Before Crysis was Far Cry AND THE LORD SAID: It was better, FAR better!
Lets start first far cry was revolutionary the jungle ares are so exotic while crysis relies in realism, far cry has better levels than crysis some got more freedom outher less the water and the whole exotic areas are amazing the inside areas are pretty good in dynamic lighting, they are getting very scary too while facing monsters!
The story is simple an ex special forces takes a job to cruise a female reported in some exotic islands filled with mercs and soon enough the big bad scientist turns the place into a monster making facility and the jungle survival goes on, not an amazing story ir characters but hey its not used in any outher game it was needed to be used!
Far cry got an impressive combat back then not evey game aimed with weapon sight but i got to say that the zoomed aimed view WAS pretty reallistic the game worked pefectly with no bugs the whole idea is to get to the next objective either thats outside or inside on foot on sea or take different paths some levels are inside like oldschool games outhers are outside soem are paths outher allow you to go form the front of the island or behind the island by choosing different routes, back then it was using amazing physics like the way the corpes move while hit and the blood marks on corpses or in the water how the blood flows, while crysi didnt use any blood, the game takes realism the main idea is that if you sprint you get tired sou you move normalll you get to an ares, thats better than the ones in crysis and spot enemies with the binoculars mark them in radar and take them out with sniper rilfe or get close, yiu cant actuallly sneak but the enemy spot system doesnt go up right away so step away for a while and the vision matter will go down, in combat you just duck zoom and repedatly shoot and wih 2 bursts you take out enemies there are alite enemies with blue armor and scary monsters 2 hits and you are dead one armor one health few hits are enough to kill you BUT unlike crysis you dont shoot every enemy 1000 times and ai doesnt shoot you that fast so you aim each one and take him out more reallistic than crysis id say! the inside areas feel real too in combat you can take out enemies as you spot them but in crysis... well i think you get the point, so why is far cry better than crysis? mainly combat is better and levels FEEL like a vocation to an island eg in a level you are at a small boat and 3 islands with objectives get from island to island get on top and take the enemies to the bridge or one river level that you go down that river well amazing levels just check my screenshots in profile, far cy doesnt give you many ways too do it it just says practice a bit to get use of the game and you just simply play it, it doesnt need many ways too go, also in far cry the exotic islands feel more real, countless og time you ll need to cross the river all i got to say levels are A+ 20 levels while cryis has 11, minus the flying VTOL and core level thats 9 and the short level you find prophet 8 so get far cry its the real deal, bad points? well pretty difficult at many times but so does crysis is unfair another bad point the monsters with rocketlaucher, i wouldnt say crysis give you that much freedom so far cry got a little less unless you wanna cloak all the time... also no tanks and such but you got a 4 rocket, launcher in and the rocket laucnher monters but it needs some chalange, there is no need to defend the game crysis has more options this one got more variety 20 levels you love at least 17 of them, besides taking out koreans in assault level of crysis and in rebellion of far cry, hmmm far cry combat situation and game play feels better, believe me!