Originally Posted by =Sarc=

It's a beautiful game but Magnum is right. The actual game play is not really that great. The suit isn't very useful and seems more like a game mechanism to make it less cheesy that you can survive a bunch of shots. The super strength isn't very useful other than the areas where you have to jump high. The cloak is pretty good but there still isn't much of a feeling that you can be ghost since you can't move much before uncloaking. The super speed is entirely useless to get anywhere.

The damage system is definitely twisted. You can slap a sniper scope on an assault rifle but it's hard to get head shots. The super strength doesn't steady your sights very much. Magically using the sniper rifle allows one hit kills to the torso when multiple assault rifle hits to the torso does squat. Head shots are sometimes ineffective when the enemy is wearing a helmet. You can score a hit square in the face and it somehow makes his helmet fall off. I've also tried throwing people and that's marginally amusing until an enemy easily gets up after a 20 foot drop. Although, he drowns within seconds when thrown into shallow water.

Performance is absolute crap. Sure, the game looks pretty but so does COD4 and that runs much better. This definitely needs some optimization to reach a wider group of players.

The last level was buggy too. I kept falling through the ship decks and couldn't get out. I restarted from a savepoint so many times just because of that. The AI is buggy too. They magically see grenades even when facing the other direction. They see grenades through smoke. They can't see you when cloaked even though you have this stupid red laser or flashlight on.

I'd give Crysis a 75% at most.

Ditto, I agree with the above that aliens == I'm out and although I'm a sci-fi fan, I like watching not playing aliens .

I have great great hope for the obsedian edge mod mentioned above to justify my purchase.