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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
New (4) Used (9) from £20.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  110 reviews
Sales Rank: 714
Platform: Windows Xp
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930052645
ASIN: B000FN5ETO
Release Date: November 16, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
yeah its good but... September 16, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
having played through it twice now it is a great game, but its not that innovative. the openness is an illusion - if you really try to explore the game will punish you for being 'out of bounds', and I never managed to find a way up to one of those high peaks (one of the great thing in Far Cry, its predecessor) was the hang gliding.
the AI is actually quite stupid. To win every area you just need to grab a vehicle with a gun, make sure you are seen, and then reverse out of immeadiate line of sight and wait for them to one by one walk into the line of fire of your infinate machine gun ammo.
but its a nice distraction for a couple of days and the tank battles were fun (even if you are stopped from leading from the front because of the finite ammo on the tanks - you need to let the friendly AI take out a couple or you will run out).
the suit enhancements work well but give you a bit too much of an advantage... snipe, pull behind a rock, stealth and then snipe again. repeat until the 'stronghold' is empty.
it looks great if you have a decent rig to play it on. this is one to rent though if you are only interested in the single player campaign. the 4 stars is for the impressive engine and the fact I felt like playing through it a second time (after pulling it out of the collection again).
Very Good September 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this on release, have decided to review now my PC has almost come up to scratch to give the visuals justice. I have just replayed using Vista64 and and ATI 4870 graphics card and a core2duo processor with 4Gb ram.
It looks gorgeous. I really enjoy playing the game through, being stealthy and picking off the Korean soldiers one by one.
The let down is the later levels. Graphically amazing, but gameplay wise a yawn fest. Also I wasn't too keen on the VTOL level back then, and still not keen on it now, although the tank level wasn't too bad.
More levels just with enemy soldiers would have sufficed, or at least some better AI for the alien enemies, who's AI appears to come from Doom, where as the soldiers at least varied slightly in the attack patterns and use of grenades.
I'll still be purchasing Crysis Warhead (PC DVD) on release, although I hope they learned from the mistakes in Crysis. I have read it's a different Crytek studio so here's hoping!
Game loses 1 star for the crap alien levels and (in my opinion) shoddy multiplayer.
Believe the hype August 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I played the demo when it first came out and at the time I didn't particularly have a great rig, I could only play Crysis on all low settings. At first I thought gameplay was average, I wasn't really trying the game out to see what the gameplay was like but more to do with how good my pc could run it at the time.
How the tables have turned; I recently got myself a powerful gaming rig and I decided to try the demo again and well what can I say, my system's optimal settings recommended high and it plays like a dream. Now that I own the game I have managed to tweak some settings and I have a mixture of high and very high and it runs as smooth as silk, personally I cannot enjoy a game unless the graphics are as amazing as they should be; This is important as it really sets the atmosphere of the game making the gameplay more immersive.
Gameplay wise, very fun indeed a lot of the content is similar to other shooters but hasn't all first person shooter games got the same kind of conecpt? However a lot of it is also origional, AI is one of the best I've seen in a fps game (not scripted and use environment to their advantage etc) Your nano suit is what keeps you alive, this is a very interesting new feature and it works well.
The story/plot is some what familiar and you do feel like you have been here before, but at the same time it is unique in it's own way and I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish.
The multiplayer aspect of it is the only downside to Crysis which is why I only gave it 4 stars, it is a game designed more for single player and it feels like Crytek put the multiplayer in at the last minute.
Over all fantastic gameplay, beautiful graphics not so good multiplayer.
Really good fun August 15, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Hi all i bougth this game on release i didnt have a very good systme then pt4 processor 8500gt and so on terriable on a system with no bulk.
But if you have a powerfull system which i have now and be able to run it on high or even very high it looks very pleasing the only draw back is that its story gets a bit pradictable.
Those who rated it 1 star saying my system is good ect and only can run it low/medium well the thing is it did cost over 5 million to creat so it will need a bulky system.
The card i have is a 3850 overclocked by aroun 75hz on both core speed and memory. And i can run it on very high at 1024/768 runs smooth lose a few frames somtimes but nothing to interfer with the game.
 Fail to see what the fuss is about August 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw some game reviews, videos and screenshots for this game recently and my interest was peaked. There's a lot of fuss and it seemed, on the surface, to be deserved. I had a look at the main site for the game and found a demo I could download. After playing the demo I am glad I didn't buy this game. I might have thought that the demo was not representative of the actual game, until I started reading the bad reviews which commented on the game play issues that I found. It seemed that there were a lot of very nice features and good ideas that have been poorly realised. I haven't played a PC FPC since Rainbow Six 3, which is a game I'd prefer to play over Crysis.
I can see how this game would appeal to a bigger fan of FPCs than myself. For those of you who only flirt with FPCs it is probably a good idea to download the demo first to see if you like it or just not bother with it. There are no doubt far better FPCs on the market that would make less demands on your PC.
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