This game is unusual in that it feels like a generic military shooter despite having a lot of wacky ideas. You have linear objectives but the levels are totally open with destructible environments that give a bit of a sandbox feel.

The gunplay isn't amazing but it's not bad, you also have a super suit that gives you some movement and stealth options but it's a bit underwhelming, you are still just a typical main character shooting guys. You can see some roots of the Far Cry series here which was interesting to me as I've not played the Crytek title. The enemy AI is quite terrible but they have excellent vision so they will spot you through the dense foliage, I ended up changing the difficulty to easy because it got quite tedious to play. Later on, the enemies become a lot more bullet spongey and annoying so I didn't regret the difficulty change at all.

While the story is generic and features many cheesy characters, it's actually fairly interesting. It does end on a cliff-hanger though, which is lame but wasn't entirely unexpected.

The main problem I had with this game is that it's surprisingly scuffed and even more surprisingly buggy. As a remaster of an established title, I was expecting a fairly polished experience but I had many issues with the controls and HUD as well as enemies randomly levitating or just disappearing. It worked better than the original for me at least but a lot of things in this game are terribly designed or at best poorly implemented.

While running around and blowing stuff up in the huge open levels is pretty fun and a cool novelty, I can't say this game is actually good by modern standards.

The most 3/5 game ever made.

Crysis is at it's best when you have freedom in how you approach an encounter. Too bad only a select few levels here even allow that. Also, the stealth is completely busted. Kind of a deal breaker when you have an invisibility button.

The last third of the game turns into an alien shooting gallery. It's not great. I still had fun overall but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they're curious about this weirdly culturally important game from 2007.

I tried to play crysis few years ago, played for an hour and shelved it for another day and that day was today!

Pros
+ Good gunplay, lots of guns to experience and have fun with.
+ Variety is very strong. Not all mechanics are totally polished but they all work good enough to give some fun time.
+ Graphics are really good, I mean original one is already looking ver solid but I like what they've done. Techinal side is not the greatest but acceptable.

Cons
- Sandbox Design is dumb, even world is big sometimes game forces you to follow the path even you can easily skip all the walking part.
- Stealth seems pretty useless in normal. Even you try to go silent enemies spot you from behind a wall and you have to start killing.
- Bugs are annoying. Especially the bug that causes final boss to slip away from the ship and makes it unkillable was REALLY ANNOYING.

Summary:
Crysis is a brainless shooter that wants to be more. It fails in some parts but it is solid 6 hours long experience. If you are looking for a FPS game with less elements to think about, play it. If you want to think while you shoot not the best choice tbh.

It's a good old game, but you can tell that it has a few years on it. What was bothersome is the issue with the sound. The cutscene dialogues are too quiet compared to the in-game dialogues. A good remake would do the trilogy justice. I played the game on Easy difficulty, and it could have been even easier. I want to progress a bit faster and mainly experience the story.

I give it a 6/10.

Translated from German to English with ChatGPT.

Despite playing the original second and third entries years ago, I never played the first one until now. I'd say the game is really fun, with its sandbox nature allowing different ways to play. It's story is exactly what the gameplay offers: epic sci-fi action, and that's enough to enjoy it, like a good action movie, you don't expect any "deepness" to it. There are, however, two major issues that stands out. AI is, from time to time, hilariously bad, and there are graphical glitches occuring occasionally.

Platinum trophy. Delta Difficulty

This game is effectively a stealth shooter. I expect and prefer to play this game as an open-world over-the-top supersoldier type shooter but Crysis isn't that. It's a very slow open forward moving tactical shooter with a lot of the same mechanics you'll find in those types of shooters.

However, a high point in this game is at the end of Chapter Relic. You come up to a landing zone deep in the night of the jungle, but there are enemies around and you don't know it. These enemies have the same capabilities as you, they're 4 Korean soldiers with nanosuits too. You don't know this yet because they aren't showing up on your radar until they turn off stealth mode or start shooting. At this point, I had this very predator-style back and forth where I was sneaking slowly while they were sneaking slowly and I kept baiting them by throwing grenades in open areas and then resuming stealth mode so they would think I was in that position, and they would attack there, allowing me to ambush them.

There's a huge bug in the mission Awakening where you can't see through the sniper scope or the visor when you reach the part where you fight the Koreans in nanosuits.

The final few missions where you fight the aliens are so shit that they completely change the pacing of the game and this game probably has the worst final boss in FPS history. In essence, there are only two alien types - the smaller ones and the bigger ones. They're both airborne-only enemies, and the missions where you encounter them tend to have much smaller maps like the aircraft carrier, and the enemies are bullet sponges that don't have any hit reactions so you're expected to use the stronger weapons such as missile launcher, gauss rifles, and miniguns. It's too bad that these encounters are shit compared to the sandbox nature of all the previous missions. The small aliens can only bum rush or shoot you while the bigger aliens just fly through the air shooting you from blind spots. They're such an aggravating enemy group to fight in comparison to the human + nanosuit soldiers that could do so much more such as flank you, throw grenades, enter stealth mode, use vehicles, etc.

The game has two real boss fights: the Korean general and the massive alien platform. Both are shit. The Korean general is a nanosuit soldier who isn't wearing a helmet but is a massive bullet sponge. Before the fight, you're knocked out and lose all ammunition so you have to use the pistol + SMG in the small room while the general has a minigun. He just eats everything while you scavenge for ammo.
The giant alien at the end of the game is the worst final boss of a shooter in recent memory. It's divided into 4+ different stages. First is an alien walker that you need to shoot with about 12 missile launcher shots, yet it has no hit reactions or health bar to tell you if you're doing anything to it. Then the real boss starts and you have to take down parts in stages while fighting waves of the aforementioned big flying aliens. Crysis is not frenetic nor fast enough of a game to constantly deal with that many enemies on the screen at once while being shot by a massive alien using a freeze ray and big explosions.