Customer Reviews
pretty but flawed - By: Mr. J. R. W. Curl, 14 Nov 2008 
I was really looking forward to playing Crysis but untimately disapointed. The game looks good but only as good as FAR CRY & no where near as good as COD 4. The enemy are not at all realistic & appear to be bullet proof. When trying to line up on them they perform a sort of side stepping dance routine moving backwards & forwards, which no human could match, whilst returning fire. Sometimes they stand still & aim up into the sky rightin front of you. Not sure why. I once put a whole mag into a guy stoodin front of me with no effect. When you press crouch there is no transition from standing, the screen simply dropsin an instant. The general game play is poor & reminds me of games like Red Faction. Which was goodin its day but now feels dated.
Forget Benchmarks, enjoy the game! - By: James Schlesinger, 04 Nov 2008 
This game can be as graphically demanding as you want it to be. It has made a quantum leapin terms of aesthetics for a game & near completely destructive/interactive environments.
A lot has been made of the island levels, but the scale of this gamein undeniable, it is a long journey into the depths of this island & there are no short cuts getting back either.
Buy it now, enjoy it now, & if you get a better PCin the future play it all over again. I've played it with an ATI x1950 on med settings, a HD3850 on high settings &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 & you've got the best of console gaming(easy controls) & the best PC games have to offer(amazing graphics).
Probably the 2nd best game ever! - By: A. bond, 26 Oct 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 & realistic.
I was very wrong. The game is 90% action & the graphics & FPS are accurate, realistic & absolute attention to detail has been made. At the end of each level I was thinking, right that's the end, & then another scene would start...an amazing legthy game, unlike COD & 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) & gun type, you get used to it very quickly & 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, & Far Cry is amazing too!
Faultless - By: Dela2097, 02 Oct 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 detailin EVERYTHING around you has never been seen beforein videogame history. Every blade of grass, cracksin cliff faces, AI 'belongings' within buildings & huts. Wind - water - fire & explosions.Its all therein great detail.
The game itself is outstanding. Sharp AI that 'hunt' youin the jungle or 'hide' if you've taken-out a number of their comrades. As mentionedin 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 & 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 craftin 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 - By: Richard D. Bentley, 26 Sep 2008 so I thought id post my comments to try & counteract some of the more negative reviews.
firstly, performance, when I origonally bought this game I was using a 6800gt graphics card & a similarly old system (amd 3200, 1gb ram) & 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 & 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 runin xp) even with my low ram & 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, & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & unreal tournament & things, this is quite ridiculus, id 1st like to say I own both cod4 & 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 & cod4 is extremely linear. If you want a run & 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) & 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, & 1 of the favoite games I own, up there next to cod4, UT3, Far cry, & the half lifes (1+2+expansions)
