Crysis is a video game that was created in 2007. For a 3 year old game, Crysis demands a nuclear powered computer in order to play. Only a few days ago I decided to finally play Crysis. It’s one of those games that I will have to play sometime in my life just to see what all the hype is about. Like Harry Potter for instance, you know its shit, but you still have to watch it. One day you just might have a big business deal and the guy goes like “Hey Harry Potter is soo kewl, he abacadabra’ed Lord Voldermont and killed him! Did you watch it?”. It would come in handy if you watched it, instead of saying “Who and what the fuck is a Harry Potter?”.
The game started off really good. You’re in the jungle and killing some English speaking Koreans. The graphics are insane. I don’t have the best computer in the world anymore but it’s still a beast. My computer spec:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83Ghz
RAM: 8GB Kingston HyperX 1066Mhz
Graphics Card: Ati Radeon HD5850
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
With that computer spec I could run Crysis with the highest setting without anti aliasing but I preferred to run it on all high setting instead, that way I could get at least 45 FPS. Enough tech talk. Back to the game.
As you progress through the game, you kill all the Koreans and that’s when the game gets really boring and stupid. After you kill the Korean Colonel you some how end up in the aliens mother ship. This is when I start feeling like Will Smith in Independence Day. The game gets really fucking boring from here on, the alien bugs start appearing and so does the game bugs.
What pissed me off most was this one level when you have to defend your team mate called Prophet. I had to reload that level 200 times. When you kill an alien in that level its supposed to die then explode. Because of a bug, sometimes the aliens don’t explode even when they are dead. So I had to safe after each alien exploded or reload if it bugged.
Crysis is the most resource hungry game I have ever played, and buggiest too. To me the graphics are just “ok”. It’s such a resource whore because of the intense lightings in the game. I played Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare 1 and Modern Warfare 2 and that game had awesome graphics too and not a goddamn glitch whatsoever.
I quit playing the game when I reached the super carrier and there’s a huge alien bug to kill. I quit because the game keeps crashing on me. After Googling for a bit, I found out that it was also the final level. I’m too lazy to search for fixes. It’s not worth my time. As it is, I was trying to rush through the last hour or 2 of the game.
My last thoughts on Crysis:
It sucks. I don’t know how people can say its a good game. I enjoyed the first 1 hour of the game when the fighting was against humans in the jungle. Shooting and killing in the game is too fake and almost laughable. Crysis was commended for its “life like” graphics and such. Maybe they should have tried to make the death more life like. For example the “pink mist” instead when you kill a person it looks like he spilled a can of red paint. Considering Crysis is a “destructible environment” game, meaning you can shoot down trees and blow up huts and vehicles. But I was not impressed when I couldn’t shoot at corpses.
With all the hype that Crysis got I thought it was going to be an awesome game. Actually it was, until the bugs appeared.
Note: I have since installed Crysis Warhead. Warhead was created on an improved CryEngine 2. I am able to run my settings on Enthusiast (highest maximum settings) and average about 35 FPS without anti aliasing. The original CryEngine 2 powered Crysis 1. So I guess they rushed the first game without optimizing the engine resulting in bugs.
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