Crysis - Best Single Player FPS ever?

So, I'm a big crysis fan. I have crysis, warhead, and crysis 2 on my pc as my go-to games for shooting. I don't play multiplayer FPSes.

And I'm thinking, since Crysis came out, no shooter has been a better singleplayer FPS, or even close to it.

Here's why I love and still play Crysis:

- Graphics are still top-notch
- amazing physics - destructible environments
- great weapons - looks good and great customizability
- variety of enemies - both humans and aliens
- open levels - no linear crap. you feel like a predator/hunter
- freedom - you have choice on how to approach objectives
- replayable - due to the openess, it doesn't get boring

Anyone disagree and think there is a more replayable, better single player FPS than Crysis?

 

some things are well done. graphics are still unreal.
I just found it meh. didnt really like the controls. i must admit i prefer crysis 2 story level design and general look of the game.
sorry

 

I wasn't a fan of the storyline. The game, to me (and I'm sure many others), felt like a graphics demo with a storyline meshed in to give some value.

Crysis 2 has a better storyline, imo.

I'm not sure what I consider to be the best FPS, but it isn't Crysis. Based purely on graphics however, it is Crysis.

 

Best one I've ever played.

 

Can we include 3PS in this list?

 

I haven't played much of it, but I do love the things that Crysis does... I like the customisation, powers and PICKING STUFF UP! We need more games where the environments are interactive. Are there many others?

To add to the thread, yeah Crysis is bank!

 

The storyline was most definitely not the best (for one, Bioshock was much better, I think), but the gameplay was varied and quite fun. I haven't played either Crysis Warhead or Crysis 2, so I can't really compare them, though.

I felt much more immersed in the Halo 1/2/3 trilogy, although obviously those are getting a bit dated and Halo 3 is sadly only for Xbox 360.

 

Yeah I hated it how they built up a really good storyline on Halo and then kept the 3rd and 4th games exclusively for the Xbox so everyone tha twants to see how it ends would need to purchase one.

 

Half Life series for single player shooter with a gameplay focus.

 

^ +1. Although I hate how they are holding out the final game.

 

curse you, Valve!

 

While I don't think it was the best in any single one category with the exception of graphics, it was close to the best in almost every area, and with that, looking at it from an overall view, I would have to concur that Crysis was the best FPS I've ever played.

 

HL1 in terms of groundbreakingness and then HL2 in terms of groundbreakingness as well. Black Mesa was so well done in the first one and City 17 was almost picturesque in my mind in terms of how a dystopian future would look. Both games were long, epic story, awesome and diverse weapons, awesome characters. Loved the environs, you didn't need a beast pc to run the engine... all in all I'd say the perfect FPS.

The technical accomplishment that was the original gold source engine and then the new source engine IMO beats CryEngine 2 easily - whilst cry engine 2 is awesome looking, it is unbelievably buggy, you'd need a top range pc of today to be able to keep a smooth high framerate throughout the game at high detail, which I think is kinda stupid. At times I kinda disliked the openness, maybe because it was open but environments didn't change too much i.e. yes you had flexibility but the island wasn't jam packed with interactivity. I thought they could have nailed this with crisis 2 being NYC and all but they didn't pull it off. I felt that with the suit as well, you pretty much only used stealth and strength modes over anything else - crysis 2 was a positive in this regard, suit was more modular.

CryEngine 1 was a great accomplishment that really set the stage for Crysis.

Doom was unbelievable as well... but that's going back

 

Crysis was ok. I enjoyed Warhead more for some reason. Crysis 2 just doesn't feel like the first two though. I liked the whole plot of the original and Warhead. Granted I haven't played too far through Crysis 2 though, guess I should get on that. But so far it feels more like the same thing over and over in the game. Traversing New York just doesn't have the same mystery as that island.

 

Crysis and Crysis Warhead have fun re-playability. Fun to go in for a 30 min muck around then leave. Graphics are also of course great. I liked Crysis 2 but like all modern shooters storyline is really short...BF3 anyone...

 

Half-Life series is undoubtedly the best FPS series. Excellent story, top-notch gameplay, extremely good environments and excellent graphics for its time. Crysis is bland in comparison. I assume OP has not played through it, I suggest doing that beginning with Half-Life, then HL: Opposing Force, then HL: Blue Shift, and finally HL2, HL2: Episode 1 and Episode 2 for the full experience.

 

Crysis as the best SP FPS? Not by a country mile. The Half-Life series and Bioshock trounce it. I even think Far Cry is better.


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^ Far Cry? Hmm. I didn't like those two very much. The malaria thing kept annoying me. But HL and Bioshock, definitely.

 

My vote, for single player first person shooter, goes to Half Life 2. As for multiplayer first person shooter, none so far have beaten the first Medal of Honor for me.

 

-Deus Ex
-Deus Ex: Human Revolution
-007: Goldeneye
-Half Life 2
-Fallout 3

I named 5 FPSes that are better off the top of my head.

Crysis had AMAZING graphics, perhaps it was the game with the best graphics for it's time to ever come out, but it is not the best FPS of all time. The gameplay is very one dimensional.

 

There was no malaria involved in the original Far Cry...

The gameplay in the original Crysis was very mediocre. You're running around an island chock full of Korean soldiers. Then instead of soldiers, it's chock full of aliens. Military forces from a Communist country and aliens. Two things that have NEVER been done before in the history of gaming. On an island, no less.

I thought the second one was better because while you were still fighting aliens, there was a little more strategy to it, and killing them allowed for more approaches than just dumping bullets at them until they fell out of the air. I also found the setting to be more interesting and I felt like I was defending something rather than just killing things on an island out in the middle of nowhere.

 

totally agree with all you said

 

I didn't even bother with Halo 3 or anything after it - Halo 1 was absolutely amazing, the gameplay was excellent (though simple, but that was part of the appeal) and the story was at least somewhat believable and made sense. When Halo 2 broke off into the human and elite sections, and you met that plant thing, it lost a lot of its appeal and stopped making sense.

If you go way, way back, I enjoyed both Goldeneye and Perfect Dark a lot, both as single-player and multiplayer games. I also liked Crysis (all 3 of them) as single-player games due in part to the variety of tactics the suit allowed for. I never really got into Far Cry (2, never played 1); the game just seems incredibly repetitive with the different missions and I could never finish.

I don't know if the old Descent series counts as an FPS (probably does), but I wasted countless years of my life playing those games, the various expansions, and user-made missions.

Other than that, though, most of the FPSes I play are for the multiplayer portion. BC2, BF3, and CoD4 come to mind. I haven't even touched the single-player part of BF3, and didn't finish it in BC2.

 

I thought Halo was brilliant...until the Flood came along. Then it was just boring and repetitive, with little tactical gameplay.

It seems like a lot of people don't understand that Far Cry 1 and 2 are about as similar to each other as Super Mario 1 and 2. They share a name (yes, I know Mario 2 was originally Doki Doki Panic in Japan) and they belong to the same genre, but one was a graphically groundbreaking, story driven linear FPS, and the other was a mediocre, marginally entertaining sandbox game. Imo, Far Cry (the original) is closer to Crysis than it is to Far Cry 2.

 

Fallout 3 is not really an FPS...

 

You seem to love both Halo and Far Cry. I have played the former and I loved it. Acc to you, how does Far Cry compare to Halo?

 

How about America's Army 3? How does it compare to Battlefield 3 and MW3?

 

Absolutely loved Crysis and Warhead. Matter of fact, I'm replaying Warhead now that you made this thread and reminded me.

The graphics, controls, sounds ... all so well done and it shows what PC games are really about.

 

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. I never really enjoyed the second half of the Halo 2 missions, but missions on Earth and the first few on Delta Halo were pretty good.

Halo 3... I've only ever had the chance to play through it once, since I don't have an Xbox 360. Gameplay-wise, I like it. Story-wise, defending the Earth makes sense, but the Flood elements aren't as well hashed-out in-game, I think.

 

For story, I think the "best" single player FPS were Half Life and Voyager Elite Force. I have Crysis, and played through nearly all of it. In my opinion it was just ok.
One of the best single player stories I've ever played in any game for me, would be a tie between Syphon Filter 2 (playstation) and Star Trek: TNG - A Final Unity (DOS). Awesome, awesome stories.

 

Yeah how the hell did I forget golden eye, maybe because it was a console game?

Not sure how well deus ex or fall out particularly prescribe as FPSs though...

but if we are thinking laterally, Star Wars Jedi Knight 2 jedi outcast was unbelievable, even for a non-mega Star Wars fan. They just don't make games like these anymore.

VALVE we NEED episode 3/ Half-life 3!!!

 

I wish MS would allow Nintendo to release the original Goldeneye on the Wii Virtual Console.

 

Crysis is a good single-player FPS, but it's not at the top of my list. Half Life 2 is at the top. But, I will say Crysis met my expectations, beautiful game and a story-line almost like Half-Life (Soilders and Aliens). So I say it's just below Half Life 2.

 

I would certainly rank Crysis very close to the top. It gets a lot of hate because people focused on the graphics so intently, but I finally played through the original and Warhead not too long ago, and was really blown away by how good they were as a package.

 

To the OP without a shadow of a doubt, no, it is not the best Single Player FPS ever. Although all value is in the eye of the beholder, I am certain that the majority of players do not consider it to be greatly above average story-wise and gameplay-wise.

Graphics are a pillar stone of the PC community, but the rest simply doesn't feel as engaging as the Half Life series or even the Call of Duty series (for all the hate that this name generates, we have to admit that the single player experience is great fun). Crysis 2 was superior to Crysis 1 in my book, enjoyed the gameplay and story much more on that title.

As far as fun factor and a storyline value my favorite Single Player fps experiences go to Deus Ex: Human Revolution (which also had stunning graphics) and the Halo series. Games that masterfully combine gameplay, story and musical value (this is often overlooked but impacts GREATLY on Single Player experience) are not commonly found in most FPS's.

Even though after Halo 1 (which is my favorite), the gameplay started being a bit repetitive by following the same formula... it was good enough to keep me very well entertained for the rest of MC's story, which was challenging and rewarding on higher difficulties. All this done to a great musical soundtrack brings out emotions that will enhance your single player experience.

 

I was playing Crysis 2 yesterday its great, got it for $11 bucks ebay free shipping

 

Loved Crysis and Crysis warhead, best single player FPS ever? I think the OP needs to play more games.

 

I have to agree with many people here. In terms of graphics, maybe crysis, but if you include other things such as storyline, gameplay, and innovation, Half Life series all the way!

 

IMO the words "best", "ever", and "never" need to be stricken from the English dictionary. They are so meaningless and this society just takes everything to extremes.

THAT SAID - I installed Warhead last night and am having a blast playing it. I finally have a computer capable of doing so at higher settings. I'm playing at 1920x1200, everything on highest possible ("Enthusiast"), and shaders at one notch below ("Gamer") - they seem to murder my FPS. Smooth as can be now.
The gameplay is top notch and the sound is really well done. Best money I've spent in a while.

 

Best ever, not to me. Graphics were amazing, but the game felt more like it was for show instead of for play. Long runs of beautiful scenery between checkpoints with hundreds of soldiers got repetitive quick.

The aircraft carrier level may have been one of the best levels I'd ever played though. Although I was playing it at around 25-30FPS at medium detail at best.

My BIGGEST problem with Crysis is that you got this suit and you look like a complete badarse in it. You're carrying around all these weapons. 3-4 guns, grenades, explosives, ammo. And no pockets to hold any of this stuff. It really bothers me. It's like when I play Star Wars video games and they show you hit your opponent with a light saber 20 times before you kill him when it should only take one swing! These people make amazing video games and yet they can't shore up simple details like a grenade belt or a light saber block system that decreases stamina? These types of things drive me nuts in games. /rant

My favorite single player campaigns were Medal of Honor 2010, Call of Duty 1 or 2? (the one that had the Normandy beach scene), And Delta Force Black Hawk Down. Man I loved DF BHD!

 

Don't forget about Far Cry 2, that was a pretty damn good game as well as Crysis. I still love the original Crysis multiplayer, because it brought a whole new game mode and something we have never seen before/since.

 

Far Cry 2? Seriously? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF03s_DDAtw&feature=player_detailpage#t=11s
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Yeah gotta agree... far cry 2 wasn't great... it was a solid game built on a pretty excellent idea, and as usual, was technically outstanding, loved how they nailed the African setting - it made the game pretty damn unique in my view... but there were soooo many shortcomings, stuff that I just couldn't believe they made (like the Malarial pills, inability to save vehicles in locations, the poor currency system).

Not saying the game HAD to be something like that, there were some pretty interesting mechanics (such as the weapons jamming) but overall some of the decisions were really stupid and impacted on my ability to enjoy the game to the level it probably deserved...

 

I don't understand when people complain about the malaria thing. It's not like you constantly had to be downing pills. It was a pretty unobtrusive thing.

 

Not to me it wasn't. The malaria was the reason I stopped playing. It would keep coming back and I would run out of pills.

 

That was literally impossible. The game made sure you had a malaria pill mission before you had an attack. It was basically just an extra mission you had to do once in a while. If you ignored the mission, you could die, but you'd have to ignore it for a good while.

 

I may not be Nobel material but I am not stupid. According to this, you had to either do the malaria pills missions or once you ran out and fainted, you wake up next to their Priest who gives you some. Or you keep going to the fist icon and doing all that stuff which takes about 5-10 minutes, every time you get an attack. A) that is annoying. I shouldn't have to do that every time. I should be able to find pills off of bodies or in places (it is more realistic anyways) and B) You don't cure malaria with a pill. You take two doses, for a two weeks and then you are good. Again, not very realistic.

 

Yes, so when you were out of medicine you did the mission to get more medicine. It wasn't like you were having attacks every 30 seconds. every 4 or so hours of gameplay time you would save some bros and they would give you medicine.

As for realism, you also don't fix a car by tightening a bolt on the radiator. Obviously they took creative license with certain things.

I played through most of the game and never had a problem with the malaria mechanic.

 

my problem with the malaria mechanic is that it simply wasn't fun and was a chore...and games shouldnt feel like a chore

some ppl have said halflife1/2 is better than crysis and I respectfully disagree

sure, HL had better story, but that's it.

crysis has better graphics, better gunplay, and far more replayability. I still fire up crysis and find new ways to use the suit's abilities and different weapon combinations to kill the north koreans (currently, I'm loving sniping with the NK assault rifle) the feel of using strengthmode to stabilize my scope, patiently waiting until the crosshair is on the targets head and pulling the trigger, and then instantly hitting camoflouge mode is a feeling no other game can give me. I also love the geography of crysis, I can climb on hills to get height advantage, use falling trees to figure out where enemies are shooting from, or just take a break and enjoy the gorgeous view.

Would ppl have constant fun replaying halflife over and over again? cuz I am with crysis. and I've yet to own a pc that can run crysis on the highest setting (my alienware m14x only goes to high)...so I can still look forward to getting a new comp two years from now when I will finally be able to run crysis at max settings, and it'll prob still be one of the best looking games around

 

I hate it too. It brings absolutely nothing good to the game. While it may be easy to get pills, it is just a waste of time and plain stupid.