Crysis: Good or Bad?

[kain5252]

Basicly I was just wondering if this game was worth buying?

[Alex]

Can your computer run it well, that's the most important question, and chances are the answer is no.

[Donald M.]

And even if it can, it's just another FPS. With really good graphics, sure, but . . . meh.

[Astonishing X-Fan]

Anyone saying it's "just another FPS" is playing it wrong.

Explore. Use your powers. You can do all kinds of crazy stuff, and tackle every battle in dozens and dozens of ways.

If you just run from point A to point B and shoot guys in your way then it's just going to feel like a typical shooter. You get what you put into it. Playing wtih the powers, the physics, and the AI is where the real fun is.

If you use the freedom they give you, it's a great game.

[Alex]

Anyone saying it's "just another FPS" is playing it wrong.

Explore. Use your powers. You can do all kinds of crazy stuff, and tackle every battle in dozens and dozens of ways.

If you just run from point A to point B and shoot guys in your way then it's just going to feel like a typical shooter. You get what you put into it. Playing wtih the powers, the physics, and the AI is where the real fun is.

If you use the freedom they give you, it's a great game.

He's right here.
It's not half life 2 different, but it's certainly more involved then a Halo or Doom 3.
But again, make sure your computer can run the beast.

[Chrosis]

Can your computer run it well, that's the most important question, and chances are the answer is no.

More like "Hell No".

Unless you bought the Doombringer 900,000,000-XL HD Satan Computer.

Granted, its a purely theoretical device, known only from myth and legend, but the game was designed to be played on it.

[asloveislost]

More like "Hell No".

Unless you bought the Doombringer 900,000,000-XL HD Satan Computer.

Granted, its a purely theoretical device, known only from myth and legend, but the game was designed to be played on it.

ahaha exaggeration, my friend runs the game perfectly and his PC is quad core 1.3ghz, 8800 radeon video card and 2 gig of ram...

PC all up custom built $1400 Australian.

My Pc plays it smoothly on Medium settings and i have the same except a 7000 series radeon card and 1 gig of ram.

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

If you're going middle of the road settings, with maybe 2AA and a not too high resolution, any gaming computer within the last two years or so could get away with it.


It's only when you're hitting high (and ultra high), with any AA cranked up, and 1900 or 2650 x whatever that you get problems.

If you're looking for that, it's best to wait about three years. Because I've seen rigs that cost about seven times more than mine get chewed up and spit out by it on max settings when getting tested at Hardocp. We're talking 1 frame per second.



If the developers had taken the time to keep releasing performance patches and the like it probably wouldn't be as bad. But they promptly dropped support and went right for Crysis Warhead.

[2-4-5_Trioxin]

Can your computer run it well, that's the most important question, and chances are the answer is no.

Highly exaggerated, the idea that this game requires some hogs leg of a pc to run it is more rumor than anything. The reason why the game doesnt seem to well on anyones pc is #1 because the engine is crap, it wont run good on pc's 10 years from now either, #2 they publicly gave up supporting the game so they arent patching it anymore to fix problems and 3# the 2nd patch to come out improved performance a decent amount but by then most had either beaten it or gave up since it took to long to get even the first patch out.

I ran it perfectly fine on a c2d e6600 and a gts 8800 with 2gb of ram when it came out, or as well as it can be played. And now with my c2d e8800, hd 4870 and 4gb of ram I run it at max effects at 1680x1050 and only time it stutters is around a ton of trees, but its still buggy as crap and no pc on earth can help that.

There are plenty of flight simulators out there that are far more taxing than crysis on a pc's hardware.

Anyone saying it's "just another FPS" is playing it wrong.

Explore. Use your powers. You can do all kinds of crazy stuff, and tackle every battle in dozens and dozens of ways.

If you just run from point A to point B and shoot guys in your way then it's just going to feel like a typical shooter. You get what you put into it. Playing wtih the powers, the physics, and the AI is where the real fun is.

If you use the freedom they give you, it's a great game.

Sound like on of the PR people for bioshock before it came out. And yes it is just another first person shooter really.

You still have to get from point A to point B and accomplish mission objective marked on your map and fight your way through rebels, while aliens are invading and you can fight them off with rifles, machine guns, pistols, grenades, rocket launchers and your a highly trained special forces guy with your overly cocky steroided team mates, you come across a hot chic scientist......that sounds to me like a dozen other shooters almost exactly.

Dont get any freedom except how you approach a bad guy or a area since you still have to complete the same objective, while its fun and all but they just opened the space you can move around in and thats it.

And yeah run fast, jump high, cloak are neat but hardly enough to measure the entire game with, they are just gimmicks. You could run fast, jump high and cloak with the predator in aliens vs predator 2 and it was done a hell of alot better and you had freedom of dealing with guys in it to.

Only thing it has going for it is a couple neat moments and good graphics and good graphics do not equal good game.

[Astonishing X-Fan]

Show me another FPS where I can jump onto the roof of a building, smash the roof in collapsing the building on top of a group of enemy soldiers, then go into super-speed, running past enemy fire...grabbing an enemy soldier and throwing him through the wall of another building. Then huck a grenade inside that building and blow the entire structure apart. Then duck behind some rocks, go into stealth mode, picking off the remaining enemies one-by-one as they panic.

Saying there's no freedom in Crysis is a bunch of BS. "Oh there's objecives and levels so there's no freedom". Please. Nearly every single situation in the game can be tackled in dozens of ways, and they can all be effective. The game leaves it up to you to figure out how to approach a situation, and between the suit and the physics, it gives you the tools to experiment with whatever you can think of. Saying "they just opened the space" is incredibly downplaying the freedom they give you. And passing off the suit powers as "just gimmicks" is like passing off the octocamo in MGS4 or the portal gun in Portal as "just a gimmick"...the suit powers are an important part of the gameplay that you should always be using.

Yes the story is cliche and boring, but the gameplay itself is far from "just another FPS" unless you play it that way. If you actually use the tools you're given, there's not a single FPS out there that plays like it. It's not the game's fault if you just run and gun as if you're playing Doom.