Crysis
Jon’s Final Review: I love this game. The best feature about it is that you decide how you want to attack an enemy stronghold or patrol. What I mean is when coming up on an enemy controlled roadblock, you decide if you want to stealth kill them, go in guns blazing or try to avoid them altogether. Personally, most of the time I went in guns blazing cause that’s how I am but sometimes I found it in my better interest to sneak around a roadblock.
The descision making also occurs on how you are going to get to your waypoint. Do I take the indirect route along the beach with less patrols or do I follow the roads and possible run into road blocks. The game doesn’t have complete openess as it trys to force you going some ways by putting cliffs and mountains in your way that you can not get around.
I prefer to play games mostly for their story. The story in Crysis revolves around a team of US Delta Force Operators infiltrating a North Korean controlled island in the South China Sea. The Delta Force Operators use special Nano suites which can increase their strength, speed, armor and even cloak. These features are very cool and add as an extra feature than other first person shooters. The story eventually turns into more Science Fiction when Aliens arrive. A cool part about that is when you fight the aliens in Zero G.
The graphics for Crysis are amazing except it takes a beast of a computer in order to play it. My former computer could not run it but my latest Gateway can with a Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT and 3GB of Ram. The audio quality is pretty good and the sync of the voice to the actors is pretty good as well. The physics in the game are excellent as well. Take a machine gun to a tree and the tree falls over where you shot it. You can also blow up a post holding up a roof and the roof will fall down toward the missing post.
Conclusion: If your computer can handle it then I highly suggest getting this game. The graphics are amazing and the story is engaging. I’ve recently just bought the “parallel” story called Crysis: Warhead and I am looking forward to playing it. Crysis 2 has been announced and I am looking forward to getting that as soon as it comes out and to continue the story.
Information Below Provided by EBGames.com
Publisher: Electronics Arts
Developer: Crytek Studios
Platform: PC
Category: Action, Shooter
Rating: Mature 17+; Blood, Strong Language, Violence
The Story: Earth, 2019. A team of US scientists makes a frightening discovery on an island in the South China Sea. All contact with the team is lost when the North Korean Government quickly seals off the area. The United States responds by dispatching an elite team of Delta Force Operators to recon the situation. As tension rises between the two nations, a massive alien ship reveals itself in the middle of the island. The ship generates an immense force sphere that freezes a vast portion of the island and drastically alters the global weather system. Now the US and North Korea must join forces to battle the alien menace. With hope rapidly fading, you must fight epic battles through tropical jungle, frozen landscapes, and finally into the heart of the alien ship itself for the ultimate Zero G showdown.
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Minimum Specifications:
Disk Drive: 8x or faster DVD Drive
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c/10 compatible
Hard Drive Space: 12.0 GB or more free space
Operating System: Windows XP with SP2 or Windows Vista
Processor: Intel P4 2.8 GHz or faster (3.2 GHz for Vista) / AMD Athlon 2800+ or faster (3200+ for Vista) / Intel Core 2.0 GHz or faster (2.2 GHz for Vista)
RAM: 1GB or more (1.5 GB for Vista)
Video Card: Video adapter must have 256 MB or more memory and one of the following chipsets: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (ATI X800 Pro 256 MB for Vista); NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256 MB or greater Multiplayer requires 1 disc per PC and a broadband Internet connection.
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