i am positive that bioshock will be the better experience - the story and its presentation will almost certainly be better, the AI manipulation and combat variety in bioshock will almost certainly be better, and the the horror elements will probably be very well developed.... plus it has full blown choice/consequence roleplay elements and, i believe, limited character development forcing difficult choices
essentially, it's looking like system shock 2 redux - and system shock 2 is just my favourite game ever...
crysis will have more fun gunplay - pretty much a fact - crysis will also have a fun level of non-linearity that bioshock, being a corridor game, will not enjoy... even if crysis is no more "open" than farcry, that's still a level of freedom above and beyond the railshooter bioshock will be (because bioshock's freedom exists in other forms)... crysis will probably be the better investment in terms of cash/hours played, since it'll have multiplayer and there's just going to be a general sort of replayability to it that i found lacking in system shock 2 (and i presume it will extend to bioshock, it's just how the game works)
personally, i think you should get both without question - if i had to choose for myself, it's a nobrainer, bioshock wins 150 times out of 100... but you're probably going to be missing out on something great whichever way the coin lands
if you can seriously only pick one, for some reason - do this, use the predecessor to decide... both bioshock and crysis seem like bigger and better versions of the predecessors... so try out both farcry and system shock 2, if you haven't, and buy the sucesssor of the game you prefer
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