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Crysis (PC DVD) |
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Electronic Arts
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £4.85
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 5030930052645
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 132
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 2007-11-16
Studio: Electronic Arts |
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From the makers of Far Cry comes the most technologically advanced video game ever made, with graphics to make you gasp and enemy artificial intelligence so clever it could give SkyNET a run for its money. With Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 now well established, Crysis has become the new milestone for PC graphics and first person shoot ‘em-ups. The premise of the game involves an alien landing on an island off North Korea, with you as the only person that can stop it. The incredibly realistic looking environments are the game’s initial draw, with some particularly stunning looking jungle locales. All the levels include dynamic effects to make them even more realistic (and dangerous) including earthquakes, breaking ice, landslides and tornadoes. Since the alien decides to flash freeze the entire island half way through the game, and the final sections end up in a zero gravity spaceship, it’s unlikely you’re going to get tired of the same old environments.As in Far Cry, there’s no strict level structure and you’re able to explore the island however you want; choosing to go in all guns blazing or taking a more stealthy approach. You can also customise your weapons to suit your preferred style of play with silencers, telescopic sights, laser sightings and more. Your special armour can also be modified as you go, so that you make less noise as you move, run faster, jump higher, recover energy or just take damage better and make use of heavier weapons. Naturally the game also includes an extensive multiplayer mode, but it is the stunning, near photorealistic, graphics and game world which is most certain to claim the game’s name in PC gaming history.
HARRISON DENT
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A great game, but..., 2010-08-09
I don't think i need to go into any detail about the game itself, as the reviews bellow have gone into much more detail then i could, but...
I bought this game as i had heard it's a good game, and was disapointed with what i got. I orded it expecting to get the official crysis box and disk, like it showed in the picture, however what i actually recieved was a 'EA Value Games' box which is orange, with a small picture of the crysis box cover on the front. The back of the box wasnt any better, still an orange background with a discription of the game and some screenshots, however not the official crysis (PC) back.
When i opened the box i found the disk wasnt the official crysis disk, instead it was a bright orange disk with small words saying crysis at the bottom with 'EA Value Games' printed across it.
Fianlly, i never recieved any booklets that come with most games.
I would like to say that the game is great, i am having a lot of enjoyment playing it and can't wait to see whats next. The gameplay is great as well as the graphics, i was just dissapointed that i didnt get what i thought i was getting as i like my games to be in the offical box and have the officla disk as it feels .
I am going to write to the seller just to tell them that i was dissapointed and that they shouldnt put a picture up of the official box when that is not what they are selling.
Daniel Few
In all honesty, meh., 2010-07-27
Great graphics, terrible gameplay. It's excellent to use for a benchmark test, to see how well your graphics card performs, and as a gaming experiment it performs great, the physics and everything are excellent, but as a game it's just horrible. For instance, while playing on Easy, enemies take multiple shots to the head before dying. The sandbox editor that comes with it is very complicated, and I noticed that half the sounds don't work in it, or at least the previews don't.
All in all, great for graphics, bad for gameplay. Get it if you like shiny things.
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Cry(when it crashes)sis, 2010-07-01
For some reason I didn't really fancy buying this game when it first came out, I think mainly because I'd played way too many FPS games over the years running up to the release.
Anyway, I bought it recently and I found myself really enjoying it, purely because it was something different with the suit altering the way you play. While the strength thing seems rather dull at times, the stealth and speed are really good fun. That alone added a nice feel to the game that I hadn't experienced in anything other than Splinter Cell (okay, that was stealth rather than a Predator like suit), which was a long time ago.
It's got a very linear style to it, and you're forced down a single path to a goal, more or less. Due to this I wouldn't say it has much replay value for me.
I'd definitely get it simply because it's a bit different. The only other downside is the crashes. Sometimes it will freeze for no reason, although I hadn't had that happen for a good while since upgrading the graphics drivers for my X260 Nvidia card. The only trouble is, with Crysis warhead you get graphics corruption, and the only way I found of stopping that happening was to alt tab just after the game had loaded the level, but before starting to play it. Very odd and annoying that.
Mostly good fun, 2010-06-16
First thing's first. I haven't upgraded my PC in years, so my admiration of the game's visuals is restricted to a few HD Youtube clips - sad, I know, but it does give me an opportunity to judge the game on its other merits. And there are some. The plot, to get it out of the way, isn't one of them: nasty aliens are buried underground and being poked and prodded by near-future North Koreans, and everything goes pear-shaped. The gameplay, for the first half at least, is a lot of fun. Controlling the nanosuit becomes second nature, and you'll soon find yourself outgunning, outrunning and outwitting said Koreans like a bionic James Bond.
Things go badly awry in the second half, however. After an atmospheric, zero-gravity introductory sequence that takes you into their mountain lair, the aliens themselves are ultimately irritating. And shamelessly based off the sentinels in The Matrix. Crytek have made them Crysis's 'Annoying Flying Enemy', the equivalent of those cherub things in Doom 3, which would be fine if they didn't all but replace the human enemies for the latter half of the game. Suddenly having such crude opponents throws all the tactics, creativity and, ultimately, fun of the first half out the window. When the game gets a lot more difficult as well, not to mention harder to run with all the robo-squid flying about, it's easy to lose interest (as I have to admit I did).
All that said, it's a beautiful game (even with my modest system specs), and I've found myself revisiting the earlier, freeform sections - it's just a shame Crytek still can't get the aliens right.
Pretty sub-par, 2010-09-02
What a disappointment. Dreadful storyline, laughable scripting and characters, full of bugs, bad combat system, the nano-suit is a bit of a gimmick, pathetic voice acting.
An example: In some parts all the enemies would have to be killed to trigger the progression of the level; I had to re-load and re-do some parts in excess of 20 times for bugs like aliens flying off or just bugging out and freezing on screen.
You think your character, being the nano-suit clad beast would have the common-sense to jump up onto a small rock in your way, no!
You will be spotted on your belly in think foliage by AI characters almost a mile away and they always manage to hit you, even while running firing in full automatic.
Half the time your character refuses to stand or crouch near other objects, resulting in being shot more often than not.
Even with the nano-suit amour you are weaker and far less accurate than KPA cannon fodder.
Yeah, the graphics are good, but PC fan boys seem to think that this constitutes a good game.
After I finished this I slammed Deus Ex back on my system after 8 years; it pooped all over it.
How could this get such good reviews?
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