Crysis: Maximum Edition: Should I buy?

I have seen Crysis: Maximum Edition at the Wal-Mart. This includes Crysis, Crysis Warhead, and Crysis Wars.

Should I buy this?

My computer has:

- 2.66 GHz either dual or quad core processor, I forget which

- 6GB RAM

- ATI Radeon HD 4850

I had a friend that told me my PC should handle Crysis just fine. It runs MOH Airborne and Left 4 Dead like greased lightning a majority of the time.

Yes since you haven't got any of Crysis game.

You can run it high in DX9 mode at 1280 x 720 with an Asus G50 series.

Yes. Buy it. Your computer should run it just fine

I just got the maximum edition and if you haven't played the other Crysis games (like me) it's a great value.

Each campaign is around 10 hours if you take it slowly (and you should), and then the online from Wars is pretty good as well.

For 50$ you're hard pressed to find better value in a shooter this side of the Orange box.

Well I did buy it.

I haven't played either of the two Crysis games, but I'm a bit surprised at the graphics. On my core i7 920, with its powerful GTX 275, Crysis is barely running in DX 10 at a 1680*1050. I'm averaging in the mid 20's to low 30's.

Granted, that's at the enthusiast settings. But you know what, in DX 9, at just High settings, Crysis is almost ordinary. This game is actually starting to look a little dated. I had heard reviewers say of Far Cry 2 that it wasn't as good looking as Crysis - no way, Far Cry 2 is much more modern looking. The only difference is that it doesn't have the ocean, or the god-rays. Indeed, the only thing that's impressed me about Crysis has been the ocean and the god rays. The rest of it looks like a game... well, from two years ago really.

Gameplay: Meh. It's standard fare.

I'm hoping that Warhead will be better.

You can run it high in DX9 mode at 1280 x 720 with an Asus G50 series.

mouthforbathory

But why would you want to?

yes i see why not.

Well I did buy it.

I haven't played either of the two Crysis games, but I'm a bit surprised at the graphics. On my core i7 920, with its powerful GTX 275, Crysis is barely running in DX 10 at a 1680*1050. I'm averaging in the mid 20's to low 30's.

Granted, that's at the enthusiast settings. But you know what, in DX 9, at just High settings, Crysis is almost ordinary. This game is actually starting to look a little dated. I had heard reviewers say of Far Cry 2 that it wasn't as good looking as Crysis - no way, Far Cry 2 is much more modern looking. The only difference is that it doesn't have the ocean, or the god-rays. Indeed, the only thing that's impressed me about Crysis has been the ocean and the god rays. The rest of it looks like a game... well, from two years ago really.

Gameplay: Meh. It's standard fare.

I'm hoping that Warhead will be better.

Charles_Dickens

Imagine what happened when that normal game came out 2 years ago :) And FC2 is multiplatform. It does not look better and never aimed to.

[QUOTE="Charles_Dickens"]

Well I did buy it.

I haven't played either of the two Crysis games, but I'm a bit surprised at the graphics. On my core i7 920, with its powerful GTX 275, Crysis is barely running in DX 10 at a 1680*1050. I'm averaging in the mid 20's to low 30's.

Granted, that's at the enthusiast settings. But you know what, in DX 9, at just High settings, Crysis is almost ordinary. This game is actually starting to look a little dated. I had heard reviewers say of Far Cry 2 that it wasn't as good looking as Crysis - no way, Far Cry 2 is much more modern looking. The only difference is that it doesn't have the ocean, or the god-rays. Indeed, the only thing that's impressed me about Crysis has been the ocean and the god rays. The rest of it looks like a game... well, from two years ago really.

Gameplay: Meh. It's standard fare.

I'm hoping that Warhead will be better.

LGTX

Imagine what happened when that normal game came out 2 years ago :) And FC2 is multiplatform. It does not look better and never aimed to.

Nice avatar. I'm not even going to bother engaging you in debate. I think I have an idea how pointless that would be.

Wow, now I'm accused of starting a flame :D

Ok, if you don't believe I use the avatar JUST because it looks great, visit my blog or something.

And if you think that Crysis was NOT a groundbreaking experiment at it's time, well, your opinion. Not my right to change it.

[QUOTE="LGTX"]

[QUOTE="Charles_Dickens"]

Well I did buy it.

I haven't played either of the two Crysis games, but I'm a bit surprised at the graphics. On my core i7 920, with its powerful GTX 275, Crysis is barely running in DX 10 at a 1680*1050. I'm averaging in the mid 20's to low 30's.

Granted, that's at the enthusiast settings. But you know what, in DX 9, at just High settings, Crysis is almost ordinary. This game is actually starting to look a little dated. I had heard reviewers say of Far Cry 2 that it wasn't as good looking as Crysis - no way, Far Cry 2 is much more modern looking. The only difference is that it doesn't have the ocean, or the god-rays. Indeed, the only thing that's impressed me about Crysis has been the ocean and the god rays. The rest of it looks like a game... well, from two years ago really.

Gameplay: Meh. It's standard fare.

I'm hoping that Warhead will be better.

Charles_Dickens

Imagine what happened when that normal game came out 2 years ago :) And FC2 is multiplatform. It does not look better and never aimed to.

Nice avatar. I'm not even going to bother engaging you in debate. I think I have an idea how pointless that would be.

Thanks guys, your help is greatly appreciated.

Now all I need is a spare $40 and I can get it.

If you can't run it on very high (wich i doubt), you can always try cudaats mod. It enables dx 10 / very high effects without the big perfomance impact.. i finished crysis at 800x600 in very high to keep a good frame rate lol.. now im replaying it at 1280 =).

I just got maximum edition and its great. you can install each game at once, so if you want to reinstall you can install just one not all of them.