[Sneaky Snake]

I'm running through Crysis for the 1st time right now in Delta difficulty. I'm currently at the mission were I'm inside the alien mountain and fighting the actual aliens (not the big squid looking machines). Graphics are definately dazzling and the story is decent. There's a bit to much "disable the GPS/thing inside the enemy base/camp. I've probably stormed about 2 dozen bases so far and there all pretty much the same thing. I've heard from various people that the game pulls a Halo 2 at the end. Is it to be expected then that there will be a Crysis 2?

For anyone wondering about the performance of this game it will run at about 19 fps with a resolution of 1920x1200 with all textures on high. If you down them slightly so about half of the textures are medium and the other half is on high (the important half like terrain textures, etc.) your fps will range from 30-70, which is what I'm running it at currently. There is of course brief moments when something new and big suddenly appears and your frame rate will drop to about 5 for a second. All of that graphics info was with my Mac Pro.




-Snake

[jgwdoc]

The ending is set up so that there will certainly be a Crysis 2. Unless in the meantime the aliens win and kill all of us. Or the software company gets bored. I found the game visually entrancing but completely derivative from a gameplay/plot perspective.

[Quicksilver]

It's another Doom 3.

[Sneaky Snake]

jgwdoc, on June 27th 2008, 10:47 AM, said:

I found the game visually entrancing but completely derivative from a gameplay/plot perspective.

If the graphics weren't so good I probably wouldn't be still playing it. The objectives are to similar in every single mission.

[Fourth Horseman]

I agree with the assessment that it's just another FPS, but it had some good moments and I found the combat to be fun. The graphics were amazing, and scaled well to lower-end hardware, too. I'll be looking forward to the sequel.

[teflon]

theres a spin off called something like Crysis: Explosion or something equally inane where you get to play the cockney as he runs around blowing stuff up.
apparently, theyve done a bundle of optimisation to the engine which makes it run better and look gooder.

[AussieMacGamer]

I really like it. It doesnt have to be deep to be good, but there are so many different gameplay situations you can get yourself into, and so many ways to deal with them. Mind you i can only play it on the hardest difficulty, no fun in it otherwise .

[Mr. Selvetarm]

Aussie can you play it on your MBP? If so at what settings and what FPS should I expect? I recently got a $25 giftcard to BestBuy and it's burning a hole in my pocket.

[AussieMacGamer]

Im on a 2nd gen Macbook Pro so you can expect a little better than this but too put it quite simply. Low settings, on an even lower Resoloution I still enjoy it.

[Janichsan]

I played Crysis on an even slower MBP. Shader settings and shadows affect the performance to the greatest extent. When you keep those low, the game remains very playable. Only later in the game, when everything is covered in ice, it's a bit slow.

[Sneaky Snake]

I'm on the last level facing the big flying alien thing. I need to get on the TAC gun or something to kill it. where the hell is that???!?! the archeologist girl and my spec ops bud keep yelling at me to get on it/ use it but I have no idea what or where it is.



-Snake

[Dark_Archon]

Sneaky Snake, on June 27th 2008, 04:00 PM, said:

If the graphics weren't so good I probably wouldn't be still playing it. The objectives are to similar in every single mission.

Meh, good graphics are overrated.

[teflon]

that may well be the case, but occasionally there is a massive generational jump which is way ahead of its time and pushes computers to their limits. Case in point being Crysis, but also possibly Doom 3, which focussed on lighting effects before any other engine to the extent that it had a poor frame rate and pigeon holed the level design to being of small and tight corridors and rooms with low level lighting and stupid cheap attempts at shocking the player.

Crysis on the other hand is another graphical shift, being way ahead of UE3 and anything else when it comes to rendering jungles and vegetation, and also being the first engine truly designed to leverage DX10, whilst UE3 is still DX9. On the downside, the engine is very very intensive, and is nowhere near as flexible or widespread because of this, as even though its being adapted for current consoles, it is, in reality, way too much for them to handle.

I might get the demo again...

[Janichsan]

Sneaky Snake, on July 4th 2008, 07:22 PM, said:

I'm on the last level facing the big flying alien thing. I need to get on the TAC gun or something to kill it. where the hell is that???!?!

It's in the carrier's armoury. But you should have picked it up quite some time before that boss fight...

Dark_Archon, on July 4th 2008, 08:25 PM, said:

Meh, good graphics are overrated.

For sure. I actually regretted buying Crysis for steep 55 €. The story is so dumb and unimaginative and the AI acts pretty brain dead. It's really mainly a graphic demo.

[Dark_Archon]

I mean don't get me wrong, I like good graphics, but they are more of a bonus than a selling point.

[Mr. Selvetarm]

SO is it worth the $40 USD to buy it? And what type of FPS do you get? As long as I get 20+FPS I''ll be happy even as long as the game is all its cracked up to be. On a sadder note my mouse just died so I have to use my PC's clunker.

[teflon]

try the demo? see how it runs.

[Mr. Selvetarm]

I've tried downloading the demo like 5 times, but Windows cuts off Wifi when it goes to sleep so I can't get the demo without staying at my computer for 3 1/2 hours while it downloads. Mac doesn't have this problem so I am going to reboot in a couple of minutes and download it in Leopard and shove it on my flashdrive.

[Sneaky Snake]

Janichsan, on July 4th 2008, 04:34 PM, said:

It's in the carrier's armoury. But you should have picked it up quite some time before that boss fight...

I didn't pick it up and now the door is full of random junk so i can't get back inside the carrier, you can beat the walker thing without the TAC gun. looks like I'll have to load an old saved game.


and to Mr. Selvetarm:
Crysis probably isn't worth the $50. (I'm borrowing it from a friend so I didn't have the misfortune of wasting money that could've been spent on another game

Pros:
1. amazing graphics and sound
2. incredibly fun combat (if you make it that way)
- using cloak makes combat way to easy, the combat will only be awesome fun if you utilize maximum strength and speed. If you just sit back and pick guys off from
cover it isn't really any different then any other FPS


Cons:
1. Story line sucks
2. Missions are way to repetative
-For the 1st bunch of missions all of your objectives are very similar, it kills the experience and even the nanosuit powers combat stuff can't revive it
3. Enemy AI sucks, in any difficulty level

[Mr. Selvetarm]

Too late. Well almost. I have the unopened game sitting next to me on my desk as I type. I'm going to play through the demo too see if I can get an acceptable frame rate at a detail level I like, and then see if I actually like the game. I can return it for a full refund if the demo doesn't meet my expectations. Demos are great things are they not?

EDIT: Okay I have the demo running at 30FPS with everything on Medium or high except for shadows and shaders which are on low. I'm in my native resoulion of 1440 by 900. THe game is all right but the demo just seems like its the same objectives over and over. Is it like this the entire game? Or do you moce on to different environments and so on? If I'm in the jungle killing Koreans for the entire game it's not worth $40.