Avantek's Review of Crysis

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Gamplay Video:
Graphic setting mostly on high
Difficulty level is delta (highest),
Mission: Awakening
Objective: Infiltrate office and retrieve intelligence.
Watch and enjoy
YouTube - Crysis Gameplay


Review
After playing the beta, demo and full version of the game I decided to write a review about this fantastic futuristic first person shooter. Crysis is a game with amazing graphics and physics engine. I enjoyed the gameplay as well as the scenery, graphics, physics, storyline the game is great. It is defiantly the next generation game as Farcry was at its time.

Equipment
It has new concepts like advanced nano suits that auto heal and provide you with features like strength increase, speed boost, cloaking device increase armor. All of the nano suits features can be used one at a time and for a short period of time but give the player enough advantage over there enemy to kill just about anything. All of the features server a purpose for example maximum strength can be used to kill enemies with your bare hands, or jump over high fences or cliffs it also offers increased impact resistance. Speed boost speaks for it self, increases your stamina so that you can run twice as fast. Cloaking device its main purpose is to sneak past enemies and attack them from behind, in order to use it efficiently you need to walk slower the faster you move the more energy you’re losing. Increased armor offers resistance to bullets and this is the feature which the player uses most of the time. The suit is also equipped with inferred sensors that allow you to see in pitch dark. Binocs although at first they seem to be just regular binocs they’re not, they detect heat signatures and mark them up on your screen as a green glow they are also equipped with a special laser pointer which transmits sound from the point your looking at. So if you looking at someone talking in a far distance you will be able to hear them as if you were standing right next to him.
Weapons and Attachments
There aren’t many weapons available in game and your allowed to carry a limited amount at a time, but that’s great. All weapons are fully customizable with tactical attachments grenade launchers scopes holosights laser pointers, flashlights, silencers and ammunition type. The KPA riffle has special explosive ammunition very useful in killing large amount of enemies on short distances but it increases recoil. I don’t use the silencer often because it increases recoil and messes up your aim, but its useful in missions where you have a lot of enemies and you want to take them out one by one. If I want to be stealthy I usually cloak myself and sneak up on an enemy grab them and punch them in the face while choking them, or throw there body at another enemy. You also get grenades, flash bangs and C4, as well as rocket launchers from time to time to take out vehicles.
Storyline
Its not very creative lacks some uniqueness basically you land on a island full of Korean troops to rescue a research team, as you advance deeper and deeper into the Island you find out that the island is being invaded with aliens that have awaken from there sleep. They leash out a full scale attack on the island you end up evacuating all troops decide on a plan and come back to destroy everything that’s still alive.
Graphics
The graphics are defiantly next generation most cards can’t run the game even on low settings. I didn’t have much of a problem running the game on mostly high setting. The forests, landscape, vehicles, buildings, people look life like. There is no fog of war like in other games the distance view is not limited and there are no background images everything you see are real 3D models. The atmospheric and weather affects are great and add a lot of variation to the game. There is a natural night and day cycle the sun move through the sky and the angles of shadows change as time progresses just like in real life. Your HUD interacts with the environment when you get out of water or when it rains you have streaks of drops on your HUD. When your shot at blood appears on your HUD, as well as dirt from the ground around you. When it cold frostbit appear on your HUD limiting your view and forcing you to find a heat source or keep moving. Sun glare, reflectivity of light shadows all that makes this game the best game out there.
Physics
I had so much fun with physics and destructively of the environments, it’s a feature that not many games have implemented yet or ignored completely. You are able to chop palm trees destroy just about anything pick up anything around you and throw it around animals computer parts helmets of dead enemies the logs you just chopped of the tree even nearby animals. Yes there are animals and not just few many of them not counting the aliens, birds which you can shoot out of the sky, crabs turtles, chickens.

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