Crysis

Graphics:
- Graphically, this game is a stunner, in both DX 10 mode or DX 9 the visual experience is just jaw dropping. The lighting effects are spot on and the atmosphere in some areas are downright saturating.


Audio:
- Audio-wise will offer what is expected, you can hear the leaves rustle past you as you walk brush past them. Vehicles driving by, even the clinking of brass hitting the tarmac is a nice touch.


Gameplay:
**Singleplayer:
- Two major complaints length , and fluidity. COD 4 was bashed for being short, but the story moved smoothly, and with a foreseeable purpose. In Crysis you play along, and the game suddenly ends, and I found myself asking where did the rest of it go? It one of those games once you really get knee deep into it, the game just stops and leaves you wanting much more.

- The weapons are a nice touch, my favorite being the SMG, but you can attach upgrades unto your weapons, and you get your hands on some really nice gear. Unfortunately, you only get a taste, and you do not really get to use them as much, or in most cases you don't get enough ammo to really get a good handle on the weapon or tool available.

- The combat is sporadic, and most of the time offer different approaches to attack, or defend. The AI could be a little more intelligent and not so scripted, you will find enemies through replays in almost in the exact same area, pretty much doing the exact same thing. The enemies rarely massed their fire on me, and other than a few instances the enemy rarely used grenades effectively.

- The suit, which is the mainstay of the game will come into alot of use, for either running from point a to b, sneaking around, snatching the enemy and tossing them like toys. The suit which may be powerful, the power is fleeting - you have to constantly ascertain whether you have enough enough power to preform a particular maneuver or tactic.


** Multiplayer:
- The multiplayer is a nice touch if it wasn't so poorly policed. Thus far most of the games I have joined in progress had some sort of blatant cheating. Noting in the game your character does not have some sort of free floating hover function, or the ability warp from one end of the map to the other in less than a second.

- The downside is the cheat protection is just not working, most of the admins aren't policing enough. Thus far I have not found a server where someone was not trying to cheat in some form.

- In small matches you will run into the same issues that plague BF2, and that is if you have about 12 or less players the level of action is greatly diminished do to the map size, where as BF2's map do adjust, Crysis does not.


Technical Aspects:
- If your PC isn't up to snuff Crysis will kill your PC, if your PC is up to snuff your PC at this point in time that this review was typed up will probably still die with max resolution enabled with all the bells and whistles. If you do have them up to max you aren't going to get steady framerates past 50 frame per second.

- The games physics are pretty nice, and seemingly broken in others. You can destroy most buildings, and really make some Greenpeace activist cry with how you can fell a jungle.

- This game is entertaining, and has its good aspects, but it does not exactly excel at multiplayer, and its single player just too abruptly ends, and feels short. This game if anything is the baseline technical demo of what PC Games should strive to be graphically.