So now we have the PC gamers crysis ? What a lark i say !! .. you can buy it for an xbox or playstation right now , but i have to Upgrade my GTX 280 to play it on pc?? what a pile of crap that is. Its more of a deal between crytek and a few hardware vendors to push some sales of video cards imo. meanwhile the game is still nothing like its glorious original, not really made for PC other than to crank up some eye candy ala tesselation.

I know there are a few people who didnt like the original game, i am not one of them. I loved every minit of Crysis and Warhead, and still replay them from time to time to this day. All i feel when i look at my shiny Crysis 2 box is.. Meh.. not even going to bother re installing it..

Crysis 2 on the other hand was much better before they bowed to the insanity of the PC crowd baying for blood over a lack of DX11 features. CryEngine 3 in DX9 mode was probably the most beautifully optimised piece of coding I’ve ever seen doing things DX9 had never done before all while spewing out 60fps even on mid end hardware and delivering the open world gameplay without pretending you could actually go anywhere you wanted (but I did wonder what happened to Nomad the whole time)

And now we have Crysis 3. Maybe I’m just jaded but I don’t think it’s that pretty, clever yes but not necessarily pretty, just pasting special effects onto everything doesn’t make something pretty you have to use those effects properly and to be honest in most places Crytek have done this time, but unfortunately it seems they’ve reverted to type and produced a tech demo you can almost play rather than a game you can look at while playing (and ffs what happened to Nomad already?).

There is a plus point I suppose, normally buying high end PC hardware is a bit like buying a £800,000 Ferrari when you can only drive at 30mph, the kind of behavior that makes other people think you’re compensating for something, but Crysis 3 is like being able to take that stupidly fast car on the Autobahn for a couple of hours, it’s just a shame it’s only a couple of hours before it’s back to 30mph again when you inevitably get bored.

Crysis 3 is on my ‘to buy’ list, but it is the length of the game that prevents me from buying it for full retail price. The multiplayer part of the game I am not at all interested in. I buy Crysis only for the single player experience. Eight hours of single player is not enough at all to make me dish out 50 bucks. So I will wait for a bargain bin price of a maximum of 15 bucks. Personally I think a game like this should offer me at least 16 hours of single player fun.