I know Crysis has always been about the graphics hype, but a lot of people recently have been saying it's just a "generic shooter" "yawn fest" "on the rails" etc. etc. like it's jut another CoD or Gears clone!!
I personally found it one of the most engaging FPS games of the past decade. Aside from the beautiful graphics, you can actually use physics to kill enemies (shooting down a tree to crush a Korean never gets old). The environments are very open and you can approach your objective in different ways.
It also has the nanosuit. This is genius because you can customise your play style on the fly. You can go from running faster than a jeep, to being a bulllet sponge, to a silent predator, to a tank who punches vehicles out of his way in a few seconds. There's also on the fly weapon modification system which lets you use your Assault rifle as a low powered sniper on the fly, or make your shotgun silenced and with a longer range.
Every playthrough of the game I've done has been subtley different - sometimes I storm a base head on. Sometimes I strap C4 to a Truck and drive through the base then blow the truck up as I get out. Sometimes I swim in and sneak to my objective.
IMO we need more games like Crysis. The plot was shit, but at least the gameplay pushed the boat out there a bit.
So has everyone been playing the game wrong, played a different game to me, or just has no scope for playing the game apart from being a cover based shooter?
I personally found it one of the most engaging FPS games of the past decade. Aside from the beautiful graphics, you can actually use physics to kill enemies (shooting down a tree to crush a Korean never gets old). The environments are very open and you can approach your objective in different ways.
It also has the nanosuit. This is genius because you can customise your play style on the fly. You can go from running faster than a jeep, to being a bulllet sponge, to a silent predator, to a tank who punches vehicles out of his way in a few seconds. There's also on the fly weapon modification system which lets you use your Assault rifle as a low powered sniper on the fly, or make your shotgun silenced and with a longer range.
Every playthrough of the game I've done has been subtley different - sometimes I storm a base head on. Sometimes I strap C4 to a Truck and drive through the base then blow the truck up as I get out. Sometimes I swim in and sneak to my objective.
IMO we need more games like Crysis. The plot was shit, but at least the gameplay pushed the boat out there a bit.
So has everyone been playing the game wrong, played a different game to me, or just has no scope for playing the game apart from being a cover based shooter?
