THE ABSOLUTE best FPS i have played to date
1) THE BEST looking visuals of any game to date by a technical, and in my opinion artistic, standpoint.
2) great controls, moding weapons or changing abilities is easy and convenient during firefights.
3)interactivity with everything in the game, from turtles on the beach to fallen trees and chunks of buildings, the ability to interact with every seen object in the game puts it above even half life 2.
4) destructibility, certain buildings and vehicles would have sufficed, but crytek went as far as to have every single building destructible and damn near every tree.
5) difficulty, crysis is certainly a challenge, but it is no impossible feat that canot be overcome with some slight skill or common sense, even though some other reviewers say that easy mode is more than impossible, but honestly while i play on easy, it does not take 6 accurate head shots to kill an enemy, crysis sets it difficulty to a pretty-but-not-quit realistic level making it hard to kill enemies recklessly from 500 yards away or by running up to a group barehanded nut it is rewarding when you do defeat them.
i cannot be fair in judging other first person shooters that came before this after playing this. it raised the bar, for all games. and saying a personal opinion, this game kicks halo's ass any day of the week.