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3 Rating: 3, Useful: 14 / 51
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had eagerly anticipated Crysis after Far Cry won my respect.

Sadly, Crysis disappoints.

The game does not cooperate with multi monitor systems, forcing me to operate it in windowed mode in order to play on my favorite monitor (or to totally reconfigure my multimonitor system).

The dialog is unimpressive and rather infantile. The story, from what I have seen of it, is rather uninspiring.

The suit is an annoyance... in every respect. Constantly managing the suit to turn on different superhero powers is just so comicbook. I felt like I was switching between the invisible woman, the hulk, captain america, the flash, and superman. If I wanted a comic book fantasy, I would have spent a few bucks on a... well... a comic book.

The kills are far too difficult and unrealistic. Pumping lead into Koreans point blank, and they just stand there and fire back. Are they all on drugs or something?

The AI has issues: I was spotted creeping in the bushes high on a mountainside, overlooking the waters... by men in a boat, who of course fired on me. First, no way I could have been seen. Next, the AI guys that they fired PAST (eg: they were between me and the firing boat), did not respond to the action.

My system is pretty high performance, not extreme, but no slouch. All settings for Crysis had to be set to low, and even then, I have a crappy frame rate. (Athlon 64 2.41GHz, NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX, 2G Ram, Win XP)

I compare this to Call of Duty 4, also recently released. CoD4 is ASTOUNGING by comparison. Excellent missions, wonderful maps, good story, supreme frame rates on modest hardware (xbox 360).

I think I will try to sell my Crysis SE, and go back to CoD 4

Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is awesome. Got it last night and played for 6 hours straight. Various tactics make playing the same part over and over again relatively fun. If you take your silencer off your gun is 3x as powerful, so it's not impossible to kill people. I've found a couple of bugs but overall it's far more polished than any other new-release game I've bought from EA. It's actually hard when set on hard! It looks very good visually.

CONS: It comes on a very very crappy dual-layer DVD. My brand new drive makes 3-5 minutes of frightening noises and slow-down before it eventually loads the disk. It works fine on my roommate's computer, but I haven't had problems with any other DVD discs. From what I've read this is an all too common problem. It's crazy annoying, so it's getting 4 stars based on this alone.

It's silly how you can't grab and hold someone from behind. Who grabs EVERYONE face to face bully-style by the neck?

AI is improved over most games, but still flawed.

EA loves annoying you with extra crap software imbedded in their games.

The rest is about SYSTEM PERFORMANCE.

You don't need a super high-end system to play the game. I've got 2 computers w/ XP, 3d mark scores 3700 (Pentium D 805 w/ 7800gs 256mb) and 13000 (3.6ghz E6750 and 8800gt 512mb :o) ). As long as you run the 3700 at 800x600 it gets 35fps with medium settings. I primarily run the 13000 at 1650x1050 @ high settings (you can only use very high settings w/ Vista, which I'm never buying) and get 40fps. Driving a boat down a foggy river at night is the worst perfomance I've gotten,probably 15-20 fps.

So it IS playable on a 2 year old high end system.

Not very good....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

One word...disappointing. Buy something else. The single player campaign is way too short, and the ending doesn't resolve anything. Nothing new as far as gameplay. I have an 8800 gtx, and it's playable, but not smooth. I'm sure to get max performance, you'd have to invest $1,000 in video cards, which is just nuts. I won't be buying any sequels.

Muy buenos graficos.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Mu buenos graficos, auque requiere una pc potente para correrlo al maximo. esperemos que salga la 9800GX2

Phenominal FPS, eye candy galore, steep system requirements

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a fantastic game, the best FPS to date. There was no need to redisgn the FPS genre..only improve the AI and graphics to utilize 2007 (and beyond) hardware. The game is not as ground-breaking as Half-Life or even FarCry when they were first released, but there are some features which make it original. Here are the best features:

1.Graphics! Best visuals and special effects in any game to date. Just make sure you have the hardware for it. I have a Core Duo 2.66ghz and a 8800 GTS 640mb and I get only 30fps average at 1024x768 at high settings. I had the occasional skipped frames under high graphic load but this is rare.
2. Fully manipulative environment. Trees that fall over, tires that explode, buildings that can be blown up, animals that can be picked up or shot.....just about everything can be manipulated in some way.
3. Nanosuit--now THIS is original. Sort of like the suit worn in Half-life but with armor, strength, speed,and stealth mode. Very cool to grab an enemy and throw them 50 feet off a cliff. Your health is a matter of suit energy which re-generates....no running around finding cheesy health kits unexplainably strewn about on the island. Weapons and amunition are found where you expect...on dead enemies and in supply buildings on the island.
4. Vehicles--Fantastic usable vehicles--tanks, trucks, hummers, boats, helicopters. These are FUN to drive and add a whole new dimention to game play.

In general the levels are well designed, with various ways to acheive your objectives. The only level I didn't like was the one inside the mountain where the only goal is to find a way out (boring.)

Hey, I enjoyed it.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Graphics:
Yes is is true what is being said about the graphics. This game eats and spits back out pretty much any machine.
My system Quick Specs:
OS - XP pro x64 edition
RAM - 4 GB ddr2
MoBoard - EVGA 680i
Processor - 3.0 Ghz Core 2 duo
Vid Card - 8800 gtx
So far I can play the game perfectly fine at 1920 x 1200 with everything turned on High, although the Anti-Aliasing is Off, with absolutely no Graphical errors (Well you can see the monitor flicker every once in a while because the monitor physically cannot refresh more than 60hz). Just make sure your video card is up to date, cause if it is not, your going to get a lot of the errors some of these reviews mention. However, once you turn it on the game gets exponentially slower. It is playable to about x4, although if you set it to x16, the game becomes unplayable. However, I can not see much of a difference if you have the anti aliasing off or on if you have the resolution turned up really high. I know there will be obsessive people out there who will find that unacceptable though.
Also an IMPORTANT NOTE: I my computer has both XP 32bit and XP pro x64 bit installed,(Some of my animation tools don't work for 64) and I have found that running it with the 64 bit OS the game had about a double increase in performance when running it on the same game settings.

Gameplay:
Well, it has the same openness to it as Far-Cry. Although I found the AI a bit more stupid. For example if you are standing right in front of one of the baddies, they will hesitate for a good long time to shoot you Etc.. Small things like that. Also the game's single player campaign is extremely short (On the hardest mode With doing all the secondary objectives, this first time through the game only took me about 6 or 7 hours tops). So in order to make the single player more interesting, you may wish to make a few passes without using either cloak, armor, or speed. I cannot say for multiplayer (Yes, there are still some people who use 56kb dial up). So yeah. Other than that, no complaints here

Frustrated by persistent crash in ultimate battle

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Comparing Crysis to other FPSs I've played, what I really loved about this game is how I can drive the vehicles and use the guns. When I was playing MOHAA, I don't know how many times I wished I could have done that.

On the other hand, I missed not being able to open doors or look in cabinets. It's like I could do little with the inanimate world(other than pick things up and throw them).

Then there are the Bugs: It seems that manual saves can corrupt your saved files. When I finally arrived at the mine entrance I found the blast doors down and nothing I could do would open them. They are blast doors, after all. Consulting google, I found that someone else fixed this problem by restarting the level and not manually saving. Unfortunately I found I had to restart the game from the beginning. At least when I finally got back to the mine it was open.

Next when I was supposed to defend someplace, a couple of alien sprites hung in the air and refused to die. They no longer moved or attacked anyone but nothing I or any of the other combatants could do would make them crumple up and the game wouldn't progress until all the aliens were completely blown away. Thank heaven I only had to restart that level.

But the worst thing about Crysis is the crashing. As a software professional, I don't ordinarily get sniffy about crashes. I had the odd crash during the game, nothing to get excited about until ... the last battle. I have a high end computer hardware-wise and run a fresh version of XP. And Crysis kept crashing during the last battle. Try this, crash, try that, crash. Crash, crash, crash. The only alternative to crashing is dying.

Is this fun?

UPDATE - I re-installed Crysis without the patch and was able to complete.

It was up until they ran out of idea

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game starts good. It is good, really, right until you got in contact with the aliens.
And then, they ran out of ideas. Boring levels, boring goals, boring ending.
And the last enemy was just ridiculous.

They simply ran out of ideas and could not give a decent ending.

Overrated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are good, but software is buggy on Vista. Frequent crashes and lockups. Game play is also a bit boring - much more linear than Farcry. Plus, for the first half of the game, there are only a few weapons that have adequate ammo and they're pretty basic (shotgun, machine gun, sniper rifle). Buy Call of Duty 4 instead.

BIG disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am VERY disappointed by this game. I have a very high end gaming machine and I have problems running this at lowest settings. At higher settings it doesn't run at all. I'm running a dual core system with dual Nvidia graphics cards and this game sucks! If I could take the game back and get my money I would. Once again EA rips me off. I'll never buy another EA product.

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