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Fun but buggy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have enjoyed the game quite a bit and have finally completed it after about 12 hours on easy. (I am not very good at FPS games). I will say that there are graphic issues occasionally, and found that later in the game the voice synching is way off, (almost a minute in some cases). I have a decent gaming set up, by no means top of the line, but it pushes the game well. I will hope a patch comes out soon to take care of a significant number of bugs I encountered in the game. It does look pretty but if you want a polished product wait for a patch or two to come out.
Also I have not removed the DVD from the drive since I installed it, but I frequently get a disc not found error when starting up the game. I end up having to cycle the DVD drive drawer in and out.

Eye Candy Galore, But Far Too Short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 16 / 23
Date: November 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Collector's Edition of Crysis comes with a nice game case sleeve, three (3) discs and a Special Edition art booklet. The first disc is the game disc. The second is the game soundtrack (which is probably worth the extra ten bucks alone), and the third disc is the bonus features disc. The bonus features are the "Making of Crysis", Storyboards, Screenshots, Concept Artwork and Videos. It is not a standard DVD, so unfortunately, it won't work on a regular DVD player. You'll need to run it in Windows.

This game feels more like a long demo rather than a complete title. Just when you think the game is going to move onto the next chapter, the soundtrack builds to a crescendo and the credits start rolling. The game abruptly ends after a few hours of gameplay. It seems to me that this game was more of an experiment with the new CryEngine 2 and DirectX 10 support rather than an actual game. As in "The Empire Strikes Back", the storyline in Crysis leaves you hanging. It does not end when the game does! The game ends with your squad leader going AWOL and you have to find him. You know they're going to charge you more money later on to find out what happens when you meet up with him. If people pay the full retail price for a game, shouldn't they get the full game all at once up front? Pay $50 now and wait a year to spend another $40 on an "expansion pack" just to finish the game. That should have happened in the first place! What kind of underhanded garbage is that?! If it's not finished, don't sell it!

The audio is atrocious. It's just bad. The audio alone may be a good reason to wait on buying the game until they release a patch for it. I mean, the audio in this game is so unsynchronized with the rest of the game that during an in-game movie, the computer *appeared* to freeze, but was just trying to sync the game up with the dialogue. It took about 30 long seconds of waiting to see if the problem was with my computer or not. This is a recurring problem on many other peoples' computers, even with the latest Sound Blaster cards. There have been many times during an intense battle where the sound of the guns has dropped out altogether, and the dialogue is extremely choppy. EA needs to work on a patch for this audio problem. I ran the game with the -DX9 command line parameter to play the game in DirectX 9 mode, and the audio was *STILL* choppy and full of delays.

Please, please wait until the price on this game has gone down. I know you want to see how the game looks with DirectX 10 graphics, but there is a demo of this game available for free online. Crysis is yet another expensive big-name game you can complete over the weekend on the most difficult setting without any cheating (which I did - unless you consider using the quicksave and quickload feature cheating).

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[Now onto the good stuff - yes, there are good things about this game....]

I really liked the motion blur, and the shading in DX10 is out of this world. I have not seen a more beautifully rendered computer or video game on the market. Even BioShock, which is supposed to support DirectX 10, doesn't come close to the realism of the graphics in this game. The close-ups with the enemy are breathtaking. If you have all the video settings to "Very High" and are running on DX10, when you go toe-to-toe with a bad guy in the middle of the day while on the beach, and decide to melee attack him, it looks so incredibly real that you might forget you are playing a game. The facial expressions are very detailed and well put together. It's just scary real. There was a time in computer/video gaming where you were doing a great job if you used three triangles to make a nose. This is by far light years ahead of those days (and the rest of the competition, for that matter).

The gameplay is good. I love the quick save/quick load feature. I hate when games don't have it. The different abilities of the character's suit are fun, too. Too many bad guys flanking you? Turn the cloak on and retreat. Can't jump high enough to reach that ledge? Use the maximum strength setting and try it now. Need more info on gameplay? Download the demo.

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All in all, a very good half of a game, but we'll have to wait a while to pick up where this game leaves off. Good gameplay, engaging storyline, outstanding graphics, way too short. It'll be a while before we see a Crysis 2. The big wigs are going to milk Crysis by putting out expansion packs, when they should have just made the complete product and sold it all at once. I guess the days of buying a complete game are over (as are the days of getting gas for 89 cents a gallon).

Sorry, This game is lame

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 40
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As a big fan of Far Cry, I was really, really disappointed in Crysis.

The dialog is infantile, the AI is not especially smart, the minimal requirements for the PC are rather high, the story flow is poor, multi-monitor support is non-existant.

Point blank face shots do not result in a kill, and the suit is a stupid comic-book distraction.

The graphics and physics engines are great, but all other elements were put together by wannabe game designers.... and the end result is a very very "whatever" game that is so 2005.

Wish I had better news on this... please don't shoot the messenger.

A game with beautiful graphics but horrible glitches.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you have a 8800gts 640mb video card or above you will enjoy this amazing looking game but if you dont you will get much less out of it.Even if you do have a heavy duty video card you will still see major slowdown in places if you have the settings turned all the way up.The story of Crysis is pretty standard,you play a super soldier with amazing abilities that is sent out to find whats going on with North Korean Soldiers and an alien object that has been found.The story is not the main draw of this game,it's the amazing Physics engine that is in it and also the breath taking graphics.If you see it there is a pretty good chance you can destroy it in this fast paced fps.Trees,Buildings,shacks,vehicles,you get to blow these things apart with a wide aray of modern and futuristic weaponry.What really holds Crysis back from being a perfect pc game is the fact that it has Glitches that involve freezing at times during checkpoints and other important events.Even though this thing is super demanding on the gpu side and has major glitches that need to be fixed with some updates it is still a must buy for any FPS fan.

Great Gpraphics, but

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Lets all face it; Crysis has the best graphics. But I learned the graphics aren't everything. The level design is very similiar to Far Cry and the story is dull.

Graphics: Beautiful. But only when you play it max or high settings. if you don't have a good graphics card, don't bother, because it looks like crap at medium and low sttings.

Sound: Meh. Nothing new

Gameplay: Just like FarCry, except you get powers from your suit. You can have stealth mode, speed mode, strength mode or the default shield mode. But they don't last long. The environments are comepletely destructable, which is cool. For example: I had a huge fight against some of the enemy soldiers at a camp. After about Five minutes, everything was destroyed. Houses, garages and cars. The physics were beautiful abd worked perfectly.

Overall, it was an OK game, but the only thing that is keeping this game from a 3 star to a 4 star is its graphics. By the way, don't get the collector's edition. Collector editions are crap that only contain a documentary and a soundtrack, which sucks.

P.S: If you don't have at least a Quad-Core, or 4gs of RAM, or an 8800 graphics card, DONT BUY IT!!!!

Forget the hype...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game really is as good as advertised. Well, almost...

It's not perfect. Don't expect a deep story. Don't expect superb voice acting, scripting or characters you can relate to. This is a gamer's game; it's meant to be played again and again, not so much experienced as a storytelling masterpiece. Throughout the game, I used one main gun and a few other guns here and there, but the emphasis in this game is on planning and survival.

But holy butter, Batman, the gameplay is something else. The super suit is an awesome device, and how you prefer to use it will entirely change your strategy. The weapon attatchments are a nice addition, but don't do much to change the way you play as the suit does. The human enemies are very intelligent, but the aliens are dumb as rocks. Still, it was a lot of fun to fight in zero-G.

The reason I give it four stars and not five is because I found it slightly buggy. The last level in particular was frustrating, as I kept falling through one specific part of the level. This may be particular to my video card (nVidia 8600m), but it did detract from the fun during the final battle. The screenshots speak for the graphics far better than words can, so I'll leave that to your own eyes.

All in all, this is one of those games that makes you glad to be a PC gamer.

Does not work with all video cards

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I received this game for Christmas and cannot wait to play it. But...be careful of your video card. Although my video card plays all games great..Not this one. You need a high tech card to play this game. My card is a GEforce 4000 no good need at least an 8600.

Crysis rocks... if your PC can manage it...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There are so many mixed reviews about this game out there, but one thing is for sure, it has set a new standard for gaming graphics. I tried playing Half Life 2 after a few hours of this and the graphics on that game were not so superb anymore. Crysis Rocks....

Let me talk about this collector's edition. It has 3 dvds... one is the game dvd with all the installation files. Another has the soundtrack for the game. If you are into instrumental music then good for you. The final one is the bonus features. this dvd gives you some screenshots, 4 videos includign the making of crysis and some story boards used in the initial development and finally some concept artwork. 2 Booklets are included, one with art that is mostly avilable on the bonus disc, and the other is the standard booklet showing settings etc. i was not terribly impressed with this special edition over the normal but i got it as a gift so i won't complain.

the game itself had a few bugs in it. A couple time si was not sure what to do. for example i was given a mission to destroy 2 tanks and when i completed it there was nothing for me to do. I ran around like a headless chicken killing everything i saw until finally i loaded the game a little earlier and played again only to realise i was supposed to have gone to a house to get some intelligence before i got the mission to destroy the tanks. Another time i was supposed to rescue someone from a crashed VTOL but when i reached i could not open the door that was jammed. After loading the game a little eariler and tried again i noticed i was not the one to rescue the person but a team member who in the previous occasion decided not to follow me any further to the crash site. besides those and a few occasions where stuff seemed to be floating in zero gravity..the game was really great. My GF, who gave me the game, said that it was very much like FarCry but what does she know?

The graphics is stunning but at a price. Your computer has to be well endowed. I am running core 2 duo E6600, 4GB RAM, GeForce 8800GTX, Vista Home Premium. I set game resolution at 1280x768 with AA at x4. All advanced features are set at very high. I have smooth game play except one one occasion where alot of enemies were in the frame and several cars were on fire. That time it got a little slow.

This game is alot of fun and it gets very intense as it progresses. Don't be a wuss...play it on DELTA mode.

Crytek HITS ANOTHER HOMERUN - AND IT'S OUT OF THE PARK!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 37 / 40
Date: November 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

FAR CRY was one of the best FPS games ever sold. It created such a following that can only be compared to that of UNREAL and the original HALF-LIFE. CRYTEK, the publisher of both FAR CRY and CRYSIS, clearly did not rest on its laurels. CRYSIS is an *EVEN BETTER GAME* in many aspects.
And toping FAR CRY is NOT an easy task...

Graphically the game is GORGEOUS! (Both DX10 and DX9 compatible). Moving in the jungle is just unbelievable: the natural foliage, the game of light and shadow, the clear flowing water...The weapons are exceptionally well designed (familiar shapes but mostly futuristic) and their muzzle flashes add to the game realism. Replenishing your ammo is almost never a problem, provided you are frugal with your snipper bullets. A nice cross-genre touch: most weapons are enhanceable with targeting-lasers, sniper-sights and silencers.
The "weapon" you will enjoy more is, of course, the nanite-muscle-suit, a kind of augmenting exoskeleton that serves as both armor and turning you into a super-human. Throwing your enemies over the tree tops can be really fun - and their limp movements and shouted insults are totally realistic! Speaking of realism, wait to reach the zero-gravity levels: the weapons' kick will propel you backwards - as it should! And, very important, all these great graphics with steep yet not exorbitant system requirements! CRYSIS is much more stable than, say, FEAR-PERSEUS MANDATE or BIOSHOCK, although graphically clearly superior.

The sound has also been well worked on. There are a number of moments where sound clues are the warning you will get. The sound of an enemy crawling towards you is not a good omen...So get rid of those old headphones and plug in a good set of speakers.

The levels are beautifully designed and the AI PHENOMENAL! I had a group of enemies flank me as I was engaged with their comrade who was left as bait! Shoot an enemy from cover only to watch him seek cover as well - until he or one of his comrades spot your position!
Overall, the gameplay controls is very similar to that of FAR CRY (and most FPS nowadays). I do have to point out that movement is precise and effective. Running is fast whereas crouching is stealthy. For longer distances, vehicles become available.
The game also sports a multiplayer - although it may require lowering the video specs to avoid lagging.

Now, this game (being an EA release) sports ...SecuROM. Usually I subtract at least two stars from games burdening us with such dangerous security routines. However, I liked the game so much I felt torn - and decided to make an exception. So, if you are boycotting SecuROM games, be warned, otherwise:

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Mike Powell is a "cry" baby

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game deserves 5 stars. I would more specifically give the game a 4.75 if amazon had that. The reason for the deduction is the cry engine for the game is so demanding. I have played other games just as graphically appealing with less demanding from my system.

Other than that, don't expect to just rush into a villiage and kill all the enemies with your supersuit. I did that a few times and got my arse handed to me. Now I have to plan out my attack and actually use the binoculars, ect.

To give this game 3 stars for not supporting multi-monitor is immature at the least. How many games actually support multimonitor?

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