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Editorial Review:
From the makers of Far Cry comes the most technologically advanced video game ever made, with graphics to make you gasp and enemy artificial intelligence so clever it could give SkyNET a run for its money. With Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 now well established, Crysis has become the new milestone for PC graphics and first person shoot ‘em-ups. The premise of the game involves an alien landing on an island off North Korea, with you as the only person that can stop it. The incredibly realistic looking environments are the game’s initial draw, with some particularly stunning looking jungle locales. All the levels include dynamic effects to make them even more realistic (and dangerous) including earthquakes, breaking ice, landslides and tornadoes. Since the alien decides to flash freeze the entire island half way through the game, and the final sections end up in a zero gravity spaceship, it’s unlikely you’re going to get tired of the same old environments.
As in Far Cry, there’s no strict level structure and you’re able to explore the island however you want; choosing to go in all guns blazing or taking a more stealthy approach. You can also customise your weapons to suit your preferred style of play with silencers, telescopic sights, laser sightings and more. Your special armour can also be modified as you go, so that you make less noise as you move, run faster, jump higher, recover energy or just take damage better and make use of heavier weapons. Naturally the game also includes an extensive multiplayer mode, but it is the stunning, near photorealistic, graphics and game world which is most certain to claim the game’s name in PC gaming history. HARRISON DENT
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
great graphics, enthralling story so I thought id post my comments to try and counteract some of the more negative reviews. firstly, performance, when I origonally bought this game I was using a 6800gt graphics card and a similarly old system (amd 3200, 1gb ram) and I had heard the horror stories so I ramped everything down on low, first thing to note, low on this game puts many many games high settings to shame, it just becomes 1 of the pack, nothing special, but not bad. feeling brave I then increased all settings to medium,... more info
yeah its good but... having played through it twice now it is a great game, but its not that innovative. the openness is an illusion - if you really try to explore the game will punish you for being 'out of bounds', and I never managed to find a way up to one of those high peaks (one of the great thing in Far Cry, its predecessor) was the hang gliding. the AI is actually quite stupid. To win every area you just need to grab a vehicle with a gun, make sure you are seen, and then reverse out of immeadiate line of sight and... more info
Very Good I bought this on release, have decided to review now my PC has almost come up to scratch to give the visuals justice. I have just replayed using Vista64 and and ATI 4870 graphics card and a core2duo processor with 4Gb ram. It looks gorgeous. I really enjoy playing the game through, being stealthy and picking off the Korean soldiers one by one. The let down is the later levels. Graphically amazing, but gameplay wise a yawn fest. Also I wasn't too keen on the VTOL level back then, and still not keen... more info
Believe the hype I played the demo when it first came out and at the time I didn't particularly have a great rig, I could only play Crysis on all low settings. At first I thought gameplay was average, I wasn't really trying the game out to see what the gameplay was like but more to do with how good my pc could run it at the time. How the tables have turned; I recently got myself a powerful gaming rig and I decided to try the demo again and well what can I say, my system's optimal settings recommended high and it plays... more info
