Comments on: Crysis Wars Free Weekend, Trailer

By: x25killa

x25killa — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:37:34 +0000

I watched the trailer and this is my reaction:
“Good… wait, cloak and snipe? Good… hang on, oh for **** sake there is a grenade launcher.”
Looks good, might give it a go if I can get my PC up and running.

By: Nimic

Nimic — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:55:15 +0000

Crysis wars is excellent, no way around it. I had some fun with the Crysis multiplayer, but this makes some good changes. The cloak, which some people have mentioned. Also, energy drains slower and recharges quicker now, so it’s not only there to stabilize your gun anymore.

One of the maps, Battleground, is god damn perfect. It’s a relatively big map, with a large bridge in the middle and weapons and vehicles spawned all over the map. It works best with the new Team Instant Action mode (team deathmatch). I just love the way you’ll see your teammates all rush to get a rocketlauncher when you hear the familiar sound of the helicopter, or even worse, the VETOL.

By: Turin Turambar

Turin Turambar — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:41:11 +0000

Gamevideos is around 5 times slower than youtube.

By: subedii

subedii — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:25:14 +0000

Haha, yeah, it’s amazing how many times I’ve seen people cloak but still have their laser pointers on and pointing at people. “What this? Oh don’t mind this, it’s just a trick of the refraction, I assure you I’m not really here.”

By: Mman

Mman — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:10:14 +0000

Considering how much I usually suck a semi-realistic (damage/hitscan wise) FPS games going on Crysis Wars and seeing all the boneheads running out in the open with no use of nanosuit powers, and “hiding” with lasersights in full view and being complete fodder made me appreciate how realistic the AI in Crysis is.

By: theineffablebob

theineffablebob — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:45:24 +0000

I hate GameTrailer’s video player. It’s terrible.

By: Bema

Bema — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:45:02 +0000

Aye, GameVideos is always slow and lazy for me. Epic frustraiting. Only works when I activate IE tab – which is a bit phail. Plus the adverts annoy me.

Regarding the trailer: Meh. Not itching to play it.

By: subedii

subedii — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:34:40 +0000

I actually like gametrailers reviews. I agree with them more often than not (there’s always going to be a few you disagree with), and Geoff Keighley provides a good, clear and concise voiceover for the video. Unlike most other video reviews, which either have rubbish narration with lots unclear speech, pauses and “ums” and “ahs”, or they tend to focus the footage on the host that’s giving the narration instead of showing the game. Protip reviewers: If I wanted to avoid seeing the game in action I’d READ a review. You’re using a video format to showcase the games, so showcase them. We don’t need two minutes of a five minute review to be the camera focussed on you whilst you read your piece.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:25:25 +0000

Maximum Fish: Yeah, I don’t bother with anything other than raw trailers on Gametrailers. If I want quality games journalism, I have plenty of other places to look for it.

By: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:17:16 +0000

As someone said above the cloak is actually useful now, and you can take a lot less damage in CW. This means the weapons feel meatier, you can snipe people dead from across the map while “hiding” cloaked on some random roof. They have smaller maps now with only two control points plus the the prototype facility, which makes for a lot more action packed game when you have less than 16 players.

It doesn’t have the intensity of Quake Wars or Red Orchestra, but all in all a very fun diversion that I can see myself coming back to once in a while.

By: Maximum Fish

Maximum Fish — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:51:58 +0000

Gamevideos apparently sucks. All i get is a grey screen with a little white dot on it, for like 5 minutes. I thought i was just unlucky, but i guess not.

Gametrailers really pisses me off with their we-are-sooo-clever quips opening every one of their reviews (asking if Spore is “a natural selection”, if Lost Planet gives them cold feet, and so forth) -it’s facepalm city, but at least their videos work.

By: subedii

subedii — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:24:52 +0000

Not everyone disliked the Alien bits. I also thought those were a pretty cool change the pace, the design of the Alien ship was amazing.

As for Crysis Wars, I still say that Crytek would have benefited FAR more if instead of trying to create a competitor to Battlefield / Quake Wars style games, they had gone with developing two player co-op instead. Crysis is a game that’s practically crying out for decent co-op support.

Crysis Wars is decent, but like most games of this sort, only really comes into its own if you’re playing with a group of people that you can co-ordinate with. Most of the time if you’re just playing public, the game devolves into “every man for himself”. With the added suit dynamics and solid gameplay, I can see it being really fun to play with people you know, but I haven’t really had the opportunity for that yet.