Finished Crysis by giving up and then enabling godmode to breeze through the remainder of the game, I am glad I did I don’t think it’s possible to beat this game without dying 1000000 times. I died at one section I think 10 times trying to clear an area.
Anyway yeah, there’s aliens, ancient aliens. And you dug em up.
The Zero Gravity Alien Structure section is neat, I think every game in the mid 00’s had to have one. Except this one you can never find the exit, and you move so slow through midair. I thought this section really dragged on. There’s one huge room that you have to wait for the aliens to activate 4 power thingies before a door opens, there’s another where you have to wait for a shield to periodically drop and it takes forever, a slog even with invicibility on.
Then you emerge and everything is frozen, now you are fighting alien bastards 100% of the time and they come in like 3 flavors
- tiny guy
- slightly bigger guy
- large flying squid thing
#3 flies around, and they’re basically a faster moving helicopter. I hate them so much. God.
The Archeologist lady what dug up the aliens gets a VTOL, and you’re supposed to drive, then her VTOL goes down, so you have to rescue her…again.
Finally you meet Strickland. He’s the asshole that’s on the radio telling you to “take out those AA guns” and “take out that radar jammer” and “clear this area solider” and then he’s the big hero here because he distracts the huge alien while you take off. I enjoyed watching his demise he was so annoying.
BOOM
then there’s a flying mission. I looked forward to this the entire game. It’s pretty short but the VTOL controls are fun enough. They could have had at least one more VTOL mission
Unfortunately after this you get a new guy to yell into your radio and tell you what to do, the ship captain. This part of the game also takes place on an aircraft carrier and it’s incredibly easy to get lost and turned around. They decide to fucking nuke the island, because what else is there to do. The Archeologist lady doesn’t wanna nuke the island. You see how this goes.
Anyway you nuke the island and this just pisses the aliens off even more.
You run around the ship clearing flying enemies, then the ship reactor starts to melt down and you have to go into the reactor room and move some rods around. The entire time you’re just trying to navigate a dark ship full of right angles and narrow corridors. I would hate this IRL.
“Nice job moving those rods son” the captain says. Shortly thereafter he dies. GOOD. This game is all about men sacrificing themselves for fucking nothing after telling someone else to go kill literally hundreds of NPCs, because it’s what men do.
Anyway you blow up a big crawly alien and then this big asshole shows up, and you can finally use the BFG the game gives you. You cannot use the BFG on anything but the final boss. The entire time you’re fighting it those aforementioned flying aliens are shooting at you, the deck of the ship is on fire, you are constantly taking damage from 10 or so sources of bullets, and also there’s a freeze ray. Locking on takes 5 excruciating seconds to do, and then you lob a missile at it. You gotta do this 3 times. There’s so much going on that my system would slow down.
When I watched my college roommate do this game 15 years ago I remarked about how much a slog this final level is and god damn is it a slog. Multiple bosses, traversing a ship to stop a reactor meltdown, only for it to not matter. The ship sinks and everyone on it but you, the other exo suit guy, and the archeologist lady.
You don’t even fly back to civilization you immediately go back to the fucking island because “we know how to fight these things now” no you don’t asshole it’s the end of the fucking world. go fly to LA and get some Salt and Straw or some shit IDK.
ANYWAY, I have definitively answered the question “can it run Crysis” for my computer, which is to say “yes”
5/10 - looking at my watch it’s 11:30 and I feel like i’d have a better time playing fortnite.
im in the middle of chapter 3.