Crysis

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Crysis From Electronic Arts List Price: $29.99 Price: $19.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Ships from and sold by BLS Mart 39 new or used available from $8.98 Average customer review:

Product Description

Crysis PC DVD

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1054 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-11-13
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .50" h x 5.25" w x 4.25" l, 2.00 pounds

Features

• An epic story thrusts players into an ever-changing environment, forcing them to adapt their tactics and approach to conquer battlefields ranging from newly frozen jungle to zero-gravity alien environments
• The high-tech nano-suit augments your abilities on the battlefield in real time - Enhance their speed, strength, armor and cloaking abilities to approach situations in creative tactical ways
• Blow the opposition away with experimental weapons like the TAC launcher, discover alien technology and utlise custom ammunition from incendiary-tipped rounds to tactical munitions that can silently put foes to sleep
• Lifelike enemy AI challenges players -- assess a situation and approach it strategically, to be proactive & not reactive in the fight
• Battle a horrifying alien species in a true Zero-gravity environment, as players adapt to moving in Zero-G, contending with the recoil from their weapons and more

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Editorial Reviews

From the Manufacturer From the makers of Far Cry, Crysis offers FPS fans the best-looking, most highly-evolving gameplay, requiring the player to use adaptive tactics and total customization of weapons and armor to survive in dynamic, hostile environments including Zero-G. Earth, 2019. A team of US scientists makes a frightening discovery on an island in the South China Sea. All contact with the team is lost when the North Korean Government quickly seals off the area. The United States responds by dispatching an elite team of Delta Force Operators to recon the situation. As tension rises between the two nations, a massive alien ship reveals itself in the middle of the island. The ship generates an immense force sphere that freezes a vast portion of the island and drastically alters the global weather system. Now the US and North Korea must join forces to battle the alien menace. With hope rapidly fading, you must fight epic battles through tropical jungle, frozen landscapes, and finally into the heart of the alien ship itself for the ultimate Zero G showdown. FEATURES

• A unique three-act structure forces the player to use real-time armor and weapons customization to adapt constantly to an ever-changing world.
• Encounter a frightening and totally original alien species—they use their senses intelligently and work together to present the most challenging enemy yet in an FPS.
• Control of a variety of land, sea, and air vehicles including trucks, tanks, boats, and helicopters.
• Explore a living, dynamic world where earthquakes, breaking ice, landslides, and tornados pose an ever-present threat.
• 32-player multiplayer with real-time armor and weapons customization, plus an all-new multiplayer mode that combines player modification and tactical objectives.
• Emergent gameplay means that in-game actions affect future outcomes and give each player a unique experience.
• Highly robust and easy-to-use mod toolset allows players to create their own expansive levels for both multiplayer and single-player modes.
• The CryENGINE 2 engine delivers the most realistic environments, spectacular special effects, physics game engine, lighting system, and enemy Al.

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Customer Reviews

Crysis...a good FPS but distant runner up for Game of the Year This game is the long awaited follow up to 'Farcry' (one of the best FPSs of 2004). We now finally get a look at this newest offering. Here are some of the things that I've liked in the single player mode... 1.)This is a FPS in which your nano armor gives you special 'skills"; these 'skills' include enhanced speed, strength, armor and invisibility; and you'll need them all to survive. 2.)Graphics that are smooth and flowing...plus excellent audio; both add a spooky, creepy ambiance to this jungle based horror game. 3.)The ability to use and control vehicles (on land, at sea and in the air), as well as the mounted weapons on these units. 4.)Generally good (but not great) enemy AI! Although some will just stand out in the open, there are some that will sneak up on you or hide behind cover; also they must reload empty weapons. Due to their larger numbers and the fact they're usually spread out, will necessitate your using your special 'skills' and the surrounding environment to defeat them. This is the basic, reoccurring challenge for this game. 5.)Easy, anytime save/loads with F5/F9 respectively, as well as game generated checkpoint saves. 6.)If your taking a beating (or find it too easy), you can change the degree of game difficulty anytime, as you play; you don't have to start a new game. This is a nice feature! Cons: 1.)I've had a couple freeze ups, requiring reboot; also some minor video fragmentation (after extended periods of play). 2.)I found the controls on flying the VTOL (vertical take-off & landing) craft were difficult to operate (the plane just didn't seem to respond to commands quickly) with the result of frequent crashes. 3.)There was one extended section where you were floating (in either space or water), that I found confusing, tedious and boring. I was lucky it was very linear, or I might never have gotten out of there. 4.)A high end system is preferable. Although playable on XP, Vista can use Dx10, and combined with good hardware and a high end video card, it does make a difference in being able to run a lot of the 'extra' graphic details. Conclusion: All the pre-release hype made it sound as if this game would easily qualify for Game of the Year honors; I don't think so. Graphically it is beautiful and it is a good game, but it's not a great game! If you liked 'Farcry' then you'll probably like 'Crysis'. Was it worth the wait...probably, but somehow I was expecting something more. Over all, I liked 'Farcry' and its gameplay a little more. However, still worth a 4 1/2-5 Star rating. Dirty little secret . . . I love this game, and mostly I agree with the high rating that the game has received. The other reviews have pretty much touched on all of the things I love about it and normally I wouldn't think of chiming in just to pile on more of the same, but I feel there are a few points that were missed . . . points that I think others should know before buying this game. I have a dual boot computer that runs both Windows XP and Windows Vista Home Premium. (2 SLI linked Nvidia 8800 Ultras, 4GBs of RAM and an AMD Athlon 64 FX-62) I have run the game on both OS's and have found that, all things being equal--using the exact same settings on the same computer with only the OS being different--that the game runs significantly better on XP. I've tried this comparison with quite a few recent titles--titles that run both DX 9 and DX 10--and Crysis shows, by far, the biggest slow down when switching between the two OS's. (I've checked around and it seems that I'm not alone in this discovery) This seems a shame. I kind of expect some problems with Vista--that's the reason I kept XP on my system . . . But I guess I'm willing to cut Crysis a little slack because it IS such an ambitious game. But then there's another bit of hanky-panky that isn't so forgivable: This is the fact that the game won't let you turn the video settings to "Very High" on XP. At first everyone thought, quite naturally, that this was due to some difference between the relative abilities of DirectX 9 on XP and DirectX 10 on Vista. But it turns out that the limitation is purely artificial. (For those who want to circumvent this, it's an easy fix; simply cutting and pasting a few lines in some config files allows those higher settings on XP. Look around on Google, it's out there . . . ) This isn't to say that there IS no difference between DX 9 and DX 10, only that someone tried to make the difference seem even greater than it really is by inserting an artificial limitation. All is not lost, the Crysis people are coming out with their first patch in a week or so and I have no doubt that they'll have the game running well on Vista in no time. Maybe they'll even give up on the artificial limit in XP . . . but I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. Still, I give it four stars. Incredible but short In spite of having to run the
game on med-low resolution settings I found the game to be excellent.
The story flows very well and you never get bored with it. The graphics
are excellent, characters are well played for the most part, and the
final battle is epic. Even the escort mission (the achillies heal of
most games) felt realistic and worked well.

So why 3 stars? I'm
taking off .5 because for some reason it won't allow me to map the
flight functions to my joystick (wingman extreme). Not that big of a
deal since the mouse keyboard does actually work in the game but not
very well.

Now for the big hit. I'm taking off 1.5 stars because
of the length. I just don't get games these days. They make them with
flashy graphics, hopefully a good story, and if it's a really good game
it feels epic. However, they make them so short that it just leaves you
feeling empty. After the final battle in Crysis I was sitting there
waiting for the next section to load when the credits came up. I sat
looking confused for a few minutes before I turned the monitor off in
disgust.

It's like if they had released Deus Ex and it ended the
game after you retrieved the virus or System Shock after you got to the
second level of the station or Far Cry after find out about trigens. I
brought the game home Friday, played from about 7pm-11pm. Got up the
next morning and played from about noon-11PM. I finished the game just
after 11PM and I was playing on the hardest difficulty level, took
breaks for meals, and ran out to the store to pick up snacks.

It
used to be that when you bought a game, you expected to get at least a
week of play out of it. Are we now reduced to less than 24 hours?
Personally, I'd give up the years worth of work on graphics flash that
they spend, for more game time in the story. The multi-player doesn't
make up for this either as that's a common excuse.

I loved the game (what little of it there was), but I can't go any higher than 3 stars.