A unique three-act structure forces the player to use real-time armor and weapons customization to adapt constantly to an ever-changing world.
Encounter a frightening and very original alien species—they use their senses intelligently and work together to present the most challenging enemy yet in an FPS.
Control of a variety of land, sea, and air vehicles while battling the alien menace, including trucks, tanks, boats, and helicopters. Explore a living, dynamic world where earthquakes, breaking ice, landslides, and tornados pose an ever-present threat.

Enjoy 32-player multiplayer with real-time armor and weapons customization, plus an all-new multiplayer mode that combines player modification and tactical objectives.
Emergent gameplay means that in-game actions affect future outcomes and give each player a unique experience. Highly robust and easy-to-use mod toolset allows players to create their own expansive levels for both multiplayer and single-player modes.
The Cry ENGINE 2 engine delivers the most realistic environments, spectacular special effects, physics game engine, lighting system, and enemy Al.

The game

When taking first glance at Crysis you may think to yourself that it is just another average shooter. It is by far one of the best shooters that has been released since the highly acclaimed Halo and Half-Life series of games. Don’t just take my word for it; let the game speak for itself. As soon as you start watching the opening cut scene and begin, playing you will soon realize how special this game truly is.

Taking full use of Crytek’s very own second-generation game engine aptly named, CryEngine2, the game prides itself on amazing graphics and enhanced game world dynamics. This game engine gives all types of environments a real world look and feel, everything from plant life to water reacts to weather effects, gunfire, explosions and from any kind of movement. All buildings, vehicles and objects react to everything except most weather effects.

In addition, using the CryEngine2 on character and body animations makes them seem entirely lifelike and can even give distinct features to the face. As you can see, Crytek went all out on this aspect of the game but it is not the only aspect that they took their time on.

Adding to the game engine, Crytek went for fun and smart gameplay. This is isn’t your all out, guns a’ blazing type of shooter. You are rewarded for smart and at times quick thinking. The best way to play the game is to be as stealthy as you can. Before you decide on how to tackle a certain area, it is best to scope out for enemies. You can do this by using your trusty binoculars that will surround them with a white border, so whenever you decide to use your binoculars again all enemies will always be marked.

Weapons

All weapons feel as if you are handling the real thing. Each weapon type reacts with its own type of recoil, which makes shooting more of a challenge. When you fire a sniper rifle and you miss a headshot or do not take them down with your first shot then it may take a second to get them back in your scope. Even firing an automatic weapon can make you miss if you have a heavy trigger finger, for this, you must tap the trigger then the gun stays under control. As you can see, in Crysis, each weapon type reacts differently and depending on how you use them, will give you a different result.

There are eight weapon types, Assault, Submachine, Shotgun, Sniper, Heavy, Ordinance, Grenade and, of course a weapon of mass destruction. One cool thing about the weapons is that they can be modified on the fly, modifying allows you to add attachments like silencers, different scopes and grenade launchers.

The Nanosuit allows you to perform five different, let’s call them super abilities. These abilities include strength, speed, armor, cloak and adaptations. Strength allows you to destroy some buildings, pick-up and throw objects long distances, jump onto rooftops and up cliffs, attack people with trees and other objects and finally you can grab enemies and toss them into objects or as far as you can. Speed allows you to run at great speeds to get somewhere fast or run up on enemies and attack without warning. Armor allows for some protection against bullets and some explosives. Cloak allows you to become invisible making it easier to get by enemies, hide from enemies or perform whatever act you want. Lastly is Adaptations, the suit will intelligently adapt to any situation that you are forced into, these aren’t actions performed by the user but are automatic. The Nanosuit can perform many abilities making you almost super-human but not invincible.

Accessible gaming

Let’s begin with the controls, they are completely remappable as with all FPS games on the PC. There is a bright side to the controls, there aren’t an abundance of keyboard commands that need to be used or remembered.

On the down side, if you are unable to drive or fly with the keyboard you must use a controller or remap the keys or the mouse to make possible to drive or fly. Being able to control vehicles in the game is important because there is one mission where you must drive a Tank. There is a second mission where you need to fly, flying is done by mouse and keyboard but the mouse can be used for some of the flying. Both are fun missions but must be completed. The rest of the game driving is optional.

There is Closed Captioning but it is only limited to cut scenes and some mission details. The rest of the game you must rely on enemy chatter and sounds of enemies moving around. The game could be played by the deaf but if you are, you will really need to pay attention to your surroundings.

For those that are color blind, there are really only a couple minor issues. One is when obtaining an enemy in your reticule it will turn red but you will not have a hard time distinguishing enemies from allies. Second is using the binoculars, when looking through them most of the color turns green like night vision. Although, there is some black around targets and other objects. To be honest, the game can be played without the binoculars.

Despite some of the accessibility flaws in Crysis, it is still one of the greatest games of all time. This is an FPS on steroids, keeping you on your toes with some surprising twists and turns in both the plot and gameplay. Adding to all the fun is the game engine, it alone adds many key elements to the game making the scenery and dense jungle areas beautiful and realistic. This also includes the feel to the weapons and overall physics.

There is a possible work around on some of the accessibility, making it playable to most disabilities. Like they say, “If there is a will, there is a way” and as always, we recommend trying the demo before buying.