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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  110 reviews
Sales Rank: 646
Platform: Windows Xp
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930052645
ASIN: B000FN5ETO
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new and sealed
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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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 pretty but flawed November 14, 2008
I was really looking forward to playing Crysis but untimately disapointed. The game looks good but only as good as FAR CRY and no where near as good as COD 4. The enemy are not at all realistic and appear to be bullet proof. When trying to line up on them they perform a sort of side stepping dance routine moving backwards and forwards, which no human could match, whilst returning fire. Sometimes they stand still and aim up into the sky right in front of you. Not sure why. I once put a whole mag into a guy stood in front of me with no effect. When you press crouch there is no transition from standing, the screen simply drops in an instant. The general game play is poor and reminds me of games like Red Faction. Which was good in its day but now feels dated.
 Forget Benchmarks, enjoy the game! November 4, 2008
This game can be as graphically demanding as you want it to be. It has made a quantum leap in terms of aesthetics for a game and near completely destructive/interactive environments.
A lot has been made of the island levels, but the scale of this game in undeniable, it is a long journey into the depths of this island and there are no short cuts getting back either.
Buy it now, enjoy it now, and if you get a better PC in the future play it all over again. I've played it with an ATI x1950 on med settings, a HD3850 on high settings and in time I will play it again on Very High settings...
If you struggled with the controls, get an Xbox360 controller(for Windows), its already configured for the game, so just plug into your usb port and you've got the best of console gaming(easy controls) and the best PC games have to offer(amazing graphics).
Probably the 2nd best game ever! October 26, 2008
I have probably overlooked this game previously as the cover was a bit 'monsterish', so I presumed, wrongly, that it was a monster based game rather than human and realistic.
I was very wrong. The game is 90% action and the graphics and FPS are accurate, realistic and absolute attention to detail has been made. At the end of each level I was thinking, right that's the end, and then another scene would start...an amazing legthy game, unlike COD and MOH which only last a few hours.
This game had everything a fps should have.
Don't be put off the beginning where you realise that you have to select a certain suit-type (strong/invisible etc) and gun type, you get used to it very quickly and easily.
An absolute MUST of a game. You won't be disappointed. Honest!
You may be wondering from my review title, what my 1st choice of best game is? Well it has to be the very first Medal of Honour...I still love it. Oh, and Far Cry is amazing too!
Faultless October 2, 2008
First things first, my rig:
OS - Win XP
GFX - XFX Nvidia 9600 GT Alpha Dog Edition (740mhz core)
RAM - 3GB
PRO - Intel E4600 Dual Core 2 (2.4mhz)
The aforementioned game runs (95% of the time) smoothly on HIGH settings with the above specs. For those people worried about cost to upgrade your GFX card I would highly recommed the XFX Alpha Dog - reason?...90 at PC World. My processor is now on sale for 50 - 70 at Amazon also.
The detail in EVERYTHING around you has never been seen before in videogame history. Every blade of grass, cracks in cliff faces, AI 'belongings' within buildings and huts. Wind - water - fire and explosions.Its all there in great detail.
The game itself is outstanding. Sharp AI that 'hunt' you in the jungle or 'hide' if you've taken-out a number of their comrades. As mentioned in a previous review 'Delta' is a suitable difficulty setting from the off (it doesn't get rediculously hard but does really challenge you).
The weapons are varied and the 'Nano-suit' adds another dimension to the combat. The game has it's fair share of well designed set pieces whether it's securing areas ready for your buddies to be deployed at by air or fighting your way through the aliens craft in zero-gravity (and no, its not cheesey).
If you want a special FPS - this is the only game to purchase. You will not be disappointed.
great graphics, enthralling story September 26, 2008
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so I thought id post my comments to try and counteract some of the more negative reviews.
firstly, performance, when I origonally bought this game I was using a 6800gt graphics card and a similarly old system (amd 3200, 1gb ram) and I had heard the horror stories so I ramped everything down on low, first thing to note, low on this game puts many many games high settings to shame, it just becomes 1 of the pack, nothing special, but not bad.
feeling brave I then increased all settings to medium, again this ran just fine. Finally my settings became a mixture of High and medium settings, this is on a machine that is now nearly 4 years old! This ran the game from start to finish, the fps at its worst was around the 20 mark, so playable (everyone has their own opinion on whats playable to them, so thats why I posted the actual low fps figure, most of the time it sat around the 40fps mark).
recently I upgraded my graphics card to an 8800GTS which now makes mincemeat of all DX9 options ( I run in xp) even with my low ram and cpu. fps never seems to drop below 40 with all settings on high.
next gameplay, this game is made by the same people who made far cry, and they have made a similar game, the 1st part of the game is very open plan/tactical based. The 2nd part is fighting crazy aliens. Right here and now ill say if you didn't like far cry, you wont like this!
the suit adds a new aspect to the game, unfortunatly I felt it made sections of the game too easy, ie shoot someone, hide recharge, cloak, move position shoot someone else rince and repeat. However it did mean you could change tactics to add a new level of intrest to a section if you are finding it boring, maybe stealthing in, grabbing someone and hurling them at some one else, before speeding away to cover. This is 1 of the elements that makes this sufficiently different to alot of generic shooters out there.
I see alot of people comparing it to cod4 and unreal tournament and things, this is quite ridiculus, id 1st like to say I own both cod4 and UT3, love them both to bits, but the experience is so completely different to crysis. crysis is all about finding the best way to tactically attack a target, be it a base, or a blockade or whatever
UT3 is of course just a high pased fragging game and cod4 is extremely linear. If you want a run and gun game, this aint it (although you can do that on lower difficulty settings if you so wish) but if you are going round on the hardest difficulty everything becomes much more tactical, you loose your crosshair (having to rely on actually 'aiming' your gun) and can take very few bullets
my 1 disapointment with the game was multiplayer, I cant put my finger on why, but it was just very mediocre, whenever I reinstall this game its for the single player!
overall, this is 1 of the very few games single player I have enjoyed going through a few times now, and 1 of the favoite games I own, up there next to cod4, UT3, Far cry, and the half lifes (1+2+expansions)
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