Crysis – Review

Crysis

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If you haven’t heard of it from all the hype from the last few months, Crysis is a first person shooter published by EA. In Crysis you play a solider in a futuristic (Nano) suit who is sent to a remote island on a mission to find more than he expected.

The storyline in Crysis for the most part cannot be said as it would ruin the game, but it does go into a lot of detail and fleshes out the events surrounding you. Crysis is easy to control in terms of gameplay controls with the mouse and keyboard presenting no issues. For those of you who have seen all of the trailers over the months and played the demo you will find the game is exactly as advertised; a large number of gameplay areas all vast in size and varied in type. While FPS games do well just for being an FPS the biggest draw is the idea of replaying the game using the various different possible ways that the levels can be completed such as doing it once while invisible without killing then going through just like Van-Damme would punching everyone and then finally like Sly would with full-on guns in the jungle just like in Rambo.

While people might have been reporting issues with graphics settings in the demo versions, the full game is extremely easy to use and can scale to any system to give a perfect frame rate. No matter your system’s capabilities, one option that is a must in the graphics settings is Physics quality. The higher quality physics settings control effects such as buildings being able to come crashing down. Lets be fair that’s half of the appeal for the game so having it on high is a must!

There are some issues though that are hard to ignore. After spending up to the last 6 months hearing nothing about how much we are going to love this game, getting a single player campaign that only takes 10 hours to complete on a PC only title is a pretty disappointing. You end up wishing for the game to have been longer since you have been hearing about it for so long, it’s kind of anticlimactic. Some enemies get stuck in walls if you shoot them in close proximity to them which is a serious game play issue. There is also an escort mission, which is rather dull.

With a solid multilayer map set and an ending that leaves it open to a sequel, we can only hope that Crysis 2 fixes the issues with this game. While Crysis is fantastic to play, the excitement of blowing trees drys up pretty quickly and it only actually effects enemy characters directly in the rarest of cases.

Crysis also features a level editor called The Sandbox2. It doesn’t add that much value to the game as it’s way too technical for a novice to use. The program is hidden away in a directory on the install CD with only a single acknowledgment in the readme file and no directions on how to find it on the CD’s autorun let alone use it. The editor also isn’t mentioned at all in the instruction manual in the box.

Verdict: +

Ted Stokes

Proof of full version review before retail release.

We have had some comments on digg that some users doubt that this is a review of the full version. As is usual it is a review of a press unit and above are screenshots taken by myself to prove it is from the full version using the popular fraps screenshot program. Since promo shots are a single one or two from a level it was decided to give a number of non-action shots as to try and not ruin the game or at least the level. At the top of the review are the new exclusive screenshots. Look for the Stuffwelike name on the save screen in screenshot 3.

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5 thoughts on “Crysis – Review”

  1. Lot’s of negatives about Crysis, in most reviews I rarely find anything positive compared to the negative. I will not be buying it until I see gamespots review, and others. Sounds like a disappointer.

  2. I suggest trying out the demo. If you enjoy the game, but don’t want to purchase it for $60 because of all these negative aspects, go ahead and buy it when the price drops. Don’t dismiss a game because it has a lot of negative points. Sometimes the few positives do negate the negatives. The reviewer here actually liked the game even though it did have negative aspects.

  3. I find that PC Gamers tend to think that focusing on the “many” negatives is cool….

    Positives:

    Best visuals in a video game to date.

    First 3-4 levels are excellent. Freeform game play that allows you approach enemy camps any way you like. Sneak…run and gun…etc

    Excellent physics engine that allows you to smash tanks and hummers through buildings killing the occupants (certainly a first in PC gaming for me!)

    A dynamic environment that make firefights more interesting and cinematic!!!

    It has its problems, some bugs and the linear ending….but this had to be done to make the story work. Crysis is a victim of its own Hyper. If this game came out with half the hype it had it would be the best release of the year for sure…..I put it up there with HL 2.

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