![]() ![]() It helps that this is Crysis’ most engaging story. It’s not quite flawless, but it’s still one of the best times we’ve had in a shooter in years. You can already hear the PC Crysis die-hards moaning to high heaven, but this is a phenomenal action game, pulsing with blood, thunder and technical wizardry. For a whole lot of Crysis fans, however, Crysis 2 felt like a self-conscious dumbing down – even a betrayal.Įnter Crysis 3, Crytek’s attempt to chart a middle ground. After all, while it wasn’t as open as Crysis, it still worked better as a thinking man’s shooter than, say, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Opinons differ when it comes to Crysis 2. The result was an even tighter game than Crysis Warhead, with the action chopped up into more constrained urban spaces. ![]() To make money, Crysis had to come to consoles, and consoles struggled to cope with all that freedom, all that power. If it was a little unfocused at times, who cared? Five years on Crysis still sits at the cutting edge of first-person shooters.Ĭrysis Warhead was in many ways a smarter game, taking all that was good in Crysis, but fashioning it into a tighter, more story-led experience. You could play the game however you wanted to play. You could tear the scenery apart, go stealthy or go bombastic. Crysis put you in that high-tech nanosuit, threw you out into wide open landscapes and hostile situations, then let you wreak havoc using every tool at your disposal. Available on Xbox 360 (version reviewed), PS3,Ĭrytek’s series has an ongoing problem: nobody can ever forget the intoxicating freedom of the original PC game.
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