I know it's been out for 9 months or so, but I never picked it up way back when. With Crysis Warhead coming out, I've been rethinking my decision not to pick it up.

I liked Far Cry(not all of it, but generally I liked it) and vehicle sections don't bother me(unlike everyone else on these forums, apparently). I'm also well aware that there's a section in an alien spaceship and a barely controllable helicopter sequence that people tend not to like.

So, for $30, is it worth it?

Short answer, yes.

buy it,

don't listen to idiots saying its only worthwhile if you have a good pc, the game itself is brilliant with the modification and ai mechanics even without the graphics.

Long answer: HELL YES

Longer answer: Warhead assumes you've played Crysis in the storyline. So yeah, pick it up.

CmdrGoob:
Short answer, yes.

+++++++++++

It kicks way more ass than the first one. Check out the review on this website. They tell it like it is.

I would buy Warhead, honestly it's the game Crysis was meant to be. However if you want the whole storyline, you might want to opt for Crysis.

Best line in a game ever: "I'm British you muppet!"

If your machine can run it on a decent setting at more than 25fps, then get it, otherwise it's not worth it.

This August, I played this game on my 12 months old computer [Intel Q6600; 8800GTS 640MB; 2GB RAM; 1600 x 1050 monitor] on max settings at about 18 to 22 fps. It just felt like another sci-fi shooter, one that either doesn't run smoothly, or doesn't look any more impressive than any other sci-fi shooter. The graphics is very over rated. If this kind of sci-fi shooter is your thing, then maybe you can live with the storyline. Is it worth $30? If you have the time to play it online, then maybe. Otherwise save some money for Fallout 3 instead.

It's a good game. I think Far Cry was better, even though the nano suit is really good (put the quickkeys on, it makes using the suit much more easier).

Flying the VTOL isn't really hard. People exaggerate the difficulty. Sure, it's not that good section but just put your mouse sensitivity to max and you'll have no problems with it.

goodman528:
If your machine can run it on a decent setting at more than 25fps, then get it, otherwise it's not worth it.

This August, I played this game on my 12 months old computer [Intel Q6600; 8800GTS 640MB; 2GB RAM; 1600 x 1050 monitor] on max settings at about 18 to 22 fps. It just felt like another sci-fi shooter, one that either doesn't run smoothly, or doesn't look any more impressive than any other sci-fi shooter. The graphics is very over rated. If this kind of sci-fi shooter is your thing, then maybe you can live with the storyline. Is it worth $30? If you have the time to play it online, then maybe. Otherwise save some money for Fallout 3 instead.

Wait, wait, wait. You played it at 18-22 fps? What about lowering the settings?

Unknower:
It's a good game. I think Far Cry was better, even though the nano suit is really good (put the quickkeys on, it makes using the suit much more easier).

Flying the VTOL isn't really hard. People exaggerate the difficulty. Sure, it's not that good section but just put your mouse sensitivity to max and you'll have no problems with it.

goodman528:
If your machine can run it on a decent setting at more than 25fps, then get it, otherwise it's not worth it.

This August, I played this game on my 12 months old computer [Intel Q6600; 8800GTS 640MB; 2GB RAM; 1600 x 1050 monitor] on max settings at about 18 to 22 fps. It just felt like another sci-fi shooter, one that either doesn't run smoothly, or doesn't look any more impressive than any other sci-fi shooter. The graphics is very over rated. If this kind of sci-fi shooter is your thing, then maybe you can live with the storyline. Is it worth $30? If you have the time to play it online, then maybe. Otherwise save some money for Fallout 3 instead.

Wait, wait, wait. You played it at 18-22 fps? What about lowering the settings?

I played some parts on max settings, at a glitchy fps, but mostly played with all of the DirectX 10 eye candy disabled, at 30+ fps. It just felt like a stupid trade off for a game marketed entirely on graphics, you can have a pictures slide show, or you can have a pretty average sci-fi shooter. I borrowed it from a friend and didn't have the time to finish the game, but played through 5 or 6 hours of it.

Warhead is a good buy for 30 bucks. It may be a little short...but what do you expect from an expansion (stand alone), but it's a real fun ride. The multiplayer is fun too, especially power struggle if you got a good team goin. If you got a good enough computer, and like fun action packed shooters, Warhead is a good buy.

Eggo:

goodman528:
I played some parts on max settings, at a glitchy fps, but mostly played with all of the DirectX 10 eye candy disabled, at 30+ fps. It just felt like a stupid trade off for a game marketed entirely on graphics, you can have a pictures slide show, or you can have a pretty average sci-fi shooter. I borrowed it from a friend and didn't have the time to finish the game, but played through 5 or 6 hours of it.

http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=23117

*sigh* newbs...

lol, thanks for the link, it looks like a mod that allows Crysis to run on better settings more smoothly. Shame I won't have any use for it. Even more so that the original programmers were too stupid to do something like that in the first place.

For 30 dollars? Yes, it's worth that price. Especially since the mod community is so huge now.

If you can't play it at high/very high with dx10 then don't buy it.

Not worth it.

Richard Groovy Pants:
If you can't play it at high/very high with dx10 then don't buy it.

Not worth it.

And...why not? OH NOES I CANTZ PLAY ON MAX SETTINGS!! you dont need to have high graphics to have fun in the game ya know...

-Seraph-:

Richard Groovy Pants:
If you can't play it at high/very high with dx10 then don't buy it.

Not worth it.

And...why not? OH NOES I CANTZ PLAY ON MAX SETTINGS!! you dont need to have high graphics to have fun in the game ya know...

With that game?
Yes you do.

The story is shallow,
the gameplay has been seen before
(although the cloak function is an interesting way of giving our koreans friends a wedgie), and the veihcle section plain sucks
(driving the jet is the equivalent of driving a tractor where the wheels are squares.)

All im saying is if you don't have a rig which
can run the game with shaders on very high than you're missing out an awful lot.

Crysis is famous for what? It's story? Posh and tosh.

The gameplay in Crysis is fantastic. How many other FPSes give you so much open world freedom for approaching objectives any way you want? Far Cry 1, any others? How many other games have done such a good implementation of ability powers in FPSes? Deus Ex, maybe, but even there there wasn't as much need for speed and tactics in switching ability.

I think a lot of the gameplay fun comes from how the player approaches playing the game. If you only basically run straight towards every objective with one ability on, then it plays much like every other FPS. But if you're clever you can use fast changes between suit abilities and the freedom of the maps to scout, plan, ambush and kill and then disappear, and you'll feel like the predator and have a blast.

CmdrGoob:
The gameplay in Crysis is fantastic. How many other FPSes give you so much open world freedom for approaching objectives any way you want? Far Cry 1, any others? How many other games have done such a good implementation of ability powers in FPSes? Deus Ex, maybe, but even there there wasn't as much need for speed and tactics in switching ability.

It's not an open world when there's only one place to go to..
Using all abilities means your suit power is gone before you kill half a group, making the fancy suit as effective in damage prevention as a cardboard box, especially because it appears the suit is powered by the same technology as the Arbiter's(Halo2) cloaking device.(it certainly has the same amount of cloaking time)

Crysis is an amazing game. The people who claim otherwise are generally the people who never played past the demo. Yes, it's true that the latter half of the game is almost entirely linear, but it's still fun and works for the story just fine. Impressively cinematic.

Crysis is also a slower, more tactical game than most people realise as well. You can die in only a few hits if you're not careful, the game throws enemies at you from all sides in wide-open environments, and the AI is the best I've ever seen in a shooter (especially given the very open nature of the game). However, it also compensates from providing you with four on-demand super-powers, which, while not revolutionary in and of themselves, allow you to change your tactics at any time and exploit the environment to its fullest. Combine that with excellent physics (why take pot shots at enemies inside a building when you can just drive a car off a cliff and smash it to pieces?), vehicles, weapon modifications, and the ability to interact with just about anything in the game (you can pick up a wooden crate and sneak around while holding it in front of you, or just throw it at someone), and you've got a recipe for almost endless fun.

Seriously, incredibly under-rated game by most people I've met online, who are convinced it's just a technical showcase without anything behind it. If you have the hardware (and it's not that bad, honestly; a mid-range gaming computer today will be able to handle it on high settings just fine), then it's more than worth your time and money.

Oh, and yes, the story basically blows... but so does Gears of War's, and I don't see anyone bashing Epic's bore-fest over that.

Flour:
It's not an open world when there's only one place to go to..
Using all abilities means your suit power is gone before you kill half a group, making the fancy suit as effective in damage prevention as a cardboard box, especially because it appears the suit is powered by the same technology as the Arbiter's(Halo2) cloaking device.(it certainly has the same amount of cloaking time)

Huh? The cloaking is extremely useful if you know how to use it. The idea isn't to give you a magic invisibility button, it's to let you augment your stealth skills by running from cover to cover unseen. You can actually get through a very large portion of the game without killing a single person if you're good. As I said above, Crysis is not a game where you can rush in Call of Duty-style and blast everything while shrugging off any harm. You really have to be smart with the environment, use of cover, your suit powers, flanking, etc. in order to succeed. And yes, the game is linear, and not quite a sandbox, but it lets you accomplish objectives more or less however you want to, from any angle, at your own pace, and in some cases, in any order or not at all. Compared to pretty much every other shooter out there, the environments are enormous. It's not Grand Theft Crysis and it was never marketed as such.

searanox:
Blah blah blah..

What he said.
Seriously, Crysis is awesome even if you can't afford to run it on high settings. If you're concerned about the story get Crysis so you understand it, but Crysis: Warhead is preferable if you like online and an overall better (and cheaper) game. Yes warhead is shorter but that's only because it eliminates the somewhat monotonous trekking about that occasionally happened in Crysis

Warhead is actually about as long as the original game if you skip the vehicle segments and go on foot, and play on the hardest difficulty setting. I enjoyed some of the calmer, even relaxing parts of Crysis, but I can see how some people (cretins) would just want to get to the action.

Flour:

CmdrGoob:
The gameplay in Crysis is fantastic. How many other FPSes give you so much open world freedom for approaching objectives any way you want? Far Cry 1, any others? How many other games have done such a good implementation of ability powers in FPSes? Deus Ex, maybe, but even there there wasn't as much need for speed and tactics in switching ability.

It's not an open world when there's only one place to go to..
Using all abilities means your suit power is gone before you kill half a group, making the fancy suit as effective in damage prevention as a cardboard box, especially because it appears the suit is powered by the same technology as the Arbiter's(Halo2) cloaking device.(it certainly has the same amount of cloaking time)

No, I'd still call it open world. It's not like COD4 (which is still an excellent game) where even when you're surrounded by fields, magic fences block every route except one. There is one primary objective to focus on, but within that you have freedom to move around. It doesn't let you walk to the other side of the island, but would you even really want to do that when the objective is right there? The GTA series are open world games, but they've constrained the areas you explore based on a linear main story. It's not a sandbox game, but it's open.

If you run around in the open getting shot at, you will run out of energy quickly. Hint: don't do that. You need to control the tempo of battle using movement and cover to keep giving your energy a chance to recover. Once I started getting that down, I had plenty of energy unless I got suprised, but then I switched to speed and ran off (which still helps even without energy) to recover energy and was soon ready again. If cloak lasted any longer it would be way imbalanced, don't think of it as a magic wand to get you across an entire battlefield, use it as a method to move from one piece of cover to a different piece of cover undiscovered.

Richard Groovy Pants:

-Seraph-:

Richard Groovy Pants:
If you can't play it at high/very high with dx10 then don't buy it.

Not worth it.

And...why not? OH NOES I CANTZ PLAY ON MAX SETTINGS!! you dont need to have high graphics to have fun in the game ya know...

With that game?
Yes you do.

The story is shallow,
the gameplay has been seen before
(although the cloak function is an interesting way of giving our koreans friends a wedgie), and the veihcle section plain sucks
(driving the jet is the equivalent of driving a tractor where the wheels are squares.)

All im saying is if you don't have a rig which
can run the game with shaders on very high than you're missing out an awful lot.

Crysis is famous for what? It's story? Posh and tosh.

once again...NO you dont need the mind blowing graphics in order to enjoy the game. There are enough game play elements there to make the game enjoyable as it is. Just because it's known for it's graphics doesn't mean that's all the game is good for playing.

-Seraph-:

Richard Groovy Pants:

-Seraph-:

Richard Groovy Pants:
If you can't play it at high/very high with dx10 then don't buy it.

Not worth it.

And...why not? OH NOES I CANTZ PLAY ON MAX SETTINGS!! you dont need to have high graphics to have fun in the game ya know...

With that game?
Yes you do.

The story is shallow,
the gameplay has been seen before
(although the cloak function is an interesting way of giving our koreans friends a wedgie), and the veihcle section plain sucks
(driving the jet is the equivalent of driving a tractor where the wheels are squares.)

All im saying is if you don't have a rig which
can run the game with shaders on very high than you're missing out an awful lot.

Crysis is famous for what? It's story? Posh and tosh.

once again...NO you dont need the mind blowing graphics in order to enjoy the game. There are enough game play elements there to make the game enjoyable as it is. Just because it's known for it's graphics doesn't mean that's all the game is good for playing.

Once again yes.

Describe the gameplay elements please.

Save money for Left 4 Dead unless you have cash to burn.
Or Fallout 3.
And if you don't have a decent computer, don't even think about it.

Richard Groovy Pants:
Describe the gameplay elements please.

I already did. No other shooter is as visceral, interactive and cerebral as Crysis is.

-Seraph-:

once again...NO you dont need the mind blowing graphics in order to enjoy the game. There are enough game play elements there to make the game enjoyable as it is. Just because it's known for it's graphics doesn't mean that's all the game is good for playing.

Yes you do. The only thing exceptional about Crysis are its nearly photo-realistic graphics. Take those away and you have an average at best shooter with a cartload of bad design decisions. Like the PC doesn't have enough of those already. Crysis - Graphics = Bad Game.

ReepNeep:
Yes you do. The only thing exceptional about Crysis are its nearly photo-realistic graphics. Take those away and you have an average at best shooter with a cartload of bad design decisions. Like the PC doesn't have enough of those already. Crysis - Graphics = Bad Game.

Do you just ignore every argument that you can't reasonably respond to?

ReepNeep:

-Seraph-:

once again...NO you dont need the mind blowing graphics in order to enjoy the game. There are enough game play elements there to make the game enjoyable as it is. Just because it's known for it's graphics doesn't mean that's all the game is good for playing.

Yes you do. The only thing exceptional about Crysis are its nearly photo-realistic graphics. Take those away and you have an average at best shooter with a cartload of bad design decisions. Like the PC doesn't have enough of those already. Crysis - Graphics = Bad Game.

Hmm, I should rip on a game and say it is a terrible game without giving any reason for it.

Either explain, or shut up.

searanox:

Richard Groovy Pants:
Describe the gameplay elements please.

I already did. No other shooter is as visceral, interactive and cerebral as Crysis is.

Visceral - Condemned 1 is a lot more brutal than this.

Interactive - hmm i have no idea on what you mean by this...

Cereblar - OH come on! Rainbow Six, Stalker? I guarantee that those are a lot more cerebral than crysis, you know why? Because you're friggin weak compared to your opponents! Unlike crysis in which you're some kind of hybrid between batman and super-man fighting Korean adolescents with ww2 guns!

The only thing you could argue about Crysis is that you have a full 360º on how you're going to win the game, you can enter the bases from any point and either enter shooting it like a psychopath or being a stealthy bastard like solid snake...

Anyway if you take the graphics away the game doesn't hold on it's own..