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| Crysis | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $29.95
You Save: $10.04 (25%)
New (33) Used (8) from $22.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  175 reviews
Sales Rank: 657
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15266
Model: Crysis
UPC: 014633152661
EAN: 0014633152661
ASIN: B000PS2XDO
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New, Sealed
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| Customer Reviews:
 Issues asside it's still a benchmark December 2, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have not completed this one yet. I'm taking my time with it because I am tryint to take in every rich detail this game has to offer.
Many might dissagree with me about this, but here is what I think (so far).
This is by far the best looking FPS I have ever seen or played. It will never, or course beat games like wolf3d and doom/doom2. Still, with the help of good hardware it looks incredible. You DO need a monster machine to be able to get the best from this. My motherboard is a 6000 pci express, my graphics card is the very latest Radeon to hit the market. I have 6 gigs of the very latest ram and some other bells and whistles. This game still won't run completely silkily with everything maxed out, but this is simply because it was engineered to beat the very latest tech to hit the market. I have so much fun trashing buildings or throwing objects into things; or merely looking at the environment. I won't give it away, you have to experience it.
Hopefully they will release patches soon to assist with the many technical glitches causing system crashes etc.
Just my thoughts.
 Ahead of its time but... December 2, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Crysis (technically) is a visionary game and I'm sure when everyone catches up with the technical requirements in about 3-4 years history will judge it more leniently. For now, to publish a game that plays like garbage on what are considered (even now) to be good PCS shows a hubris that deserves criticism.
You have to cater to your audience and dangling awesome graphics in front of the buying public as a selling point is just plain dishonest when you know that very few will be able to realize them.
In point of fact you are selling a demo as the real thing.
 I'll stick with FarCry December 2, 2007
13 out of 24 found this review helpful
When you do something right, and then later do something wrong, it demands comparison, and requires criticism.
I love FarCry. It was for me near FPS perfection. For many, it had it's weaknesses, but I have played it through sooo many times, maybe too many. I definitely got my money's worth. Many of us love the FPS "duke nukem" style one against the impossible to beat invasion by "whatever" scenario.
So with such a challenging success in Far Cry, we were really looking forward to Crysis, but with this new one Crytek falls down hard. The big picture planning (plot) was great, but the top dogs should have followed through with the details. Minor examples: all of the voiced parts were weak; the video glitches were extreme; play style was inconsistent and too variable, and the end of the game is downright boooooooring. You finish with a "who cares" attitude.
The download-demo makes you think your getting FarCry "plus". Yea!!! But then with the one you pay for, the plot goes goofy and somebody begins to make this thing into their very poorly scripted "video project". With FarCry you have control over the action; with Crysis you're manipulated at the most inopportune times and to the nth degree and therefore feel depressingly bored. About two thirds of the way through I stopped liking what I was doing, and began feeling like I was playing something by/for girlie-men. So I guess subjectively, the last half of Crysis seemed pointless; in fact, objectively this phase is a huge step ... backward in time ... it reminded me of those old quarter eating "tetris?" video machine games we played in bars in the 70's, now it's just in 3d.
Oh and for you parents who are "real" parents, be warned: The language wasn't feminine: it is ridiculously foul and pointlessly so ... don't even think of allowing your teen to play this with the sound on.
So disappointing! After the first half, it was a huge waste of my time and I'm sure it will be - of your money too. So come-on Crytek, get your act together!
vista schmista ! December 1, 2007
9 out of 20 found this review helpful
try and get this game to work in Vista, I dare you.
with 3gb memory, an 8800 GTS video card, and the game looks like Quake back in 1995... what the hell is going on ??? No patch, no support, no help.. go to hell if you think I'm recommending this turd to my friends. PUARFS!
 BF2 + 1 December 1, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is more like BF2 than Far Cry.
It's a lot less buggy than BF2 when it first came out.
The multiplayer is almost a copy of BF2.
I am writing this from observing my sons play.
They seem to enjoy it.
It plays fine on three year old PCs, no need to get latest hardware,
my PCs with X800XT, X850XT, 7900GS cards all play fine.
WinXP and Vista about the same, no problem on either.
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