A perfect example of graphics arn't everything!
Normally when you hype up a game sooo much for graphics it lets you down on the gameplay and here Crysis didn't disappoint with it's disappointments. Crysis feels like Crytek wanted to make a game engine and decided to make Crysis a tech demo for it to show off at E3 to interest future buyers. Then they thought actually we have a well hyped game here and decided to make a game out of it. The only problem with this is the game still feels like a tech demo and while a bloody good tech demo at that, it does lack sooo much from making it fun. Not even the multiplayer is any fun and by the sound of it you'd think it would be great but for some reason it's just not, I can't point my finger on it but maybe it's all the hackers punk buster doensn't get rid of.... it manages to everyone else though for no reason other than using it but never the hackers lol. However fortunately Crysis has a sandbox editor which if you're into that kinda thing of creating, then you'll have a greta time here for many hours maybe even years if you're in to mod making..... just a shame Crytek thought they'd put in 2 sandbox editors, one however has a bad story and less features lol.
Now the game starts off great leaving an amazing impression purely on graphics and thinking how kool does that nano-suit look but also the voice acting and music is all great. You jump down onto the island from a plane and get split up from your team and really from that first moment it's the last time you will see them all together. I found this pretty stupid killing off most of them at the start before you even got to know them because really their deaths had no impact and you don't even care. However from the such a poor story Crysis has even when some die at the end you don't care lol. I atleast expected the cliche love interest from a woman but I got none of that which was also a shame because being a mad and the prospect of getting **** when we're stuck in the elevator together she was the only character I cared about.
Now like Far Cry you come in killing Humans and then something comes along and ruins the game and leaves you thinking if they just stuck with the humans this game woulda been sooo much better. Thankfully they didn't use mutants with rockets coming outta their arse but kool looking Aliens which really did ass to the game I felt. The game suddenly becomes much more linear after they arrive too and finally has some structure and objectives other than run to point a to point b killing Koreans and pressing a button just to have to press a button 400m down the road somewhere else. Theres zero G gameplay and flying a spacecraft and then sitting on the back of a vehicle gunning down Aliens and protecting your mate keeping him in the warmth because his suit stopped working. It really makes the game more fun and gives it more story and you think if they just done this from the start then it would have been sooo much better! Many people say the start and sandbox feel is what's great about Crysis but I think we already have a sandbox editor, why do I need my game to be like that with less features and a crap story? They say how open world the game is and yet it's still linear but instead of having a 2m wide corridor you have a 40m wide one. I don't see the point having more freedom and then less to do in it but shoot down trees........... Just please Crysis lacks story and characters and gameplay in the single player so for Crysis 2 improve on that! I find it also a shame how they have a game with a good physics engine and yet in the actual game the physics act all weird and not right. Like barrels can blow up a vehicle with one throw or knock down a entire building lol. Also what I find weird is no physics puzzles which I feel really adds to the gameplay of HL2... the least they coulda done was like the planes flaps or w/e they're called broke off so you have to put a certain amount of wate rin it to keep it balanced or something lol.
The gunplay itsself is actually very good but the guns in the game are abit boring but still the feel of the guns more than makes up for it. The suit is also a kool tool although I wish I have the Koreans becuase theirs seems like it can take WAY more damage than mine... even their bullet proof jackets lol. The problem comes with the dumb AI and why making levels that big isn't always the best thing to do because theya re trying to navigate the world they are abit slow to react and get caught up in things and genreally are very stupid, though i've seen much more AI. The way vehicles control is complete crap and I hope they fix that and the fact at how easy they blow up....
The graphics of Crysis are the most impressive thing about the game, really are just jaw dropping but obviously you need the best rig money can buy to max it out and even then you might struggle. I like the added touches of wildlife but really all they made me think was I wish I could put up human dead bodies or atleast tranquilized ones like MGS2. The sound is all very good aswel from the voice acting and the sound effects and the music is fantastic too. I never noticed any problems here and along with the graphics is one of the best things about the game.
I'm not going to comment on the multiplayer or sandbox too much because I didn't play much of each of them. However the multiplayer is just plain bad and not fun, it's hard to describe but theres just better out there. The sandbox editor is probably my fave thing about the game because you can create soooo much it is like Garrys mod in a way but without the online and all the creating contraptions.... just hope they patch all the bugs that really get annoying with it.
So yeah Crysis mechanics are nailed but the game just ends up coming across as boring to me because it lacks story and characters to really make you want to play on. Also I noticed there was a real attension to detail in some areas but a lack of detail in others like how you can't pick up human bodies or like at the end on the aircraft carrier noone talks to you like in other games, they just stand there lifeless.