Crysis

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8.1

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  1. NickF.
    Jan 29, 2008
    5
    As far as gameplay is concerned Crysis is just another shooter, it doesn't bring many new features to the FPS genre. I find a major annoyance with this game, however. My system is far from high-end and the fact that you need a ridiculously expensive rig to play it as it was intended is a point that has been made to death and by far too many people. My problem is not that I can't As far as gameplay is concerned Crysis is just another shooter, it doesn't bring many new features to the FPS genre. I find a major annoyance with this game, however. My system is far from high-end and the fact that you need a ridiculously expensive rig to play it as it was intended is a point that has been made to death and by far too many people. My problem is not that I can't run it on high settings, but that medium settings look awful. Some of the textures look really poor but the worst thing for me is the insane amount of aliasing. Jaggies really spoil games for me and Crysis is full of them unless you have the hardware to turn AA on. Additionally, it gives me an average framerate only of around 20fps. Now, I'm not just complaining because someone made a game that I can't play as it was meant to be played, but i know that my PC is capable of more than this. I can run COD4 with all the graphics settings cranked up to full and it runs like a dream and looks beautiful, averaging about 45fps. My point is: Crysis is a very lazily made game and it feels like I'm playing a beta, it could really do with some optimising.… Expand
  2. JackO.
    Feb 24, 2008
    5
    A well-hyped disappointment. Take FarCry, copy, dilute with equal measures of plagiarised art material from The Matrix and Alien, fail to playtest, resulting in frustrating combat, buggy physics and AI that frequently just run into walls, add a fairly nice system of suit and weapon modifications and some beautifully designed island and military environments. Cook for around six hours, A well-hyped disappointment. Take FarCry, copy, dilute with equal measures of plagiarised art material from The Matrix and Alien, fail to playtest, resulting in frustrating combat, buggy physics and AI that frequently just run into walls, add a fairly nice system of suit and weapon modifications and some beautifully designed island and military environments. Cook for around six hours, then leave to marinade in a bucket of derivative, boring and cliched sci-fi action that would shame the 1980s. Add some fairly pretty graphics to taste, wasted on a visually and artistically uninspiring game, bad animation, dialogue seemingly written by a 13 year old US Marine with attention deficit disorder,and serve. Crysis. A flawed, wasted opportunity, thriving on it's own marketing and the cash of the easily impressed masses. Critically, this game should be a flop, which shows just how much clout Electronic Arts have with the gaming media, once again.… Expand
  3. Nathan
    Jun 19, 2009
    5
    I can run this game fine on highest settings, and it is BEAUTIFUL. I was wowed at it for about 30 minutes. Unfortunately after the wow factor went away and I concentrated on gameplay I was disappointed. I find this game is way over hyped. It follows the mundane shoot-kill-repeat linear style the whole time. The AI is extremely good, almost too good at some points, easy should probably be I can run this game fine on highest settings, and it is BEAUTIFUL. I was wowed at it for about 30 minutes. Unfortunately after the wow factor went away and I concentrated on gameplay I was disappointed. I find this game is way over hyped. It follows the mundane shoot-kill-repeat linear style the whole time. The AI is extremely good, almost too good at some points, easy should probably be easier. And damage reflection in this game is ridiculous. Don't even TRY shooting from long range unless you have a sniper rifle, note to Crytek: I don't care that I'm using a regular rifle, a dozen shots to the head will kill anyone from any distance. The suit adds a nice element of strategy to the otherwise repetitive gameplay. But the mechanic of go here, get ambushed twice on the way, break through a checkpoint, get into enemy base, get X information, destroy X gets EXTREMELY boring after about the second time through. Overall the graphics keep this things head above water for me, but I was disappointed by the repetitive nature of the missions and non-compelling lackluster storyline.… Expand
  4. meestyk
    Nov 14, 2007
    5
    You can't even dl the demo to try it out. For unknown reasons, I could not dl it from the source given by the official site. It keeps dropping 1/4 of the way, which sucks. Perhaps there is another dl source out there. 5 for giving only 1 source to dl which in my case impossible to play.
  5. ElJot
    Nov 17, 2007
    6
    Great game to watch, much worse to play. Yeah, graphics are stunning and sound is perfect, but excuse me, where is all that fun we had playing HL2? Why enemies are still running around after taking 3 shots from shotgun at the chest from close distance? Why they can see you from like 1 km, while you are hiding in deep forest? Some people say that reality is big advantege of Crysis, so for Great game to watch, much worse to play. Yeah, graphics are stunning and sound is perfect, but excuse me, where is all that fun we had playing HL2? Why enemies are still running around after taking 3 shots from shotgun at the chest from close distance? Why they can see you from like 1 km, while you are hiding in deep forest? Some people say that reality is big advantege of Crysis, so for example the precision while bursting is very low. Great, but in my opinion game should be fun at first...(and if reality is such a big factor, then why we can shoot while driving or swimming by boat?) Fighting is quite hard as the enemies hit you almost always they shoot (even while bursting) (but that can just be me), the is too little ammo to find, and features of the suit are much overrated. Maybe if I haven't had such high hopes for this title, I wouldn't be dissapointed as I am now.… Expand
  6. MikoS.
    Nov 19, 2007
    5
    The destructive environments are a nice gimmick. The incredibly limited nanosuit powers are a mediocre gimmick. Apart from that, Crysis is essentially Just Another Shooter, and not that great of one. Unarmored enemies shrugging off half a dozen assault rifle rounds is particularly annoying, as is their sporadic X-Ray vision. On the one hand, it's still kind of fun. On the other, The destructive environments are a nice gimmick. The incredibly limited nanosuit powers are a mediocre gimmick. Apart from that, Crysis is essentially Just Another Shooter, and not that great of one. Unarmored enemies shrugging off half a dozen assault rifle rounds is particularly annoying, as is their sporadic X-Ray vision. On the one hand, it's still kind of fun. On the other, it's nothing we haven't seen before and not really worth your time unless you're gagging for another bog-standard shooter. So, a 5 sounds about right.… Expand
  7. Dan
    Nov 21, 2007
    7
    After all the HYPE and NOISE, this game left me Underwhelmed. Loved Far Cry, and this one takes many cues that our Crytek friends did successfully there. But this game is just plain boring. I have a mega gamer rig (8800s in SLI, 3.3 Ghz AMD), plenty of horsepower. But the game play is simply annoying. The first part was pretty decent, but it was clearly Far Cry 2. Nearly everything was After all the HYPE and NOISE, this game left me Underwhelmed. Loved Far Cry, and this one takes many cues that our Crytek friends did successfully there. But this game is just plain boring. I have a mega gamer rig (8800s in SLI, 3.3 Ghz AMD), plenty of horsepower. But the game play is simply annoying. The first part was pretty decent, but it was clearly Far Cry 2. Nearly everything was the same. The mid section, inside the mountain was ok, but it was a blatant ripoff of Prey, from the textures, to the floating around, to the general action. The third part, with the snow and ice, is decent, but the game play is plain annoying. Those stupid alien thingies are just plain ridiculous. I love lots of enemies (loved painkiller!), but these blue things are just plain dumb. You can't kill them, the weapons all stink, and the old nanosuit is useless. I was psyched all year for this game to come out, and now, I'm downright let down. I guess everyone see something I don't see.… Expand
  8. RossL.
    Nov 22, 2007
    6
    I found the first two thirds of this game involving and satisfying, and beginning to learn how to milk the best from the weapons and nanosuit makes you feel genuinely invincible at times. I would consider myself a skilled player and am not finding delta setting too hard (having completed on Hard) so I think Crytek have gone for a good difficulty balance - there are few 'throw I found the first two thirds of this game involving and satisfying, and beginning to learn how to milk the best from the weapons and nanosuit makes you feel genuinely invincible at times. I would consider myself a skilled player and am not finding delta setting too hard (having completed on Hard) so I think Crytek have gone for a good difficulty balance - there are few 'throw eveything at you' moments in this one. I like the guns, I like the explosions and hell I even like the graphics (set on low due to my poor little CPU). Getting to take out bad guys with AA guns is pretty rock and roll too. The wide-open levels mean you can take set-pieces in manby ways, sniping enemies at distance, or stealthing in behind them and chucking a grenade into the midst. There's plenty of raw flying-lead action, though the adrenaline level will vary hugely dependent on how you choose to play the game. But then, something odd happens.. Suddenly and inexplicably in the last third of the game, the fun literally plummets away in a matter of moments.... from challenging, interactive and intellectually rewarding gameplay, you are plunged into the most deadening, challengeless drudgery imaginable. Take the 'spaceship' sequence from 'prey' and make it even longer, more boring and confusing and you are there. The scenery does change, and there are one or two more decent gun battles, but by this time the damage is done - crytek have decided that the last few parts of the game will involve playing the game from vehicles that only a robin reliant owner would find exciting, and your enemies are now drab, idiotic aliens that, in indoor environments will pretty much sit there and let you shoot them (yes even on Hard). The tactics, excellent enemy AI and mixture of stealth and frenetic blasting is finally replaced by a linear walk-and-shotgun affair with an ending that feels like a 3D representation of something I played on the Commodore 64 about 20 years ago. And I'm not talking Chuckie Egg or something good - we're talking free-with-the-computer level. Of course I had to get my moneysworth and finish the damn thing, which after a few tries and a fair bit of boredom later, was all done, the ending sequence doing little more than using a cliche to set us up for Crysis 2. The first part of the game lives up to the promises, its just a shame Crytek didnt sack whoever thought the part of the game was a good idea. Hopefully the patch will fix a dew bugs and make the graphics smoother, and there is definitely replay value in the earlier levels - but this IS NOT the world-beating mega-game that we have been marketed so carefully for the last go knows how long.… Expand
  9. Denis
    Nov 27, 2007
    7
    Graphics are not bad, but I was expecting better. Gameplay is.. well FPS. Story is mediocre, no replay value from my point of view. Bug at the end that dosnt let me kill the boss monster, and dissapointed that overall it was quite a short experiance considering this game isnt one of the "for console" games.
  10. Matt'92
    Dec 15, 2007
    7
    Great Graphics, good gameplay, but there's nothing more. Bioshock is the best, shove the rest
  11. JoshW.
    Dec 22, 2007
    5
    Half-graphics, half gameplay. Gameplay sucks. 5/10.
  12. Sean-M
    Jul 24, 2020
    7
    This game felt like that it came from the feature, the graphic was unbelievable. The gameplay was also good, but the story was just OK.
  13. Tomle1202
    Jan 17, 2022
    7
    Crysis' graphical beauty and freedom in gameplay would have made a more lasting impression had it not been for the game's disappointing and downright broken second half.
  14. Demon2017
    Jun 24, 2022
    6
    Одна из самых переоценённых игр. Шикарная технодемка, в которую скучно играть. Куча багов, которые мешают играть, скучные перестрелки с инопланетянами, идиотский момент, где ты летаешь внутри космического корабля и очень слабый сюжет. Игра не плохая, но не шедевр как все говорят.Одна из самых переоценённых игр. Шикарная технодемка, в которую скучно играть. Куча багов, которые мешают играть, скучные перестрелки с инопланетянами, идиотский момент, где ты летаешь внутри космического корабля и очень слабый сюжет. Игра не плохая, но не шедевр как все говорят.
  15. TheFlameBoy4
    Nov 30, 2020
    6
    I don't understand why people love this game so much. I can't say I didn't like it at all, but it doesn't deserve the 8.1 score it has. I can agree that graphics were insane for that time (still looks good in 2020), but everything else is quite mediocre. Optimisation is poor, game mechanics are unbalanced, story is boring, game design is bad, shooting mechanics are annoying, AI is dumb.I don't understand why people love this game so much. I can't say I didn't like it at all, but it doesn't deserve the 8.1 score it has. I can agree that graphics were insane for that time (still looks good in 2020), but everything else is quite mediocre. Optimisation is poor, game mechanics are unbalanced, story is boring, game design is bad, shooting mechanics are annoying, AI is dumb. The game seems unfinished. I do not recommend… Expand
  16. DeathReis
    Oct 13, 2020
    6
    Crysis grafikleri dışında pek bir olayı yok hikayesi klişe karakterleri kendini önemsetemiyor vuruş hissi yok mekanikler leş zırh mekanikleri de öyle pilimiz çok hızlı bitiyor yapay zeka çöpün çöpü zırhımız bir işe yaramıyor 4 mermi de ölüyoruz (Normal Zorlukta) oyunun yarısından sonra tempo çok yüksek olsa da oyun dengesiz hale geliyor sandbox bir oynanışa sahip değil bu bir ilüzyon araçCrysis grafikleri dışında pek bir olayı yok hikayesi klişe karakterleri kendini önemsetemiyor vuruş hissi yok mekanikler leş zırh mekanikleri de öyle pilimiz çok hızlı bitiyor yapay zeka çöpün çöpü zırhımız bir işe yaramıyor 4 mermi de ölüyoruz (Normal Zorlukta) oyunun yarısından sonra tempo çok yüksek olsa da oyun dengesiz hale geliyor sandbox bir oynanışa sahip değil bu bir ilüzyon araç sürmesi keyifli ve kolay son bos kötü ve basit

    63/100    … Expand
  17. Wodzu_Andzej
    Apr 24, 2023
    6
    I honestly thought Crysis would be like Far Cry 3, meaning it would have some open world and let me go where I wanted and that I would be able to upgrade my character. Unfortunately, I didn't get it. The game is partially open so that you follow a given path, but scripted. Shooting wasn't scary, but it wasn't fun.
    The graphics didn't leave me speechless, either. I was a bit disappointed,    I honestly thought Crysis would be like Far Cry 3, meaning it would have some open world and let me go where I wanted and that I would be able to upgrade my character. Unfortunately, I didn't get it. The game is partially open so that you follow a given path, but scripted. Shooting wasn't scary, but it wasn't fun.
    The graphics didn't leave me speechless, either. I was a bit disappointed, luckily I didn't get tired for long.    … Expand
  18. r03vg
    Apr 17, 2020
    7
    Отличный бенчмарк для вашего компьютера. Нормально запуститься лишь спустя годы.
  19. Silhouette
    May 10, 2020
    6
    Ничего из себя не представляющая игра, кроме графики и некоторой свободы действий. Но всё же лучше второй части, которая полная помойка
  20. Visitbr
    Aug 16, 2023
    5
    muita gente gosta desse jogo mas namoral ele é muito bem feito tecnicamente, é extremamente rico em detalhes mas é chato demais a gameplay é péssima
  21. Alex_Stone
    Jun 1, 2023
    7
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  22. vova22379
    Dec 18, 2021
    6
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  23. kndr
    May 12, 2021
    5
    It still holds up graphically but graphics are not the whole game.

    Story, characters and presentation is weak. It starts good but quickly disappears.

    It bores you at some point. Nanosuit is nice but game gets so repetitive. Especially at later levels. And when aliens appeared I stopped caring. They are annoying and not fun to fight.
  24. ErdemMT5
    Mar 1, 2022
    5
    Crysis, is an action-adventure fps shooter game.
    This game has been published on 2007. And in these years, this game was a masterpiece with awesome graphics and enjoyable gameplay. But in the 2022, all the features makes the game good is outdated. although the graphic quality is still not that bad, graphic style like textures and models looks too old and boringly basic.
    Mechanics are    Crysis, is an action-adventure fps shooter game.
    This game has been published on 2007. And in these years, this game was a masterpiece with awesome graphics and enjoyable gameplay. But in the 2022, all the features makes the game good is outdated. although the graphic quality is still not that bad, graphic style like textures and models looks too old and boringly basic.
    Mechanics are still enjoyable, the main innovation is the technological armor which provides some ultra powered functions like super speed or extra power ect. With these functions, in the theory players can make different approaches to the objectives. But in the practice, i could not find a different ways to achieve my objectives. Because the game has too many lack of mechanics like basic stealth mechanics. Except for the lacking mechanics, npc's ai ruins everything.
    And other aspects like core game loop, game design or storytelling is not satisfying after all these years. Used to be this game could be a masterpiece, but now it is not.    … Expand
  25. AngryGeek
    Jun 6, 2022
    7
    Will my computer handle this game? It was a very good game with island atmosphere and strong armor.
    There were some problems with the game.
  26. Targaryen006
    Feb 5, 2023
    6
    Story
    -Main story 3/5
    -Side Quests 2/5
    -Story Direction 3/5
    -main character 2/5
    -side characters 2/5
    Gameplay
    -Combat 3/5
    -stealth 2/5
    -enemy AI 2/5
    -general gameplay 3/5
    Graphics 3/5
    -Environmental design 3/5
    -Animations 3/5
    -optimization 2/3
    on my record : 12h
  27. PenetratorGod
    Aug 28, 2023
    7
    It was a game that captivated everyone with its graphics when it came out. For me, it has become a game that is no longer worth remembering. I don't remember playing it for long hours and I didn't find it as fun as the second game. Even though the first game offers more freedom on more open maps compared to the second game, the gameplay gets boring very quickly because the AI is veryIt was a game that captivated everyone with its graphics when it came out. For me, it has become a game that is no longer worth remembering. I don't remember playing it for long hours and I didn't find it as fun as the second game. Even though the first game offers more freedom on more open maps compared to the second game, the gameplay gets boring very quickly because the AI is very mediocre. It's not a bad game to play and I should probably play it again, but that's my thoughts for now...… Expand
  28. qbangamer98
    Nov 20, 2022
    6
    as a fps dosen't compare to giants like halo or call of duty but the graphics and the experience overall i can say is a good game worth the play
  29. goodgriff33
    Dec 24, 2022
    7
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  30. amandil
    Aug 13, 2023
    5
    it may be classic for the time announced but it is not playable today anymore
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Awards & Rankings

5
#5 Best PC Game of 2007
5
#5 Most Discussed PC Game of 2007
4
#4 Most Shared PC Game of 2007

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Metascore
91

Universal acclaim - based on 56 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 56 out of 56
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 56
  3. Negative: 0 out of 56
  1. PC Gamer
    98
    Destined to be a classic, Crysis is a creative and technological marvel that eclipses every other shooter released this year. [Holiday 2007, p.60]
  2. PC Zone UK
    92
    Crysis thrives on putting the onus on you to create your own brand of action and adventure in its stunningly beautiful locations. You and the game can haphazardly create moments of such gaming brilliance that often you pretty much have to stand up and applaud. [Christmas 2007, p.44]
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  3. IGN
    94
    This is some fast, well designed gameplay with enough options to allow players to use their own style of attack with satisfying suit abilities and weapons. Crytek has upped their attention to detail in presentation and dropped the worst parts of "Far Cry’s" story.
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