A good game if you can actually run it.
Towards the end of the game, you find yourself fighting an alien race, which is threatening to invade planet earth and extinct mankind. Unlike Farcry, the action still remains exciting and thrilling right through the end of the game.
As for the graphics, at the risk of restating the obvious, the graphics are simply stunning, there is nothing else out there that comes even close to matching it. However, even after a year and a half, modern systems will choke and splutter trying to run this game with all visual settings on very high or even high settings, not only does the game require a powerful graphics card, it also requires a hell of a lot of CPU power which comes apparent during heavy combat situations. My system struggled to maintain smooth performance during many situations at high settings at 1440X900 resolution with a dual-core AMD Athlon 5600+ CPU at 3GHz, 2GB or DDR2 RAM and a Geforce 9800GTX+ graphics card and Windows XP. This is obviously a game which needs to be run with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU at 3GHz or higher or even quad-core to guarantee smooth performance at high settings. I also experience a few graphical issues, such as flickering lighting.
Overall, Crysis is a fantastically enjoyable game with superb action and an engaging story. However, it needs a monster of a computer to run it.