Due out this week, but I probably won’t get because the shops are crappy like that:
I’ve played the demo and it ran well at 1024×768 medium-high on my 8600GT, so I’m expecting better rates in the final product [Especially since the demo didn't support dual processors]. In any case, even in the demo I could tell that this was one well-polished game… Although the AI were less impressive than I’d have expected, even when I started out on Delta mode (The hardest available mode) - Although most probably because that mode allows enemy fire to cut you down in a matter of seconds, but that’s another story entirely. The landscapes were absolutely beautiful, and I was amused at how they handled the area borders - If you swim out too far, you get one-shotted by the waiting destroyer ships in the distance. Well, at least it isn’t as unimaginative as the Invisible Wall thinger. The facial details are probably the highest point of the game - They’re easily the most realistically detailed faces out for any game at the moment.
I also like how there’s quite a bit of random wildlife around the beach area, namely the tortoises and the crabs. When I tried swimming out the team leader warned me about “Shark-infested waters” but I didn’t see hair nor fin of the beasts. Oh well.
If anyone’s curious, the demo ends with you guys staring at a frozen ship in the middle of the island… Right before a giant metal squid-thing bursts through and grabs one of your guys before taking off as though it’s got bread in the oven that was gonna burn in fifteen seconds. I assume it’s about 5% into the game.
So yeah, if you have a rig good enough to support this thing, you definitely should give it a run. If not, oh well! There’s always anime and manga.
Cheers. Meu out.
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I had to do a double take to see if I was reading the right blog… Because the last I remembered, you were not much of an FPS fan. From what I understand, Crysis will definitely be a huge deal with all the buzz about it. It should probably get the same reviews and coverage like how Orange Box did.
I don’t play many FPSes, just stuff like FEAR and HL2. Although, when did I last say that I wasn’t much into FPSes? I don’t remember. >_>; You sure you don’t mean Yamcha?
It’s a simple mistake to overlook the post author. If I liked FPS games and had a machine with Windows OS on it, I would give it a shot.
Yamcha is correct, it was a simple overlook of the author as I had work this morning and burn out is a pain.