Crysis®

So, in this game you are supposed to be a supersoldier, and in the intro cutscenes we get a display of your suit's powers--super strength, super speed, armor, and cloak. However, all these are very underpowered. Your armor barely protects you from more than a few shots, whereas the Koreans you are fighting are bullet sponges. At times you practically have to magdump on them to score a kill. But they can tear your "armor" to shreds, and kill you quickly. Who is the supersoldier with super armor here? It's not you... Your "cloak" also lasts for a pitifully short amount of time. Alright, so it drains quickly as you move--a little too quickly, but I can accept that. But it drains as you are standing still. Frankly, I think the cloak should regen as you are still. The game progresses very slowly otherwise. Your underpowered "armor" and "cloak" make you less of a super-soldier than the Koreans. You are forced into the worst-implemented guerilla warfare I've ever seen. You have to constantly save because your armor doesn't protect against more than a pipsqueak, and because your cloak lasts for so short a time that it can only get you from Bush A to Bush B, provided that Bush B is a short distance away.

Crysis is more of a joke than a game, a joke that lasted far too long, and it was never funny to begin with. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think that a game not being able to run properly on what was top of the line hardware at the time is something to be proud of: for instance, ID games always pushed boundaries on PC gaming not just because of visuals, but because of how well coded they are to work with the kind of technology they're showcasing; Crysis, on the other hand, despite being a supposedly future proof game, was programmed in such a way that didn't account for the how processors actually evolved, so much that this 14 year old game may not be able to hold a steady 60 FPS on modern machines, and that, ironically, is quite the opposite of being "ahead of it's time". As far as I've seen, the remaster actually runs better, because it's the update that Crysis actually should've received, as a patch, years ago, and charging for what's essentially a performance patch is a joke on itself; and no, Crytek didn't realease the source code, so fans can't even fix the original version on their own... But what matters the most is gameplay, and that isn't really good in Crysis, either. The nanosuit abilities last so little at a time, and are so limited, that I don't know what's even the point of them being a mechanic of this game, other than showing the cool distortion effects the camouflage mode has; enemies can spot you from a ridiculous distance that's basically the whole extent of the area, to the point where simply moving from A to B is annoying. Every mechanic Crysis has that were considered major selling points at the time were either done much better in games released before, or refined and made actually fun and enjoyable in games released after. Positives? It looks really good, visually, but since it's a game, you'll spend more time playing it than looking at the landscapes...

I was having a lot of fun with this game, loving the open pretty levels and fun shooting, until the game just kept crashing every time I loaded it up, even after restarting my PC and uninstalling and reinstalling the game.

I dont get the hype. It's pretty, yes. It's also a so so shooter with a shit stealth system.

Great game but it will not work on a new system I bought around Christmas 2016. I was able to play for about 43 minutes after I disabled my antivirus, which is not AVG, but since then whenever I managed to startup it will crash to desktop when trying to load my save game even when my antivirus is disabled and I'm not connected to the internet like the first time it worked. If you can play it it's great but most likely you will have issues, unless you have a 9 year old computer sitting around with nice hardware to play this title. Destructive environments are cool and so is the enemy AI taking cover and the weapons available. Head shots built into the game. But like I said this title has a serious problem running on modern tech. The internet and forums are full of this type of issue regarding Cyrsis on modern systems.