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Electronic Arts
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List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £7.89
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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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Best game i've played in my life without Question, 2010-02-19
Best game i've played in my life without Question.
Played games over 10 years and this is clearly the best developed game ever made.
Great graphics, great AI, great gameplay, great plot, Great Features.
how could it be any better?
good graphics less good everything else, 2010-01-04
This game is pretty good, my PC set all the graphics to medium 1600x1200 and they looked very good and everything worked well, I tried the graphics on the high setting and they didn't look that much better and I tried them on low and they didn't look that much worse.
The game is fine, the biosuit thing that you wear is quite cool, the aliens are mainly fairly annoying to fight and there is one lever near the end which is very nice looking but incredibly dull, probably like an evening with paris hilton or something, except it's nicer looking than her.
Over-hyped and dumbed down, 2010-02-13
NB: This is a review of Crysis PC single player.
Crysis was launched as a 'must have' game so you'd expect a lot from it. You'd expect a 'must have' game to contain something ground breaking or at least have some elements which are superior in some ways to other games.
This is not the case. Crysis merely uses eye candy to hide the fact that it is a boring, dumbed-down-for-console-kiddies linear game with empty spaces where nothing happens and small areas full of enemies with laughable AI.
For example, you can wander along a lengthy beach for several minutes and you will find nothing. No elements of the story, no enemies, no encounters, no surprises. And then, when you reach your objective, lets say a 'heavily guarded' military base, you find that due to your abilty to remain invisable at will, you can walk right in and complete your mission there.
Even if you remain visable, the AI is so poor that you can snipe a sentry and then watch as one by one, the entire personel of the base come to crouch where their comrade has fallen, conveniently allowing you to pick each one off. So much for 'heavily gaurded'. I sniped a soldier who was manning a heavy machine gun and was amazed to see that his fellow soldiers thought it a good idea to simply take up the same position until they themselves were killed and and another soldier arrived and the process was repeated until the 'heavily guarded' base was empty of life. It's the same in buildings - hide in a building and mow your enemies down as they queue up at the doorway to be killed.
The developers of crysis either didn't want to tax the unskilled casual gamer and the console kiddie so that they could maximise their sales or, they simply didn't give a damn about AI. Either way, you'd get as many thrills from mowing the lawn as you'd do from mowing down the enemies in Crysis.
As for the story - forget it. The characters simply have no character and there is no dialogue worth listening to. There is no tension. There is no intrigue. There are no scares. There are no surprises.
'But what about the aliens?', I hear you ask. Well truth be told, the aliens in Crysis only make a bad game worse. The aliens have no dialogue, they simply screech dumbly in the generic way of every hollywood monster. They actually seem more stupid than the human enemies. And worse, they look really very bad indeed. There is one type of alien which resmbles a chiffon scarf or a translucent sarong and of course, like the other aliens which incidently, look like squids made of ice, they too sceech all the time.
If you like dumbed-down movies like Avatar, full of meaningless screeching, where the most spectacular things are colourful forests and petroleum fireballs. If like you like to see the talents of artists and programmers wasted in order to ensure as many sales as possible. If you like mind-numbing gameplay with almost no dialogue and almost no story, you'll love Crysis PC single player.
If on the other hand, you like to see PC games push the boundries and make you wonder just how they crammed so much into a single game, go for Fallout3 instead and don't waste your money and precious time on the garbage that is Crysis PC single player.
Great Game - Lousy DVD, 2010-02-26
I loved Far Cry. This is better. Great graphics and its even got a storyline. It needs a powerful system (cpu and graphics) to play it. I'd recommend that you try the 'can you run it' web site to check that your system can cope.
Unfortunately the disc pressing and the copy-protection system let it down. This is the ONLY game disc I've ever had any problems reading. Immediately after installing the game, the game could not recognize the disc (which it requires to play). It tells me the disc is not the original.
A little googling on 'crysis disc not recognized' will tell you the size of the problem. There is of course a really simple workaround to the disc misreading problem and you'll find it by following that google search.
Exceptional in parts, Appauling in others, Big disappointment, 2010-02-26
Waited 2+ years to purchase this, got to 80% complete and uninstalled never to be touched again. Once in the core the game goes rapidly downhill, its buggy, levels dont load the game crashes, the sound loops over and over again, the VTOL mission is quite simply one of the most inept and disappointing level of any game on any platform I've ever played, the controls are a joke.
I loved the first half or so, some truly exceptional maps, visuals and gameplay but the latter part is appaulingly bad and prob the most disappointing game ever, it makes one appreciate how well produced Half Life 2 was.
I've got the expansion pack to play which I've been told is much better, unsure if I now want to try it
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