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Crysis...a good FPS but distant runner up for Game of the Year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 71 / 114
Date: November 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is the long awaited follow up to 'Farcry' (one of the best FPSs of 2004). We now finally get a look at this newest offering.

Here are some of the things that I've liked in the single player mode...

1.)This is a FPS in which your nano armor gives you special 'skills"; these 'skills' include enhanced speed, strength, armor and invisibility; and you'll need them all to survive.

2.)Graphics that are smooth and flowing...plus excellent audio; both add a spooky, creepy ambiance to this jungle based horror game.

3.)The ability to use and control vehicles (on land, at sea and in the air), as well as the mounted weapons on these units.

4.)Generally good (but not great) enemy AI! Although some will just stand out in the open, there are some that will sneak up on you or hide behind cover; also they must reload empty weapons. Due to their larger numbers and the fact they're usually spread out, will necessitate your using your special 'skills' and the surrounding environment to defeat them. This is the basic, reoccurring challenge for this game.

5.)Easy, anytime save/loads with F5/F9 respectively, as well as game generated checkpoint saves.

6.)If your taking a beating (or find it too easy), you can change the degree of game difficulty anytime, as you play; you don't have to start a new game. This is a nice feature!

Cons:

1.)I've had a couple freeze ups, requiring reboot; also some minor video fragmentation (after extended periods of play).

2.)I found the controls on flying the VTOL (vertical take-off & landing) craft were difficult to operate (the plane just didn't seem to respond to commands quickly) with the result of frequent crashes.

3.)There was one extended section where you were floating (in either space or water), that I found confusing, tedious and boring. I was lucky it was very linear, or I might never have gotten out of there.

4.)A high end system is preferable. Although playable on XP, Vista can use Dx10, and combined with good hardware and a high end video card, it does make a difference in being able to run a lot of the 'extra' graphic details.

Conclusion:
All the pre-release hype made it sound as if this game would easily qualify for Game of the Year honors; I don't think so. Graphically it is beautiful and it is a good game, but it's not a great game! If you liked 'Farcry' then you'll probably like 'Crysis'. Was it worth the wait...probably, but somehow I was expecting something more. Over all, I liked 'Farcry' and its gameplay a little more. However, still worth a 4 1/2-5 Star rating.

Ignore Mike Powell

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 26
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The rater with 3 stars is an idiot, ignore him.

Who cares about multi-monitor, get a nice 21 or 24 inch and you're set. The dialog is pretty good, especially the part where the Koreans speak, you know, Korean (but you can set them to English if you want).

The story is a mix of a special ops kind of game and something Cthulu-inspired, I'll leave it at that.

The suit and its powers are kind of the key to the whole thing. They are sci-fi extensions of what we see now, brief bursts of strength, healing, etc. A little fantastic, yes, but this is a GAME, you know, something where you pick up health packs and what not. Why anybody who picks up a GAME is surprised says something about their intelligence.

The kills are finally difficult. I have always wondered why the hero can take a bunch of rounds, wear all kinds of armor, yet the baddies are cut down in droves. Mr. Mike Powell is just a bad shot. Pump a bunch of sub-sonic rounds into the torso of a Korean soldier wearing body armor, and yes, it's a tough kill. On the other hand, sneak up behind one and put a couple pistol rounds in the back of their head, and that's it. The kills aren't hard, they are realistic.

The AI is very good, but not perfect. Once in a while they seem oblivious, other times they all scurry over to see what the noise is all about. They use a semblance of squad tactics. They try to flank you. And, something very rare, they may even run away if you lay waste to enough of their fellows.

I have a quad-core Intel CPU, 7800 GT card, 2 gigs RAM.....and Windows Vista. It runs like a dream at the highest settings. Mr. Powell apparently failed to read that Crysis is designed for DirectX 10 and Windows Vista. Ooops for him. Trust me, with a good gamer system built in the last 6 months, you will see every leaf and branch moving and reacting, getting brushed aside by your gun barrel, getting shot or blown off, etc.

CoD 4 is nice, but it's just the same old rat maze every other CoD has had. I get tired of having to move along one path and fight endlessly spawning bad guys until I move past a checkpoint. THAT is hokey. Crysis is more like the Rainbow Six games, where there are set numbers of enemies and it's up to you how you want to pick them off. Personally, I just like driving a truck into their camps full bore and leap out guns blazing, but you can snipe them too.

So don't be a Mike Powell - get you a top of the line Vista machine and enjoy Crysis, Bioshock, Assassin's Creed....

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.

Follow up game to Far Cry (finally!)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: December 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hi all! If you've ever read some of my other reviews, you know I'm a hard core action, adventure, FPS type of gamer. I loved Far Cry and have been waiting patiently (and I'm not a patient man) for a sequel. Well, this is it. Yep! I got the demo and it looks every bit as good as Far Cry. The thing that is really cool about Far Cry AND this game, is that you can interact with the entire environment, you can take your own path throughout the game and you can just plain have fun. You actually feel like you're IN the game. The graphics, as in Far Cry, are excellent and the environments are realistic and a blast to play in. You can shoot down all the palm trees you want, shoot the buildings to pieces and have a general blast playing psycho killer. No, I haven't purchased the game yet. I plan to though. This one is worth every cent, just as Far Cry was. I highly recommend this game to all those fellow FPS fans out there. You won't go wrong with this one. Now, make another and another. Love these games!

Aweome game! CPU/GPU killer!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well, to start off, I shouldn't have purchased Crysis yet. My system is okay, I have a Duo Core processor and a Nvidia 7800gtx so I have to run the game on low settings. I feel like I'm ruining a great game running it on my current set-up. I recommend waiting for the 9000 series GPU to come out in a couple months, because even with the high end 8800 ultras, you can't get the very high settings. The gameplay is awesome, the combat is action packed and the powers are fun to use! I highly recommend this game if your computer has the stones for it. If not, wait until you upgrade.

Quit crying because your system is too frackin' wimpy to handle the game! IT'S AWESOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: December 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Let me first start by saying all you frackin' cry babies complaining because your system can't handle it need to shut the frack up and back away from the vehicle. This game is awesome, and the fact that it will be graphically scalable for the next few generations of Graphics is a GOOD THING, similar to FarCry and how it was at it's release time with the 5900Ultra.

If your system can't handle it on settings that're good, it REALLY DOES NOT LOOK THAT BAD ON LOW FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

I am not going to spoil the game but I will say it is HIGHLY recommended by me. The gameplay is not only graphically gorgeous, if set correctly, it is perfectly playable on any system. I have tested it with a single 8800Ultra, dual 8800Ultras, an HD2900XT and dual 7800GTXs, and was able to find very playable settings on all four setups. I will list my full system specs at the end of the review.

From the start it is very brilliant in terms of plot, gameplay and graphics. I myself prefer the hardest difficulty, cuz being able to understand the Koreans talking actually makes it less fun in my opinion, because you can hear them yelling grenade... what's the fun in knowing a grenade's coming? LOL

The suit modes and weapons modifications are also VERY cool, I myself modified the suit modes file to allow more flexible gameplay. I love how mod-able the game is, I even set it up so that I'm running the DX9 version of Very High Settings on some of my settings.

Overall I give this game a full 5 stars as I have played through it at least 6 times now and it has not lost it's fun. Here are the settings I use, and my system specs:

Resolution: 1680x1050 (Full Screen)
Anti-Aliasing: 2x

Texture Quality: Medium
Object Quality: Medium
Shadow Quality: Medium
Physics Quality: High (modded to Very High in the Config File)
Shader Quality: Custom (Forced by the game when AA is enabled, hopefully patch #1 will fix that)
Volumetric Effects Quality: Medium
Game Effects Quality: Medium
Post Processing Quality: Medium
Particles Quality: High (modded to Very High in Config File)
Water Quality: High (modded to Very High in Config File)
Sound Quality: High (modded to Very High in Config File)

VSync Forced On in NVidia Control Panel. Ran the benchmark at these settings: 29FPS Minimum, 42FPS Average, 59FPS Maximum

On these settings, it looks absolutely stunning. My specs:

Meet Elizabeth QX

QX6850 @ 3.666Ghz (1.5Vs) under a DangerDen TDX775 Liquid Block cooled by MCT-40 Coolant and a 360mm DangerDen Black Ice XtremeIII Radiator with 1/2" tubing (35C idle, 57C load with the 5 120mm fans on the radiator on low/quiet mode)
EVGA 680i SLI A1 Motherboard
2x 2GB Mushkin DDR2-8500 (no longer made, very rare) @ 889MHz @ 5-4-4-12-2T @ 2.1Vs
2x EVGA 8800Ultras (one Superclocked, one stock model) @ 612Core/1080Mem (for now as I just got the second card, the stock one)
Creative X-Fi Fata1ty Champion Series Edition Sound Card W/Front Ports
HP External DVD Burner w/LightScribe
CoolerMaster Stacker 832 Case
FSP Fortron Everest 1010 Watt PSU
Lasko HVB as a side fan to keep the motherboard and cards happy
Dell 24" Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor
Logitech Z5300 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System
Sony MDR-V700 Headphones
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyborad
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse

If you have a system less than that, don't expect to be able to run the game on high... ever. lol I can run it on all high settings with no AA, but I prefer the 2x AA as it makes it easier to snipe.

Anywho, thus concludes my review, quit crying, it's an awesome game, good job Crytek, get that darn patch out to make it support SLI better so I can really get good #s with VSync on. :-D

If your computer can handle it.......

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ok, let's start with what you should have, minimum, to run this game. At least 2 gb RAM but 4 is MUCH better, a new 8800 GT or better video card (and the ones with at least 512 mb) and at least a 2.4 6600 dual core chip on board. Whew! Don't have that? Then wait until you do or you will miss out on the spectacular graphics and detail as you shoot away. This is one busy game, a lot going on and sometimes confusing controls if you are used to other FPSs. Once you get used to it, and you will, it is a cool blend of action and story. The vehicles are great, and you can interact with almost anything. And the AI is VERY good and makes the game VERY tough. An excellent game as long as you have the hardware.

Exceptional inovation

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

This game is the best I have ever played. This game is to me what Half-Life 2 (HL2) was to me 3 years ago. The physics engine of HL2 brought a grand sense of imersion that had me grinning ear to ear the whole time I played. That's how I feel when I play Crysis. The very large destructable environments give me a sense of freedom I have never felt in a game. It's not just the graphics, the game really inovates by allowing the player to choose his/her own path to resolution.

Recent FPS games (Bioshock, Halo 3, HL2 Episode 2, and Portal) have been great, but I feel constrained by them, there is always one or two blocked paths that open up miracusly after you defeat the current group of enemies. With Crysis, I feel like I can play the way I want, I can play stealthy, or I can go in guns a blazing! It's neat that when I die, and have to repeat an area, I find myself doing totally diferent things, atacking from a different point, or sneaking by the enemies unseen. Some people probably think this makes the game too easy, but I personally LOVE the fact that I can snipe alot, you can attach the sniper scope to a regular rifle, so you don't only have 5 bits of sniper ammo. Of course there is a dedicated sniper rifle (with little ammo), but I prefer to use my ordinary rifle with lots of ammo:) THANKS for the CHOICE!!! I love you Crytek!

There are some bugs in the game. I saw some guys run into the water and drown. I had a problem where I couldn't get rid of an empty rocket launcher. So yes, there are problems, but I'm glad to be playing the game now. If this stuff bothers you, just wait 6 months for all the bugs to be patched and for the video hardware to catch up before you buy. If it was a Valve game, it probably would have been delayed for another year. Instead, I'm overjoyed to play it now, and I will surly be playing it later.

My system:

Windows XP
1 GB RAM
Intel Core 2 E6600 OC'd @ 3.4 Ghz
ATI X1900 XT 256 Mb
Kolance water cooler w/ waterblocks on CPU and GPU

I run in medium/high settings with no framerate problems except the first ~30 seconds after loading.

Update,
I added 2Gb of RAM (total of 3Gb) and I can play on high settings @ 1280 x 1024. Also, the RAM fixed that super annoying inital load problem. Now, I need to download the hack to play Ultra settings with Windows XP:)

If you're not sure how this game will run on your PC, then download the demo before you buy! Easy-peezzy.

More than good looks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

With all the hype around Crysis' great graphics, I was expecting a mediocre FPS with stunning visuals. I was presented with much, much more.

The gameplay is very malleable, which accords players the freedom to play Crysis like Splinter Cell/Hitman, or like Quake 3. The levels are spacious enough so that the player isn't forced to confront enemies head on. You can easily sneak past enemies and subsequently pick them off, or avoid engaging them entirely.

The destructible environment also contributes to the unique experience of Crysis by adding a great degree of dynamism to combat. Falling trees, exploding vehicles, collapsing houses, etc. are all tactical factors to consider while playing Crysis, and forces the player to be alert to more threats than just enemy fire. For instance there were times I thought I could find secure cover in a small house from a circling helicopter, only to be crushed by the roof after the helicopter opened fire on the house.

Crysis' story isn't anything groundbreaking, but is entertaining, and if you allow yourself to be immersed into the game (which isn't hard) I think you will find it very enjoyable. The way the story is narrated borrows strongly from Half-Life, in that it sticks with the perspective of the player.

All in all, Crysis is much more than the sum of its parts. There is something inexplicably epic about this game, that is more than just having all the right features of an FPS.

My system:
AMD X2 4000+ @ 2.73ghz
2gb ddr2 @ 800mhz
evga 8800gt 512mb ssc
24" Dell 2007wfp-hc 1920x1200
fps: with dx10 hack i get 10-40 fps, with standard dx9 i get 25-30 consistently.

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.

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