WOW!!! when's the sequel coming out?

User Rating: 9 | Crysis PC
Crysis is one of those games that make you wish you had the most powerful rig in the world.

The appeal of the game really lies everywhere: gameplay, sound, graphics, physics.... everywhere.

The gameplay, although not entirely fresh and innovative, is one of the best you'll experience in a crouded FPS genre. Why? Well, it's a kinda of a mix between Far Cry, Half-life2 and call of duty. Far Cry for the environment (but much prettier, mind you!), half-life for the alien infestation thing and call of duty for the fact that you're not always fighting alone all the time. The fights get really intense on a lot of occasions where you have everything blowing around you with bad guys appearing everywhere! The weapons are awesome and you'll want to try them all. Plus you can customize them at your liking: silencer, laser pointer, scope, ACOG, grenade luncher, torchlight, etc. And you can of course select your firing mode like automatic or single shot. One of the highlights of the game is your armor suit which allows you to cloak, jump higher, run faster... depending on which function you select. Although I found it most useful at times, the fact that the energy depletes quite fast does not make it and essential use most of the time and if you shoot, the cloaking turns automatically off, switching to Armor, which is the setting you'll want to leave it on since it's what absorbs damage and bullets before depleting your health (health and suit energy recharges automatically). All in all, it's a nice addition to the game and let you choose the way you want to do things... stealthily or with a bang! At times you will drive vehicules like tanks, jeeps, boats and even a VTOL!! There's lotsa things to experience in the game and one paragraph is not enough to explain all the fun you can have with that masterpiece of a game!!

The graphics and environments are superb! The most beautiful game I've played so far. I mean you almost feel like you're playing an interactive movie! This comes with a drawback: You'll need a freakin' fast PC to run that. I have an Intel Q6600 quad cpu, 2GB of ram, a Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB video card and, at default High settings (there's low, medium, high and Very High) the framerate was crawling at times. It was still playable and I did not mind too much for the framerate drops. But most noticably, and that really annoyed me, the HDD memory swapping because 2GB of ram is not sufficient!! It's important to say here that I'm running with Windows Vista and it's one of the reasons why. But on rare occasions it would memory swap for like as much as 5 or even 10 seconds. Often, it would stop for 1 or 2 seconds. So if you're planning on upgrading your PC to play this game... have at least 4GB even with XP.

Some may say that to pay 2,000 dollars for a rig just to play games is crazy... then I'm proud to say that I am because this game blows Halo 3 anytime!