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Includes Crysis Warhead and Crysis Wars
The sharp images and first-person shooter action from the original Crysis emerge in an exciting new form with the new Crysis Warhead expansion for your PC.
You play Sergeant “Psycho” Sykes, a supporting play...
The sharp images and first-person shooter action from the original Crysis emerge in an exciting new form with the new Crysis Warhead expansion for your PC.
You play Sergeant “Psycho” Sykes, a supporting player in the first Crysis, who now takes center stage. Investigating a North Korean island with your team, you encounter a horrifying alien force. Strap on the game’s famous Nanosuit and face down attacks from any direction. Use the cloak setting to slip past your enemies or jump right into the center of combat to crush the threat directly.
The Crysis Warhead storyline features a fresh take on the story of the original Crysis, delivering all of the excitement and energy that you've come to expect. Thrilling combat scenes put you in the middle of the mayhem. Experience improved vehicle handling as you take control of tanks, helicopters, and more. New weapons inflict enhanced damage on your enemies, while multiplayer modes let you team up with your friends.
Return to the island and face your fears with the Crysis Warhead download.
Crysis Warhead is a standalone release and does not require ownership of Crysis to play.
More explosive and dynamic minute-to-minute gameplay
New customizable weapons, new vehicles, new photorealistic locations to explore, and a fully interactive war zone to dominate
Enhanced human and alien AI - intelligent enemies, bigger challenges, and all-new ally squad support
Includes Crysis Wars (64-bit version), an expanded multiplayer experience with online modes and 21 maps including seven all-new maps to battle it out against other players (multiplayer is accessible only through a LAN connection)
If you enjoy Crysis, then Warhead is a must. It has better balancing, more variety to the missions, and a fantastic final battle. I have twice as much time in Warhead as I do the original game.
Also, it's better optomized; I only had a couple crashes to desktop with Warhead (as opposed to the dozens with Crysis before realizing it was the autosaves).
Excellent DLC that feels like a sequel!
It's in some ways better than the first game, the protagonist actually has a personality for one (although it's not terribly great. However, angry british man is still more entertaining than the first game's stale piece of bread of a man).
Although aliens are still a bit frustrating to fight sometimes, a bit less so than in the first game, and tanks are still insufferable and magically know where you are 500 feet away, and also will instantly turn it's turret to you with unreal speed with flea reaction time. And enemy nanosuits seem to have 5 times the amount of energy/armor you do, and can take 3 missiles in a row straight to the face and not die, the cheating hack frauds.
The game is generally more linear, which may be a plus for you, and a refreshing change of pace if you've already played Crysis 1. If you want more non-linear stuff (and a longer game) and haven't played Crysis 1 yet, then go play that instead.
Also, some parts of the cutscenes are rough, cheap, and awkward.
Warhead is about 4-7 hours long depending on your pace.
I find it weird that there isn't a toggle option for crouch, nor a hold option for ironsights by default. Also the game doesn't support my native resolution by default.
The Good:
+ Old style "action movie as a video game" premise.
+ Not an open world game, but it does have large, open levels.
+ Satisfying combat (mostly) and a nice assortment of weapons and suit powers.
+ Each mission feels unique.
+ Doesn't overstay its welcome. I spent about 7 hours total.
+ Runs natively in ultrawide (with one caveat).
+ Still looks good after all these years with all the settings maxed.
+ No zero gravity, alien mothership levels (Refer to the first Crysis game if you don't know what I'm talking about).
The Bad:
- In game cutscenes have black bars meant to turn a 16:9 screen into 21:9 that they didn't bother removing for 21:9 monitors.
- I experienced a fair amount of game crashes. Your mileage may vary.
- Suit powers are sometimes underused. I used stealth and armor a lot, but speed and power only in specific situations. While some of that is owed to my play style, I just didn't find much of a reward in playing any different.
- Level design can sometimes be a bit underwhelming and doesn't reward exploration. Finding the secret "back way" into a compound doesn't really yield results different that shooting your way through the front gate.
- A.I. is a bit stupid (definitely a carry over from the first Crysis game}. Like, "OMG, my buddy just got shot in the head when he walked around that corner. I should walk around that corner and see what's up."
- Story is serviceable but nothing to write home about. Basically, "You're a soldier, go kill stuff." You're not going to get invested in it.
Overall:
It's a fun distraction that should keep you busy for an evening or three. There's nothing very memorable about the game but that doesn't mean that you won't enjoy your time spent with it, even if you forget most of it after you're done.
Shooting is solid and the game still looks good (for that aspect, its aged well). However, controller integration is still not well optimised for today's standards. Game will take you around 6 hours to complete max.
Visually it's still very pleasing to the eye, mechanically it's identical to the original Crysis, and Psycho is just a more interesting character than Nomad ever was. Warhead also offers a campaign that's a bit more action packed and fast paced. Of course, the sandboxy nature of the levels is still retained, with the degree of freedom that you seldom see in non-open world first person shooters, but it's clear that the developers were going for something that encourages the player to keep the momentum and move from one action set piece into the next.
Overall it's good fun, provided that you can keep it running stable, which is my only gripe with the game. DirectX 10 mode is a clear culprit here so if you're fine with sacrificing some graphical fidelity, just stick to the regular executable where the game could run at a much more stable DX9. Otherwise you'll have to deal with frequent crashing, third party fixes for the refresh rate issue (if you play in 4k, for instance), and some graphical glitches.
It's too bad that this standalone expansion wasn't included in the remastered trilogy because it could really benefit from improved stability, better graphics API, and modernized controller support.
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