Crysis®

I haven't been able to get this game to even boot to the title screen. Not really acceptable. I don't buy games to have to put in fixes myself. I have the hardware to run it and I expect to run when I hit play.

Today, Crysis is an amazing classical game. That is, if you happen to still rock Windows 7 or earlier. It crashes constantly on 10, making it totally unplayable.

This game is really good, anybody who loves FPS should play it. It's my first time playing it on GOG and it took me 15 hours on the harder difficult. Amazing game.

It's a hard game to review because it's not really a game as much it is a tech demo. The gun play isn't anything special, the ai is mediocre at best and the suit powers are far too fleeting to ever have any fun with. This is very much a stealth focused game and at times it captures the essence of Predator or Rambo. Crawling through grass, cloak engaged, sniping someone in the head and watching allies panic. It's very compelling and at the time of release, I would imagine expectations were a bit lower. Now though, the ai breaks any immersion. Getting shot at from a mile away while you hide in the brush by a gun boat is oof. No fun. Meanwhile I have a pile of bodies over here and people keep walking into my line of sight just waiting to join them. It's never a "will he see me or won't he see me" in a fun way like thief, it almost always feels like the ai are blind as bats or they are cheating. Never any inbetween. I can't reccomend it to anyone who hasn't already played it. You can do better, graphically, stealth wise and cool powers wise. For those who have though, This is still a nice looking game with spots of great atmosphere and immersion, just try not to look behind the curtain to preserve those rose tinted glasses.

This game runs great on my old Mid-2011 imac, using a WINE wrapper to emulate a PC environment. I initially had a problem with the shadows; despite the shadow option chosen I couldnt get them to come on until I added "r_ShadowTexFormat 3" once the game was running! After that the shadows were on and I couldnt detect any lag in the game from it. I highly recommend this game (at least the first half, where you get to fight the evil NORTH KOREANS way off in the future in 2020).