Comments on: Welcome (Back) To The Jungle: Crysis Warhead

By: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:07:49 +0000

Alec you fail at *life* j/k

By: subedii

subedii — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:57:27 +0000

Many of us actually enjoyed the game a lot thank you very much. It gave me a LOT more enjoyment and replayability than most FPS’s ever manage.

By: Mman

Mman — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:52:49 +0000

Maybe it just *Gasp* didn’t appeal to you?

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:46:40 +0000

What great gameplay elements are there to speak of? The only thing I saw that was any different from a shooter of 5 years ago was the nanosuit, and the fact that enemies were already present in areas rather than spawned from the same area in an infinite queue. The latter element is nothing special in games today, and I happen to think the nanosuit was gimmicky. I think a lot of the praise the game gets here is a backlash against people who they feel are savaging the game too much.

By: subedii

subedii — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:45:35 +0000

I also really loved the alien ship. It was pretty amazing, they put a lot of effort into the look and feel of it.

By: absentblue

absentblue — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:42:36 +0000

@datter:

I don’t get it either, I recently priced my rig at about half of what it was when I built it (roughly $600US now) and I play Crysis on high settings, no AA at 1280 x 960. I have the patch applied and the latest drivers for my card but no performance tweaks on hardware or software and Crysis never dips below 30FPS.

Warhead is boasting even better compatibility with PCs now and their specs are lower than what Crysis originally recommended. It’s a shame though because I don’t think they’ll ever rid themselves of the stigma of being too demanding on hardware.

All that said Crysis was alright, it was certainly more fun to fight the KPA than the aliens. The plot was weak and the main character got annoying. Thankfully this looks to improve on all this, Psycho is a better character anyway.

By: ZeeKat

ZeeKat — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:34:07 +0000

Crysis was the only game I ran trough two times in a row and now playing custom maps off crymod. It’s just that much fun with blowing shit up and hurling things all over the place. I may agree that alien parts were the suckier ones, but maybe they read these polls they did on crymod forums and reduced mecha-squiddy alien parts a bit. I hope. plz.

By: dhex

dhex — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:11:00 +0000

i dunno about you guys, but i had loads of fun running away from people (or driving away) and had a few breakneck chases, too.

and again, the alien ship. i haven’t seen a game do anything like that, ever. it was absurdly beautiful, incredibly weird, and well-paced (once i figured out how to get down that drain thingy).

By: fudspong

fudspong — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:05:33 +0000

Welcome to the 24″ club. Don’t forget to wash your hands.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:51:27 +0000

MAXIMUM ARMOUR

By: Nallen

Nallen — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:10:34 +0000

That last boss fight. Urgh. 5fps spammy crap, hated it.

Didn’t mind the game up to that point though, apart from the escort mission. WHY?!

By: MetalCircus

MetalCircus — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:00:48 +0000

I concurr with the aliens at the end – it really just took a massive shit on all the great gameplay elements introduced to us in the first half, and I was really unimpressed. They did the same with Far Cry. Do they hate their own games that much?!