An awesome achievement in both graphics and gameplay.
Crysis is the new game from Crytek, which Far Cry for the PC about four years ago. Crysis has a few similar game play elements to it, but a lot of the game play is different from that in Far Cry. This time, not a lot of the game is focused around you playing stealth like. There are a few scenes where you may need to sneak around in the bushes, But it is more of using the powers of your muscle suit. Your muscle suit gives you a bunch of powers that you use to take down your enemies. The powers are strength, which gives you the power to pick up and through things really far, jump really high, and add power to your punches. Another power speed give you the ability to run really fast. One cool power cloak, makes you invisible for a while so you can sneak past enemy forces. The last power maximum armor makes you a lot stronger you will last longer in a fight.
You use these powers in different strategies to help take down your enemies.
The story in Crysis is that these scientist make a discovery on an island located some where in the Philippines. The North Koreans move a large military force over and capture the island. You, part of a USA special force team is sent over to try and save the scientist. You soon figure out what is on the island. a bunch of aliens that are just waking up from a long nap.
A bunch of weird things start to happen, and you and your squad have to try and survive.
For the first part in Crysis, you are fighting a bunch of North Korean soldiers. The North Korean soldiers are really smart, and will work in teams, call in reinforcements, and call over more soldiers if you kill one soldier or if they see you. They will also follow you around and watch you if you make a noise of if they see you while you are in cloak. for the last part of the game, you are fighting these aliens that have the ability to freeze things. The aliens are not as smart as the North Koreans, but they are much harder to kill, because they have more armor and they move alot faster than the North Koreans. There are a bunch of different types of aliens, such as the little ones on the ground, or the big ones that fly over head and drop reinforcements on the ground or shoot at you. The enemy A.I. in Crysis is some of the best A.I. in any video game to date.
The guns is Crysis are pretty good. There is a standard pistole which you can dual wield. An assault rifle, and Ak 47, a sub machine gun, a shot gun, a sniper rifle, and gun that fires out these lasers, and rocket launcher, an alien ice gun, and a grenade launcher which is used to take out a giant enemy at the end of the game. The guns are cool, but what makes them better is the ability to customize them. You can and scopes, silencers, flash lights, and a bunch of other things that make you gun good against all types of enemies.
The graphics in Crysis are the greatest looking graphics I have ever seen.
environments and every feature, like the trees look realistic, it seems that you can reach out and touch rocks and trees in the environment because the look so real. The people look realistic, you can see wrinkles and other features on their faces. The vehicles and guns look realistic. When things blow up, parts just shoote every where. Everything just looks so good.
The special effects in Crysis are amazing. When you shoot a tree, it falls down, and if you or an enemy is in the way, then you or he will be crushed. When things explode in Crysis, fragments and particles shoot every where. Crysis has some of the best special effects ever. There is so much going on at screen at once, with trees falling, enemies moving around, bullets wizzing evey where, vehicles driving, and then smashing and blowing up and fragments flying every where. The frame rate never gives in.
The sound in Crysis is amazing. You hear guys yelling out things at their fellow comrades, and you hear trees fall, and the sound of you creeping around in bushes sounds good. When things explode, or artillery is dropped, you hear it blow up all around you. Every thing in Crysis sounds so realistic that you will forget that it is just a video game.
The multi player in Crysis is your standard multiplayer game with a few twists. You only have two multi player modes but those modes are so much fun that they will keep you playing for a long time. There is your standard death match which is really fun, and a mode called power struggle. Power struggle is kind of like shares characteristics of Battle field and Counter Strike. the object of the game is to capture alien technology, which is like battle field. You have the ability to buy weapons,and upgrade your weapons, like in Counter Strike. The multi player in Crysis wont compare to other games such as Team Fortress 2, but there is still some fun to be had.
One thing about Crysis is that it leaves of at a cliff hanger which is awesome because there will be another Crysis, and I thought that I heard some thing from the president of Crytek that Crysis is a trilogy, so I can not wait until Crysis 2 comes out.
If you even just kind of like first person shooters, then you should at least give Crysis a try. If you love first person, then Crysis is a must buy. It will be one of the greatest experiences you will every have!