Crysis: overrated, average
Xtric8
40% score
Everything is sloppy in this game. It's sloppy coding, the characters are bad and the AI is stupid. The one advantage to this game is the use of the suit which gives you a handful of options to activate at one time such as Strength, Speed, Chameleon and the default 'increased armor.' The scenery is ok since you have some room to maneuver and it's not just hallways and caves which is definitely a plus, after that it just plain sucks and I think it's due to rushed, sloppy coding. I have a year old system with an NVIDIA card, 2 GB of ram, and a core duo which was top of the line when I got it, and this game drags frame by frame. Plot: there is no plot. I hated all the characters and I was completely indifferent when they died., actually I was happy because that meant the bad B-movie storyline would stop. This is supposed to be a crack spec ops unit, but the characters act like angry thugs with no discipline, constantly arguing and mouthing off to your leader. All of them of course end up dying for no reason before there was any further character development. AI: Stupid. Here is one example: you're driving a vehicle or firing from a machine gun nest, AI shoots at you. You turn on your chameleon suit: AI has no idea where you are.... stupid. They then give you clues "I know you're here somewhere" "I think I hear something." Where did I go? Nowhere, I'm still there driving my visible vehicle and AI has no idea so they must think there's a vehicle driving itself when before they saw me driving it. Vehicles: Explode when you try to run over someone and you die every time. Explode when you roll no matter how fast you're going and you die every time. Are virtually impossible to navigate without crashing. Despite all that, they are seemingly impervious to machine gun fire. You can drive around and get shot up but the truck keeps truckin. Overall it's sloppy code. This is no more spectacular than any other 1st person shooter and in most cases it's sub-par, but you need an expensive rig to run it. That only means sloppy code and it shows.
