Crysis®

Before I got my hands on Crysis I had heard a lot of praise. Therefore, I had high hopes for it. Unfortunately, I was disappointed quite a bit with the game that some claim to be legendary. The game offers open spaces as if encouraging you to explore, but really there is no real point to do so. There is no loot, you can't get any special weapons or anything. There is no reason to not follow the main objectives. The selection of guns is very limited, and I found most of them quite boring and unimpressive. The gunplay is quite weak in my opinion and not satisfying at all. The enemies are quite bullet spongy, while it does not take a lot to kill you. The story, in my opinion, is not very good. Although I did like the whole ancient alien angle. The voice acting is nothing to write home about and the characters themselves are not very interesting. On the technical side, I experienced a lot of annoying crashing without any error message. Also, I had some frame drops in some places. Not sure if it was my PC or what. I am able to run much newer games much more smoothly. I got bored 5 hours in and decided to drop the game. All in all, not as good as I was led to believe. I'd choose F.E.A.R. or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. over Crysis any day.

The graphics of this game still look very good today, the performance is fine (but there 4 crashes during the playthrough, 3 of them in the level where you fly the VTOL). The game contains 11 levels and I beat it in three evening sessions on 'hard' difficulty (there is also the higher 'delta', but I didn't dare for the first playthrough). The North Korean enemies often attack in groups bigger than its predecessor Far Cry, especially near or in installments, but don't seem to be that smart (e.g. don't try to flank you anymore). Their snipers aren't dealing out as much pain. Vehicles with MGs are a big threat, while fixed MGs often get re-manned after the previous soldier there has fallen and you can get take several foes down at one position. Ammunition can be found aplenty, the customizability of the weapons makes carrying the sniper rifle unnecessary - just put the sniper scope on the North Korean assault rifle. Most levels play outside and the enemy will often notice you even if you sneak except you are in area with much cover (e.g. wood) where you can use the cloak mode of the nanosuit and e.g. silenced pistols to thin out the guards of an enemy base. Sometimes, you can choose if you take the road (maybe in a vehicle), the foliage next to it or the creek behind it, but they all are very close and you can switch between them all the time which makes a rails shooter experience. The camps are the situations where it's up to you to secure the area. If you likely intense fights in a scenic landscape, then this game is for you. Only 4 stars because the enemies are too generic and easy for my taste (no 'oh sh*t' moments, you can even use the speed mode to run away), it's advertised as open world game here (but e.g. no comparison with the Boat or Rebellion maps of Far Cry) and the unconvincing storyline (especially regarding the North Koreans).

super game

So, the game works, at least. It still crashes to desktop every now and then but at least I get to play it unlike the Steam version which simply doesn't work at all. A quick question for the community, though. How can I update it to 1.2.1? The game that is installed by the GoG installer is at version 1.1.1.6156

This game innovates on the standard FPS formula: -The nanosuit enables you to adapt to the situation. -Weaponry is customizable. In addition, it features excellent sound, graphics, interesting AI and an out-of-this-world story. One star withheld for repeatingly freezing/crashing to desktop (albeit rarely) on Windows 10.