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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:
 Finest graphics, film-like immersion, adrenaline pouring FPS October 17, 2008
Crysis is from the makers of FarCry. It uses a very similar engine, island design and science-fiction type atmosphere to produce what has to be one of the top edge-of-your-seat frenzied blasters ever. You play platoon member Nomad who wears a special Nano suit that gives him extraordinary powers such as maximum armour, strength and speed that allow him to behave in superhuman ways as he is sent to a mysterious island to find out why the local militia has started a hotbed of fighting over something unexplained from another dimension. Cue lots of mowing down trees with high calibre rifles to floating around inside extraterrestrial spacecraft trying to pick off shark-like aliens.
Crysis is a two part FPS starting off with island village raids, developing into full scale war maps to eventually become a science-fiction deep space boss beating battler. While it may start off a bit slow as the story progresses (and your guns get bigger) it takes some interesting turns and the graphics and virtually film-like in places. The design inside of the alien ship has to be best level design for any game, ever. In fact like FarCry it is the island and the spaceship that are the stars.
While Crysis is simply a must have for any FPS fan, especially those who enjoyed FarCry, it does have some failings. The first is that the graphics are so overkill even on a high-end machine with the latest tech you will not be able to run some parts on anything more than medium settings, especially the cut scenes and the end boss battle. Even on a quad-core with an 8800 card only SLI will stand a chance at greater than medium settings for certain parts. So quite simply many people will not be able to play Crysis and no one has played it on the very highest settings because those PCs are not on the market. The other failing is that for some reason the first quarter of the game is quite boring as you just seem to be raiding village after village doing the same stuff over and over again. It takes a few levels, maybe 4, before Crysis actually kicks in.
All in all this is a well made FPS game with lots of new ideas, many features to come to terms with and replay value. FPS lovers shouldn't hold back on trying to play Crysis, the question is if the world was really ready for it but when it will be Crysis will go down as a game that showed that there are no limits to how the FPS can evolve.
Pros:
Graphics
The island
The alien ship
Guns and Nano suit
Cons:
High spec requirements are beyond even the best of PCs
Boring 1st quarter
AI underperformance at times
Good, Almost Great Game October 14, 2008
Good game, you are immersed in game play almost immediately, stunning graphics, good story line. This is a very fun game to play!
Now for the bad news...you have to have a pretty high end computer to play this game.
My system: Intel Core 2 Quad Processor, 4 Gig of Sdram, 768MB Nividia GeForce 9600GS Graphics Card, and a TB of hard disk...I still had problems in two areas of the game ( this was towards the end of the game while battling the aliens...against the N. Koreans no problems with highest graphic setting )
If not for those problems I would have given this Game 5 stars. These game designers need to learn how to give us cutting age games on systems that won't break the bank !!!!!
Anyway, if you can get this game to run on your system, you will really enjoy this game!!!!!
 Crysis needs help October 11, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I perchest two Crysis games for me and my son one for my Dell Inspiron 9100 with a Pemtium 4 CPU 3.00 GHZ ,1 GB of ram and 256 MB AGI graphic card and the other one for a Alienware Area 51 M9750 with Core 2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33 GHZ, 4 GB of ram and 2 Nvidia Gefore Go 7950 GTX SLI 512 MB each that's 1GB of Vidio. Crysis will play on the Dell fairly good but on the Alienware it freezes all the time the colors are off the sound is off the graphics are blocky impossible to play. I down loaded all the up dates for this game no help so you can see the game only works on low end computers what's up with that? John
 Don't Buy it, SecuRom DRM infected September 27, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game looks nice but is infected with SecuRom to the point it cause my DVD drive to knock badly. I did a net search and I am not alone with this issue. EA games does not care, they already got my cash.
Get STALKER 1 & 2 patch them (They are buggy without the patches) and they are way better anyway.
Not bad at all! September 23, 2008
I waited a long time to get this one because my computer was old, but when I recently got a new one I was amazed at how well this supposedly system hog of a game handled on a good machine. Of course, I can imagine it wouldn't be great on a mid-level machine, but it does state the system requirements on the box and handles a whole lot better than I expected. As a game, this is a pretty good experience. to the best overall, it's no Orange Box, but hot DOG is it fun! Pretty intese fps, if you like the genre it's worth a shot.
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