Realistic, breathtaking, innovative. Demanding.
While us gamers see almost on-par visuals while playing Half-Life 2, Bioshock, and Lost Planet; Crysis adopts all these visual traits and turns them into something more demandaing... something close to godlike.
Simply put: if God had a computer, he'd have to upgrade to play Crysis at full. Crysis laughs at any CPU and GPU you try to throw at it, but what you do get it retaliation is a finely tuned game with an intruiging storyline, next generation physics, and mind blowing special effects.
The joy of placing a pack of C4 underneath a KPA tank or the thrill of excitement you receive when jumping out of a stolen vehicle, plunging towards its untimely demise, towards another enemy controlled vehicle - the essence of adrenaline running stuff.
However, this game is not for everyone. It is not for those Pentium II users with 0.5G of RAM, not for 800x600 resoltuion. While it was built to support these speculations, it won't show its true coloiurs until you whip out a 8800GTS 640Mb+ at a resolution of at least 1280x1024.
The game is graphically superior to any other on the market, and certainly has set a new benchmark for what has become the new generation of FPS games. If you're God's techy, pick up this game. If you're not but have a beast of a machine, pick it up anyway.
It loses 2 where system optimisation lets down us Vista 8800 users, and the fact it is part of, indeed, a "trilogy" scares me; simply because delayed patches are someting to go by when judging a companies performance in the entertainment industry. I myself am in the industry and I am let down by Crytek - they promise a visually superior game (and they deliver) but as well as a performing "black horse" (they don't).