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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $29.95
You Save: $10.04 (25%)
New (33) Used (8) from $22.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  175 reviews
Sales Rank: 746
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15266
Model: Crysis
UPC: 014633152661
EAN: 0014633152661
ASIN: B000PS2XDO
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand New, Sealed
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| Customer Reviews:
 As good as it can get October 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Exciting, interactive galore and runs on highest settings on my 3Ghz dual core processor with 3 GB ram and Nvidia 8800 card.
 Online is weird and single player was better. October 29, 2008
I have a 8800 gtx and this game needs two for me online. Be ready to be dissappointed on many other machines that I have tried, my roomates and brothers. They have ati cards and it wont run sometimes or the framerate is really messed up. I liked the single player mode more than the multiplayer because it is more involved.
Best Game Ever October 27, 2008
I bought this game last month and I'm still playing with downloaded customs maps, I played it at high settings and it looks great, the enviroment is really cool, nice gameplay too.
 Addictive October 21, 2008
This game has turned out to be pretty addictive when playing. Time just slips away as you progress thru the game. Graphics are wonderful, levels interesting and once in awhile a little overwhelming until you try another approach to solving the level. All in all, a game that is worth the price, doesn't become boring, levels usually offer something new, and is just plain fun to play.
Best shooter I ever played, but has a few flaws October 18, 2008
The short version is that this is the best shooter I ever played.
The longer version is that especially during the first half of the game, this provides an unprecedented experience. The graphics are great. The game play is great. There is not a frustrating moment in sight. Immersion is awesome. I never had as much of a feeling of "being there". Vehicles drive great. It is an experience you want to go on and on...
Unfortunately, the whole thing gets visible worse in the later part of the game, once you get inside the alien compound. First, you have no ammo, as you go through one of the most disorienting levels I ever played. So you end up literally punching the aliens if you happen to start out the level wrong.
Once you get out of there, things get chaotic and you just kinda blow your way through without much aiming. Then you get to a flying sequence that is borderline broken, the thing is so unresponsive. Aliens are flying around you, and it takes you 20 seconds to turn your ship around. Not fun. (A patch made this a little better but it is still like a low-budget, awful game mixed in for no real reason other than making the game longer perhaps). All of a sudden, random tornadoes creep up behind you and suck you in and there is nothing you can do about it. (And it will probably take you 5 or 10 attempts before you even realize what is going on. At first you think it is just random crashes).
In the later levels, the game also tends to leave you without much guidance or even misguidance. At one point you need to walk into a chamber. Over your comm system you hear "can your suit handle this level of radiation?", which your character confidently answers "yes it will". So you walk in, and - whack - you are dead. Too much radiation. What the...?!?
Luckily, the game automatically saves often and at fair spots. In addition, you can go to the menu and save anywhere you want. I felt that that was a great system. You don't quick-save all the time, but if you really do end up at a spot where you wish you could save yourself, you can.
I should also mention that the game crashes a lot, even with patch 1.2. I must have experienced 10+ blue-screens playing this game as well as a number of crashes to the desktop. I am not sure why, but it seems that is one characteristic that all German games share. Where is that German engineering?!? (I can say this, because I am from Europe myself :-)
This is still a great game and I had a blast. With better quality control and the game play fun staying up in the last 3rd of the game, this would have been a 5-star game no questions asked. As things stand, with the last parts of the game I remember having been bad, I am tempted to give it 3 stars, but 4 is more appropriate overall.
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