Yes, it was terrible.

The best Grafhics, and the rest was crap.

Very LAME AI
No war envoirment, it feels, like calm forrest.
No intense gameplay.
Physich are good, just good.
Lithing was terrible.
Bad Visuals.

Perfect grafcihs take allot of other things.

I played crysis warhead first, which is more like a typical game because its short and sweet and pretty dynamic. Im playing the original crysis right now and it is slower paced, and its frustrating but there are moments where u can get a good grip of the suit, and there are ways to play levels your way, for example instead of breaking through a gate to infiltrate a place, i just went invisible and sneaked in, its flexible, but all the mechanics were there, they just needed to be more creative. back in 07 i didnt know about crysis but compared to the other games back then it held a good standing. and i remember thats when ppl started geting crazy over graphics, but now since we kinda are like meh about graphics and more about story multiplayer, etc. and we have a following by crytek and their hype over crysis 2, it does make us think differently about crysis 1.

LOL this will get ugly very fast.

Dont be a hater be a player

I am no PC gamer nor crysis fan. but this is really lame. and late too.

Crysis was good, but could have been alot better, crysis 2 will fix that me thinks.

Farcry was a good game, but again had it's faults etc.

But both were enjoyable.

Nice graphics i guess.

before Jan this year, i wasn't much for PC games other than the lower spec required ones if that...i was all about PS3, and PS2 before and so on....but seriously, the hate i see towards the so called "PC elitist" is a bunch of crap, man i built a midrange PC with 600 bucks, only 100 more than i spent on my PS3 and i'm enjoying both..but this crap that PC games like crysis is all graphics and no story or bad AI and whatnow it BS and a i realized that first hand...personally Crysis is one of my new top games, just got it this monday...and the game hit overdrive once the aliens showed up...

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

Crysis isn't the worst game ever, it's just particularly good either. It sits in the middle of "playable but uninspired", it's fun for a while, but the fun factor quickly flies off when the AI is horrendously poor. There's only so many times you can be impressed by a forest. Graphics were really all the game had, it was a tech demo, really, with some good ideas poorly executed.

Now come on this has gone too far. Any PC Elitist will tell you Crysis was a fantastic graphics whore of a game with average game play but to say Crysis was "terrible" is going a bit too far.

Modern Warfare 2 multi player now that was terrible or should I say broken.

Fine. Here's some reasons why I loved Crysis:

1. Its "vini vidi vici" style gameplay. I loved being able to scope out my next challenge and come up with my own way of dealing with things. Cloak, and get to a high place; take out your binoculars and tag up the enemies on your HUD; fall back a little bit and execute your attack plan. Personally, my favourite way of dealing with the Koreans was to sneak through the bushes and trees undetected and quietly pick them off, one by one. Keeping in mind that if I missed my shot I would alert my target which would alert all the other enemies in the area forcing me to come up with an on-the-fly solution.

2. The nano-suit. In a lot of games, you're this super-human monster than can absorb an obscene amount of bullets before dying. Oh, and you also had super strength and all this other stuff on top of that. In Crysis, you could only enable one power at a time which really made you think about how and when to use each one; as well as using combinations effectively. You can play the role of human tank with Armor and Strength mode by just running into the thick of it with guns blazing, absorbing bullets and punching through walls and nemies alike. Alternatively, you can use a combination of Cloak, Stength and Speed to manuever around without being detected. Use Speed to get to new cover, Strength to get on top of buildings and Cloak for sneaking around. It really was cool getting to make your own unique play style.

3. On-the-fly weapon mods. A great addition to the game was being able to quickly being able to switch out the scopes, ammo types, silencers, grenade launchers and other attachments in real time. No pausing the game to tinker, just a quick look at your gun and a few key presses later and suddenly you've turned your assault rifle from a silenced single fire sniper into a fully automatic CQC weapon with incindiary ammo and a grenade launcher.

4. The SandBox. The level design toolkit included in the game offers endless fun. Make gigantic sculptures out of barrels and wooden boxes, then hit it with a nuke and watch your frame rate grind to a hault. Set up a cluster of 50 Koreans on the edge of a cliff then plow through them with a humvee sending you and 50 flying bodies plunging into the water below. Pretty much anything you can think of can be done in the level editor.

Oh, and you can make your own levels too :P

There's a lot more I loved about Crysis but I'm far too lazy to write out all of it and I think most of you get the point that there's really a lot more to Crysis than just its graphics.

the game was great

Well, it wasn't horrible but I wasn't terribly impressed. In terms of technical achievement the game is a beast, but it wasn't very fun.

Excellent points Pandamobile as the nanosuit did allow great flexibility in how you played the game. The enemy AI was OK but I did like the fact that once they saw you they would try to hunt you down no matter how far you ran away if you weren't quiet as the Koreans would radio in your position.

Nothing was funner than a speed burst quick switch to strength and melee an unsuspecting enemy a mile away then switch back to stealth to hide. The nanosuit made the game fun.

Crysis is no Half Life 2 but it wasn't terrible and still is better than a lot of FPS out today. FarCry 2 now that's terrible.

but from my take on the short time i tried it, and having loved far cry 1, i assume its at least amazing (especially graphically)

i love the openess and the nano suit. tbh it isn't fair to say its terrible, but the gameplay isn't as good as the graphics (not that thats a bad thing)

crysis 2 will be awesome fun! can't wait O.O

On a Awesome PC is a Awesome Game.
On Terrible PC is a terrible Game.

is still the best single player fps ever made.....hands down........

it sharts on every other one:)

I found it to be complete shit. I got it to test out my PC, went through and ended the game, bored most of the way.

Well, when I got the gauss rifle I was entertained. Then I was bored again

What the hell is the matter with the website; some news..alot of horse shit trolling articles.

I bet the OP never even played the game, owns a console and trolls for hits.

A bit late isn't it? Has this guy been living underground for the last 3 years? Well he does sounds like a troll so that story fits. It's not surprising either that this was released now, when Crysis 2 is gathering a lot of attention and is due to be released later this year, a great time to stir up some controversy and get some hits.

But really, it sounds like this guy approached it expecting a linear game that would hold his hand as he strolled to the next predictable and ridiculous set piece, but when that didn't happen he blamed the game, and not his total lack of imagination. He then proceeded to be as petty as possible, hating the game for the stupidest of reasons. If you want explosions to magically appear as you cross some invisible line, go and play COD. It wasn't like it was hard to come up with exciting ways to approach something, but it seems even basic creativity is beyond some people.

I enjoyed the game, I wouldn't say it was a amazing, although the graphics sure were break taking. But to say it was terrible is ridiculous, the only way I can see someone coming to that conclusion is if they played the game already expecting to hate it. Quite frankly I expect more than trolling articles from bit-tech.

I, along with a lot of people I'm sure, am eagerly awaiting the sequel.

Crysis was amazing! And its not just the graphics that make this game awesome. Its the openness. Its no GTA, but the fact that you can start and end most of the missions any way you like makes it really flexible and gives you a lot of options. Maybe people didn't like it cause there weren't many set pieces. People just love set pieces. Well there were a few, and they were mostly awesome. And the nanosuit was awesome. I really liked how you could use only one type of superhuman ability at a time. That really made you think and really gave you a variety of options for completing the missions. That really gave the gameplay multiple facets. You could either go in all guns blazing, or use stealth to take out enemies one by one, or use a combination of both. I think this game has implemented this aspect more effectively than any game out there. Maybe the reason most people didn't like it was because it was a military type game with a few fictional characteristics. I'm not trying to be racist, but i can understand how boring it can be to fight the north koreans in a jungle for long hours at a stretch. I think Warhead fixed this. It mixed enemies perfectly, so you never got bored. And the last levels of both games were awesome. Especially the original crysis. For me that last level is one of the most bad ass levels i've played. So no way in hell will i agree that this game is terrible. Not even at gunpoint :p Sorry for the grammar mistakes...if any.

gotta love how blunt the title was. i have no opinion on crysis. just loved the title lol.

i thought it was a pretty average FPS, with phenomenal visuals.

stripping the visuals away, and it really is a standard PC FPS.

add in the visuals, and you have a standard PC FPS that can only run on a very small percentage of PCs at that level. lol.

i think the game gets more credit for it's visuals than it's game play. calling it terrible though, is really unfair.

"terrible," is Blacksite: Area 51. Legendary: The Box. Turok. Conflict: Denied Ops. Frontlines: Fuel of War, and so many others.

i think this generation of gamers have gotten so jaded and mixed up by internet memes and FUD that they've lost perspective on what is TRULY poor game design/game play.

fire up and play Crysis, the fire up and play Legendary: The Box. can you HONESTLY call Crysis "terrible" after experiencing the boring game design, horrible pacing and acting, and bland game play in Legendary?

it's like calling Killzone 2 "terrible," or "generic." i think gamers have forgotten what truly generic game design is. the gaming media has cultivated a gaming culture that will accept nothing but PERFECTION from game developers.

look at the folks at NeoGAF. if a game has ONE instance of jaggies, they're ready to throw it in the trash and storm the developer's offices to raze it to the ground. that level of extreme expectations is beyond absurd.

there is no such thing as a perfect gaming experience. and even some of our favorite developers like Bungie, Naughty Dog, Bioware, Santa Monica Studios, are still human at the end of the day. we place them on as much of a godly pedestal as many people do celebrities. we blow up their mistakes and faults as much as tabloids do the latest Paris Hilton debacle.

i just want my games to be GOOD. when looking at games like Crysis, at the least, they are solid, enjoyable games, even if they aren't revolutionary or groundbreaking. Crysis had some phenomenal tech behind it, but it WAS a rather standard FPS. now that the tech is out of the way, however, i imagine that Crytek is now free to focus on more game design, and it's more than likely that Crysis 2 will be an infinitely better game than Crysis 1.

i'm not going to hold Crytek to some ungodly level of expectations, however, and i'm certainly not going to dismiss their hard work on Crysis as "terrible," because it certainly wasn't.

all pale in comparison to crysis....the above are good games....crysis is freaking great gameplay wise...and obviously....graphics wise it shits on every other game EVER!!

I agree totally but why now? This article is about 3 years late.

is because you never played it properly.

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It is future proof. I haven't played a game like Crysis since and probably never will. Wasn't the greatest FPS but certainly it was special

Crysis looked MINDBLOWING in 2007 (at least the few frames I could render on my PC did), still looks good today, which is an amazing feat. But has definitely aged when you consider the wow factor it once had. Braid is a game from 2007 that's future proof bc the graphical style is so simple. Looked good then, looks as good now.