Comments on: An Hour With: Crysis

By: Thelps

Thelps — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:03:22 +0000

Sigh, you’re right Schizo. I will self-flagellate for ten minutes with ‘MAXIMUM STRENGTH’ turned on, as penance for my unthinking plot castration.

By: schizoslayer

schizoslayer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:57:03 +0000

zomg spoilors!

By: Chris R

Chris R — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:44:13 +0000

Thelps,

That is a great moment. The first time I was playing I thought they were shooting at me and I quickly dove for cover before realizing that they were my guys, haha. It’s really a shame about what happens to those fellows though.

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:42:51 +0000

Jeez I’m outta my league on this website. I struggled with the demo on normal.

Maybe I’m getting old

By: Thelps

Thelps — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:23:58 +0000

My favourite Crysis moment:

The final assault on the mine containing the alien technology and the hostages. That bit where you’re almost at the mine entrance, having sneaked your way up to it (or blazed through the impossible odds of multiple machine-gun toting jeeps and soldiers) and all of a sudden rocket and machine gun fire starts raining down from the ridge above, onto the last line of enemies from a row of friendly soldiers.

A true ‘here comes the cavalry’ moment if there ever was one, and executed perfectly, in my opinion. I just adored the feeling of sneaking amongst panicked enemy infantry as bullets sprayed up at the ridge and down all around me.

Anyway, I’ll stop myself there at the risk of sliding into fanboyism (still can’t shake the feeling it might be too late for that…).

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:17:59 +0000

H – I’m having similar ammo problems. I use the Binoculars, which highlights them if you’re near enough.

By: H

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:39:10 +0000

The ammo was a problem for me, primarily because I had to hunt weapons in thick jungle when the bodies vanished. I ended up playing Myst and hovering my mouse over lots of bushes until ammo became obvious.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:16:35 +0000

Thelps hit it right on the head in his post. In my opinion, the first part of the game and the second part of the game after the aliens are introduced work together extremely well. The whole game is ramping up to the showdown between humans and the aliens, and it does it extremely well. Sure, there are a few parts that are annoying and whatnot, but overall it’s bang on.

My first play through of the game was on Delta difficulty, and it never really felt that hard honestly. The suit enables you to get out of any situation, and I loved messing with the NK soldiers. Just make sure to tag everyone with your binocs first, so you know their exact location and won’t be surprised by a soldier showing up on your flank. Silenced headshots are also vital to surviving on Delta difficulty. I never took the silencer off my guns, since doing so would give away my location.

The second part of the game with the aliens and the escort missions weren’t overly difficult on Delta. I was a little worried about how I was going to survive, but it’s a non issue really. Crytek was able to balance the last fourth of the game perfectly for that difficulty.

Crysis is sublime, and exactly my cup of tea, from start to finish. I can spend hours in each stage or map killing off all the enemies.

By: Trezoristo

Trezoristo — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:05:41 +0000

I played the game on medium and my PC could barely handle that, so I’m looking forward to doing it again in about half a year, after my next PC upgrade.

I especially liked the first half of the game. I played on delta and did a bit of stealthy gameplay and a bit of action hero gameplay and loved it both. Just as I grew accustomed to some of the more advanced tools the gameplay switched, and I consider the second part of the game to be far less enjoyable than the first.

The aliens look cool, but apart from that I hadn’t to much fun fighting them. I had the feeling the game resorted to a more simplistic type of shooter. Because of the strength and the speed of the aliens cover becomes pretty much useless. I had the feeling that there wasn’t really any need for complex alien AI because of the more simplistic gameplay.

I fear for the sequel of this game. I enjoyed the frist part of Crysis infinitely more then the second part, while at the same time cliffhanger suggests that in Crysis 2 (or whatever it will be called) we’ll see more of, if not exclusively, the last.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:22:57 +0000

Get both.

By: Thelps

Thelps — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:16:06 +0000

Just throwing this out there: Apparently Crysis is slated to have 2 more sequels, and the ending of this apparent trilogy is already planned and known to the developers. Rather than provide a link to a website (the original revelation was done via an IRC chat with Cevat Yerli) just search this info on Google.

By: Eschatos

Eschatos — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:08:29 +0000

I want this. But I wonder whether this or Far Cry 2 will be better.