Crysis Reviews

[dux]

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Ok my opinions so far after a good 5 hours solid play :

The bad :

Some of the designers need to be shot. Particular sections of the game are just infuriating. Notable moments being the tank section and the end of the Alien Cave section. With the cave, I just found myself aimlessly wondering (floating) around for 10 minutes before I accidentally stumbled over the trigger to end the section of the map. Ugh.

First person weapons are shaky and jitter about slightly and ruin the otherwise perfectness of the graphics and animation.

The way Prophet gets taken out just sucked. Sucked I tell you (whether or not he makes the famous hero comeback later on in the game I don't know) But how he was just snatched away so ungracefully after all that had happened up until that point just felt like a hell of an anti climax.

The physics. Man, they are pretty poor to be honest in Crysis. The amount of Koreans I've seen stuck in bits of corrugated metal doing the electric dance was hilariously bad. Coupled with the burned out husks of attack helicopters I blew out of the air just continuously vibrating like crazy as soon as they hit the ground was a real atmosphere breaker.

The good :

Wow. The graphics are phenomenal. Especially the winter section with the blowing snow. Fantastic.

The voice acting, top notch actors. I like it when actors are cast who actually put effort into their lines it brings so much more to the game. Especially Prophet I thought the actor did a fantastic job.

The cut scene animations between your squad are great. Even though it's still not 100% like human motion and looked a little poor in places and let the graphics and voice acting down it was still great to watch.

The music. What can I say, great stuff to listen to. Set the mood nicely. Kudos to the music guys.

The weapons. They're fun to shoot. Rather important factor considering it's an fps and all.

Destructible foliage and buildings are so much fun and really adds to the fire fights.

That's it for now. I'll come back with some more when I've played further.

[Algor]

beautiful car, beautiful.

this game is only looking better all the time. there was a pretty interesting video interview on gametrailers today.

[dux]

Just finished it. Good game with some nice ideas but extremely frustrating and an absolute system hog.

[Nexus]

It is always pleasurable to listen when players enjoy games...

[-HP-]

I'm at that part where you have a Russian chopper shooting you're ass and you have to hide in the bushes... I'm enjoying every minute!

[FrieChamp]

BTW, trivia question for the people who own the game:

What is the level inside the Alien ship called?

Anyone? Lazy bunch

[dux]

Core, I think.

[e-freak]

http://www.mapcore.net/forums/viewtopic ... p&start=15

By the way - has anyone even seen the screenshot from the Alien ship level that was posted some time ago? Just so you see the game isn't just about beaches and palm trees, this is my mission Very Happy

"Core" it is called? ts - mapcore, mapcore never changes

[-HP-]

Oh, so that's the level you worked on? Can't wait to play it...

I'm at the harbour btw, I dunno why but this level is fucking "heavy" on my system, I played with the settings at very high all the game, but I saw myself forced to decrease it a bit in this mission, because I was experiencing 5/10 fps!

[Sentura]

subtle reference by our dear friechamp?

i completed it in about 6 hours total (delta), pretty short but very stunning visually, great gameplay but also extremely frustrating in various places. i am used to having autosaves do the saving for me and i would time after time redo the same spots because i forgot to save. also there seemed to be some bugs after loading saves, like for instance that ai would keep their state of alertness they had prior to the save, among others.

still, it's a solid release; even the story seems compelling and at no point i felt bored or like i wasnt sure what was going on.

[FrieChamp]

We have a winner!

And when you want to load the level individually, you type "\map core" into the console

[Scinbed]

btw spoilers

Finished the game last night. Funnily enough, my favourite level by far was the Core mission. I had the music switched off completely (didn't like the music in the game at all), so it was really atmospheric and quite creepy. Reminded me a lot of Alien or... Sunshine, i guess. Good stuff.

The boss fight before that with Cpt.Korea was probably one of the most retarded boss fights in videogame history. All he did was stand up on his little raised platform, fire up his minigun anytime he got me in his line of sight, and mostly missed. Then he took at least 300 SMG bullets and 10 sniper bullets to the face before dying (I counted). Dumb.

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The tank mission frustrated me to no end. I died and reloaded at least 50 times before getting past one point. In the end I just got out of the tank and finished the mission on foot.

After the first few levels I was thinking, "god, please let there be something more interesting to do than disabling radar things and AA guns". But that didn't happen until the Koreans got killed off, and by that point there were only 3 levels left (the three best levels I might add, minus the one where you're flying the aircraft to the carrier). The open-ended nature of the missions was kinda boring to me, since none of the objectives seemed very worthwhile or fun. The predator-like jungle fights with Koreans were good fun, the first few times...

Things like destructible trees, destructible buildings, some of the set-pieces, guns, combat, etc, were probably the best things about the game. And of course it looked great most of the time.

I'll give it a 3.5/5

[Duff-e]

while I own neither crysis nor a computer capable of playing it I must say that the whole /map core thing is undeniably awesome

you rock friechamp

[Rick_D]

We have a winner!

And when you want to load the level individually, you type "\map core" into the console

bahaha

[-HP-]

6 hours Sentura?! You passed the game with Maximum Speed mode enable?!

Anyways...

<3 Crysis, period.