Crysis Warhead (a retrospective review)

In anticipation of the upcoming Crysis 2, Gamesponge has decided to take a look back at the follow up to the original ‘Crysis’, ‘Crysis Warhead’, and offer a review that is free from the initial hype that the series originally suffered from. The reasoning behind this is that there are still a countless number of arguments of whether Crysis and it’s expansion are good games or just ‘eye candy’.

[Jacobite]

Loved Crysis Warhead it seemed more PC friendly than Crysis, it did feel to short, great gameplay just playing about with the nanosuit

[Agent VX]

Warhead was a great game. It's really sad that the original Crysis games still are kings of "Graphics".

The world hasn't moved since then, guess we have to wait until the next gen consoles come out so we can progress from the same boring graphics we have now.

[ATiElite]

I really enjoyed Warhead. Enjoyed it just as much as Crysis. But Warhead was more actioned packed than Crysis.

As far as graphics Metro 2033 PC is the king but I have always preferred the graphics of STALKER Clear Sky Complete because of the sheer amount of detail in an open world environment with 24 hour day/night cycle and weather. to each it's own i guess.

[bumnut]

I thought stalker looked poor, even maxed out.

[TOSgamer]

Warhead only retailed for $30 new. For that price I think the game was plenty long.

[Xfanboy]

great game! One of the last open world shooters :(

[imvix]

Sadly true, though we do have stalker ;-)

with mods that game is equally insane

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[MGRogue2017]

u neidy quit a p0werfulz pc too run... ah.. thiz games hear.. and, and, and, and, and, and... crisis, iF u did'not no.

teh truu poWer of the Hi-hi-hi-hi defenitions!! :P

[toaster]

I'm now retarded after reading this.

[MGRogue2017]

Good. It's there so that people who read it lose brain cells. >:)

[Pandamobile]

This post gave downs.

[BLACKBOIJONES]

I would give this game a 2/5...Its good but noting special..Its a bit below average. :)

[Theonetheonly]

Let see what amounts to nothing special.

physics in comparison to most all other games. 10/10 wipes the floor with any game released on console

Graphics technically speaking 10/10
wipes the floor with any game released on pc or console

Sound 8/10
every sound is rendered with precision not seen in many games even the amount of sounds occurring at any given time is something to be respected.

Gameplay 9/10
Open world free to choose where why and how you achieve your goals or not, you could spend time learning how to prune trees or go hunting with the massive amount of wildlife just going about its business. or use the environment in ways youve never been able to before or after the crysis series to exploit the enemy and have fun at the same time.

all in all this game and its expansions are a masterpiece Not below average by any standard. Maybe you don't like it but you cant say it is anything but spectacular. no other game has gone so far to fully engross you in the experience as crysis has achieved.
%90 of the environment is fully destructible and Physically active. every leaf Is rendered with high resolution textures and lively animations that coexist with the volumetric lighting and atmosphere not to mention the Physically responsive smoke. (*throws smoke grenade... then throws regualr grenade into smoke......*watches the smoke react to the explosion appropriately* also watches the trees and vegetation for a 40ft radius react to the visible concussive shockwave.) the water in this game tops any water in any other game as well. being visually accurate and supporting buoyant objects realistically crashing in the waves.

It is laughable that you say that but i cannot help but marvel at the sheer amount of things this game brings to the table at once that only a few to this day even have a fraction.
crysis is untouched from a technical and photoreal standpoint to this day
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
:)

EDIT:
and whats funny

"Crysis Graphics are soo good, .... they even beat Crysis 2"

not too long ago that would've been considered a joke.

[ATiElite]

I wish I could find my old post but i said a long time ago Crysis 2 would not look better than Crysis PC.

[B00M]

Makes you wonder why they didn't make Crysis 2 open world. Looks as though Crysis will still have better graphics than Crysis 2, wierdly.

[Substance101]

Consolization friend. Dumping down of games to work on 6yr old hardware.

[B00M]

Yeh suppose thats why. I think Crysis should stay open world. Its lost a lot of its appeal now that its just a standard FPS.

[Jacobite]

I agree consoles are now holding back gaming, but then again Crytek should have pushed the graphics on the PC to show what can be done for the next console Gen. I was going to but this day 1 aswell,but I might just hold off as Im pissed off what I'm hearing so far.

[Tyre]

even Crysis was not open world...there were big sandbox areas yes but open worlds are entirely exclusive to GTA-like games...such as Crackdown/SaintsRow/Infamous/P rototype/Assassin's Creed/Red Faction Guerilla etc. Crysis 2 still has Big sandbox areas...All CoD FPS have not and that my friends makes Crysis completely different...can't wait to play it! Loved Crysis and Warhead by the way ^ - ^