Yet with so much going for it, by the end of the game you’ll realize that you probably never needed or ever used much more than the cloak because Crysis 3 has now become primarily a stealth-infiltration game. Once again you are Prophet, a super-soldier in a high-tech Nanosuit that enables the player to toggle ammo-dampening armor, activate an invisibility cloak, paint and lock targets using a visor HUD overlay, remote hack electronic devices, and even power-kick cars like a soccer ball. Sure, the 360 version looks impressive (by console standards) but once the visual spectacle of the initial establishing shots for early scenes are stripped away, you’ll realize that Crysis 3 is really no better or more advanced in terms of gameplay than any other shooter out there – in fact it may have taken a few steps back. What you do need to worry about is just how good can a game be that was designed for PC hardware seven weeks old when played on a console that is seven years old.Ĭrytek and Crysis have now become synonymous for groundbreaking and gorgeous first-person shooters but somewhere along the way Crytek seems to have lost focus on what actually makes these games fun to play. My last three PC purchases have all been more than slightly influenced by the proposed recommended specs for Crytek’s CPU and GPU crushing series, but the beauty of playing Crysis 3: Hunted Edition on the Xbox 360 is that you don’t need to worry about any of that. ![]() The Crysis franchise has become the de facto standard by which PC gamers not only gauge the performance of their beloved gaming rigs, but also start spec’ing out their future upgrades and new system purchases every time a new sequel is announced.
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