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PC | Action | Crysis

Boxart for Crysis
Crysis 59 screen shots
  • GRAPHICS: 5.00
  • SOUND: 4.50
  • CONTROL: 4.50
  • FUN FACTOR 4.75
  • AVG USER SCORE 4.3
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 4.6
Winner of the GamePro Editor's Choice Award

Preview: Crysis: Single-Player Impressions (Page 2 of 3)

Preview by Chris Morell | 10/05/2007 | 11:24:00 AM PST

Using the Nanosuit

Making my way down the road, I engaged a few enemies only to be taken out rather quick. The same thing happened again before a kind Crytek rep showed me how to use the Nanosuit. Ahhh, now I get it.

The Nanosuit in Crysis is essentially a super suit that enhances your abilities, of which there are four: armor, speed, strength and cloak. At first, using the suit was a little overwhelming, but it became second nature the longer I played. Basically, there is a meter that drains as you use suit abilities. Each one uses up the meter at a different rate, though it drains relatively fast. For example, you can only use the speed sprint for a few seconds.

The key to the suit is quickly switching between abilities, for example, speeding up to an enemy, then quickly switching to strength to giving him a devastating melee. Essentially, you'll be using all four functions of the suit constantly during play, cloaking when you wanna ditch a group of baddies, using armor when you need some extra protection, etc.

At first I used strength more than anything, as it makes your firepower a little more potent. The best thing about Crysis, which really reminds me of Far Cry, is just how open the game is. You can honestly approach the game any way you like. There are literally dozens of ways you can approach each objective. And the Nanosuit just gives you so many more options. This is evident in a seemingly simple task like blowing up those AA guns.

No Rules

After reaching the first gun, I realized I had no idea how to blow this thing up, and was even out of grenades. So I improvised. I found a flammable barrel nearby, picked it up and switched to Nanosuit strength, hurled it from afar, and then shot it as it hit the gun. Bingo.

Of course, that giant explosion didn't go unnoticed, and now I had a helicopter pursuing me. After some sprinting and cloaking, I found a motorboat and hauled ass to the next gun across the water (which is simply gorgeous, by the way. If you were hungry, there's enough fish to get you by down there).


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