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[QUOTE="Gnr_Helsing"]Only new standards Crysis set for FPS are graphics. What are the others? Do tell.04dcarraher

No, if you have read the reviews they are praising the game play. The whole GS review destroys the "crysis is only graphics" theory.

Qoute from the review "Crysis raises the expectations for every shooter to follow when it comes to graphics, interactivity, environments, immersiveness, AI, and gameplay. Quite simply, Crysis represents the first-person shooter at its finest, most evolved form."

Black had destructible enviroments so did Red Faction series. HL series had interactive enviroments, Far Cry was immersive, Halo series have good A.I.The gameplay in Crysis wasn't genre defining. Maybe it was the demo I played. Plan on picking it up 2moro at Gamestop, since Best doesnt get theirs until 2:00 in the afternoon.

Well I played and beaten Crysis within 6 hours on my friend's Pc. Some things have Farcry clone written all over it, some new ideas that are cool like the suit and some elements, but the game is so average to me. Story is good graphics are great if you have a pc that can play it on medium or higher. But the replay value of this game muh. And the ending is wide open for a 2nd Crysis. Aliens are easier to kill than the Koreans sometimes. Buildings/sheds fall apart as if they were made without nails. Shooting,and blowing stuff up is cool but Crysis is a FarCry Clone with a suit and aliens.

My feelings exactly. It took me 7 hours to beat on Delta difficulty. It's Far Cry with better graphics and physics, suit tricks, and North Koreans and Aliens instead of Mercs and Trigens. Far Cry was actually better in some ways - the characters and situations in Far Cry were more interesting, and the game itself had that campy humor which added to the fun. These things are missing from Crysis.

Real gameplay innovation is hard. Adding a new coat of paint to rehash is relatively easy by comparison.

No release date. No publicity. What's going on?

is still the best

TClms5400

Yeah, that's photorealistic. Games that look like this are 4-5 years away.

It's still not as high a quality as the early Crysis footage, which was photorealistic, although obviously pre-rendered. Today's hardware just can't do that in realtime.

Nice looking screen, but it's still not too far removed from Far Cry.

The OP is right. The game crashes about a minute after starting, though it's not a fatal crash. With my firewall on I was able to stop application error reporting from executing, and the game continued to run. He's also right about the stuttering which tends to occur as monsters spawn. Otherwise, I was getting way over 50 fps.

I finished the game a few hours ago and let's say it wasn't for me. I found it mind-numbingly boring.

They lied... *ahem* ...were misleading about quite a few things. This is just one more.

Install the required hotfix for Vista - should be in the readme.

Update to the latest video drivers.

Run the game in windowed mode.

The windowed mode trick seems to work for some people, often drastically reducing the number of crashes.