Gamespot gives Crysis a 9.5, IGN a 9.4....but 1up gives it a 8?!

Excellent score. Jason Ocampo is one of my favorite reviewers on this site--the review was well written.TrueReligion_

Yup, Jason reall is the man and that review was so well written aswell.

Ultimately, the biggest tragedy is that most people will not only pass on this game because many of the "pies" they had this year were dissappointments, but also because they don't have the setup to do this game justice...It seems that by the time most people start getting their hands on this game, it just will not have the impact it may have had when it first came out.HiResDes

Most of the people who will pass on this game are people who were never getting it either way - console-only gamers. FPSs have been ridiculously huge on PC since Doom and time has proven that it's an insatiable audience. Crysis is one of the biggest PC releases this year, and it's obvious that it's bringing a lot to the table. This is the game Nvidia and ATI have been waiting for. This game has been selling hardware for months and it's most likely going to be huge. Console gamers always try to downplay PC game sales, a lot of people predicted nobody is going to be able to play stuff like Far Cry, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, etc., and it did nothing but show their utter lack of understanding of the PC market.

Ultimately, the biggest tragedy is that most people will not only pass on this game because many of the "pies" they had this year were dissappointments, but also because they don't have the setup to do this game justice...It seems that by the time most people start getting their hands on this game, it just will not have the impact it may have had when it first came out.

HiResDes

I don't understand the logic of how previously released dissapointing projects (or "pies") would make people pass on a project that met expectations.

Seriously, who on earth says to themselves
"I was really looking forward to Game Y. Game Y is actually getting some of the best reviews of the year. Completely unrelated Game X was a disappointment. So I won't be buying Game Y."
....that makes absolutely no sense.

The people who are gonna pass on this game are the ones that weren't gonna give it a try or play it regardless.....the ones that six months ago that claimed Crysis was nothing more then a "tech demo" while refusing to look at detailed hands-on previews and videos that showed the potential for otherwise....the ones even now claim that you need a "$3000 PC" or "a $500 graphics card" to make the game look good, when benchmarks and reviews say this game looks great on various settings and scales well to a variety of hardware, including older and inexpensive hardware.

A card that can play this game perfectly fine at full features at 1280x1024 can be had for as low as $199...and this game on medium setting looks better then a majority of titles on the market, the claim that one will break the bank in order to get a satisfactory experience is extremely overexagerated.....Also, all the "DirectX 10" visuals are possible in Windows XP with quick edit to one of the files. Not everyone needs to play a PC game in 1920x1200 and Ultra Settings in order to enjoy the experience.

Like UpInFlames said, in the months leading up to titles like Far Cry, HL2, Battlefield 2, F.E.A.R., and pretty much every other visually impressive anticipated PC release....there were always those people who said those games wouldn't sell cause no one has the hardware to run them....Far Cry surpassed a million, HL2 on PC surpassed 4 million (in retail alone, not counting Steam which is said to account anywhere from 30% to 40% of sales), F.E.A.R. was successful, and Battlefield 2 was also over a million seller....yet with all those games, people claimed no one would buy them, just like they are doing with Crysis now.

Sure, some gamers who were keeping an eye on it are gonna play it sooner then others....but I doubt anyone who was anticipating Crysis is gonna all out pass on it for the reasons you mentioned.

[QUOTE="GodModeEnabled"]HOLY !@#$ Flames and Teuf are gonna be happy campers :) Someone lend me an awesome gaming pc :evil:ASK_Story

I think that's the only bad thing about this game. Even with the highest-end PC, you can't play this game with the maximum resolution.

This game is WAAAAY ahead of our time!

Who cares the high setting looks better than all other games i played.

Grr why did witcher, gears of war, orange box etc have to be released so close with Crysis?! But anyways great scores. After playing the demo I didn't expect anything less. I rolled my eyes when I saw 1up's score though. They don't know anything about pc gaming, lol "pc dreamfall being a port of the xbox version". Not only that they didn't even bother to review the pc version of Cod4 first along with the 360 version.

I know what this thread needs: more jealousy-inducing screenshots.










Teufelhuhn

man I hope I can play Crysis with those settings on my rig.....

Soo...did anyone else pick this up? Or am I the only person in GGD actually playing this game? :PTeufelhuhn

It would certainly seem so. I'm still ploughing through The Orange Box (and I think I'm officially addicted to Team Fortess 2), and I'm thinking about playing The Witcher first just to break the FPS craze a bit.

Got some juicy impressions? Or has everything already been said? :wink:

[QUOTE="Teufelhuhn"]Soo...did anyone else pick this up? Or am I the only person in GGD actually playing this game? :PUpInFlames

It would certainly seem so. I'm still ploughing through The Orange Box (and I think I'm officially addicted to Team Fortess 2), and I'm thinking about playing The Witcher first just to break the FPS craze a bit.

Got some juicy impressions? Or has everything already been said? :wink:

[QUOTE="Teufelhuhn"]Soo...did anyone else pick this up? Or am I the only person in GGD actually playing this game? :PUpInFlames

It would certainly seem so. I'm still ploughing through The Orange Box (and I think I'm officially addicted to Team Fortess 2), and I'm thinking about playing The Witcher first just to break the FPS craze a bit.

Got some juicy impressions? Or has everything already been said? :wink:

Let me know what you think of the Witcher. That game caught my eye as well, but I haven't bought it yet.

Anyone want to give me three gigs of ram and a 512 MB 8800 graphics card in exchange for my soul?Oilers99

I think that's doable

Strange as it may seem...I dont think having high hardware requirements is gonna effect the sales of a PC game in the long run...people will just get the game when they upgrade...which obviously they will need to do at one point or another.

Which is why BF2 got away with shipping with huge requirments, and still going on to sell 3 million...even today, BF2 still gets a lot of new players.

Big name PC shooters also sell very well...games like Half Life 2, Doom 3, Battlefield 2, Farcry sold very well..particulary surprising was farcry, which was crytek's first game, and was very low budget compared to the others on the list, and went on to be Ubisoft's best selling game that quarter...even outselling multiplat franchises like Splinter Cell...and this was all on a single platform, the PC mind.

Crysis will sell well, its the most hyped PC game in a while, and has far more hype than farcry ever did....it will also probably push a lot of hardware sales...A lot of people seem to be making their PC's around Crysis specs.

[QUOTE="HiResDes"]

Ultimately, the biggest tragedy is that most people will not only pass on this game because many of the "pies" they had this year were dissappointments, but also because they don't have the setup to do this game justice...It seems that by the time most people start getting their hands on this game, it just will not have the impact it may have had when it first came out.

Robnyc22

I don't understand the logic of how previously released dissapointing projects (or "pies") would make people pass on a project that met expectations.

Seriously, who on earth says to themselves
"I was really looking forward to Game Y. Game Y is actually getting some of the best reviews of the year. Completely unrelated Game X was a disappointment. So I won't be buying Game Y."
....that makes absolutely no sense.

The people who are gonna pass on this game are the ones that weren't gonna give it a try or play it regardless.....the ones that six months ago that claimed Crysis was nothing more then a "tech demo" while refusing to look at detailed hands-on previews and videos that showed the potential for otherwise....the ones even now claim that you need a "$3000 PC" or "a $500 graphics card" to make the game look good, when benchmarks and reviews say this game looks great on various settings and scales well to a variety of hardware, including older and inexpensive hardware.

A card that can play this game perfectly fine at full features at 1280x1024 can be had for as low as $199...and this game on medium setting looks better then a majority of titles on the market, the claim that one will break the bank in order to get a satisfactory experience is extremely overexagerated.....Also, all the "DirectX 10" visuals are possible in Windows XP with quick edit to one of the files. Not everyone needs to play a PC game in 1920x1200 and Ultra Settings in order to enjoy the experience.

Like UpInFlames said, in the months leading up to titles like Far Cry, HL2, Battlefield 2, F.E.A.R., and pretty much every other visually impressive anticipated PC release....there were always those people who said those games wouldn't sell cause no one has the hardware to run them....Far Cry surpassed a million, HL2 on PC surpassed 4 million (in retail alone, not counting Steam which is said to account anywhere from 30% to 40% of sales), F.E.A.R. was successful, and Battlefield 2 was also over a million seller....yet with all those games, people claimed no one would buy them, just like they are doing with Crysis now.

Sure, some gamers who were keeping an eye on it are gonna play it sooner then others....but I doubt anyone who was anticipating Crysis is gonna all out pass on it for the reasons you mentioned.

I'm not going to read this entire topic, although I did read far enough in to notice a few people bickering over whether or not Crysis is just a pretty face... it isn't.

Normally I'm not a huge FPS fan. I play em, enjoy em, looking forward to UT3... but they're a fun sideline when I'm not in the mood for an rts or rpg. Crysis is, well, Crysis has got to be the most entertaining fps I've played in years. I don't think I've had so many 'Oh. My. God!' moments since... damn, I'm not sure. The graphics are amazing, bloody amazing! I'm playing the game on High with DX9 effects since I've got no urge to upgrade to Vista, and I'm repeatedly being blown away by the sights and sounds this game throws at you. Also, the levels are HUGE and almost completely freeform so it's not one of those 'sure it's pretty but there's a loading screen every ten seconds.' kinda games.

Myself, I'm a sucker for stealth gameplay so I'm mostly going at this game in a stealthy manner. Using cloaking to get close or ambushing patrols from afar. Not run & gun gameplay, but taking out lone enemies with my silenced pistols or luring patrols to locations where I've hidden explosives before picking them off one by one from afar with my silenced rifle. And I need every trick I can think up too, I'm playing on hard and I've got to say the AI is surprisingly clever, much smarter than I was lead to believe it was from playing the demo.

I was skeptical when I bought the game, and more or less got it on a whim since I kinda enjoyed the demo and like showing off what my compy could do. There've been a couple times where I've found myself dissapointed or simply bored with what everyone else called a masterpiece. But ya know, honestly, Crysis really does deserve all the praise it's been getting. The campaign may be short, but it's one helluva ride while it lasts and I can't wait to replay it. Plus who knows what the modders will come up with with all these amazing tools at their disposal. Hell, I might even give modding a try for the first time since the ol' Dark Engine that powered the Thief games.

Oh, and some screenshots for ya. Linkified so I don't spam the topic with the massive pictures.

Charrrrrggggeeee!

BOOM!

Tank Battle!

Scenic Waterfall!

Enjoy!

Seems like IGN AU joins 1up.

8.3

Quite a few reviewers have been calling the aliens disappointing. Many said the same thing about the mutants in Far Cry and I never had a problem with them though.

Seems like IGN AU joins 1up.

8.3

Quite a few reviewers have been calling the aliens disappointing. Many said the same thing about the mutants in Far Cry and I never had a problem with them though.

inoperativeRS

I thought the mutants in Far Cry sucked, glad it wasn't just me.

Ok I'm now in about 8 hours into the game, and it feels like I'm getting quite close to the end. The aliens are truly annoying. As I mentioned before, I never had a problem with the mutants in Far Cry, but these aliens are not anything like them. While the mutants were deadly and took quite a beating they at least were fairly easy to hit, so they worked quite well as scary but still somewhat fair enemies in close quarters.

The aliens on the other hand are not deadly at all, but they are hard to hit (the fact the awesome visual effects they emit slow down my framerate to under 20 might affect this but still, they're small and agile) and take quite ridiculous amounts of damage. Maybe they are better balanced on other difficulty modes, I'm playing on Delta, but right now I simply run past all aliens I encounter, they aren't deadly enough to kill me and fighting them is only a waste of ammo and time.

Oh, and otherwise? One of the best games this year, maybe ever. The gameplay feels like a mix of STALKER and Far Cry, the weapon customisation and much more realistic damage makes sure of that. I remember normal enemies taking something like 5 sniper headshots in Far Cry on the hardest difficulty, this is nothing like it. There are exceptions of course, but normal North Korean soldiers die when they're supposed to do so. Excluding the aliens not a single thing in the game has let me down.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/review.html?sid=6182739&tag=recent_updates;title;1

Basically, the last sentence best summarizeswhat the game is all about:

"Crysis represents the finest, most evolved form of the first-person shooter."

Ign gives it a 9.4

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/931665.asp

But 1up gave it a 8! :?

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3164321

Basically says "sty-le over substance" throughout the whole review. Points out horrible story, horrible dialogue, and ripped-off bosses.

1up has so far been the harshest review.

ASK_Story

1up always doe's garbarge like this, they have given other good games bad scores as well.

It's really unfortunate that many of you are missing out on this game, so far its been an experience like non other. What really makes it stand out, IMO, is way completely amazing events happen in an unspripted manner: thye don't happen because you got to point A and triggered event B, they happen because you make them happen. This applied to everything from a shack falling apart around you due to gunfire or a grenade explosion, a jeep driving towards you and then flipping in the air above you because you shot out a tire, or making a desperate leap over a chasm as you're being chased by North Korean patrols. Never once do you feel like "this was supposed to happen", and never do you feel there wasn't an alternative way of tackling a particular situation. Much of it is due to the simple yet effective manner in which the nanosuit is implemented, as well as the incredible physics and realistic AI.Teufelhuhn

Aye you've pretty much summed up my thoughts. I've never seen physics and great AI compliment each other so well - except maybe in Halo. I love jumping on the roof of a shack but then having it all collapse from a grenade lol. The whole game is just like a unscripted hollywood blockbuster.