Posted on: October 27, 2016
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Short, mediocre shooter
The game begins where the original Crysis left off and focuses on the alien invasion. It is much more streamlined though, with scripted events and less freedom to explore. It is short: 4-8 hours start to end. Gameplay is unchanged: Combine your arsenal of weapons with unique powers like invisibility, extra damage, or extra armor to get an edge over your enemy. Once again you may drive vehicles and even tanks you find. The missions are a bit more varied this time around and ongoing alien attacks do provide a sense of urgency. However, the basic idea is still to smash things and kill people in spectacular ways. The story behind the events of Crysis Warhead can be told in a few words: You are a one-man-army blessed with a prototype set of armor that gives you super human powers, and you must stop the aliens, and - for reasons I personally never found satisfying - the army of North Korea, while you are at it. The narrative is a bit black-and-white: US good, Korea bad, Aliens super-bad with very little in between the extremes. In other words: If it moves, shoot it until it stops. The game doesn't get much deeper than that. Crysis Warhead has some new friendly characters that you will meet. Unfortunately those characters remain a bit shallow, and scenes do at times border on cringe-territory. Despite the story's best efforts though, our protagonist basically remains the mindless killing machine with no past and few redeeming qualities that we all love and couldn't care less about. Not that we would expect "redeeming qualities" from a shooter, that is. For what it is, Crysis Warhead is a fun shooter that provides good, mindless entertainment mixed with a little bit of story for when you need it. However, due to how incredibly short it is with just 4-8 hours of content, it is best to get it on a big discount.
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