Short and uninspired cash cow, but it looks pretty.

User Rating: 5 | Crysis 3 PC
The title says it all really. I don't know if developers these days think that console users have very short attention spans or that they just don't have the funding needed to produce a fully fleshed out game, but as they get shorter the price gets higher and your bang for the buck gets lower. PC gamers have been used to some superb games over the years that took many hours to complete and left that warm, satisfied feeling when the final credits rolled. Modern games by comparison are over in a flash and leave the player unsatisfied at best and feeling ripped off at worst, but they do look pretty.

I am fortunate enough to have a very high end gaming rig and am able to crank up the visuals to ultra on any game out there so how does Crysis 3 measure up? Pretty good actually but here's the thing, Skyrim on ultra high settings looks better and is a much larger game because of it's open world design. Crysis 3 is quite linear and leads you by the hand from one objective to the next so instead of a fully realised and immersive story you feel as though you are just being plopped down in a series of seperate missions with very little that joins them together.

As with other modern games Crysis 3 uses quick-time events for the boss fights, which as a PC gamer annoys the life out of me, but credit to the devs as these have been scaled back from the levels seen in Crysis 2 and do not impact the gameplay too much ( although I still look forward to the day when consoles die an agonising death ).

All in all Crysis 3 isn't worth the purchase price as it will end up on the 'done that' shelf all too quickly. Wait for it to descend into the bargain bin.