Crysis
Adapt to Survive An epic story thrusts players into an ever-changing environment, forcing them to adapt their tactics and approach to conquer battlefields ranging from newly frozen jungle to zero-gravity alien environments. Suit up! A high-tech Nanosuit allows gamers to augment their abilities in real time on the battlefield. Players can choose to enhance their speed, strength, armor and cloaking abilities to approach situations in creative tactical ways. Customizable Weaponry A huge arsenal of modular weaponry gives gamers unprecedented control over their play style. Blow the opposition away with experimental weapons, discover alien technology and utilize custom ammunition from incendiary-tipped rounds to tactical munitions that can silently put foes to sleep.
Steam User 23
Actually prolly have maybe close to 1500 to 2000 hours. I love the stealth game play and absolutely amazing graphics. You can run thru in a race to beat the game or you can explore and enjoy all the game has to offer. War head is also very good. I'm 69 years old and I also enjoy watching my grand kids play.
Steam User 16
This is my Deux Ex 2 Dark Messiah 2.
My cybernetic legs launch me so high into the air I hurt myself on landing unless I switch to armour mode in mid-jump.
In strength mode, I punch boxes so hard they explode into wooden chips that ricochet into my face and kill me.
I had the great idea of putting an oil barrel into the back of a truck to drive towards a military checkpoint, so I could jump out at the last minute, shoot at, and cause an explosion; instead, the friction of the oil barrel rolling around in the back of the truck slowly damaged it, so that by the time I reached the checkpoint all I had to do was jump out and the truck exploded by itself.
I killed so many soldiers at the same spot in the jungle that new soldiers coming to investigate started tripping over the old soldiers' corpses.
I fucking love this game.
There's just so much cool shit here. Vehicles damage is modular, meaning vehicle handling changes depending on what part has been damage. Weapons attachments are modular, letting you customise your tactics on the fly. Gameplay itself is modular, leading to emergent situations composed of the interactions between enemy AI, object physics, and player actions. It's wild.
Update: The game really drops in quality halfway through its campaign, becoming a linear/rail shooter. It ain't pretty, and it highlights some of the worst trends of the era. However, it sounds like this wasn't the original intent. There were meant to be no cutscenes or scripted sequences, and the various military forces were meant to engage with one another in in a dynamic simulation.
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PSA: You can still buy the original Crysis by searching for Crysis Warhead, then selecting Crysis Maximum Edition. You can also buy it from gog. I haven't have now played Crysis Remastered but and it's based off a console port that downgrades the physics, which I would consider part of the original's immersive sim charms. The remaster also makes changes to the gameplay of the original, which you can read about in my review here. If you're keen on the remaster's visual improvements there's a mod that improves the original's visual fidelity beyond that of the remaster, giving it 4K textures, global illumination, screen-space ambient occlusion, real-time reflections, tessellation, volumetric clouds, and so on.
The original is unstable though. If you're having issues, you can try and run it through the Crysis Warhead engine. Lastly, if the original isn't launching for you, try these two fixes together: fix 1 + fix 2.
Steam User 11
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Steam User 14
Crysis plays like an old style shooter... before games held your hand and told you how to basically beat the game, there was games like this.
You have to think, you have to test the waters, probe, withdraw, try a different method.
You will die, but each die you die, you learn what not to do.
Steam User 11
Ironically my laptop can run Crysis but not MS Edge.
Steam User 6
But can you run it?
Steam User 4
This is the version you want, not Crysis Remastered.
Remastered is based on the console version of Crysis. They enhanced some things, like texture quality, but broke everything else. The new lighting engine looks horrible, the dynamic physics are greatly simplified, and an entire level is missing.
Unfortunately, this original version of the game has been ignored and doesn't run well on modern OSes. Luckily users have fixed this. Look for "c1 launcher" on Github and follow the instructions to get it working.