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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Style over substance, 12 Oct 2009
Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars
These are great looking games as you probably know, and worth buying just to show off your graphics. The games run ok out of the box, but I'd recommend downloading the 1.1 patch so you can enable vsync (otherwise there's a lot of tearing), and getting hold of a custom settings file: google "crysis custom settings" and check out the inCrysis forums. These make the game look a lot better and improve the performace massively. It's puzzling that the update patches aren't included on the DVD, however.
I had some problems for a couple of days running these on my new computer, where it crashed a lot when loading a level, but it turned out to be an incompatibility with the Asus GamerOSD FPS display that came with my graphics card. Turned that off and it was fine.
As well as the graphics and sound being amazing, the physics and destrucability of the environments are great too. There's one scene with a rope bridge, which swings and bounces like a real rope bridge would. Shoot out a few of the ropes, and the bits of wood hang down just like they would in reality. I thought it was pretty cool. There are other bits where you might throw a grenade at some soldiers in a hut, and it blows part of the roof off and half-collapses the building.
The graphics in Warhead were supposedly optimised, but as a default they looked a lot worse to me, due to unforgiveable amounts of "pop-in". Huge bushes and plants would suddenly appear very noticeably out of nowhere a few metres away, one after the other as I moved along. Thankfully downloading some custom settings improved matters a lot.
The games themselves, once you've got over the graphics, are nothing special in my opinion. They try to incorporate elements of stealth games (your radar is very reminiscent of Metal Gear Solid), but the enemy seems to spot you way too easily at great distances, and the "stealth mode" of your suit where you can go invisible for long periods makes this a bit of a joke at close quarters. It's been done much better in the Splinter Cell games, for example. And as a pure shooter, it's not nearly as rewarding as something like the Halo series on the Xbox, or COD4. Battles are far between, and you (and your enemies) seem to be able to take far too many bullets. The aliens in the second half of the game aren't really much fun to shoot at all, and it's more of a chore than exciting, frightening, or exhilarating.
The games are also way too short. I was shocked when the credits rolled in Warhead, since I thought I was only halfway through at most, and I'd only started the game the previous day. There's a timer on your saves, and Warhead shows I completed it in 40 minutes (not including sections repeated when I died). I can see that it must take a lot of effort to produce the dialogue, cut-scenes, scenery etc, but I feel if they concentrated more on making the gameplay mechanic more fun, they could re-use the scenery for multiple missions, and come up with interesting situations for you to puzzle out, rather than the actual "missions" which consist of going to a waypoint, then going to the next one, etc. They should have concentrated less on the cut-scenes and dialogue and made it a much longer game, and rather less like an interactive film. Since there's no scoring system on the missions, I don't feel much incentive at all to re-play the games. I've been trying a bit on the "hard" difficulty but really it seems exactly the same as "normal".
Another negative for me was the amount of bad language! I find it unpleasant when my computer starts swearing at me when I'm playing a game, especially when you have to play a section multiple times and it starts yelling the f-word at you with the same repeated dialogue each time. It's just offensive and unnecessary.
Overall it's worth getting just to marvel at the graphics and play around with the physics, but as a game it's too short and there are other shooters / stealth games that are a lot more fun to play.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Ultimate in visual gaming, 28 Aug 2009
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Well to start off this is the maximum addition of crysis , which contains crysis, crysis warhead and crysis wars, all i have to say is it is absolutely astounding. Everything about the game is brilliant, the story in my opinion is excellent,in crysis you play the role of Nomad and follow his story through the jungle and spaceship, then in warhead you follow psycho and follow the same story but it breaks off in a tangent and runs alongside the story of crysis , the gameplay is great allowing you to switch between four suit types, the two games have very similar gameplay without any real variation. The best factor of it is the graphics , they are head and shoulders above anything else out at the moment, although you need a real monster of a pc/laptop torun it at any kind of high level. I have a 1gb HD4870 and it can just run it at very high at a playable 25fps but can be prone to freezing although that could be the operating system (vista ultimate 64). Its capable of running warhead at about 35fps due to the fact that the engine has been refined to be less demanding.
But if you own a pc that in your opinion is good you owe it too yourself to invest in this game as i think it would be very hard to be disapointed by it.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Look! If you Play FPS, You MUST play this game!, 26 Oct 2009
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This game is Brilliant and a bargain at the current price. Crysis Warhead is also awesome bonus.(nice to have a UK FPS hero. Don't get me wrong, I like the Yank characters but the Psycho character was refreshing. He sounds like one of my mates in the pub.) I have had a Excellent Combat adventure experience.
Very important: you need a Decent spec PC to really enjoy it. This game is the bench mark in Technology that all other games are only now catching up too. This Games make you realise why PC games are and will always be better that the Console siblings.
When I first Played the game I spent ages just interacting with world touching, garbing, throwing, shooting and blowing stuff up. That was foreplay lol, Very Cool. And when you start fighting the bad guys, wow the experience is intense.
You have to be methodical in your combat approach, if you leave a space for the enemy, they will hurt you and put a cap in your @$$. I like that in a game as it keeps you on edge and immerses you into the game. The use of profanity in the games just adds to the intensity and realism of the game play and is used sparingly when the moments calls for it. Then the action gets intense, so does the language.
I did prefer combat in the Jungle more so that in the ICE, and I love it when you use you powers to smash the enemy, the shock and horror on some of the enemy faces was brilliant.
I hope for more games like this where you feel like you are part of a Movie. (Much better that TV! I hardly watch the thing any more.) I could Write a Book about this game. Just get it and have fun, you will not regret it.
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