Crysis, a benchmark or solid gameplay?

I expect a lot of you have played Crysis probaly more or less to benchmark your desktop/notebook, just wondering if the gameplay itself is worth the ungodly cost off all those GeForce's? Or is it more of a wow this looks awesome, now time to go play Half Life and 150 FPS.

 

It's a fun game... but I still find COD4 a lot more fun! Crysis is awesome when you have a good system.... great gameplay.... awesome super-suit concept Not to mention fantastic graphics and physics like building/terrain destruction The ending sucks hard though! But that's because there are two more in the Crysis series to come out....

 

not quite. as it stands now, the ending just sucks for no reason. crysis basically flopped. it didn't make very much money when you consider the cost of its production. and crytek is basically giving up on the PC market because of it.

crysis is a benchmark.

 

Apparently it wasn't a flop, it exceeded EA's revenue expectations. http://seekingalpha.com/article/626...end-12-31-07-earnings-call-transcript?page=-1

 

weird...

maybe they lowered their expectations. i remember reading that crytek is doing a massive shift of focus towards consoles, in large part because of the results with crysis.

i read some more. apparently crysis has sold 1 million copies now. in all fairness, thats a lot of copies. especially since its still being sold for $40-$50. i distinctly remember them complaining before though, about piracy, and how they were basically abandoning the PC market because of their pain and suffering and sales loss.

maybe thats changed now based on the up to date respectable sales figures.

 

i read somewhere that they are making crysis 2 and its going to be PC, PS3 and 360

 

Hrm... well, to me both FarCry and Crysis were not very good games. Though I don't own Crysis (I owned FarCry) neither were good enough to warrant playing for more than 30 min to an hour. I still go and play the Crysis demo and it's enough to satisfy me.

Running at ultra high settings it looks amazing. I was surprised to see it was very playable on an 8800gt at 1280x1024 at ultra high. But wow... pretty, but shallow game.

 

really? i loved Far Cry but i would only play for like a hour or two at a time and i never play multiplayer.

 

As a game it`s dull as hell.
It`s probably the most graphically pleasing game yet, though.
It`s not worth the 50$ yet,unless you have the hardware to enjoy it at least on high...

 

I built a computer to play it but when it came out I ended up not buying it, in the end it wasn't tempting and I don't know why. They should have the HL2 developers for gameplay work with Crytek for graphics, maybe HL3 with Crysis graphics?

 

Sounds like some mixed opinions. Probaly will try the demo I guess, see if it sucks me in or not. Also it sort of makes sense for them to shuffle towards consoles because of the demanding requirments.

 

That`s a good idea. Although I can tell you the demo runs worse than the game with the lates patch.
You can add 3-5fps from the demo to the game itself under medium config an 1-3fps in high settings.

 

I don't like it because you see the entire game in 20 minutes. There is little that was added in the entire Far Cry game and I feel that I've already seen Crysis get as fun as it can in the demo.

 

If while playing games like grand theft auto or oblivion (free roaming games) you find yourself straying from the main quest to mess around, kill people for no reason, find a fun way to commit suicide etc. then you will more than likely have alot of fun with crysis, especially the sandbox editor!!!

If not than cod4 & the orange box are the games for you

 

the sandbox editor looks coo, i like how you can play mods and everything, so i think get the game, what do yo uthink of the multiplayer?

 

Multi-player is fun when you figure it out Although when you first start and are trying to kill everyone with a pistol or just punching them to death because you don't know where all the guns are.. well those few rare kills you score are really satisfying

Sandbox is great for messing around in. Throw a hunter(giant spider thing) into the middle of a village full of korean clones and watch the mayhem

 

cool, i heard the MP wasnt that great, glad you liked it now, im going to pick it up, hope 8700 SLI will be able to play it okay^^

 

i found crysis gameplay mindnumbingly boring; uninstalled after i finished

i guess dx and ss2 spoiled me forever

 

I agree with the others, I play HL2 way more than crysis, graphics aren't nearly as good, but when the story is so interesting you don't really care.

 

I had a lot of fun playing Crysis. The interactive environment, different ways to play the game (stealth, guns blazing), and the Nano Suit were great. Not the most fun game I ever played but certainly not a bad one and I enjoyed it.

Note that Crysis is actually a 3-part series so this is only the first installment.

I use Crysis as a benchmark in all of my notebook reviews and to gauge the performance of my own machines.

 

No that was infinity ward (makers of COD4), and that's because they didn't sell anywhere near as many copies as Crysis sold on PC. At the time of their announcement, Crysis broke million sales in 2 months, and in the same time COD4 sold less than 70,000 for PC and almost 3 million for console. And that was like 4 months ago in January.

Once again, that infinity ward, not Crytek, and that 'over a million copies' in sales was a while back. While likely not hugely above that, likely getting close to 2 million by now.

Nah, never heard Crytek ever say that, once again I think you're confusing them with COD4/InfinityWard.

 

As for gameplay, everyone has different styles, I like COD4, Crysis and HL2 franchises. Different people like different things for different reasosn.

I love Oblivion, but two of my best friends HATE it and Morrowind, but they love Crysis, FarCry, HL2, but don't like multiplayer games like COD4 and UT2K4/UT3, just not their thing.

I don't like WOW or turn based games (except FallOut, and I don't know why I like that) for the most part, but to each their own.

Gameplay is like Coke vs Pepsi, the only way to know for sure is to try it yourself, just going on other people's opinion means you might miss out on what is the right one for you.

 

So the not-too-good sales thing is wrong, what about the moving-to-consoles thing? As far as I have seen, Crytek did Far Cry, then lots of console versions, then Crysis, and they have Far Cry 2 coming, with - as Chaz says - two more Crysis' (Cryses?). Presumably they are going to complete this trilogy on the PC, rather than release one or two games on consoles (now that would be really annoying!)..? Sounds to me like for at least a few years they have PC games more on the roadmap than they did before.

And I'd think that Crysis is the sort of game that will continue to garner sales long after release date - like me, a lot of people will be waiting to get afforable hardware powerful enough that can actually do the game justice. Wasn't that the aim with making a game that could stand the test of the next year or two's worth of hardware improvements? So that those who bought the game originally could unlock better graphics on their new GF20000 cards, and those who have just got said hardware would be buying the game to marvel at their ability to run the game at ALL?

 

i heard that next Crysis game will be on PC, PS3 and 360
not sure about number 3 (if there will be one)
maybe they might port number one to consoles?

 

Amen to that! Best FPS games to date.

 

Far Cry 2 has nothing to do with Crytek anymore, Ubisoft is now developing it.

 

Wow... that's news!

 

You'd be surprised how many people still think Crytek is developing Far Cry 2....

 

I thought Crytek still developed it, EA was just publishing it. Anyways I didn't know Crysis was a sand box type game, I do love myself some GTA. Maybe I will have to pick it up, if not to at least say I run it.

 

I have no clue what you are talking about or where you got your incorrect info. I never said infinity ward or activision or CoD4, and i don't have my facts mistaken either. I do know Activision was complaining about piracy, though. That much is for sure. Pretty much every developer is at this point.

But lets get our facts straight while we are here.

Call of Duty 4 and Crysis were released approximately a week apart from each other. CoD4 was the first week in november, Crysis was the second week. By February 1st, Crysis had sold 1 million copies. That is two and a half months from its release.

By Jamuary 25th, Call of Duty 4 had sold 7 MILLION copies. 400,000 of those belong to the PC. That is ALSO 2.5 months from ITS release.

Both titles had almost exactly the same shelf time to the day, and CoD4 outsold Crysis 7 to 1.

Now look back at your numbers. One of us is wrong. I'll cite sources if i have to.

As of mid april, CoD4 had sold another 2 million copies, bringing the total up to 9 million. Its extremely doubtful that Crysis doubled its total sales in the same period of time (and the second half of its shelf life). Extrapolating from the data we have already, Crysis probably sold another 300,000 copies between February and mid April.

And today, we can only extrapolate further, but you can't argue that Crysis has sold something on the order of 1.5 million copies, and CoD4 has sold some 10 million copies. Any way you spin this, CoD4 is outselling Crysis by 6 or 7:1, and if you look at the exclusive PC sales, Crysis outsells CoD4 by about 2:1. But you have to keep in mind that most people aren't going to buy BOTH a console version and the PC version, even if they have both sets of hardware.

I guess that other than defending my reign as information champion, the point I am trying to make is that Call of Duty is at least 6 times as cool as Crysis.

 

i think Ape is just messing with our minds...

and for Far Cry 2, it probably still has something to do with Crytek. i read on the Crytek website that some of their guys are working in the Ubisoft Montreal Studio. but officially Far Cry 2 is been developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft

 

Right, so first person shooters are just great on consoles

I know your just half joking with that but if sales made one game cooler than another then the medal of honour series would be the best fps games ever!

And it's mainly kids with playstations or xbox's who play those games because of hype.

Almost spent 55euro on cod4 myself a few months ago when i bought my laptop because of it Thankfully i went for crysis

 

Benchmark it's nothing but eye candy. Nothing new or mindblowing about it besides its graphics. COD4/Bioshock/Rainbow six vegas 2 all superior shooters IMO.

 

Crysis definately needs some advice from the Counter Strike dev team they made the most sold online game in the world... in terms of FPS

 

god i wish :|

i think i would just die, my favourite game with graphics like that :O