem like you shouldn't buy the game, but like I said at the beginning, it has problems, but I was STILL compelled to play this game. I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep, so I played this game for another couple of hours. I am definitely a gamer, and have spent many nights up late (much too late sometimes) but that has NEVER happened to me before.

Great graphics and game play.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well I love this game but you need a computer from NASA to play it. The AI is very innovative on hard to delta. Anything on normal to easy is almost to easy sometimes. Back on the computer requierments. I have a 8800 GTX, 2 GIG 1066 MHz ram (Dominator), E6600 OC'ed to 3GHz, 1333 FSB, and a PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Watt. Well this is not a cheap system and I was averaging 12 to 20 FPS with all settings set to Ultra, no AA, and 1680 X 1050 resolution. So overall the game is great but the hardware to run it will kill you to buy it.

Some good, some not so much...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are very tweakable. Lower end systems can still have a blast with the gameplay without as much eye candy. AI is spotty,usually good though. Bugs every once in a while. Maybe some patches will clear it up.

Great fights and lots of ways to do them. Snipe? Frontal assault? Explosives? Hop in the HumVee, come around the back and crash thru the hut? Good fun there.

Not sure what Crytek did at the end tho. I was compelled to the last 1/4 of the game then... meh... I've played this far... Gets really linear and takes out what I enjoyed so much from the rest of the game. Choices.

The multiplayer is solid, just not my thing. Servers abound too. Easy to find a game.

Overall,pretty good game. Great graphics, especially in high end systems, great gameplay for the majority of the time, just kinda falls apart at the end which brings down the whole thing for me.

Wait for some patches and a price drop then buy it.

Good, but not much new

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I found this pretty entertaining but I didn't really find anything very new about it. You will find it takes a substantial computer to even run this game, but if your computer will run it, the game is pretty good.

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