I never feel in control of the situation. Now to preface this, I have never played the original crysis before, but I have played Crysis 2 and I loved it, I played through it 3 times and the 3rd time was on the hardest difficulty. My problem with this game is that the enemies can spot you from so far away and when they see you the immediately go on full alert, and not just getting closer to investigate. There is also no way to take them out while cloaked, and so your forced to uncloak and usually get spotted. I never feel like a bad ass hunting these soldiers, I feel like I'm sloppily getting spotted and shooting them and running away. It's just not that fun for me because I never feel like I'm succceding, I just feel like I'm fumbling my way through.

So does anyone know if I'm just playing the game wrong, how the AI works, or any help on how to actually enjoy this game.

*Also this game is in serious need of a patch, the AI is often simply broken and acts in some really dumb ways.

I never had those problems when I first played it in 2007.

I did have a problem with the bad story and bland characters, though.

You have to really scout out situations. Use the binocs constantly, always check your surroundings, tread carefully.

Take for example, the school infiltration. I scouted out the area for 10-15 minutes before taking action. Checked out where all the manned-guns were, all the soldiers, what I could blow to up to distract them etc...Then you have to adjust on the fly. USE THE SUIT CONSTANTLY. Effective use of the nanosuit is 100% required to enjoy Crysis. Line up a headshot, uncloak, fire, cloak within 1 second; it's so satisfying. Use sprint to get out of situations, use cloak with noise to mislead the AI to another location. You can really do whatever you want, once you start really thinking about it. Or just grab a jeep, fly it through a building, throw armor on and shoot like a madman. Don't be afraid to get caught, that's when you can really make use of the suit.

Quick save before an assault (if you're on PC, console version sadly lacks quick/manual save), and experiment. You don't have to worry about this stuff in Crysis 2 because it's so much more linear. NOt to knock it too much, because I really like it, but Crysis is head and shoulders above it's sequel once you start really thinking with the Nanosuit. It's like thinking with portals, but more death.

By the way, I love Crysis, ahaha.

I never feel in control of the situation. Now to preface this, I have never played the original crysis before, but I have played Crysis 2 and I loved it, I played through it 3 times and the 3rd time was on the hardest difficulty. My problem with this game is that the enemies can spot you from so far away and when they see you the immediately go on full alert, and not just getting closer to investigate. There is also no way to take them out while cloaked, and so your forced to uncloak and usually get spotted. I never feel like a bad ass hunting these soldiers, I feel like I'm sloppily getting spotted and shooting them and running away. It's just not that fun for me because I never feel like I'm succceding, I just feel like I'm fumbling my way through.

So does anyone know if I'm just playing the game wrong, how the AI works, or any help on how to actually enjoy this game.

*Also this game is in serious need of a patch, the AI is often simply broken and acts in some really dumb ways.

All I can add and suggest is not to only rely on cloak, but the brush as you can prone in them to hide. Like in PC, the environments are perfectly placed so you can cloak, then when you need to, go prone in a bush somewhere. One of my favorite things about Crysis is that you can sit in a bush just staring at guys like a predator, only to dispatch them soon after quietly. Then later in the game, it's different and you're the prey as the aliens are the predators. The only thing holding you back (somewhat) from playing the way you want, is that no matter what difficulty you play on, you can die kind of quickly. You really have to experiment to find what suits your liking. Oh, and trust me, the A.I. is just as bad from Crysis 1 to 2. I love going prone, it's something that I miss which actually disappointed me to find out it wasn't in two. By the way, take your time, and don't run through the game.

@NTM: I just always feel like that sometimes they seem me when I uncloak behind them they magically seem me and other times they don't. and so it is that bushes block the AIs view. Also to the person who said that I should scout, I usually do in these kinds of game, but in this game I just see the AI glitching out and not activating correctly and so it's very hard to work ha

There is also no way to take them out while cloaked, and so your forced to uncloak and usually get spotted.

I never feel like a bad ass hunting these soldiers, I feel like I'm sloppily getting spotted and shooting them and running away. It's just not that fun for me because I never feel like I'm succceding, I just feel like I'm fumbling my way through.

You have to really scout out situations. Use the binocs constantly, always check your surroundings, tread carefully.

Take for example, the school infiltration. I scouted out the area for 10-15 minutes before taking action. Checked out where all the manned-guns were, all the soldiers, what I could blow to up to distract them etc...Then you have to adjust on the fly. USE THE SUIT CONSTANTLY. Effective use of the nanosuit is 100% required to enjoy Crysis. Line up a headshot, uncloak, fire, cloak within 1 second; it's so satisfying. Use sprint to get out of situations, use cloak with noise to mislead the AI to another location. You can really do whatever you want, once you start really thinking about it. Or just grab a jeep, fly it through a building, throw armor on and shoot like a madman. Don't be afraid to get caught, that's when you can really make use of the suit.

Quick save before an assault (if you're on PC, console version sadly lacks quick/manual save), and experiment. You don't have to worry about this stuff in Crysis 2 because it's so much more linear. NOt to knock it too much, because I really like it, but Crysis is head and shoulders above it's sequel once you start really thinking with the Nanosuit. It's like thinking with portals, but more death.

By the way, I love Crysis, ahaha.

Crysis is much more challenging then Crysis 2 it doesn't hold your hand but I really never found the game to hard the original farcry on the other hand is another story if you want to talk about crazy AI.

This is why this game special, You need to be more tactical on your approach, use the binoculars to access the terrain and mark all the enemies you can find, use grenades on groups and snipe out as many as you can before moving with a rifle or pistol.

And don't forget to silence kill a enemy that is alone, this will avoid activating the alert status of other enemies.

Take your time and the game will award your patience.

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Yup that pissed me off pretty bad that people could spot you from a mile away much earlier before you would even see them.

I found it a little annoying that there were no suit upgrades like it the second one, but I thought this game was great. I'm glad I got the chance to play it. I do hope they make Warhead for the consoles now.