A graphical gimmick that lures you to upgrade your pc to play the thing. The outcome?... Abysmal.

User Rating: 5.5 | Crysis PC
By Ricksterlau | Review Date:
Crysis' gameplay is more or less identical to its predicesor, Far Cry. Open gameplay in lush forests, sneaking in bushes and killing people (in this case the Koreans.) That being said, its soild but nothing new apart from the added abilities of the nanosuit. It allows you to increase your speed, strength and become invisible for a short period of time. This adds a new dynamic of playing the game, whether you want to play sneak and shoot or charging in- rambo type, is up to you. Though one will die very quicking if you choose to play the latter. However the formula becomes old really fast because most of the time you end up sneaking behind your enimes, pop their heads and dive back into bushes, rinse and repeat. It's not because you want to play it that way, it's because its the only successful way. So the idea of bringing the nanosuit into play sounds very interesting but in the end adds nothing spectacular to the gameplay whatsoever.

Though the talking point of this game isn't about the gamplay, rather, it's graphics. Let me tell you my pc spec first of all. I have a Q6600 OC @ 3GHz; 2GB Corsair Dominator @ 1066 Mhz 5-5-5-15; 8800 Ultra OC; Samsung Spinpoint 500GB SATAII & 24" Monitor 1900x1200. If you know a little about computers, then you will know that my pc is very good at handling games. Unfortunately Crysis is the only game that my pc cant run at max settings. Why? No, it's not because Crysis is built graphically 2 years ahead of it's time, thats absolutely nonsense. Well yes, graphically Crysis is impressive without a doubt. But is it seriously at a level where the highest end graphics card can't even handle them? For me, that's a definete "no". I play Crysis with graphical settings all on 'High' ('Very high' is the next and highest level) at 1900x1200 and my pc only achieved on average 19 or so FPS. So I tuned it down to 1600x1050 and I get 23 FPS. Now these framerates are quite low for a pc of this calibre and I honestly believe that it has nothing to do with the graphical level of this game. There are games out there who arent as impressive as Crysis graphically, but match in areas such as texture and details and yet they perfom far greater than Crysis. Frequently in open areas, the game hitches many many times. The hitches last around a second or 2 and will get on ur nerves like hell when your trying to escape from a chopper or some guards but end up dying because of that. Let me summarize the graphical aspect of this game. Graphically impressive as it yes, Crysis is very poorly omptimized and is a true system hogger. Many bugs still need to be patched on order to play this game with some sense of joy.

For me, I've play Far Cry so Crysis' is nothing special out of the box whatsoever. The nanosuit gives players a few more choices but wont change the gameplay dynamic dramatically. It will be more or less cloak, shoot then hide. Graphically, yes the game looks beautiful but doesnt play the same. Chances are you wont have a pc as good as mine just yet, so your impression of the game might even be worse. As I have said before the game is very badly optimized and gives people the impression that its superior graphics chews up their graphics card... it doesnt. It's full of bugs, hitches a lot and ends up being a frustration to play. Don't bother with this gimmick people. Even if you have a better pc now or in the future, this game is only good for looking, NOT for playing!

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