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Did you play Crysis twice?

Friday, August 15th, 2008
by FoxSpellCaster

There are many games out there I will play from start to finish twice or more. Crysis is on the list of games I still don’t care to replay and for a while there I didn’t know why. After a while I would hear people talking about when they played Crysis and get an urge to play it again but yet when I sat in front of my computer I wouldn’t install it and I would move on to another game. At first I thought this was cause the game was very plot driven and it ended on a cliff hanger I didn’t care to repeat. This was not the case.

Crysis had one big short coming in my eyes. With all the realism, excellent graphics, and great game play it was a terrible shooter. I know it is a sci-fi game and isn’t supposed to be a simulation but considering you are a super soldier going up against normal infantry in the beginning of the game you would think they would die easier when filled with bullets. I tend to play games with a combination of stealth and run and gun tactics and while the run and gun tactics were certainly a good way to play Crysis, you could find yourself out gunned by the enemy fairly quickly. I tended to rely on stealth a lot cause if you played your cards right you can be stealth-ed two inches from the back of a soldier’s head. This is the point in the game where I wanted to quit playing because I had my gun pointed two inches away from their head and they would not die from a quick bullet spread to the back of their head.

After a while I just started to blitz soldiers and run off and hide and repeat. This was boring and time consuming and almost ruined the game for me. Farther in the game I felt like it was an arcade experience as you can see the sci-fi elements manifest around you and then everything felt like it was at home. You don’t worry about head shots when you opponents are not human or super human and expect a massive amount of firepower to take them down.

Every time I sit down and almost hit the install button I remember how much I hated playing through the first part of the game feeling stupid that a super soldier is being out matched by normal infantry and when the game gets really good it ends.

Looking forward to Crysis Warhead.