2- Crysis
The game analysis:
Crysis is an alien invasion game set in the year 2020. An archeological team on a remote Pacific island is captured by an invasion force of North Koreans, and your US Special Forces team is dispatched to investigate and rescue the scientists. Clad in high-tech nanosuits capable of boosting your strength, speed, and armor, as well as cloaking you temporarily to the enemy, you're parachuted into a tropical paradise that's crawling with intelligent enemies and something else that's tearing both the North Koreans and US forces to shreds.
Like Far Cry, the first half of Crysis is essentially a "sandbox" game where you're put in the middle of incredibly large levels and tasked with an objective. How you get the job done is pretty much entirely up to you, which is part of the brilliance of the game's design. For instance, the environments are big enough to give you a wide range of latitude. Do you have to get to a certain point on the map? You can take a meandering route that avoids patrols and go stealthy, or try the up-front approach and try to blast your way through, with the danger of enemy reinforcements showing up. Need to infiltrate a North Korean-held village? You can try the front gate, or maybe explore and find a quieter way in.
Couple these huge environments with the powers of the nanosuit, and you have a ton more options. You can play like the eponymous character from the movie Predator and use your cloaking abilities to stalk North Korean patrols, picking them off one by one and watching the survivors react in confusion. That could be via a silenced rifle, or simply coming up from behind a guard and grabbing him by the throat and hurling him off a cliff, or through the roof of a building, or against a tree, or whatever catches your fancy. Enhanced speed and strength give you an amazing amount of mobility, so you can vault atop buildings and come down behind someone, or run up against a North Korean vehicle next to a cliff and push it over the side. In a heartbeat you can switch between different roles, from stealthy assassin to seemingly unstoppable death dealer. It's a game that makes you feel like a superhero, though not an invincible one, because you simply can't run roughshod over the enemy. Crysis rewards smart, fast thinking.
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Minimum Requirements
CPU: | Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista), Intel Core 2.0 GHz (2.2 GHz for Vista), AMD Athlon 2800+ (3200+ for Vista) or better |
RAM: | 1GB (1.5GB on Windows Vista) |
Video Card: | NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or better |
VRAM: | 256MB of Graphics Memory |
Storage: | 12GB |
Sound Card: | DirectX 9.0c Compatible |
ODD: | DVD-ROM |
OS: | Microsoft Windows XP or Vista |
DirectX: | DX9.0c or DX10 |
Useful Links:
Official sites:
http://www.crytek.com/
http://www.ea.com/crysis/
http://www.electronicarts.co.uk/games/8456,gen/
Video:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_ini.html?sid=6182755&id=6182755
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_ini.html?sid=6182759&id=6182759
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http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_ini.html?sid=6182754&id=6182754
Crysis First Strike v1.2 Map: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_6189939.html?page=1&tag=result;title;0
Crysis SP Z 11 v1.0 Map: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_6189708.html?page=1&tag=result;title;1
Crysis SP Clone Island v1.0.0 Map: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_6189651.html?page=1&tag=result;title;2
Crysis SP Chase v1.0 Map: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_6189650.html?page=1&tag=result;title;3
Crysis Blue Nanosuit Mod: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_6187815.html?page=1&tag=result;title;9
Crysis v1.2 Patch: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_6187285.html?page=1&tag=result;title;6
Crysis v1.1 Patch: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_6184406.html?page=1&tag=result;title;2
Crysis Single-player Demo:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_6181835.html?page=1&tag=result;title;3
Crysis CryENGINE 2 Trailer 5 Glossary: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/download_6169025.html?page=1&tag=result;title;4