CRYSIS

It was hard not to be completely impressed when the first pictures and videos of Crysis appeared about 18 months ago. Scenes of jungle and huge war machines abroad expects light years beyond what seems possible. Of course, the two issues that revolves around Crysis since his announcement he has been delivering on these images and whether it would deliver a game worthy of those fancy graphics. It turns out that the answer to both questions is yes, as Germany Crytek has proved that his 2004 hit Far Cry was no fluke. In fact, it was only the beginning of this workshop. With his second effort Crytek has managed to deliver an exciting and incredibly advanced first-person shooter that virtually rewrote the rules for the entire genre.

Crysis is a game of foreign invasion full year 2020. An archeological team on a remote island in the Pacific is captured by an invasion force of the North Koreans and U.S. Special Forces team is sent to investigate the scientific and rescue. Clad in high-tech nanosuits able to boost your strength, speed and armor, as you temporarily concealment from the enemy, you are parachuted into a tropical paradise which is filled with intelligent enemies and anything else that tearing both the North Koreans and U.S. forces in tatters.

Like Far Cry, the first half of Crysis is essentially a "sandbox" game where you are placed in the middle of large levels and incredibly responsible for a goal. How do you do the job is almost entirely up to you, which is part of the brilliance of the design of the game For example, the environments are large enough to give you a wide range of latitude. Got to get to a certain point on the map? You can take a winding path that avoids patrolling and go stealth, or try the up-front approach and try to blast your way through, with the danger of enemy reinforcements arise. Need to infiltrate North Korea held a village? You can try the portal, or perhaps explore and find a quieter way in.

Couple these huge environments with the powers of the nanosuit, and you have a ton of other options. You can play as the eponymous character of the movie Predator and use your abilities concealment patrols stalk of North Korea, picking them off one by one and by observing the survivors react in the confusion. Who could be silenced through a gun, or simply come from behind a guard and grabbing him by the throat and throwing him off a cliff or through the roof of a building, or against a tree, or whatever suits your fancy catches. Improving the speed and strength to give you a surprising amount of mobility, so that you can vault to the top of buildings and down behind someone, or run until North Korea against a vehicle in the vicinity of 'a cliff and push overboard. In a heartbeat, you can choose between different roles, stealthy assassins to death apparently irresistible concessionaire. This is a game that makes you feel like a superhero, but not invincible, simply because you can not run few of the enemy. Crysis rewards smart, quick thinking.

It helps that the game has a high degree of advanced physics and destructibility in a highly dynamic. If you find yourself in a firefight in the jungle film is a treat, thanks to the way the balls are felling trees, while the branches sway from the impact. This is not just a visual effect or, as falling timber can kill if it falls on someone. There are all sorts of behaviors emerging as throughout the game, the events that spring completely unintended or unforeseen. In one case, the flames wreckage of a helicopter landed on a shack, crushing it and killing all those inside.

Meanwhile, the gunplay and ballistics modeling shooter make this feel as if you are handling real weapons. Try to hit a target at long ranges contests with the gun back and other factors. The North Koreans are encased in body armor, if they take some time to firearms, unless you aim at the head, which often puts them on the ground. East at your disposal a range of firearms, such as shotguns and assault rifles. One of the neat aspects of the game is that you can lay down your weapons on the fly, adding scopes, silencers and grenade launchers, on condition that you found. There are trade-offs for each add-on. Silent allow you to enter the guy quietly, even though they reduce the damage ball, it means that you have to make every shot count. Or flashlights mounted on your arms can help nightfall in the levels, but you will respond.

Crysis gives you all these toys and ratchets the action higher and higher, you get the deepest in it. The first level of the game, I present to combat sand and nanosuit. Therefore, the battles are becoming larger and more intense than the action escalates. You storm held by North Korean villages and bases; their meeting in your nanosuit; take part in a chaotic assault on a North Korean port, and from there the game is accelerating. Next is a wild reservoir in a battle tropical mountain valley, with helicopters and jet fighters roar overhead. There is a rush pure as your tank plows through the vegetation and trees strikes and tank missile fire broke out all around you. Meanwhile, the vehicle explosions are convincing, even in the way ammunition cooks and sends off the smoke spirals outwards. It is the visual poetry of destruction. You are not confined to your entire reservoir time, either. You can go out at any time and use your powers and costume gun to take on the enemy infantry. When they died, they fell take rocket launchers and hire vehicles in a cat-and-mouse style of play

As the events at stake continue to grow and find yourself inside the ship overseas, the zero-gravity environment provides a visual weird and wonderful again. When you browse the environment and engage strangers you must consider your way through the level. Escaping the foreign ship and you are thrown into an environment against the frozen alien enemy. After the foreign ship, the game is becoming less free and more linear form, but also in the action Ampère along the track, which reflects how the stakes are raised. Now that you are trying to fight out of the sphere of foreigners, which means dodging war machines that look like something from The Matrix. There are a few more surprises from this point before arriving at the final event.

The only criticism that can be brought back on the history is that it leaves you screaming for more. If there is a final package of adrenaline, you do not want the game to the end noting that this is the case. The solo campaign is about eight to 10 hours, which is a good amount for a shooter. There is a lot of replay, too, that you can experiment with a multitude of different approaches. In addition, it is nice to go back and try the biggest piece battles again and again because they can be conducted in different ways because of the dynamic nature of the struggle and artificial intelligence.

Speaking of the resolution, the AI is generally good in a fight, as enemy soldiers use cover and concealment effective. They can also be used to predict the fire suppression and are well positioned to launch grenades to flush out of hiding. Obtaining a shooting in the jungle with these guys is always nice, because they will make you work for it to the distressed default normal. (However, avian flu may suffer the same problem all shooters seem to have, especially since the bad guys sometimes do not know what is going on the road on their part.) When you take damage, and find cover your armor and health regenerate. If you die, you reload at the last checkpoint or to quickly. Meanwhile, Crysis, with a disk mode called Delta, which is very funny because, rather than making the game more difficult by cheating and give the bad guys more powerful weapons, Delta removes some of crutches gameplay that help you lower difficulty levels. For example, the grenades are no longer highlighted, so that you now have to pay attention, and your health regeneration is slower. And the best part of the delta is that all enemy soldiers express themselves fully in Korean, so unless you understand Korean, you are going to have a lot more time trying to understand what they intend to do.

The single player game is an accomplishment in itself, but Crytek has also included a software multiplayer mode called power struggle that combines the best of games and Counter Battlefield. The objective in the struggle for power is that each of 16 men team (for 32 participants in total) must destroy the opposing team from the base, but to do so, they must build exotic weapons at a Central prototype facility. To install prototype, however, both teams need to seize and hold power across the board. In addition, there are bunkers and factories that can be captured; capture a bunker allows your team to spawn in forward positions, while the capture of a factory allows you to purchase the vehicles that can help you sides. Whenever you help your team by killing the enemy or the arrest of a goal, you earn points that can be used to buy more advanced weapons, vehicles and machinery. It is an excellent multiplayer mode, and it comes with five large maps to support it. Keep in mind that everyone has their skills and agree, therefore, in addition to all the conditions of exploitation and slaughter and driving, there are speed and jumps operation and concealment going on.

Then there's instant action, which is essentially deathmatch with nanosuit powers. It is a mode of the series chaotic in some stunning levels, including what feels like a completely modeled Nimitz class aircraft carriers. You can run around the cockpit, a large portion of the hanger deck, and the number of lanes. Weapons are scattered everywhere in the instant action, so that it's just a mad melee of hunting guns, snipers, rocket launchers, or nanosuit improved fists. However, the deathmatch mode to a team that is lacking, which seems strange. Marathon team would have been welcome because it would have instilled some form of teamwork in another free for all frenzy. Finally, Crysis multiplayer functions integrated into the voice of support, which means that you need a microphone to talk to your fellow players and teammates in the struggle for power.

Graphically, Crysis appears photorealistic sometimes -- it's amazing. Crytek has managed to achieve a visual fidelity out everything that blows so far, and there are many times when you just have to stop and gape at what you see. Sometimes, it's just normal, as the setting sun cast all kinds of shadows and rays through the jungle canopy. At other times, it's something epic, like watching a huge war machine abroad stomping toward you. The impressive aspect of the graphics is just how it manages to make huge, open, dynamic, interactive levels. Everything seems surprising, near or far. Interacts with your squadmates, you can look at the mechanics of nerve their nanosuit, or the incredible facial animation that brings them to life. They are capable of the most subtle facial gestures to help convey emotion. Then you can sit on a ridge, and peers through binoculars at a village one kilometer away, scouting the location of guards and patrols machinegun posts. The mere fact that a large number of trees and buildings are destructible just adds a level of realism that the staggering.

You need a fairly high-end system to make the game look her best. In this regard, Crysis really embodies everything that is both exciting and intimidating on PC games. A dual-core CPU and the latest generation of video card can run the game at maximum detail settings competence, even if you have to lower the resolution a bit to do so. It is doubtful that a system has been built yet that can run the game with ultra-high resolution with all the graphic sliders maxed. Call detail settings to high, which is the next lower value, and Crysis always blows contemporary games out of the water. The results are somewhat mixed, with medium and low settings, however. In every detail settings, objects to the pop and out with some degree of consistency. It is embarrassing and frustrating at best and at worst, because it can have an impact gameplay. Crysis not support both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10, though the latter requires you run the game using Windows Vista. The video DX9 are impressive, but they really come to life in DX10, provided they have the equipment.

The game also sounds fantastic, the primordial "moans" that the island periodically releases, the soft crunch of dirt and branches under your feet, and all the background noise you would expect in the middle of the jungle. Activate your costume mantle, and everything seemed stifled. The music by the composer Inon Zur, feels inspired by the epic dozens of action films from Hollywood, while the actors' voices are also excellent, helping to provide some distinct characters and even a bit of humor.

If you put all this together, Crysis is simply remarkable. This is a game that pushes the limits in terms of technology and gameplay, and does so with aplomb. Crysis raises expectations for each shooter to be followed when it comes to graphics, interactivity, the environment immersiveness, AI, and gameplay. Quite simply, Crysis is the first person shooter at its best, the most advanced.