[quote]9/10. I am rating the first Crysis, not the expansion Crysis Wars. Not unless you want to see the lowest rating of your life.
Power Struggle is amazing, I love that gamemode. Instant Action was also good for improving your skills. The community is full of great people that will help you try and improve. The weapons have a good amount of recoil. The size of the maps were truly astonishing andfelt like a battlefield. The cash being earned and ranking system was perfect! Things were very well balanced aside from a bad apple here or there. The gameplay was just about perfect!
The game was brought down by a couple problems. Unfortunately, the lag that Crysis caused on everyones computer made a lot of people never get into the Multiplayer. Also, there were a ton of bugs that would frustrate a new player and give them a bad first impression. The severe lack of gamemodes didn't help either.
Why does it get a 9/10? Because whether people would like to admit or not, Crysis would have taken longer to die. On somedays, Crysis even has more players than Crysis Wars! Without Crysis Wars, and if Crytek continued to support Crysis a bit longer, we would still have a thriving community. Patch support to a version 1.12 on Crysis for a two year timespan (until November 2009, one patch every two months) would have made it a better game. The only thing that ended Crysis prematurely was Crysis Wars, and we all know the failure that game was. The first Crysis had phenomenal gameplay, and true patch support would have made it an amazing title. So the game gets a 9/10 for great foundatining. The only thing that ever brought Crysis down, was the expansion sack Crysis Wars.[/quote]
+100
They should have fixed Crysis 1 rather than releasing another game.
@Darklite: I think you confused Crysis 1 and Wars weapon balance. In C1 every weapon was useful in each specific situation, unlike Wars where it quickly gets repetetive with only 2 useful weapons to choose between (the Dsg1 and SCAR + laser combo which magically reduces recoil/spread to 0 level). Crytek completely messed up the weapon balance which originally was almost perfect. And the vehicle physics are way more fun in C1 than Wars, where cars behave (as Hawkeye used to say) as if they were on rails.