Gaminez

Hi guys, its been a long time now. I will try to update this space as much as i can since i am now spare with few months of holiday. I am back to playing games, not too much on anime yet. So yeah, i completed crysis yesterday and now i am reviewing it. Crysis is a first-person shooter produced by Crytek in 2007. The gameplay was really fun since the abilities of the nanosuit is already given from the very start. Story was pretty good, about the north koreans followed by discovering buried alienware. Graphics was realistic at some point.

My rating: 8.0/10
Gamespot rating: 8.0/10

Goods: Smooth maneuvering of abilities, freedom of handling situations, good story setting, realistic graphics, numerous checkpoints

Bads: Glitches and bugs, unclear and dumb missions, gradually loss of freedom in gameplay
                            
The goods. Maneuvering of abilities could be easily done by clicking on the mouse roller and rolling it to whatever ability you want. There is the option of using the keyboard to do this, for the ones that are more keyboard-familiar. 4 abilities in total, maximum armor/super strength/maximum speed/cloak form. These abilities are present at the very start of the game, depending on how you use them determines how much fun you will have from it. For me, i use the mouse to switch in-between modes which is really convenient, no delay or whatsoever. Nano-energy recovers at a swift rate once you are in maximum armor so it doesnt really pose a problem of 'lack of energy'!

Freedom of handling situations. This is the main attraction of the game, provided that they give you the abilities to do whatever the fuck you want. On cloak mode, ambush the north koreans grabbing them by their neck then switch to super strength and throw them into the sea or off a cliff. On super strength and just punching them right in the face watching them fly backward. Grabbing objects and throwing it at the north koreans. These might all sound stupid but trust me, it is definitely way more fun than just shooting with a rifle. Missions like infiltrating the enemy's base, there is no fixed way to do it. You can go 'backdoor' either jumping over the wire fence or knocking it down using super strength and go cloak mode to explore the base. Basically, you feel like superman in the game!
                              
Setting of the story was fine. First, you start off as an infiltrator into the north korea borders attempting to save the hostages. As more of your mates died or being captured by some mysterious flying creature, the mission extends to not only rescuing the hostages but also determining the flying creature. Deeper and deeper into the island, you discovers that the north koreans are planning to revive some ancient buried alienware as their weapon for world invasion. You try to stop it but to no avail. Aliens ressurected and begin their world dominance. Its up to you and the military to stop this insane war before its too late!

Graphics was pretty realistic and outstanding. For example, walking into a waterfall. You can actually see water droplets on your vision glasses. Well that is a first for me. Characters expressions, trees/beaches/houses design were up to detail. There are so many checkpoints which make crysis so much less irritating of having to do fucked up missions over and over. All that makes this game aesthetically pleasing to play!
                              
The bads. All games cant escape having no glitches and bugs, crysis is no exception. Soldiers having parts of their bodies penetrating through walls and such. Mission bugs, missions could not be completed no matter what you do. Only by restarting the previous checkpoint and redoing the mission could then solve this bug.

Unclear and dumb missions. Missions like defending a secured location, a gigantic alien appears. I rocket launched it more than like 30 times, no shit happens. Countless aliens flying around, they keep coming no matter how many you shot down. No clear instructions or whatsoever were given, leaving me dumbfounded in the situation. Escort missions sucked so real bad!!! Objective was to escort prophet to the destinated location. He moves so damn slow and cant even defend himself against aliens when he was supposingly the team leader. AIs as always, nuff said.

Gradually loss of gameplay freedom, this could be felt once the aliens ressurected. You could no longer play with your abilities as much as before. Cloak and armor mode is useless against aliens, most of the time just gunfiring these mothafuckers. Missions where they just forced you to do it, for example flying a VTOL which just sucked. Personally, i hate piloting planes and this mission just fucked me up! Everything starts to follow a destinated path, no more do-whatever-the-fuck-you-want.
                               
Crysis, as a first-person shooter was fantastic! Interesting and useful abilities, just maybe the grabbing of people could be better registered. I previously intend to give it a 2nd playthrough, but the presence of shitass missions made it say fucked it and i am off to crysis 2.

Have a nice day!