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4 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 Long awaited and a disappointment..., 2007-11-26
I usually don't bother to write reviews, but this game was too disappointing to let go.
I'll keep this short: graphics are very good. I loved Far Cry, and the first half of Crysis was indeed Far Cry with more eye candy.
Pros: Great Graphics - texture features, explosions, etc. Also: no Steam-esqe account joining or on-line activation! Just load and play. Keep it that way: game developers!
Cons: Many -- bugs here and there, including the big one that stopped the game for good -- shooting the 'big boss' on the carrier -- gun would not 'target'. 'Had to quit...I'm assuming that was the end :-(
WORSE: story line was DULL! Shooting thingies that looked like those in Matrix over and over again got downright boring. Far Cry was immersive and compelling -- with so many interesting and even 'scary' chapters... and gameplay that lasted seemingly days. Crysis does not deliver in those ways. AI was bland and fairly unintelligent.
Again, this is a short review. Perhaps I'm getting too old for PC games -- but compared with Half Life, Unreal 2, and even the earlier Dooms 1 & 2 all of which I found 'compelling' and creative, Crysis falls short... almost flat. -s
47 of 77 customers found the following review helpful:
 Almost, But Not Quite a Great Game, 2007-11-24
System: Dell XPS 410
Duel Core E6600
2gb RAM
Nvidia 640 mb 8800 GTS
I was actually somewhat disappointed in this game, I hate to say. I looked forward to this for over a year.
First the good. Graphics are very good even with the low to medium settings I was required to use because of my system. Audio, for the most part, was excellent. AI was a slight step up from other games in the genre, but not as much as I had expected. The game-play was engaging - at least for most of the game.
The only negative aspect in the graphics and sound department was the tremendous amount of computer power that must be needed to run higher settings. Although I have a mid to high computer system, I was required to run the game at a low resolution with advanced settings set to either low or medium. I couldn't come anywhere close to my monitor's native resolution of 1920 x 1200, even with all settings on the lowest setting.
What was odd is that if I let the game detect and set "optimal" settings, it would select a a medium resolution and high advanced settings. But playing at that, I could only get maybe 12-15 fps. So, the detection system was useless. I had to tweak manually to get the framerate to acceptable levels.
I finally was able to get the framerate at an average of 35-40 fps - which is very acceptable, however, every few minutes, I would hit a "bump" and my framerate would briefly drop to 0 and then bounce back up to the 35-40. Because this was happening so often, I had to take another step back in the graphics department and play on DX9 mode instead of DX10.
It was disappointing to have upgraded my computer to a duel core, 2gb or RAM and a 640mb Nvidia 8800 GTS DX10 graphics card only to run a game on DX9 with low settings and a low resolution. And this was after reading tweak guides, turning off background programs, downloading the latest drivers from Nvidia, etc. Very odd, and I suspect Crysis was rushed out and not optimized correctly.
The story and the characterization were weak in my opinion - characterization more so than the story. This is a fairly straightforward FPS with not a lot happening with character development.
Levels early in the game were much more interesting with more openness and options. As the game progressed, it became more and more linear - to the point of being very limiting.
There were a lot of glitches in the game - items floating around, things spinning. There was a lot of clipping. Some problems became quite a nuisance. For example, getting an objective to clear an area and after doing so just standing there for additional directions. None came and I spent the next ten minutes searching around until I found a hostile in a boxcar just spinning around. He wouldn't die by gunshot, so I had to grab him and throw him to the side. Once he died, it triggered the next script and I got an updated objective.
The last few levels were excruciatingly glitchy. On the ship, I kept falling through the floor to the point that it was extremely hard to complete the objectives. The boss battles were lame. It appeared to me that the game was rushed toward the end and they just threw some things together. The ending was a let down. And the thing is, the game itself was very short - maybe 9 hours or so, I would guess. You'd think they could develop something a little better in a few year's time.
I enjoyed the game, but it just wasn't as good as I had expected. High expectation can do that. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give Crysis a solid 8. If it were optimized to run better and without the glitches (which could be possible with some patches in the future) I would up that score to 8.5.
10 of 28 customers found the following review helpful:
 After the Hype and the wait, its just plain Boring!!, 2007-11-21
Man, what a disappointment. I, like so many of us die hard PC shooter addicts loved Far Cry and was waiting for this release. Heck, I pre-orderd this from Amazon in the Summer!!! And boy, what a let down.
The first part I felt like I was replaying Far Cry, maybe an updated version, but the same basic island setting, similar weapons, vehicles, etc. Then I got into the tank battle part, and this was highly derivative of the hover tanks in Quake 4. I kept spacing out and thinking I was in Quake 4.
But then, I got to the middle part, where you're inside this mountain, and it was blatant RIPOFF of Prey. The whole thing. Floating in this 3 dimensional space, no gravity, similar type gameplay, and hugely pointless. There was no story. It was just a pain to get through, cuz nothing really happened. You shoot these things. Then nothing.
Then I got to the ice planet part, and this was somewhat interesting, for the first 3 minutes. Then it too, became boring and repetitive. Hugely so. The flying blue things are totally annoying. The weapons are simply lousy, even the alien weapon is basically useless (it overheats in like 4 seconds and doesn't actually kill anything that quickly)
All in all, what a huge letdown. The Crytek guys spent lots of time on the detailed environment that they became famous for with Far Cry. And the first part was similar. The nanosuit was somewhat novel, but it too ends up being useless because it runs out of power every few seconds.
This is not what I had hoped for. I made it through the game, but I'm not sure I'll go back for another run through. Just too boring and repetitive.
2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Phenominal FPS, eye candy galore, steep system requirements, 2007-11-21
This is a fantastic game, the best FPS to date. There was no need to redisgn the FPS genre..only improve the AI and graphics to utilize 2007 (and beyond) hardware. The game is not as ground-breaking as Half-Life or even FarCry when they were first released, but there are some features which make it original. Here are the best features:
1.Graphics! Best visuals and special effects in any game to date. Just make sure you have the hardware for it. I have a Core Duo 2.66ghz and a 8800 GTS 640mb and I get only 30fps average at 1024x768 at high settings. I had the occasional skipped frames under high graphic load but this is rare.
2. Fully manipulative environment. Trees that fall over, tires that explode, buildings that can be blown up, animals that can be picked up or shot.....just about everything can be manipulated in some way.
3. Nanosuit--now THIS is original. Sort of like the suit worn in Half-life but with armor, strength, speed,and stealth mode. Very cool to grab an enemy and throw them 50 feet off a cliff. Your health is a matter of suit energy which re-generates....no running around finding cheesy health kits unexplainably strewn about on the island. Weapons and amunition are found where you expect...on dead enemies and in supply buildings on the island.
4. Vehicles--Fantastic usable vehicles--tanks, trucks, hummers, boats, helicopters. These are FUN to drive and add a whole new dimention to game play.
In general the levels are well designed, with various ways to acheive your objectives. The only level I didn't like was the one inside the mountain where the only goal is to find a way out (boring.)
22 of 28 customers found the following review helpful:
Dirty little secret . . ., 2007-11-20
I love this game, and mostly I agree with the high rating that the game has received. The other reviews have pretty much touched on all of the things I love about it and normally I wouldn't think of chiming in just to pile on more of the same, but I feel there are a few points that were missed . . . points that I think others should know before buying this game.
I have a dual boot computer that runs both Windows XP and Windows Vista Home Premium. (2 SLI linked Nvidia 8800 Ultras, 4GBs of RAM and an AMD Athlon 64 FX-62) I have run the game on both OS's and have found that, all things being equal--using the exact same settings on the same computer with only the OS being different--that the game runs significantly better on XP. I've tried this comparison with quite a few recent titles--titles that run both DX 9 and DX 10--and Crysis shows, by far, the biggest slow down when switching between the two OS's. (I've checked around and it seems that I'm not alone in this discovery) This seems a shame. I kind of expect some problems with Vista--that's the reason I kept XP on my system . . . But I guess I'm willing to cut Crysis a little slack because it IS such an ambitious game.
But then there's another bit of hanky-panky that isn't so forgivable: This is the fact that the game won't let you turn the video settings to "Very High" on XP. At first everyone thought, quite naturally, that this was due to some difference between the relative abilities of DirectX 9 on XP and DirectX 10 on Vista. But it turns out that the limitation is purely artificial. (For those who want to circumvent this, it's an easy fix; simply cutting and pasting a few lines in some config files allows those higher settings on XP. Look around on Google, it's out there . . . ) This isn't to say that there IS no difference between DX 9 and DX 10, only that someone tried to make the difference seem even greater than it really is by inserting an artificial limitation.
All is not lost, the Crysis people are coming out with their first patch in a week or so and I have no doubt that they'll have the game running well on Vista in no time. Maybe they'll even give up on the artificial limit in XP . . . but I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. Still, I give it four stars.
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