Crysis

Developer: Crytek Publisher: Electronic Arts Technology: CryEngine 2 Release Date: November 13, 2007 Chat-Room: #crysis Buy Physical: ebay.com Buy Digital: Steam GOG

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Crysis™ is a next-generation PC first-person shooter from Crytek, the award-winning developers of Far Cry. A stunning technical achievement, Crysis combines incredible visuals, cunning gameplay and an epic story that challenges gamers to adapt to survive.

Global tensions have reached boiling point as the U.S. and North Korea square off in the South China Sea. At stake: a mysterious artifact uncovered by a team of U.S. archeologists.

The North Korean government quickly seizes the area, prompting the U.S. to dispatch an elite team of Special Forces operatives on a rescue mission. During the siege the true nature of the artifact quickly emerges, pointing to the existence of an alien presence on Earth, and ultimately the trigger for a massive-scale alien invasion.

The battle to save Earth begins as the aliens’ flash freeze the tropics into a ghostly-white frozen landscape. 

As gamers take up arms against the aliens, they will be outfitted with customizable weapons and a high tech Nanosuit, allowing them to adapt their tactics and abilities to a hostile, ever-changing environment and a mysterious enemy.

Powered by CryENGINE 2™, Crysis delivers the ultimate DX10 gaming experience for the PC, including unparalleled graphics, special effects and artificial intelligence. The game is also scaleable to deliver a breath-taking FPS experience for older DX9 PCs.

Features

• Adapt to Survive – An epic story thrusts players into an ever-changing environment, forcing them to adapt their tactics and approach to conquer battlefields ranging from newly frozen jungle to zero-gravity alien environments.
• Suit up! – A high-tech Nanosuit allows gamers to augment their abilities in real time on the battlefield. Players can choose to enhance their speed, strength, armor and cloaking abilities to approach situations in creative tactical ways
• Customizable Weaponry – A huge arsenal of modular weaponry gives gamers unprecedented control over their play style. Blow the opposition away with experimental weapons, discover alien technology and utilize custom ammunition from incendiary-tipped rounds to tactical munitions that can silently put foes to sleep.
• Veni Vidi Vici – Lifelike enemy AI challenges players to assess a situation and approach it strategically. It isn’t about having the fastest trigger finger – players are challenged to be proactive in the fight, not reactive.
• Zero-G Gameplay – Battle a horrifying alien species in a true Zero-gravity environment, where physics change everything as players must adapt to moving in Zero-G and contending with the recoil from their weapons and more.
• Next-Generation Graphics – Built from the ground up using Crytek’s proprietary CryENGINE 2™, Crysis’ visuals define “state of the art,” with full DX10 support and scalable options to deliver solid performance on older machines.
• Open, Physicalized World – Choose your own path through the open world of Crysis, destroying obstacles, driving vehicles from VTOL’s to boats and using the environment itself against your enemies.
• Bring it Online – Full-featured multiplayer for up to 32 players with real-time armor and weapons customization. For a pure adrenaline fix hit the Instant Action button, or prepare yourself for the all-new multiplayer PowerStruggle mode that combines economy and vehicle warfare, alien technology and ranking, all wrapped in a strategic objective-based experience.

taken from the publisher’s fact sheet

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How-To-Play On-line

Due to the backend for the game having been shut down, it has to be patched. Or else it’s LAN multiplayer only.

Once you installed C1-Launcher by ccomrade for an optimal singleplayer experience, you can also connect to games via the console. The console command for that is connect [IP] [PORT]. However, you probably want to experience better multiplayer.

Note: You need to forward the port 64087 on UDP in order to host a game over the Internet.

For that, get CryMP-Client, a launcher you place in the root of your Crysis/ directory that fixes the server browser. The nickname is chosen from the game its Profile name, so make sure to change/name your Profile accordingly, then edit your settings. You can also track stats on-line with a CryMP.org profile. Copy the secu_login string from your profile into a Crysis/autoexec.cfg text file once you have registered. Why CryMP? Too many fixes worth counting.

Alternatively, if you want to try an alternative method that may work a lot better with mods not served by CryMP, check out this Python script by Jedi95 that will patch any Crysis CryNetwork.dll file to talk to their master server.

We’d also like to inform you of Crysis Wars, which you can play for free.

Downloads

Notes

• One of the best looking games money can buy.
• The singleplayer demo is pretty generous, giving you the entire first map (Island) complete with Sandbox 2 editor.
• The multiplayer features two modes: Instant Action and Power Struggle. The former is your standard deathmatch sandbox, and the latter is a massive team battlefield with vehicles.
• If you have stability issues, try turning off anti-aliasing in the game settings.
• Notorious for being one of the most pirated games ever, resulting in Crytek moving development focus to consoles.
• Its release marks the end of the PC gaming boom that was kickstarted by the introduction of Windows 95 and 3D Accelerator cards.

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