~Crysis: First it's sweet then it's sour. ~
***MAY CONTAIN SLIGHT SPOILERS***
(Playing on an i-3470 + 750 Ti)

I bought Crysis 1, Warhead, and 2 Maximum Edition on a packaged sale for 75% off. I am basing my opinion on these games based on value recieved. I am entitled to my own opinion, and if you disagree, I don't care, but you're entitled to an opinion too. I am currently going to play through the entire series, from start to finish. Check out my other reviews regarding this series.


I jumped into this game right after watching some videos regarding the technical prowess this game had achieved. Of course, any gamer whom has spent any time playing PC games has heard of the term "But can it run Crysis?"

The question, how fast can you run FROM the Original Crysis?

Crysis 1 follows the story of Nomad, and his Raptor Team, as they airdrop onto a remote island looking for researchers whom had activated a distress beacon, but it isn't 60 seconds into the mission before something goes terribly wrong. Thing aren't what they seem, and this regular covert ops missions quicky starts escalating as more ♥♥♥♥ starts flying into the fan. I mean, lots of ♥♥♥♥, it's a wonder how the fan is still even spinning. It's like that scene from Daddy Daycare where he walks into the bathroom and is blown away by the mess infront of his eyes.

The story is very over the top, but not to the point where it takes away from the immersion. However, don't expect any lovable or memorable characters like Master Chief, Samus, or any other character for that matter. This game is remembered for its graphical fidelity above all else, and that is for a good reason, as everything else is like a soup. The broth is quite freakin' amazing, but the other ingrediantes that makes it a soup are almost subpar, unmemorable, and sometimes quite bland. But since the soup and the broth are so entertwined, it is easy to overlook the downfalls of the game. It's to the point where it frustrated me that the broth is so damn good, but simply cannot make up for the rest of its lacklsuster parts.

Gameplay is quite fun, its 2007, so FPS reigned king in this era. Crysis also gave you the ability to customize your weapons on the fly and your approach to situations. However, some situations were simply easier done one way rather than another, making the whole open world, seem less open ended. Plus the game is very linear, go here, then here, do this, defend that, survive this wave, then fight off the next. There are moments where certain center pieces are quite awesome, and grabs your natural human curiosity to wanna know more, but the game literally doesn't bother delving more into the Sci-Fi aspect, which is a huge miss. This game lacks a good, cohesive and filling story, Again, the soup.

I definitely found myself using some modes of the suit a lot more than the others. I almost never used strength mode, as the jumping mechanics were janky at best. Unless you were running full sprint, and had no obsticles, it was hard to manuver Nomad midair, and found myself waiting for my suit to charge to get another shot at a jump on a few occasions. Plus the bonus for aim wasn't that helpful. More on that later. The controls were a bit awkard for keyboard and mouse, I ended up swapping some controls around. First i swapped the weapon and suit customization options between eachother, as for some reason, if I used my center mouse button, the Console Command would pop up, and all input into the game was taken away and directed into the input for the Console Command window. Which was a huge ♥♥♥♥ softener when you we're balls deep in action, and needed to swap your approach. Pushing "Z" toggled prone, right clicking toggled zoom, but pushing ALT crouched, but wasn't a toggle. You'd stand the frick back up right after letting go. I looked into the options to change that up, but I ended up resolving the awkward finger banger with Razer Synapse and swapping the left CTRL and ALT buttons. You also push "i" for night vision, which is a far reach from your left hand, and either required you to sacrifice physical or visual movement to activate.


Thankfully, nightvision is complete ♥♥♥♥, so you won't ever use it. During a couple segements, the game does recommend to use night vision, but I went ahead and ignored it. Strength mode was also rather useless, again the aim bonus didn't really come in handy enough for me to jeprodize jumping to that from stealth or defense mode. Speed mode is pretty dope, but overall Nomad is way too soft to take too many hits, and I almost alway stayed in defense mode. Stealth is cool, but enemies spot you way too easily, and take way too many bullets to kill. They felt collectively tougher than I did almost a majotity of the game. Which is actually something that is fixed in Crysis: Warhead. Enemy vehicles take way too much damage to destroy unless you're the one in them. I don't know how many times I was BS killed by something. Touch a fire? Dead. Run across a rope bridge too fast? Stubs toe against a plank and is instakilled. Walk outside and an enemy alien happens to crash land on you? Too bad, dead. Becareful with the shotgun, on several occasions I blasted an enemy only for his body to bounce off a wall and hit me, causing my death. A helicpoter continued to fire missles after blowing me up. Enemy helicopters take TWO SHOTS from a tank to destroy, and 2 rockets can do 50% damage to your tank if its a direct hit. Enemy tanks require 5 shots to be destroyed if your comandeer a Korean tank, and you only have 30 rounds. Being crushed to death by flimsy aluminum cover is pretty constant. If you drive you vehicle into a fire, or don't land on all 4 tires, is almost a guranteed death.


Graphically, the game is something to write about, but that's something everyone already knows a this point. Lighting, flora, wildlife, flares bubbling up underwater, oil spilling out of canisters. All that is great, but the game runs terribly. I was lucky to get to one checkpoint to the next without the game crashing on me once. At somepoint the game I had taken a break from the game, only to come back and find that it simply would not launch. It evenutally did, without me really doing anything. I kinda wish it hadn't because I ended putting hours into this game I will never get back.


I can go on and on about how bad this game really is, but I am not as this game has taken up enough of my time... I have never been so happy to see the credits roll on a game.



The Good:
Beautiful, even 11 years later.
Cool suit
Weapon Customization
Somewhat cool setting
Short (Couldn't wait for this game to be over)


Bad:
Janky Controls
Bad checkpoints
Easy deaths
Glitchy mess
Confusing mission objectives
Crashes a lot
Meh story
No memorable set pieces, or "WOW" moments.
Frustrating




TLDR:

Unless you're trying to play the Crysis series in it's entirety, please play something else. As this game will leave a bad taste in your mouth for the rest of the series. And there are many better games out there that takes what this game tried achieving and simply accomplishes them better. It felt a lot like a precursor to MGS:TPP, and I know that is a pretty bad comparison, considering one game is a lot newer than the other. However, Crysis is simply a bad Christmas present that was beautiful wrapped, and by New Years, you don't want anything to do with it. Most of my time spent in this game was reloading over and over from crashes/ or stupid deaths.

~Crysis: First it's sweet then it's sour. ~ ***MAY CONTAIN SLIGHT SPOILERS*** (Playing on an i-3470 + 750 Ti) I bought Crysis 1, Warhead, and 2 Maximum Edition on a packaged sale for 75% off. I am basing my opinion on these games based on value recieved. I am entitled to my own opinion, and if you disagree, I don't care, but you're entitled to an opinion too. I am currently going to play through the entire series, from start to finish. Check out my other reviews regarding this series. I jumped into this game right after watching some videos regarding the technical prowess this game had achieved. Of course, any gamer whom has spent any time playing PC games has heard of the term "But can it run Crysis?" The question, how fast can you run FROM the Original Crysis? Crysis 1 follows the story of Nomad, and his Raptor Team, as they airdrop onto a remote island looking for researchers whom had activated a distress beacon, but it isn't 60 seconds into the mission before something goes terribly wrong. Thing aren't what they seem, and this regular covert ops missions quicky starts escalating as more shit starts flying into the fan. I mean, lots of shit, it's a wonder how the fan is still even spinning. It's like that scene from Daddy Daycare where he walks into the bathroom and is blown away by the mess infront of his eyes. The story is very over the top, but not to the point where it takes away from the immersion. However, don't expect any lovable or memorable characters like Master Chief, Samus, or any other character for that matter. This game is remembered for its graphical fidelity above all else, and that is for a good reason, as everything else is like a soup. The broth is quite freakin' amazing, but the other ingrediantes that makes it a soup are almost subpar, unmemorable, and sometimes quite bland. But since the soup and the broth are so entertwined, it is easy to overlook the downfalls of the game. It's to the point where it frustrated me that the broth is so damn good, but simply cannot make up for the rest of its lacklsuster parts. Gameplay is quite fun, its 2007, so FPS reigned king in this era. Crysis also gave you the ability to customize your weapons on the fly and your approach to situations. However, some situations were simply easier done one way rather than another, making the whole open world, seem less open ended. Plus the game is very linear, go here, then here, do this, defend that, survive this wave, then fight off the next. There are moments where certain center pieces are quite awesome, and grabs your natural human curiosity to wanna know more, but the game literally doesn't bother delving more into the Sci-Fi aspect, which is a huge miss. This game lacks a good, cohesive and filling story, Again, the soup. I definitely found myself using some modes of the suit a lot more than the others. I almost never used strength mode, as the jumping mechanics were janky at best. Unless you were running full sprint, and had no obsticles, it was hard to manuver Nomad midair, and found myself waiting for my suit to charge to get another shot at a jump on a few occasions. Plus the bonus for aim wasn't that helpful. More on that later. The controls were a bit awkard for keyboard and mouse, I ended up swapping some controls around. First i swapped the weapon and suit customization options between eachother, as for some reason, if I used my center mouse button, the Console Command would pop up, and all input into the game was taken away and directed into the input for the Console Command window. Which was a huge dick softener when you we're balls deep in action, and needed to swap your approach. Pushing "Z" toggled prone, right clicking toggled zoom, but pushing ALT crouched, but wasn't a toggle. You'd stand the frick back up right after letting go. I looked into the options to change that up, but I ended up resolving the awkward finger banger with Razer Synapse and swapping the left CTRL and ALT buttons. You also push "i" for night vision, which is a far reach from your left hand, and either required you to sacrifice physical or visual movement to activate. Thankfully, nightvision is complete shit, so you won't ever use it. During a couple segements, the game does recommend to use night vision, but I went ahead and ignored it. Strength mode was also rather useless, again the aim bonus didn't really come in handy enough for me to jeprodize jumping to that from stealth or defense mode. Speed mode is pretty dope, but overall Nomad is way too soft to take too many hits, and I almost alway stayed in defense mode. Stealth is cool, but enemies spot you way too easily, and take way too many bullets to kill. They felt collectively tougher than I did almost a majotity of the game. Which is actually something that is fixed in Crysis: Warhead. Enemy vehicles take way too much damage to destroy unless you're the one in them. I don't know how many times I was BS killed by something. Touch a fire? Dead. Run across a rope bridge too fast? Stubs toe against a plank and is instakilled. Walk outside and an enemy alien happens to crash land on you? Too bad, dead. Becareful with the shotgun, on several occasions I blasted an enemy only for his body to bounce off a wall and hit me, causing my death. A helicpoter continued to fire missles after blowing me up. Enemy helicopters take TWO SHOTS from a tank to destroy, and 2 rockets can do 50% damage to your tank if its a direct hit. Enemy tanks require 5 shots to be destroyed if your comandeer a Korean tank, and you only have 30 rounds. Being crushed to death by flimsy aluminum cover is pretty constant. If you drive you vehicle into a fire, or don't land on all 4 tires, is almost a guranteed death. Graphically, the game is something to write about, but that's something everyone already knows a this point. Lighting, flora, wildlife, flares bubbling up underwater, oil spilling out of canisters. All that is great, but the game runs terribly. I was lucky to get to one checkpoint to the next without the game crashing on me once. At somepoint the game I had taken a break from the game, only to come back and find that it simply would not launch. It evenutally did, without me really doing anything. I kinda wish it hadn't because I ended putting hours into this game I will never get back. I can go on and on about how bad this game really is, but I am not as this game has taken up enough of my time... I have never been so happy to see the credits roll on a game. The Good: Beautiful, even 11 years later. Cool suit Weapon Customization Somewhat cool setting Short (Couldn't wait for this game to be over) Bad: Janky Controls Bad checkpoints Easy deaths Glitchy mess Confusing mission objectives Crashes a lot Meh story No memorable set pieces, or "WOW" moments. Frustrating TLDR: Unless you're trying to play the Crysis series in it's entirety, please play something else. As this game will leave a bad taste in your mouth for the rest of the series. And there are many better games out there that takes what this game tried achieving and simply accomplishes them better. It felt a lot like a precursor to MGS:TPP, and I know that is a pretty bad comparison, considering one game is a lot newer than the other. However, Crysis is simply a bad Christmas present that was beautiful wrapped, and by New Years, you don't want anything to do with it. Most of my time spent in this game was reloading over and over from crashes/ or stupid deaths.