I find the history behind Crisis fascinating. I love how the developers just wanted to make a game so ahead of its time and didn't care about hardware limitations. It's interesting now that every game released easily looks like this or better, but the fact it still holds up this well despite coming out in 2007 is insane (I know this is a remaster, but the original still looks great).

The game its divisive among fans because of the (spoiler alert for the 17 year old game) fact it goes full alien in the final third. I personally very much enjoyed the shift. I didn't find the open level gameplay of the start of the game to be very exciting anyway. I hated how stealth was nigh impossible because of how well the enemies can see, and also just the sheer amount of enemies - to the point I still don't know if they were infinitely respawning at points.

I know that the first levels where you fight the humans are definitely more open to experimentation than the final linear sections - I won't argue against that - but I found that how fun and different the aliens were as combatants that it made up for the game cutting back on its more open elements.

This game is quite challenging, and not always in a fair way. I only played on normal difficulty, but I still found myself dying a lot - and usually to something I didn't even know was there. Regardless of my own skill level, something that is quantifiable is how infrequent the checkpoints are in the earlier missions. Dying to a man that was hiding silently in a bush is one thing; it is another to lose 10 minutes of infiltration progress and to have to resupply myself, walk back over to the base and then try again. This problem I have with checkpoints completely vanishes as the game gets more linear so maybe that's also a reason I don't mind the shift.

Overall, Crysis was fun. It was frustrating at times, sure, but honestly this game is very short anyway so having to die and reload a lot at least made it so I couldn't blast through the whole thing in 5 hours. The gameplay is solid and the graphics are lovely, while the story is completely fine as far as video game stories go.

The first Crysis is pretty much a tech show-off and... that's about it.
Can't say i've ever been a fan of the first Crysis, but yeah, I must admit that it was impressive for the year 2007, it looked really good and not many PCs could run it. It had cool mechanics like the invisibile cloak or the fact that the environment was destroyable, a tropical setting just like the first Far Cry but this time in North Korea with robot aliens. The game sounds great on paper but in reality it doesn't excel in anything.
The remaster isn't that great either.

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.

(reposting as I reviewed a different version of the game from the one I played)

The graphics are still good I suppose.

The openness of the encounters and the satisfying guns are still fun to this day. You can rush straight in, sneak through the bushes and take the enemy by surprise, circle around with a boat, or my favorite strategy, ram through an enemy roadblock with a truck. And there are even more possibilities than that, thanks to the robust physics and the game's signature feature, the cloak. There's more expression here than in many other shooters.

Though your soldier allies will frequently advise a stealthy approach, stealth is basically nonexistent as enemies can see very long distances and there is no investigation state when enemies get even the tiniest glimpse of your nanosuited ass; they go from completely unaware of your presence straight to full alert. The cloak is more for repositioning than stealth. I notice a lot of fans raving about how you can use stealthy tactics but I found stealth borderline unusable, which really bummed me out. I still had fun thinking up tactics on the fly however.

Unfortunately everyone is correct when they say Crysis drops off quite hard. I didn't hate the final levels as much I thought I would, but it's undeniably a front-loaded game. The zero-G and VTOL sections were the worst parts for me though. Just shooting aliens wasn't too bad. It was still a competent shooter at the end; it just lacked the tactical and expressive gameplay that kept the game on the map when "but can it run Crysis?" wasn't funny anymore.

Eu decidi jogar no hard pq lembro q apanhava muito da dificuldade delta qndo era mlk, mas estranhei muito o quão fácil tava... Fui dar uma pesquisada, e de fato, dificuldade e ia dos inimigos foi completamente destroçada, principalmente dos aliens dos últimos níveis. É um port de PC do remaster do port de console do original e dá pra ver a merda que ficou. Os controles de tank, vtol e etc são HORRIVEIS e os últimos níveis estão tão bugados que ta quase injogavel... Meu jogo crashou tanto no Exodus que eu quitei do jogo. De vdd deplorável o que fizeram com isso aqui, pretendia rejogar os 3, mas esse aqui já me broxou, nao vou nem continuar

Far Cry was so bad, I am cautiously approaching this one-

Ah, I owe you an apology. I wasn't familiar with your game.

Nomad does small talk with his team, drinks some lean, and there he go. It's time to attack people of color. Editor's note: they are at war there is no personal motivation behind Nomad's actions. Anyways his crew gets their shit rocked throughout the game but luckily he pulls through with the power of friendship patriotism. Suspiciously only the US is trying to save the world of an alien invasion but maybe other countries are just shy 😳

Similar to Bioshock, you mow down waves of enemies while switching between your abilities. The environment looks better than Far Cry, first game that approached the ceiling of realistic graphics for sure! Kick back and enjoy... because also ultra realistic is that everyone and everything you grab just dies. Look what these hands do m8. Even the final boss tossed me around like a crepe and I lived to tell the tale. Spectacle of a final fight btw holy grandiose.

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.

Yani Crysis övüldü , herkes çok beğeniyordu , türk oyunlarının mihenk taşıdır deniyordu ama üzülerek söylüyorum ki bu o kadar iyi bir oyun değil. Kendisine özel çok güzel bir dünya tasarlanmış , üstüne güzel bir hikaye de yapılmış ama oyunun çoğu kısmı diğer kısımlarına göre çok alt seviye bir iş olarak kalıyor. Mesela yapay zeka kötü yapılmış. Bazı konularda çok güzel bir iş çıkartılmışken bazı kısımlarda patates durumda. 10 num silahlarla ilerleyebiliyorsun çok güzel sana mükemmel bir özgürlük veriyor ama yok silah hissiyatı iğrenç olduğundan bir eksiklik hissediyorsun. Boncuk atıyorsun resmen. Boss savaşları ise normal savaşlardan bile kötü , rezalet. Sonrasında piyasada olduğundan çok memnun olmama rağmen belirtmeliyim ki bu oyunun seslendirmesi de rezalet. Bazıları çok iyi seslendirirken bazıları aşırı kötü ya da bazıları çok güzel seslendirme yapıyor ama ana uygun değil falan filan ben ingilizce oynamanızı öneririm. He bir de gidip ses ingilizce altyazı türkçe olsun yapamıyorsun adamlarlar eklememiş ama biraz bakınarak internetten bunun düzeltilme yöntemini bulabilirsiniz. Kısacası bu oyun çok büyük bir potansiyeli olan ama potansiyeline çıkamamış yine de büyüklüğüyle ve seviyesiyle tüm gece boyu dağlarda bizi ulumaya teşvik edecek bir oyun. En iyi aksiyon shooter oyunlar arasına giremese de iyiler arasına girer. Ben öneriyorum. (Bu arada çok gömdüm gibi gözüküyor ama bu kötüler çok kötü değil gene bir ortalama bir oyunda bulabileceğiniz seviyede işlere sahip , böyle olmasına rağmen oyunun seviyesini düşürmesini de ihmal edemeyiz )
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(Disclaimer: Played this via PS5 with backwards compatibility, so I don’t have much to complain about performance on consoles)

Despite not having smooth gunplay, a few missions dragging on, and the final boss is terrible. I still had a pretty good time with Crysis 1 despite its rough edges due to the free flow structure which combined with these nanosuit abilities carries holds the combat together to be fun as hell despite not controlling smoothly even when I’m fighting against the aliens which I know is a hot take.

It's also no secret that this game is a technical marvel to look at, but I like that it isn’t just all about the graphics. It also showcases the crazy physics that makes stuff like throwing objects or enemies much more satisfying or chaotic. Overall, I’m happy to have checked out this game years later after hearing so much about it and I mostly don’t regret my time with it.