Crysis Remastered

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  1. NotSure
    Sep 19, 2020
    1
    The 7 Wonders of Crysis Remastered

    Episode 1: "Hell of an Optimization" It was known as the Crysis, short of a crying systems. Like the Turok 2 on N64 it ran like. It attacked our hardware, but we fought back, even thought we'd won. We lied to ourselves about a lot of things. That's why they developed Crysis Remastered. Though they've never told us if it was supposed to keep the    The 7 Wonders of Crysis Remastered

    Episode 1: "Hell of an Optimization"

    It was known as the Crysis, short of a crying systems. Like the Turok 2 on N64 it ran like. It attacked our hardware, but we fought back, even thought we'd won. We lied to ourselves about a lot of things. That's why they developed Crysis Remastered. Though they've never told us if it was supposed to keep the nightmares in our GPU's or not, it didn't take long for the remaster to reclaim what was stolen from original. We think unused system resources are ours, the truth is - we just keeping it warm for the next Crytek creation.

    Heh, welcome to the new game, same as the old game.

    Episode 2: "The Stunt"

    No matter what man tells himself, in his heart resides the spirit of the fraud. He can build game engines or erect monuments to his greatness, but, at its core, he cannot escape his own nature. The method of false promises and paid reviews is beautiful in its simplicity. Is that coincidence that every culture on earth invented it independent of one another? Or is it something else? Something primal that allowed us to manifest it. Of course the trick about cheating is making sure you're the cheater and not the cheated.

    Are you the cheater or the cheated? I know for damn sure which one I am.

    Episode 3: "The Flaws and Defect"

    They used to call it stunning looking game, real center of cutting edge technological power, it still is I suppose. Saber Interactive corporation, grimmest company in the world, turned Crysis into its own personal playground. And somewhere here is the result of all their sinister power. But power means different things to different people. There's the power to take life of loved franchises, the power to make a difference, but real power, REAL power is understanding just two things: flaws and defect.

    I'm ready.

    Episode 4: "No More Fear, Maximum Saturation is Here"

    The saturation slider moves right 100% in a second. Created to fool the players, and fool 'em hard. The combination of 2000 years of human artistry and know-how, it has no agenda but the one it's been given. It knows only one purpose, only one end.

    It's the most unadulterated form of expression. And right now, devs have got a lot to say.

    Episode 5: "The Perfect Ascension"

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    Final Episode: "End of Rays"

    To summarize all the bs above: game performs worse than original, looks worse (even with RT and other tech), lacks one big level from original (!), costs more and honestly it's nothing more than an attempt at making easy money.
    Slightly better than WC3: Refunded.    … Expand
  2. p1menta
    Feb 17, 2021
    4
    I have a pretty good pc, and the game wasn't running that good, even tho it's a remaster of an old as hell game. Reading the other users review I understand. That took points away from the game. I actually had a pretty good time with it (after downgradind some of the visuals), was about to give it a 7, but now i've found out it wasnt my hardware problem i had to sunk it's grade to the redI have a pretty good pc, and the game wasn't running that good, even tho it's a remaster of an old as hell game. Reading the other users review I understand. That took points away from the game. I actually had a pretty good time with it (after downgradind some of the visuals), was about to give it a 7, but now i've found out it wasnt my hardware problem i had to sunk it's grade to the red zone.
    the story is kinda all over the place, but the ending is kinda cool, on the other hand, the acting is so terrible, i couldnt believe this game is actually after games like MGS3, for example.
    Well, as I have illegally downloaded it, it was not that terrible, but if i had paid anything on it i'd be just as pissed as everyone else in the comments    … Expand
  3. Leplivo19
    May 24, 2021
    0
    The only good thing about this remaster is that the performance is better, the devs got very lazy and used the xbox 360 version instead of the original PC version, so because of this the game doesn't look any better than the original, it just looks different. The game is very buggy and bugs are not even being fixed. Bumping up the saturation and then adding rtx features is not how aThe only good thing about this remaster is that the performance is better, the devs got very lazy and used the xbox 360 version instead of the original PC version, so because of this the game doesn't look any better than the original, it just looks different. The game is very buggy and bugs are not even being fixed. Bumping up the saturation and then adding rtx features is not how a remaster should be made. You are better off playing the original with mods. Multiplayer is completely removed from this game.… Expand
  4. Hugejorma
    Sep 23, 2020
    0
    No CPU core changes and it's based on PS3 & Xbox 360 version. That means that this is game uses only one thread and modern PC's can't run the game like it should. Don't buy this really bad "remastered" version.
  5. okaybutwhy
    Sep 21, 2020
    0
    Why did you remove the option to save manually?
    Why is the Ascension level gone?
    Why are the textures on the vegetation worse than the original game, even on the highest "Can It Run Crysis" settings? Why can't I Alt-Tab out of the game? Why is the performance all over the place at medium-high settings? (I have a GTX 1070 Ti and an i7-8700k, so this shouldn't even be a problem). Why    Why did you remove the option to save manually?
    Why is the Ascension level gone?
    Why are the textures on the vegetation worse than the original game, even on the highest "Can It Run Crysis" settings?
    Why can't I Alt-Tab out of the game?
    Why is the performance all over the place at medium-high settings? (I have a GTX 1070 Ti and an i7-8700k, so this shouldn't even be a problem).
    Why does the "Classic Nanosuit Controls" still feel different compared to the original game?
    Why is there no Sandbox Editor?
    Why does aiming feel awful and not as responsive compared to the original game?
    Why does devmode launch the Crysis soundtrack? (like seriously, it tries to launch the soundtrack like if it were a program and, of course, just spits out an error)
    Why was leaning removed?
    Why was fast crawling removed?

    That is all.    … Expand
  6. Jerrybear712
    Sep 23, 2020
    1
    Runs like **** but the visual don't match up, even on high setting it doesn't really look that amazing, look worst than the original game in some area, sound effect is broken cause you can hear enemy chatter from the other side of the map, control some how feels worst than the original it's extremely unresponsive, and WHY WOULD YOU REMOVE MANUAL SAVING? There's no good reason for that,Runs like **** but the visual don't match up, even on high setting it doesn't really look that amazing, look worst than the original game in some area, sound effect is broken cause you can hear enemy chatter from the other side of the map, control some how feels worst than the original it's extremely unresponsive, and WHY WOULD YOU REMOVE MANUAL SAVING? There's no good reason for that, it's just a dumb decision, you think the remaster would scale better on multicore CPU but it STILL don't, than what the hell is the point for the remaster? Let's not even talk about the Epic exclusivity.

    Overall, EPIC failed on almost every aspect, do not buy unless it's super cheap, what a shame, I was hoping for this game to carry some momentum for a new Crysis game, now it seems unlikely.    … Expand
  7. thesaxmaniac
    Sep 21, 2020
    0
    This is an abomination

    -hardware RT not in release day version -all geometry is identical to original with better textures so it still looks like an old game -no vegetation interaction -no lean -no manual save -ascension, whether you liked it or not, is absent -hdr saturation is broken out of the box -even with hdr off, it looks like an oversaturated version of the first game -AI is    This is an abomination

    -hardware RT not in release day version
    -all geometry is identical to original with better textures so it still looks like an old game
    -no vegetation interaction
    -no lean
    -no manual save
    -ascension, whether you liked it or not, is absent
    -hdr saturation is broken out of the box
    -even with hdr off, it looks like an oversaturated version of the first game
    -AI is garbage because this is the ps3/360 version ported to pc
    -single thread cpu usage even though the ps3/360 version this was based on was multi-threaded
    -default nanosuit controls based on console controls so not dedicated suit modes
    -crash to desktop if you remap controls
    -terrible performance, and don’t say “stop complaining they said it would melt your pc”. No, this game looks far worse than just about any modern game that my 2080Ti can play at 4K/60. There’s no excuse for a 3080 getting 37 fps in this game at 4K highest settings. They couldn’t even be bothered to make the game use more than one cpu core so they clearly spent zero time making this run well. This is the laziest piece of trash remaster I think I’ve ever seen.    … Expand
  8. jackbauer32
    Sep 21, 2020
    0
    Taking the crysis from PS3 and XBOX 360 limited in shadowing, ray tracing and cpu single threading is absolutely outrageous ! And making us pay 30€ for that CRAP ! My god ... does the industry have moral anymore ? or is it just stupidity and/or incompetence ? i've asked for a refund !
  9. LafreNYR
    Sep 22, 2020
    3
    One step forward and three steps back. This screams cash grab, I guess Crytek is a bit desperate.
    So many things are downgraded. Lighting while more "advanced" makes many characters and objects look less detailed. The overall look of the game is one of over-saturation and too much contrast. Crysis 2007 looks more grounded with more realistic colors. Some destructive physics are actually    One step forward and three steps back. This screams cash grab, I guess Crytek is a bit desperate.
    So many things are downgraded. Lighting while more "advanced" makes many characters and objects look less detailed. The overall look of the game is one of over-saturation and too much contrast. Crysis 2007 looks more grounded with more realistic colors. Some destructive physics are actually not as good in Remastered. So many visual downgrades in general, and while yes textures and explosions look better, they're not enough to make Crysis "Remastered" a good buy in 2020. They didn't even fix performance, the game still can't utilize all your CPU cores properly! Raytracing is done via a software solution, therefore it's taxing. The "Can It Run Crysis" Ultra setting is a bad joke. Not even the best PCs can achieve a consistent 4K60 in a 13-year-old game. This isn't how you bring back one of the most beloved PC games of all-time. Maybe you shouldn't have used the Xbox 360 code as a base for the remaster too by the way. The memes aren't enough to save this terrible attempt. Do better next time.    … Expand
  10. Tidytib
    Sep 21, 2020
    2
    With 2080 super @1080 fps drops to 35 in lot of areas making it unplayable. Really disappointed. My one core is always above 92-95% usage and rest of the 7 are somewhere between 35-40% .I really hope there is some kind of patch to fix this.
  11. Ellezar
    Sep 21, 2020
    0
    I was waiting for Crysis remastered aaaaaand... it's a disaster. Zero optimization, over-bright lighting, single threaded. Textures, shadows, whole graphics are worse than Crysis 3. The gap is 7 years! Even on top systems this "game" is lagging as hell. And the funny thing is... Developers are proud that even RTX 3080 can't handle this. This really hilarious - they are actually proud ofI was waiting for Crysis remastered aaaaaand... it's a disaster. Zero optimization, over-bright lighting, single threaded. Textures, shadows, whole graphics are worse than Crysis 3. The gap is 7 years! Even on top systems this "game" is lagging as hell. And the funny thing is... Developers are proud that even RTX 3080 can't handle this. This really hilarious - they are actually proud of that crappy code that isn't optimized at all. Imo, it's even worse than WC3 Reforged. I'll never buy anything from Crytek again.… Expand
  12. F0G13k
    Sep 20, 2020
    0
    Aside from the textures, draw distance and some interior lighting, everything in this remaster goes from average to completely inferior, less content, weird colors, overbright lighting, very bad performance, single threading issues, no leaning function, no manual saving and the game uses Denuvo.
    The original is on GOG, has more content including one additional level and a decent MP, and    Aside from the textures, draw distance and some interior lighting, everything in this remaster goes from average to completely inferior, less content, weird colors, overbright lighting, very bad performance, single threading issues, no leaning function, no manual saving and the game uses Denuvo.
    The original is on GOG, has more content including one additional level and a decent MP, and an active modding community, just use some mods to improve the textures and you've got yourself a far better game    … Expand
  13. Painbeaver
    Sep 19, 2020
    1
    Crysis Remastered is officially the worst remaster in history of gaming:
    Performance is an absolute abomination:
    i9 9900k 5GHz, 1080TI, 2560:1080: 30-60FPS on Very High, no RTX. At some places FPS is terrible no matter what setting you use, 42FPS on "Can it Run Crysis ?" and 50FPS on "Medium" which looks like absolute **** Same thing was in the original, nothing is improved. It takes a    Crysis Remastered is officially the worst remaster in history of gaming:
    Performance is an absolute abomination:
    i9 9900k 5GHz, 1080TI, 2560:1080: 30-60FPS on Very High, no RTX. At some places FPS is terrible no matter what setting you use, 42FPS on "Can it Run Crysis ?" and 50FPS on "Medium" which looks like absolute **** Same thing was in the original, nothing is improved.
    It takes a real talent to make a slightly modded 14 FREAKING YEARS OLD GAME to run like **** on modern hardware.

    Not enough ? Most of the time it looks WORSELess Natural than original. [Link omitted per site rules]
    - Vegetation physics is way worse
    - AI is way worse
    - No original controls, no grenade quick throw, no lean. New controls are super clunky and unresponsive
    - Can't manually save the game
    - Ascension level is cut from the game
    - Gun sound problems (full auto and single fire have sound of two completely different guns)

    Refunded almost immediately. That **** as the studio that made this just shouldn't exist.    … Expand
  14. DayTia
    Sep 19, 2020
    2
    Очень слабый ремастер с кучей визуальных багов и вырезанным контентом.

    Начнём с того что главная фишка ремастера рейтрейсинг но его действие слабо заметно а если и заметно то оставляет желать лучшего и при этом максимальная его настройка или низкая почти не влияет на качество отражений и освещения но колоссально сказывается на производительности. Производительность это отдельная тема    Очень слабый ремастер с кучей визуальных багов и вырезанным контентом.

    Начнём с того что главная фишка ремастера рейтрейсинг но его действие слабо заметно а если и заметно то оставляет желать лучшего и при этом максимальная его настройка или низкая почти не влияет на качество отражений и освещения но колоссально сказывается на производительности.

    Производительность это отдельная тема настройки только одних текстур на максимум съедают больше половины FPS игры но при этом сами текстуры не сильно отличаются от текстур в оригинальной игре а местами и умудряются выглядеть хуже.

    И почти полностью заменены звуки игры к сожалению не в лучшую сторону.
    Так же важный момент из игры вырезана миссия Ascension(в ней нужно управлять самолётом MV-24 VTOLs) причина по которой миссия была вырезана не понятна.

    И по поводу управления персонажем.
    Управление больше походит на то что было в Crysis 2 но при этом хуже.
    Прицеливание будто взяли с консоли и очень криво перенесли на мышь, непонятные торможения и ускорения мыши при прицеливании при том что само
    ускорение в настройках отключено.
    А по поводу физики управления в оригинале при разгоне в режиме скорости и быстром переключении на режим силы и последующем прыжке сохранялась инерция что позволяло делать длинные прыжки теперь этого нету а при прыжке просто останавливаешься и прыгаешь с места чу чуть в сторону прыжка.

    И я нашёл еще больше отличий от оригинала но всё расписывать не стану и играть в ремастер не советую.    … Expand
  15. joak301
    Sep 19, 2020
    0
    Crytek had more than 10 years to fix performance issues and they didn't, apart from the fact that the game looks worse than the original with degraded animations and vegetation physics.
  16. solwitar
    Sep 22, 2020
    0
    Remaster based on console port, looks worse and run worse than original game.
  17. Bujolg
    Sep 19, 2020
    5
    Kinda like the original game more. Some of the visuals are definitely better, but I wouldn't call it "crysis remastered", it's more like some kind enb for the original game. It has performance issues and visual glitches. Maybe it's just me, but I expected more than that. Wouldn't recommend buying the remastered version, but would recommend buying the original one, it's still good.
  18. Satsujin
    Sep 19, 2020
    0
    Schlechter Konsolenport. Die Grafik sieht bis auf wenige Ausnahmen schlimmer aus als bei dem 13 (!) Jahre alten Original, es fehlen Inhalte und Features und die Performance ist eine Beleidigung bedenkt man das alter! Kauft es euch bitte nicht sondern spielt das Original von 2007!
  19. deportrance
    Sep 21, 2020
    0
    Remastering the game and basing it off the inferior console port rather than the original version is where they went wrong. Really bizarre way to go about doing it.
  20. Avadon
    Sep 21, 2020
    3
    Wow, what a trainwreck. I just sat there with sub 40 fps and my metrics on and the game was maxing out two cpu cores, the rest were barely used, and my GPU was at 60%. I see only three possible explanations for this. 1, they didn't care about the PC version and their reassurences that all their efforts went there were lies. 2, they purposefully made the game run like crap for the memes. 3,Wow, what a trainwreck. I just sat there with sub 40 fps and my metrics on and the game was maxing out two cpu cores, the rest were barely used, and my GPU was at 60%. I see only three possible explanations for this. 1, they didn't care about the PC version and their reassurences that all their efforts went there were lies. 2, they purposefully made the game run like crap for the memes. 3, they are incompetent. I don't know which explanation is correct, but none of them are good. Refunded, because I don't see the point in owning this.… Expand
  21. IshtiakHossain
    Sep 26, 2020
    0
    Crysis Remastered might be the worst remaster in the history of gaming. A piece of non-optimized sh*t.
  22. digitalfreak
    Sep 20, 2020
    0
    I got this game as a free bonus to my latest buy from ASUS. I never played an older version of this game and expected an up to date, good looking and lag free shooter.
    I have an RTX 2060 OC and could play nearly every modern game with 4k and at least medium settings without lags.
    In Crysis I lowered the settings nearly to minimum and still getting lags. And even with high settings the    I got this game as a free bonus to my latest buy from ASUS. I never played an older version of this game and expected an up to date, good looking and lag free shooter.
    I have an RTX 2060 OC and could play nearly every modern game with 4k and at least medium settings without lags.
    In Crysis I lowered the settings nearly to minimum and still getting lags.
    And even with high settings the game is not looking good or nearly up to date. It looks old fashioned and only slightly polished.
    The plot so far is also not very good and very predictable. There better low budged games than this.    … Expand
  23. pressitupdennis
    Sep 21, 2020
    0
    Lean is gone, suit mechanics are copied from crysis 2 and 3 so armor mode is never default as it consumes energy. The physics are worse. It's a console port of crysis 1 with newer textures. Lacking levels, multiplayer and better AI that was existing in the original title.
    Sure the textures are better, but walking through plants in the original and seeing the leaves move is one of a kind.    Lean is gone, suit mechanics are copied from crysis 2 and 3 so armor mode is never default as it consumes energy. The physics are worse. It's a console port of crysis 1 with newer textures. Lacking levels, multiplayer and better AI that was existing in the original title.
    Sure the textures are better, but walking through plants in the original and seeing the leaves move is one of a kind. Crysis 3 still looks a lot better than this.
    Not the remaster the amazing original deserved.
    Oh and denuvu and only available on epic game store     … Expand
  24. Nealkovich
    Sep 22, 2020
    0
    It was a bad idea to make a remaster based on the xbox360 version, originally on a cut engine for consoles! The base is already **** and modern technologies are stuck into it. It's like poking **** with freshener, but **** doesn't stop being **** it stinks the same way, but now it smells like freshener! The original looks much better against the background of the remaster! It is a pityIt was a bad idea to make a remaster based on the xbox360 version, originally on a cut engine for consoles! The base is already **** and modern technologies are stuck into it. It's like poking **** with freshener, but **** doesn't stop being **** it stinks the same way, but now it smells like freshener! The original looks much better against the background of the remaster! It is a pity that the management of Crytek does not see and does not understand what it is doing!… Expand
  25. Trofim
    Sep 21, 2020
    0
    A piece of non-optimized, non-multicore CPU s**t.
    The develpores just add new textures. They didn't removed issues that were in the original game.
  26. kbx
    Sep 23, 2020
    0
    Epic, the most sacred classic, holy of holies to all fans turned into sh...y console port. Original Crysis had high hardware requirements but it was justified by the absolutely next gen graphics. For remastered it is the opposite. It looks way worse. Colors are not natural and oversaturated, contrast is too high, physics and vegetation physics is downgraded. Water and especially waves areEpic, the most sacred classic, holy of holies to all fans turned into sh...y console port. Original Crysis had high hardware requirements but it was justified by the absolutely next gen graphics. For remastered it is the opposite. It looks way worse. Colors are not natural and oversaturated, contrast is too high, physics and vegetation physics is downgraded. Water and especially waves are much better in the original. The is no lean option. One level is cut off. Overall control responsivness is much worse. Some very nice details and effects are cut off (check out DF review). So, to all potential buyers... forget about remaster, check out the orignal one instead to see why so many gamers still love it. You can add some nice mods and even tweak up vegetation and object distance. It will look much better than remaster and will give you better gaming experience.… Expand
  27. MariusMaximus10
    Sep 20, 2020
    2
    This is indeed a missed opportunity. I have taught myself to always have low expectations for remasters after buying WC3: Reforged, and I am glad that I had not steered away from that way of thinking. There are other reviews posted here that mention the shared frustrations that we have for this game so I am not going to bother mentioning all of them, however I will highlight some andThis is indeed a missed opportunity. I have taught myself to always have low expectations for remasters after buying WC3: Reforged, and I am glad that I had not steered away from that way of thinking. There are other reviews posted here that mention the shared frustrations that we have for this game so I am not going to bother mentioning all of them, however I will highlight some and elaborate.

    - Missing features

    This is to be expected, since according to what I read on other forums, this game is a console port that has been ported back to PC... need I say more? You can't even quick save nor have normal controls. The game feels awkward and clunky and the A.I is much worse.

    - Bad optimisation

    This is inexcusable. After having played this for 2 hours, I quickly went back to the original Crysis to compare and on my current high-end hardware the original ran better. And also, why is this game running on DX11 and not DX12 and/or Vulkan? Surely that would have helped. What we have now are inconsistent frame rates and the occasional black screen when launching the game and even crashes while playing.

    - Overall low effort

    This game in my honest opinion is a low-effort project that was done to just bring the game back into the spotlight so as to make it relevant again and also to generate money with the least amount of work and effort put into it. There is also a big quality mismatch between the remastered models and textures and their original counterparts. This is to be expected from a remaster, but I feel the weapon models at the very least deserved an update. There are also low quality textures here and there that could have been upscaled with modern A.I upscaling software.

    - Summary

    Last words, don't buy the game in its current state. Once the above issues have been resolved the game will definitely be worth the price tag and I will then definitely change my rating here. However I wouldn't hold my breathe if I were you since I don't expect those issues to be addressed.    … Expand
  28. void__
    Sep 21, 2020
    0
    First of all, I highly recommend watching Digital Foundry's tech analysis/review of this game. I'll be repeating quite a few of the things they said there. First off, I'm running on a 9700k overclocked at 4.9 ghz, RTX 2070 Super overclocked, DDR4 Ram overclocked at 3000 mhz, and an SSD. The current CPUs on the market are, let's face it, designed for the 8th generation of video games,First of all, I highly recommend watching Digital Foundry's tech analysis/review of this game. I'll be repeating quite a few of the things they said there. First off, I'm running on a 9700k overclocked at 4.9 ghz, RTX 2070 Super overclocked, DDR4 Ram overclocked at 3000 mhz, and an SSD. The current CPUs on the market are, let's face it, designed for the 8th generation of video games, and the RTX 30 cards are being sold by scalpers on eBay for $2000. So in 6 months or so when RTX 30 cards are available without shelling out massive amounts of money to scalpers, and CPUs come out that will be able to surpass the CPUs in the Xbox Series X, this game will run a lot better. And it's true that in less than a year my current PC is going to look like absolute garbage because the 9th generation of video games starts in a few months. However, this doesn't change the fact that the game should be running better on my PC than it currently is.

    Crysis was designed for single core CPUs and instead of increasing the clock speeds of single core CPUs over time like people thought would happen when development on the game began, we went to multicore CPUs running at similar clock speeds. The result of this is that every CPU generation has only slightly increased the frame-rate of Crysis and the game can still drop to less than 40 fps even on a 10900k. However, the stripped down console versions of Crysis were able to take advantage of multiple CPU cores, so EA Games took this version of the game which had a lot of things taken out and a dumbed down A.I., threw a new coat of paint on it, and released the game as a "remaster". So basically some things are better, but other disadvantages are carried over from the console versions.

    While the game isn't as poorly CPU optimized as the original, it's still pretty bad. One of the biggest disadvantages of the original was the draw distance and pop-in--and medium settings on this game is basically the same as the original Crysis. But if you turn the three settings that effect pop-in up to high, even the fastest CPU on the market currently isn't able to maintain a solid 60 fps in even 720p. Yes, the i9 10900k is a CPU from the 8th generation of video games and will be obsolete soon, but the game in it's current state looks bad. On my current build I was able to put these settings on medium and every thing else on max and still maintain 60 fps, and the game did look quite good, but the poor world detail really affected the experience.

    Bizarrely, whereas higher resolutions are mostly handled by the GPU, in Crysis Remastered they are handled by the CPU. I have never heard of this being the case in a game. So basically in most games if your CPU can handle the high frame-rates in lower resolutions, your GPU can use all of it's power to bump up the resolution. In layman's terms, you're not going to get any resolutions higher than 1080p and still be able to maintain 60 fps in Crysis. At least, though, you have tons of unused GPU power to put into the ray-tracing. Strangely, the ray-tracing is software ray-tracing, and doesn't take advantage of RTX cards. So non-RTX gpus and even the consoles can use the ray-tracing. While this is an impressive feat, it's more demanding than normal ray-tracing.

    You know what, though, I could have forgiven the poor optimization, since new hardware will be out soon. What I can't forgive is the gameplay. The problem with old stealth games is the CPUs of the time weren't powerful enough to really handle the A.I. necessary to make them feel like modern stealth games. Metal Gear Solid got around this by basically being a 2D game with a top-down view and these games still hold up pretty well today. However, Crysis's stealth was already showing its age, and that's being generous, and when you add in the comically braindead A.I. of this "remaster", the game is just no longer fun, which is the most important thing of a game. This might lead to an entertaining Video Game Dunkey video, but it doesn't make for an entertaining game. I started the game again, and remembered that trying to kill or knockout all the enemies doesn't work particularly well. The most effective strategy in Crysis is usually to just slowly sneak past enemies in stealth mode since the game is semi-open world, or just run away from enemies in speed mode. I have to say, I re-played Far Cry a few months ago and while the stealth in Far Cry mostly involves exploiting the broken mechanics to kill enemies, at the end of the day it was actually pretty fun, which is more than what I can say for Crysis Remastered.

    EA Games had honestly been doing things right with Command and Conquer Remastered, Burnout Paradise Remastered on the Switch, and heck, even the console versions of Crysis Remastered are impressive achievements. However, Crysis Remastered on PC is the usual garbage we expect from EA.

    Oh, and to add salt to the wound, it's an Epic Games Store exclusive.    … Expand
  29. mishamavashi
    Sep 29, 2020
    0
    that case when the cost of the denuvo is more than the cost of the remastered Crysis, better buy crysis 2007 and improve it with mods , made refund of this game
  30. The_Freeport_15
    Sep 21, 2020
    4
    1080Ti, 8700k and I'm getting only 40 - 50 fps in highly dense areas even with settings turned down. Something is seriously wrong with the optimization of this title. Sad though cause Crysis is such a classic hit.
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  1. Digital Chumps
    Oct 12, 2021
    70
    Crysis Remastered is a good bit of nostalgia that can appeal to players who want to reminisce about the early days of the Xbox 360 and PS3. Those that are looking for a fun and quick shooter game will also find a lot of enjoyment from Crysis Remastered, but don’t expect the reinvention of the wheel because Crysis invented the wheel in the first place.
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  2. Worth Playing
    Mar 10, 2021
    60
    You have to be willing to forgive quite a bit to enjoy Crysis Remastered. Questionable enemy AI is bad enough, but a reduction in content is baffling, and the effort feels incomplete because of it. The extra lighting is nice, but the spotty performance is the real sore spot, as it ensures that a polished and well-performing version of the game is simply unattainable. Unless you have issues trying to run the original on your system or absolutely need controller support, you're probably better off skipping this until a better, proper remaster comes along.
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  3. CD-Action
    Dec 18, 2020
    60
    For its age, Crysis is still quite fun, but I don’t think bragging about the game’s ability to vanquish any PC should still be a thing today. There are many shooters that look much better and at the same time run much smoother on the same hardware. It’s also a pity that the Warhead expansion was not remastered along the base game and there’s no trace of the multiplayer modes. [12/2020, p.56]
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