Crysis What is it Good For?
Crysis, what is there to say about it. It is a technical achievement, amazing graphics, especially on DirectX10. Although DirectX10 has proven to be not as efficient as it was made out to be. And sadly, although the game has a great storyline, up to a certain point which will be addressed later. It falls short, it has potential and fails to meet it. It has a lot of great ideas, but in my opinion it was not implemented well. Maybe if they polished the graphics engine (Crytek 2.0) and put a solid storyline, instead of B-Rated action movies it would've or could've been so much more.
Then we come to the other half of the story line, Aliens. Yes, Aliens, as if they have not plagued our hopes and dreams in movies such as Independence Day, Aliens, etc... Now we have to be forced through this, not only that, but movies that were once great, Indiana Jones, are plagued by this necessity to have some sort of sci-fi element. Crysis, has taken a page from the Farcry book, make some sort of weird creatures/aliens appear later in the game. Why? Why do you need to do this? It is so cliched right now, that everybody will hate it. Not only that, but once you reach the cold-levels of the game, the frames per second, completely crumble, even if you have the best computer in the world.
On the other hand we have multiplayer. Sure you would think, this will add a lot of extended gameplay. What one might fail to realize is that the game has many bugs/glitches and graphical slow downs in multiplayer that either make everyone lag or hard to play with. If you do manage to get a good game, the system is usually broken. You start off with minimal points everytime you join a server, and you are restricted to a few weapons, the latter of the weapons are hard to get since you already need to be good at FPS's. It is a pity, because multiplayer could of really extended the gameplay you get out of Crysis, but instead falls short of broken gameplay, and laggy servers.
Crysis, what could've been so much more, has fallen short. I give this game 3.5/5 stars - mainly due to the beautiful graphics, and some of the thrilling action you get to see/do during the earlier part of the game.
