Crysis (PC Games, 2007)

I realy like the futuristic elements in this game. A very intresting storyline unfolds as the game progresses. Your going to have to have a fast computer to plat this on fast though.

The game is quite interesting when talking about graphics, idea and attractiveness. The engine of the game is quite good as well. It even runs on Vista 64. The first half of the game is pretty good with driving vehicles, tanks and helicopters. As soon as you get to the part that has to do with the aliens, it starts to be a total mess. When diving inside the cave - there are no clear directions and you have to guess and wait and see. That was the time I started looking for walkthroughs (yes, I do not like spending 4 hours on the same level trying everything possible). The worst thing is however is the final scenes - you need to do everything in the specific order and you are limited by time. Make sure you shot at boss at the right time in the right place and then there is a ship that is waiting for you for only some time and then flies away (and you end up walking around and wondering. Game does not notify you that there is no way out). So expect in the end to load and save the game for quite a few times. There is no defeat of the boss in the end - it goes down into the water and it's still alive and then the credits come up. Well, wait for the expansion or second part? Here is a nice walkthrough if you got stuck:
http://www.mycheats.com/view/superguide/754/crysis/pc

The 800-pound gorilla in this year’s PC gaming realm has to be Crysis, the latest from Crytek, the developers of Far Cry (jeez, does everything they do need the word “cry” in it?). Crysis has been a showboat title for Microsoft’s DirectX 10 platform since it was debuted last year, offering amazing graphics and tons of special effects not possible on DX9. Now a year has gone by, and PC gamers are still clamoring to get their hands on what could likely be the best looking PC game ever. However, looks may be one thing, but how does it play? GameZone recently got some hands on time with the title at E3, and the game feels like a very solid shooter with some truly amazing graphics.
In Crysis, you are a Delta Force guy sent to find a team of archeologists who when missing while on expedition on an island. It turns out that they discovered some alien artifacts of a very serious nature. So serious in fact, that the North Korean government is also on the island looking for them, requiring you to take them out on your search as well. However, things quickly grow hairy, as the aliens return to Earth and begin to lay siege, requiring the US and North Korea to band together to fight off this common enemy.
The E3 demo of Crysis took place on the island, and at first glance seemed a lot like Far Cry. The AI was extremely solid, as the enemy soldiers would get into formations and realistically use cover in order to take you on. They could also use any number of vehicles, from boats to jeeps and so on. However, the main difference comes from your character. You can perform several interesting abilities, like go invisible (a move that renders your character almost completely invisible aside from a subtle rainbow effect that looks like gasoline mixed with water), or grab enemies by the neck and chuck them into objects. You can also manipulate the environment in other ways, but picking up barrels and tossing them and so on. The E3 demo featured some pretty amazing graphical effects. The motion blur effect was put to great use in the game, as was vegetation specific damage. Shooting an assault rifle into a densely forested area would cause trees and branches to topple over, with was an amazing effect to see. The water effects were also great looking, and rippled and splashed along the shoreline realistically. Crysis is turning out to be worth the hype, and could be the one title to showcase the full power of DX10 gaming like no other.

The game is stunning visually. Game play starts out a little boring but picks up as the mission progresses. A must have for DirectX 10 users.

Crysis was by far and away the one of the best video games when it came out, but is it still worthy of a benchmark tool for frame rate in video card? I say yes! Made by CryTek, makers of the dazzling FPS Far Cry. This game is running on the new CryENGINE 2 technology. The game is one of the first announced to run on the advanced DirectX 10 architecture. And As most of us who Own the game know, Crysis is a resource hog. My first attempt to play the game was on an AMD 5000+ Black with 2gb ram and an 8800gt video card. On a good day , I could get to 20 frames per second. Clunky and choppy was the theme of the day. Fast forward to today. I am now running an i7 with 12 gb ram and two 295 video cards. Man what a difference. Full frame rates and the ability to do whatever I want pretty much. I still love this game and think the graphics are still worthy of a nod, even a year plus later. The Crytek engine is amazing. And yes, I still use it to benchmark my systems. I also include it on all the high end system we sell on EBay. FRAGBOXPC

I am a grown up so when I play video games, money is not the issue, but I don't want to waste my time in playing some mediocre games. This is a good game. The graphic is excellent, the story line is fine. I played far cry so the control is very similar, if not the same. My time is well spent. I will finish this game. The game starts with a few simple missions then gets tougher and tougher. I enjoyed playing it even though I don't know how many time I was killed already. It is fun. Sometimes, scarry fun. I will recommand this game.

When I first saw this game it was a demo at walmart electronic after seeing what the game had to offer I loged on to ebay and purched this one, I had a smooth sale and everything was original. Two thumbs up !!!

i was very impressed with the quickness of shipping, and quality of the game. it was near perfect when i opened it. i am installing the game right now! thanks for a friendly eBay purchase.

I had been thinking about buying this game for some time. Then i seen it on ebay for half the price, it was opened but through my experience on ebay, all products i have purchased have been in excellent shape and this was no different. i saved myself 20-30 dollars by purchasing on ebay.

I love this game! The graphics are amazing but that is not all. The gameplay and the story are great too. I like how you can customize your suit and your weapons on the fly. This is the game to have if you like first person shooters.

Crysis is notorious for being the most demanding game to date. When I first ran the game, the recommended settings wanted everything on high, but with no anti-aliasing and at 1024x768. I ran the game this way at first and it looked amazing and ran splendidly... but I'm a gamer, and as such I'm greedy so I decided to put my 9800 GTX and my Q6600 to the test. I increased the resolution to 1280x960 then turned on the 8x AA... and guess what? Crysis still runs nicely, even at these settings! While this game is very demanding of hardware, modern components will run it just fine.

It's difficult to describe just how good this game looks! The cut scenes, rendered in real time, show your companions up close with great facial detail. The environments are lush and brilliant and the special effects are absolutely breathtaking.

That having been said, Crysis leaves something to be desired in the gameplay category. Maybe hardcore fps players will disagree, but this game is just far too difficult for a person to pick up and begin playing. That is a major limit of the game; even on the "easy" setting it is very frustrating. Your hero has a very short lifespan; enemy ammunition takes his health away in large chunks and wave after wave of enemies coming after you from all directions is not as much a rarity as you might like it to be. Add to that a clumsy and difficult to navigate power-up system and you have combat that would even make a pro want to smash his keyboard against the floor.

Most of my gameplay experience with Crysis involved trying to sneak past enemies, failing to do so, running away, hiding until I recovered my health, then repeating the process until they got the better of me.

The story is also nothing to get excited about; Crysis is the story of a team of nanosuit-wearing U.S. soldiers in the future performing a police action in North Korea when strange things begin happening; they soon discover that the North Koreans are not the only enemy they have to worry about when one of their own is killed by a strange creature.

Unfortunately for the player, the North Koreans are near invincible. Even the nanosuit-wearing hero is no match for 3 or 4 enemy soldiers in many situations.

Crysis is visually incredible! There is no doubt about that. The gameplay isn't bad per se; it's more that the challenge curve is completely unbalanced. There is no real "easy" mode in crysis; think of "easy" mode as "hard" in other games and the highest difficulty in crysis like "don't bother."

In spite of that, the nanosuit does have some cool abilities and experienced players may find that the challenge curve does not set them off so easily. For that reason I'll give Crysis an "average" rating. It's not totally unplayable, but it is more eye candy than anything else.

I had heard and read rave reviews of the FPS Crysis for about a year, but didn't know anyone who had bought it. It seems like lots of gamers were spending big bucks to build machines intended just to run this game.

So, I was fairly concerned because reviews repeatedly reemphasized how CPU & graphics intensive the game is, because I bought my dual-processor machine (dual 2.4 xeon Dell Precision 650) seven years ago in 2001 and put a ATI9800XT card in it way back then--this is close to the minimum requirements of the game! So, I wasn't willing to try out the game until the price had come down to a pretty affordable level. Used copies on eBay, fortunately, are very affordable and work just like new copies.

I received the game within a few days of winning the auction. The pristine box came with the installation DVD and the brief manual that has the installation code on it. Everything installed without any trouble, including the key. I ran the program without any trouble as well.

The program figured out good settings for me automatically, which were on its low end--the "low" rendering quality works just fine and still is fairly attractive. I tried higher settings with only a little latency between my actions and the video. The program, I assume because of my now low-end graphics card, didn't allow all the highest settings; but, I tried to max. it out with the largest video screen size and features. The pictures were stunning! Also, it really heated up my video card to about 101oC, and I decided to reduce the settings some. So, just about any level works well for the gamer who wants to shoot 'em up. The higher settings, of course, are more aesthetically beautiful.

I found I was able to get rid of the latency and achieve higher graphics levels by increasing the priority of the game with taskman. I watchted the temperature with the ATI driver, but there is free software around that will report the temperature of various internal parts for you. They work well too.

The game's narrative is good, and the game helps you out in figuring out how to move around and fulfill missions. I felt surprised by events and opponents. I felt challenged without being decimated right off. I had lots of choices of how to defeat them, from taking over vehicles to the standard shooting back & forth. This is a very well designed game!!!

The downsides are minimal. The manual that comes with the game is not particularly useful, but on-line resources can tell you a lot more anyways. If you want high-end graphics, you need to have a good machine, of course; and need to watch the temperature of your machine to make sure you don't burn it up!

After playing for a little while, I had to get back to real work. So, I have many more hours of fun awaiting me. Right now, I'm still playing the easy level and perhaps I'll build up skill.

This is a great game. If you like some drama with lots of first-person shooting, this is for you!

This is the best game i have ever play. Crysis got it all the graphics, the action, strategy, and the weapons. This is a must have game and if you don't belive me google it and check the ratins the whole world can't be wrong at once

well...is complicated to say which one is the best game... ( crysis or call of duty 4 ) but crysis is one the best shooters out there. really impressive. you need a good pc of course or you gonna be in trouble. crysis bring the next gen-level everybody wants inside a game. just play it. worth every second you spend playing it. I hope crytek and EA bring us the sequel.


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The game was great. Storyline was intriguing and the game play was fun. Graphics are intense, but make sure you've got a fairly up to date video card as this game was graphics intensive. All in all though, I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys first person shooters.

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this is the most advanced game ive ever played, visually and gameplay. it looked awesome with xp then i installed vista, looks better than i thought possible. there are a couple of levels near the end of the game that seem out of character for this game, buts thats just my opinion. there were a couple of spots of heavy fire fight and explosions ect that i saw a little video lag with XP, i haven t got that far with vista yet. to me this game was well worth the money considering i saved about 20.00 off of retail and will make some more back reselling it when im done. this game has raised the bar for other game makers, no longer are there any excuses for some of the games that are oyu there

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fun game great graphics needs a fast computer though love how you can play with the xbox controller.

I enjoyed the game. The graphics were great. I don't like to spend a ton of money on games so generally wait a couple of years before playing the most popular games. The wait on this one did not disappoint. I do agree with a previous posting that the missions in the beginning are more enjoyable than the alien sections.

I can't write a feedback so here's a review instead. The order was shipped quickly and it was exactly what the description said to be. I haven't tried out the game yet but I will eventually.

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