When a RTX4090 drops below 40fps in a game that came out in 2007, you know it must be crysis 1. But in this case this is not a good thing. The remaster is lackluster, full of bugs and more of a sidegrade than an upgrade compared to the original game on pc. Nevertheless I chose to play this remastered Version over the original as the 21:9 support is better in the remaster. The game itself is fine for modern standards. The middle part of the game is by far the best part, where you can outplay your enemies how you seem fit. That gets lost towards the end of the game. There is a suprisingly low amount of weapons in this game, I always assumed that there would be like 20 weapons you can use to play how you like it but there are like 7 main weapons and some are too similar to each other. There is only one type of pistol on the whole island that everyone is using and its not that great. I do not know what is up with the accuracy of the weapons in this game, but if you attach a laserpointer to your weapon and aim for the head of a guard that is not that far away from you, it is not guaranteed to hit where the laserpointer was on the target. That means you can miss the enemy several times even though you are right on target. That feels terrible and in combination with the removed ability to quicksave and load, it can ruin your stealthy approach rather quickly. The boss fight at the end is quite terrible as well and made my mouse cursor appear over the game as soon as the fight began. All in all, the game has some cool levels in the middle and is overall enjoyable, as long as your are willing to deal with constant performance issues, bugs in various forms and progression loss as the checkpoint system is not nearly as useful as the quicksave system was in the original.

Reviewed on Dec 07, 2022


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