Manufacturers Description

Crysis is a PC sci-fi first-person shooter from Crytek, the award-winning developers of the critically acclaimed Far Cry.

Earth, 2019: A colossal asteroid crashes down to Earth.

The North Korean Government quickly seals off the island chain, claiming the mysteries of the asteroid for themselves. The United States responds by dispatching an elite team of Delta Force Operators to recon the situation and report back to the Pentagon. Amid rising tensions between the US and North Koreans, the asteroid suddenly bursts open, revealing a massive, 2km high alien ship. The ship generates an immense force sphere, freezing a vast portion of the island and drastically altering the global weather system. The invasion of Earth has begun.

Crysis' two rival nations unite to stop the aliens and save mankind. The newly formed alliance fights epic battles against the marauding Aliens. With hope rapidly fading, Crysis players will lead a crack squad through lush tropical jungle, harsh frozen landscapes, and finally into the heart of the alien ship itself for the ultimate Zero G encounter with the aliens to save mankind... and end the Crysis.

Crysis offers players a highly immersive FPS experience in which they will have to adapt their tactics, weaponry, armour and gameplay style to survive and defeat the alien invasion. Crysis uses the leading-edge technology of Crytek's proprietary engine CryENGINE(tm) 2 for a highly cinematic FPS experience.

Crysis Features:

• Epic Sci-fi story: An immersive plot putting players in the pivotal role to repel an alien invasion and save mankind.
• Unique three-act structure: Crysis players will use real-time armor and weapons customisation to adapt to Crysis' ever-changing dynamic world.
• Frightening and Believable Foes.: Encounter a compelling and totally original alien species that uses its senses intelligently and work in combination with each other to present Crysis players with the most challenging opponents yet in an FPS.
• Super Smarts: Crysis' Enemy and ally AI utilise real-world military tactics.
• Vehicular Action!: Take control of Crysis' wide variety of land, sea and air vehicles including trucks, tanks, boats and helicopters.
• Explore Crysis' living, dynamic world: In Crysis, earthquakes, breaking ice, landslides, and tornados pose a real and an ever-present danger.
• Crytek's best multiplayer yet: Crysis features a 32-player Multiplayer mode with real-time armour and weapons customisation, and an all-new mode that combines player modification and tactical objectives.
• Emergent Gameplay: Actions taken in Crysis affect future outcomes giving each player a unique experience every time they play through Crysis..
• Highly robust and easy to use mod toolset: Crysis lets players to create their own expansive levels with game modes for both multiplayer and singleplayer.
• Looks so good... you'll cry!: Crysis boasts the most realistic environments, spectacular special effects, physics game engine, lighting system and enemy AI ever seen in a game, thanks to the jaw-dropping power of Crytek's CryENGINE 2.

GameDaily Review
by Steven Wong on Monday, November 12, 2007

U.S. Special Forces, equipped with high-tech nanosuits, are sent to a remote island in the Philippines to investigate some strange energy readings linked to an archeological excavation site. They must be careful, because the North Koreans arrive on the scene first, and will kill to protect their discovery. However, it turns out there's more at stake than being the first country to uncover an infinite energy source, and it's not long before the excavation reveals an alien menace that unleashes a full scale invasion. Calling it a Crysis is a major understatement.

Gamers play as Nomad, a Special Forces soldier equipped with a nanosuit. The suit has everything a soldier needs; increased armor, strength, speed and an active stealth mode to render the player practically invisible. However, the suit's energy only allows one function to work at a time. So, players must choose which ability is most useful to them during any given situation. Leaving it in armor mode will take away from energy reserves instead of health when shot, but it also recovers injuries the wearer sustains. Enhanced strength allows players to jump great heights along with super-punching enemies to death. Taken all together, the suit's power and versatility nicely matches Crysis' style and open-ended gameplay....

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Game Play for Crysis

As with Far Cry, Crysis is an open-ended game with many ways to meet objectives. An addition to the previous Far Cry formula is that most weapons may be modified with devices such as suppressors, telescopic sights, and targeting lasers.

The protagonist, nicknamed Nomad, is also capable of selecting various modes in his military prototype "Nano Muscle Suit." The suit is capable of four modes: armor, strength, speed, and cloak. These modes allow him to absorb and heal damage, lift and throw heavy items and enemies, reload and run faster, become invisible and reduce noise output, respectively. Due to the ability of constantly regenerating health, the game is completely devoid of first aid kits. All of these actions, however, use rechargeable energy reserves that power the suit; energy is recharged most quickly while in armor mode. The suit can be quickly switched between modes using a rapid mouse gesture system, which adds a strong tactical element to combat.

The suit's integral mask has its own HUD, displaying typical data like a tactical map and current energy levels. The view is electronic in nature, shown in-game through things such as a booting readout and visual distortion during abnormal operation. Onboard utilities include a two-way radio, PDA and audio-visual logging capability, with features like image zoom and night vision provided by optional equipment (given by default in single-player).

The artificial intelligence (AI) in Crysis also aims to be realistic and believable. Enemy soldiers constantly employ tactical maneuvers, work as squads, hide and ambush amongst the scenery, and adapt to changing environments and conditions. AI soldiers will also respond to sound and subtle movements triggered by the player's movement. While not engaged in combat, the AI soldiers will also exhibit typical and lifelike behavior, such as smoking, yawning, talking, urinating, waxing cars, patrolling, saluting superior officers, etc. Sometimes these actions depend on whether or not the player was detected earlier. If Nomad has not been sighted in some missions, he can find some enemies sleeping upon arriving to his destination. In contrast if he has been spotted they will all be alert.

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