Crysis Single Player Demo

thatbloke

thatbloke

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Downloaded and played it this morning. All I can say is... OMG.

This game ROCKS.

There is about 45 mins of play time in the demo, dependant on how much time you want to spend wandering around and admiring the scenery.

The this to mention here is its open-endedness. You are given an objective on a island, i.e. "Go here and do this..." and perhaps a couple of hints on how to get there, but other than that, the method is up to you :D

You have a funky suit of armour which allows you four temporary power-ups, super strength, armour, a cloaking option and also super speed. Each of which give you a short burst of those powers.

One this that wasn't made particularly clear to me however was that I could pick up the weapons and ammo from the fallen enemies using the F key. I was told that I could pick up objects with it, I guess i just never tried the weapons :D

The other thing that gets me: With my AMD Athlon X2 4200+ (dual core), 2GB RAM and GeForce 7800GTX I am able to play all of my current games on the highest settings.

For Crysis I have to have everything on LOW. With that spec. Any attempt to put it higher results in a crappy framerate... There is a handy "detect optimal settings" button, however, which sorted everything for me.

But, even with it on low, the game is still BEAUTIFUL. I chucked a grenade at an enemy entrenchment and in as well as sending guards flying it sent dust and dirt everywhere and a few seconds later some nearby trees fell over too!!!

I think this game is gonna rock :D

PS: forgot to mention that there is seamless switching between cut-scenes and in-game too!

PPS: O and the emotions the guys you are with show are cool too :D
 
waterproofbob

waterproofbob

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Ronin Storm said:
Does anyone know if I can talk about the multiplayer beta yet?
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I'm not sure, loads of my old clan mates were in it and have been having a moan. But I'll say no more than that.

Right I'm back off to finish it now then I'll stick my opinion in here in a bit.
 
waterproofbob

waterproofbob

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Nanor said:
There's not much point in me downloading the demo, is there? :p
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Not really matey.

OK just finished it, who knows how it will play as a multiplayer but here are my opinions on the singleplayer.

Firstly I hope the full game is trickier as I've now done it on Hard and on uber crazy mode and once u get the hang of the suit it is awesomely fun but a little easy. Don't get me wrong i love cloaking up behind ppl grabbing them switching to strength and hitting them miles but after I'd done all the clever suit combo's i could think of including getting in the boat behind the guys and stealing it I can see myself getting bored over the full game period.

Graphically it is a master piece, I played the first run through at 1680x1050 with everything on high, this was a little bumpy in the cut scenes and when the shit really kicked off but was ok. second run through did on medium and it was still stunning and played smoothly and is very cool indeed.

Having seen the suit and the gameplay at i29 last year it was good to see that it worked as it did back then which I'm pretty impressed by tbh as I sat there at the time thinking hmmmm oh really!

I must admit after hearing a fair bit of criticism from clan people about the multiplayer from a clan perspective i was a little apprehensive that this wouldn't be as good as I wanted it to be. But it was a lot of fun. As bloke says however you like to play FPSs this game has everything. You can choose a lot about how you get around. you can use anything and everything to the point i killed a guy by throwing a turtle at him ( i did feel bad about the turtle).

You can be uber stealthy and sneak up behind someone and kill them face to face with your bare hands, or use the tranquiliser and knock all the enemies out before wandering about headshotting them all one by one. OH and did i mention duel wielding pistols.

Or you can go on a blitzing rampage throwing all the grenades and blowing the hell out of everything.


I'm now defo going to buy this even for the singleplayer.

One issue i had with the game was draw distances while in the jeep turret gun, rocks kept disappearing to make it seem like the chaps were sitting on nothing. Not a huge issue they died just as fast, just a little odd. As out of the vehicle the draw distance was much much better.



All in all a thoroughly enjoyable demo that kept me well entertained, I for one will now be buying this. I'm going to see a pre-release multiplayer at i32 that EA are bringing for the comp so i look forward to that.
Well worth downloading if you have a computer that isn't Nanor's.
 
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elDiablo

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thatbloke said:
...The other thing that gets me: With my [computer] I am able to play all of my current games on the highest settings.

For Crysis I have to have everything on LOW....
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Erm, ya think? If you're surprised by this, either you haven't heard about Crysis before, or you're far too over optimistic :) Sorry mate, but it's been well known for a while that Crysis is a a PC killer. A 7800GTX is just too old now... It's stupid, but true. Don't expect to play Far Cry 2 on anything higher than low setting either, just as a heads up :)

Again, when internet is fixed, I shall try this!
 
Traxata

Traxata

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I can run it all on high :), I had one problem on the 5th go of the demo where when i right clicked verything under the sights was a big black block, but a quick reboot sorted that.

I've also found a bug :D

If you use the sleeper darts, and then press ( default x ) the weapon mode to change it to multi shot, single then back to sleeper dart, its cooldown has completely worn off, and thus you can sleeper dart with the combo of the two guns a squad of 4 koreans in a matter of seconds :)

sneaky i know ;D
 
Ki!ler-Mk1

Ki!ler-Mk1

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Does anyone know what the tactical thingy is, i used it to complete the demo on delta(hardest diff so far) without killing anyone, hehe, im a massive farcry fan, and im thinking of getting at 8800gt to play it, cant wait for the full game!

/me reads thread


Heres a tip on how to get the luxury motor boat into the water, you cant push it, or can you?
Simply knock over a small tree, pick it up and walk into the boat, wha'la you have super strength and can push it into the water.
 
DocBot

DocBot

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There's no END to the fun you can have with the tyre spinner (or whatever it is) - one (maybe two) throws to a car and boom! Wreck entire buildings, fell trees - gotta love the physics and using _very_ heavy objects like that :D

also, where's the luxury boat?
 
Traxata

Traxata

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You know the base with the parked boat in the Jetty ? If you're standing at the begining of the peer, walk right and follow it around, there are 4 guards
 
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Gombol

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could someone post some SS'S? i know you can get them off the net...but i want ones from people i can trust! :D
 
Traxata

Traxata

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I was going to take some DX 10 screenshots of the Single, However the beta drivers that are supposed to make Crysis more stable, have Infact made it unplayable for me !

But its only a demo, I need 2142 working So i shall deal with that another day.
 
Ronin Storm

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Hmm, the game felt pretty choppy for me after messing with those settings though I wasn't using the latest nVidia beta drivers as was suggested somewhere. It was okay while I was creeping around but as soon as the action kicked off it felt like I was in treacle.

I'll twiddle the settings back a notch and then try the beta drivers and report back.

I really like the way the game plays, though, despite. Your armour makes you something of a super-soldier and the game (on hard) plays as though you're tough but not invincible. Cloaking makes me feel rather like the Predator... ;)

Not played it all the way through yet. Had to get some sleep at some point!
 
Ki!ler-Mk1

Ki!ler-Mk1

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Cloaking makes me feel rather like the Predator...
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Entering water cloaked was very unnerving.
I used the heavycrate gunmetal crate to knock the buildings downa fter i killed all the enemies on low settings at 70 fps, bumped it up to high and smashed the island at 12 fps :)
 
Traxata

Traxata

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Ronin Storm said:
Hmm, the game felt pretty choppy for me after messing with those settings though I wasn't using the latest nVidia beta drivers as was suggested somewhere. It was okay while I was creeping around but as soon as the action kicked off it felt like I was in treacle.

I'll twiddle the settings back a notch and then try the beta drivers and report back.

I really like the way the game plays, though, despite. Your armour makes you something of a super-soldier and the game (on hard) plays as though you're tough but not invincible. Cloaking makes me feel rather like the Predator... ;)

Not played it all the way through yet. Had to get some sleep at some point!
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I think you should be ok with them on XP Ronin, but they totally killed the graphics for me without changing any settings from the previous stable release ( 163.xx ) compared to the beta ones Everything is choppy, it now takes ages for the textures to load too.

Although as I said before, I've finished the demo, and require a working 2142, stupid stupid drivers ..
 
DeZmond

DeZmond

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Just downloaded this and finished it in no time at all. Roll on the full game! Awesome ending, too...

System wise, I found the demo chose everything to be on low, however on 800x600 resolution. I wasn't having that, so after changing it to 1280x1024 but maintaining the low settings I fired up the game and was treated to smooth framerates and nevertheless pretty gorgeous graphics. For reference, I use a 7600GT Fata1ity passively cooled card in combination with a 939-socket 4200+.
 
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