Crysis and Crysis: Warhead are often described as some of the best first-person shooters of modern-day. Contrary to the next parts of the series, these two titles offered really large environments in which players could cause havok and approach their objectives via different routes. And we are happy to report that both of these games are now available on GOG, completely DRM-free.
In Crysis, you take the role of Jake “Nomad” Dunn who is part of the Raptor team. Raptor Team is sent to one of the Lingshan Islands in the Philippines under the control of North Korean soldiers after a distress call is received from civilian archeologists on the island. Soon, though, players find out that aliens have invaded Earth.
In Crysis: Warhead, you take the role of sergeant Sykes and find yourself behind enemy lines, on a mission to retrieve a sensitive piece of cargo.
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the best 2 crysis in the saga before the “consolization”
Both DRM-free and completely unoptimized for modern GPU hardware.
Some odd frame rate drops in a few places… that’s it.
That is your GPU usage falling to ~40 percent.
lol on my old gtx 680 i could max out crysis at 1920×1080 with 8x anti aliasing
fps 55-75 rare drop to mid 40’s,im pretty sure no one with a decent gpu drop below 50 fps nowaday
it’s a 2007 game. it is a CPU problem. it uses just one thread.
HD 7790 and pushing at 50 fps on “medium” settings.
Which is why anyone still using Crysis for benchmark purposes uses Warhead, rather than Crysis base 😛
What do you expect? Crytek stopped any support to Crysis after two measly patches saying they want to concentrate on the sequel so I don’t think they would start caring now. The last time we see them touch Crysis was when they ported the XBox360 version a couple of years back.
At least modern hardware can power through most of the game.
meh. Crysis is just a “casualized” Far Cry.
i played far cry and yes crysis is easier,but its become far cry enemies AI is ridiculous and apart headshots(later even those are not enough because they got helmets) they are also bullets sponge…they spot you miles away and have crazy accuracy and are super agressive they don’t care rushing your cover full automatic fire in your face in the first far cry they feel more like terminators than humans…and the worst are the trigens if you thought crysis aliens are annoying(which they are not in my opinion) those takes the cake can kill you in a few hits and can jump toward you from 50 meters away destroying you and the worst is that they take a shitload of bullets to die…so no the first far cry is inferior to crysis gameplay wise and the difficulty spikes are bullshit
there is a review of ggmanlives on youtube that express my feeling about the first far cry( a bit harshly because i actually loved far cry even with those issues)
Ah, Crysis. Really cool games, at least if we’re talking about the first half of each game. The second half, where you have to fight the ceph can be annoying.
Hey, at least it’s better than Far Cry’s trigens. The guy who programmed those atrocities deserves to be punched in the face for all the suffering I went through when playing Far Cry.
I didn’t say I hate Far Cry, just the trigens. They can get you in 3 hits, don’t even need to hit you, just do the attack animation even if you’re a good 10 meters away from them. ON NORMAL. God forbid you try to play it on something higher. They are badly programmed… which is a shame because the rest of the game is awesome.
Hell, the original Far Cry is my favorite Far Cry.
Yep. Crysis on Delta is a good challenge but overall doable once you are able to properly manage your suits powers. Far Cry though….ugh…
Lol. Back when I kept replaying Far Cry and later Crysis over and over again, I would play the first portions of both games but abandon them when the trigens and cephs appear.
I wish I could exchange my CD keys
Especially for Crysis Warhead.
I found the story very generic and uninteresting, but it’s true that the gameplay is pretty good and people dismiss it unfairly, I used to do it too, but seeing all the fun stuff you can do in the NanoSuitNinja videos led me to start playing the game differently and I ended up appreciating it a lot more.
Who remembers that first crysis demo in 2007 ? They even gave us moding tools in the freaking DEMO Version.
I finished the demo 3 or 4 times on all dificulty levels 😀
Story was interesting, but I wouldn’t say it is better than 95% of today’s FPS at all, not even close. Games like, Bioshock Infinite, Wolfenstein, Doom (the codex and storytelling in it is amazing), Borderland Series, Wolfenstein, Bioshock Infinite… I can go on and on.
Obviously this is my personal opinion, but I really think that Crysis’s story telling was nothing special compared to the amazing experiences that came after it. I liked the storytelling in Crysis 2 better.
Maybe generic, but beliveable, better sound track and sound fx made some scenes to be epic. None of those games that you cited were anything near, btw, borderlands is one of the most boring games i’ve ever played.
The soundtrack in Crysis was nowhere near the games I have posted. Have you heard Schyman’s ost for Bioshock Infinite? Gordon’s for Doom or Wolfenstein?
Those are what I call amazingly memorable soundtracks. Crysis 1 had really good music, especially since it was by Boris Slavov, who I absolutely love, but it was not as memorable as the others.
Just listen to “The Girl In The Tower” from Infinite by Schyman. The moment that it plays, when you come across Elizabeth for the first time is absolutely beautiful.
Then listen to 14 years by Gordon from Wolfenstein. The moment it plays as BJ recounts the years that pass by, that was amazing.
Now I am not saying that Crysis did not have epic moments, to be fair the entire game could be amazing dependent on how you played it but my point is that you can’t say it’s soundtrack is better than the ones we have today.
Ok, calling something better was very snob of mine, sorry, in terms of memorability, i think Crysis was one of the first games that had an interactive music, i can remember EA having a specific denomination to it, but lets say that the tension of the moment would change how the music would sound. To me there are two ways to see this.
A music alone thats memorable by itself, aluding objective study of composition, etc… Or using a video game in conjunction with it.
If the game was accepted from your subconscious mind, then it will have a better possibility of creating memorable moments, in case of Bioshock, i’ve never felt easy with the type of story and ambience, so to me while “The Girld in The Tower” can be or not a better objectively composition, it did’t striked me because the game makes me feel uneasy. Wolfstein i never played it enterely but, to me all of those games have something dark and some kind of madness in common while crysis seems a Noble, and generic objective, still more believable to me. (Not talking about Crysis 2 or 3).
A very interesting point.
However, in hindsight, one could argue that a good game is supposed to have a palete of different moods.
Crysis itself was very good with that, where at one point it was very heroic, and then at other times it got really dark, when they started revealing the aliens, and especially the interrogation scene in warhead.
The music in my opinion should drive according to the scene in question. The reason I mentioned both The Girl In The Tower and 14 Years specifically is because they fit with the scene.
Granted that on their own they might give you a mood that contrasts with the overall mood of their products but with the scenes in question, they perform an effective job of provoking specific scenes.
It is an interesting point you’ve made but I think they all have noble and generic objectives at times.
[When Booker Decides To Selflessly Save Elizabeth Even Though He Has Seen His Inevitable Failure(Act III)]
[The Whole Point Of BJ Fighting The War To Stop Oppression]
I don’t necessarily see the difference with Crysis, that makes it any less dark than let’s say Wolfenstein.
Still to each their own, and you are perfectly valid with how you feel playing games, and I definitely see what you mean.
To be honest, Bioshock Infinite’s story was kinda overrated for me. I mean perhaps I was hyped up a bit after reading all the reviews but when I finished the game, it felt as if the whole game was acclaimed just because of that twist at the end. The gameplay felt really average and the story was just ok throughout the game. I agree with you on Wolfenstein, Doom however, well I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t follow Doom’s story at ALL xd, I literally JUST played for the gameplay. Borderland’s story is also good but it relies on it’s humor and characters but then again, one could say great characters make the story of a game more compelling, Metal Gear Solid for example.
It wasn’t much of the story that really impressed me, but it was the ambitiousness of it all. It made me realise just how powerful games could be if done right.
Awesome! 😀
It was a great shooter and much more than simply a glorified benchmark yes but I’m gonna have to disagree about the story being the best. Crysis’s story, while decent, didn’t amaze me or anything but of course it’s just my opinion. Wolfenstein The New Order had a really great story for me.
Worth noting that all other releases still contain SecuROM, so these are now the definitive versions. May upgrade from my Steam copies when they become dirt cheap eventually.
Alternatively, just hope EA &/or Crytek decide to make them available through GOG Connect, since you can now link your Steam & GOG accounts together, & “port” over approved purchases (developer-side approval required).
Kinda doubt they will, but one can dream.
Same here 😉 My old Gt 6200 got me like 25fps on LOW soo upgrade to GTX 8600 was a must. But with that SDK i was able to get 40fps on that crapy GPU just by deleting some trees.
What, did EA’s publishing rights to these two games in particular expire, or something?
Now if only they fixed the Steam versions so that they actually ran on modern versions of Windows instead of crashing on startup.
It’s as if EA/Crytek were deliberately sabotaging Steam.
I miss those days where it was the game that made you upgrade.
I remember walking past computer shop(20+ years ago) and seeing wing commander running on pc, That game in it’s day was one of those games that made you want to buy a new pc just to play it, Because you needed a new pc to play it. 😉
We need more games to push boundaries, Stop the one size fits all ports to all platforms.
We need more games to push boundaries ! -> 100% Agree
i remember when multiplatform games were released on pc those were not simply ports but also completely different games with different gameplay mechanics and most of the time much superior graphics(ghost recon series on pc was hardcore whil consoles were more casual and pared back)
but sometimes it could be worse spiderman 2 on consoles was much better while on pc it was dreadful
i miss old pc gaming also
I didn’t like Crysis 1 and Crysis warhead, They were boring.
I used them as benchmark xD
Crysis 2 was great game and Crysis 3 was okay.