HybridVision on 19/11/2007 at 01:58

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I'd give it 8/10. It suffers from some of the problems that made BioShocking a disaster, but does more things right than that game.

I know you guys won't lynch me for not immediately shouting "OMG, 11/10 - GOTY!" And maybe someone will even agree :p

The first half is a huge disappointment. The game just wants you to grind out 5,000 Korean kills before it will let you get to the better stuff. And just like BioShocking, when you find an approach that works for you, there's no reason to get all inventive. Try everything once I did, and then for the remaining 4,985 Koreans no two kills were unlike.

I was a cloak-whore, since it was just as overpowered as decoy in BioShocking. And the power of cloak isn't just in being stealthy. Hell no. Used aggressively, it can turn you from a naff FPS player to a 100% headshot maniac. If you make sure never to use Maximum Armour, your energy regens so quickly that you can decloak, kill, cloak without penalty. And repeatedly, often taking out whole groups of enemies with no real retort.

Anyway, after fighting 5,000 Koreans and 500 bugs, the game does change (for the better), but then youve only got 30mins of actual game remaining (and another 30 mins of walking around listening to the dialogue and thinking how good the graphics might be if you had a better computer.)

Yup, once again this game is too short. Too much of the Koreans, too little everything else. Completing a game in two evenings seems to be the norm, now. However, it would be wrong to blame Crysis for that. It's much, much harder to make an FPS of decent length than it is with other genres.

Overall, decent. Some fun bits that just don't last long enough to really satisfy. The ending was a complete joke, entirely done to set up for the sequel. Which will probably involve grinding another 5,000 [spoiler]alien[/spoiler] kills to get to the good stuff. Oh well.

Scots Taffer on 19/11/2007 at 02:09

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ahahhahahaha! Well played, Aja.

On topic, I can't play this game yet - I'm investigating dual/quad/ocot-core system solutions around Christmas time. I'm going to busy myself with STALKER and Dark Messiah for the time being.

Scots Taffer on 19/11/2007 at 02:54

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Seems like the open-ended environments + nanosuit + silly graphics = fun game for the most part. I'm hearing good things about the combat and gameplay in general. I upgraded my graphics card for BioShock and now I'm thinking about the CPU update for Crysis, I hope Crysis isn't another disappointment.
I wasn't a fan of Far Cry at all, I found it frustrating from a gameplay perspective despite the open-endedness. I also thought the graphics were horribly cartoonish. Crysis seems to have a nice balance between environment and combat.

Scots Taffer on 19/11/2007 at 04:09

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So with the demo, there was the linear progression of "meet up with team-mate" and then "get to base" or whatever, but you could do that a whole bunch of ways. You could stick to the foliage and stealth your way there, you could get in a truck, run a couple of soldiers over on your way to the beach, you could take a boat and approach the base from sea and attack with the mounted gun, or you could run and gun it along the coastline. That's a lot of choice versus most on-the-rails shooters. Is that what you mean?

june gloom on 19/11/2007 at 04:36

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It totally is, though I prefer to play it somewhat "raw". I add very few mods to it. One is a fix that tells me what I get out of side quests. Another one adds subtitles to the cutscenes. Another one does lots of editing of the text, and I think it also fixes the weapon names to their real names that would normally cost too much in royalties to use. (condition zero and CS source have this problem as well, and I've yet to figure out how to fix it. It's a bit aggravating 'cuz I'm used to the original weapon names.)