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Okay, so I installed and started playing Crysis, expecting (from Yahtzee's review) awesome graphics, middling gameplay, thinly-layered racism and frustrating driving sequences.
Tried running the game in 1680x1050, max details. Vrrrm! Nifty. Unfortunately, I found myself flopping back to trying to use the Mass Effect control scheme or, worse, Oblivion's. Found myself missing ME's cover system. But at least I can goddamn jump in this game. Didn't think it was excessively racist -- someone's always gotta be the bad guys, and if it's not Middle Easterners or rogue Russians or Chinese, that pretty much just leaves North Korea. And they proved a hardy bunch, taking about ten shots to the chest and still kept on coming (though, to be fair, I had a grenade explode at my feet and was all better in a few minutes, courtesy nanotech armor).
This is the first game I've played with deformable buildings -- shotgun blasts blowing in walls, grenade explosion collapsing entire sheds. Oh, that's just so much fun I can't tell you, really. I was almost giddy.
I haven't been in an accident since the first time I drove a car. And yet twice I managed to pull the Austin Powers trick of getting the jeep I commandeered stuck between a shed and a tree -- or two trees. Imagine my glee that unlike the adamantium-laced poplar trees in GTA4, these trees can actually be felled by sufficient force. And you can somehow drive and fire the mounted machine gun simultaneously.
And here's where things went wrong.
There are three basic reasons I never went into the military: (a) a complete inability to follow orders (b) a broken heart -- literally (c) my idea of "infiltration" is generally a Tarzan-war-cry followed by a head-on assault. Thanks to the nanotech armor, this is a pretty solid strategy, actually. Only problem is I find myself running out of ammo much faster than I'd like, needing to summon more soldiers to take their stuff. It's like the circle of life, except...not really.
So when my CO tells me to proceed discreetly to a nearby checkpoint, of course I steal a jeep and barrel right down the road at a full clip. When my CO tells me to keep a low profile, I steal a boat, go skimming right over a peninsula, back through the water, opening fire, planting the boat across a road. A jeep full of soldiers stops in the road to look for me? One bullet into their gas tank (Yes, I know, myth busted. Still.) and two soldiers get out in time (right where I was aiming) and two don't before the jeep blows up within visual distance of the village I was supposed to be "infiltrating."
I, meanwhile, am just enjoying every second of it.
I've also found the soldiers to be a tad less prescient and observant than Yahtzee; as I was hiding under a house overlooking a river, one of the soldiers walked past the house, started swimming across the river looking for me, turned around and spotted me. At that point it looked like he was...I don't know, maybe a fish was attacking him, maybe he was surrendering, maybe he was signaling "touchdown," I don't know. But as a covert operative, I was not authorized to accept prisoners, so bang.
That extra-special moment of artificial intelligence was followed by my infiltration attempt -- moving through this area which I noticed hadn't been patrolled very heavily. Yes, I notice that, I don't notice the skull-and-crossbones sign until after my nanoteched ass had been blown off by the minefield.
It's silly, stupid fun, I gotta admit. I was expecting an interactive slideshow, but it's just...nifty.
I should really stay home from work and play this for the rest of the week.
Tried running the game in 1680x1050, max details. Vrrrm! Nifty. Unfortunately, I found myself flopping back to trying to use the Mass Effect control scheme or, worse, Oblivion's. Found myself missing ME's cover system. But at least I can goddamn jump in this game. Didn't think it was excessively racist -- someone's always gotta be the bad guys, and if it's not Middle Easterners or rogue Russians or Chinese, that pretty much just leaves North Korea. And they proved a hardy bunch, taking about ten shots to the chest and still kept on coming (though, to be fair, I had a grenade explode at my feet and was all better in a few minutes, courtesy nanotech armor).
This is the first game I've played with deformable buildings -- shotgun blasts blowing in walls, grenade explosion collapsing entire sheds. Oh, that's just so much fun I can't tell you, really. I was almost giddy.
I haven't been in an accident since the first time I drove a car. And yet twice I managed to pull the Austin Powers trick of getting the jeep I commandeered stuck between a shed and a tree -- or two trees. Imagine my glee that unlike the adamantium-laced poplar trees in GTA4, these trees can actually be felled by sufficient force. And you can somehow drive and fire the mounted machine gun simultaneously.
And here's where things went wrong.
There are three basic reasons I never went into the military: (a) a complete inability to follow orders (b) a broken heart -- literally (c) my idea of "infiltration" is generally a Tarzan-war-cry followed by a head-on assault. Thanks to the nanotech armor, this is a pretty solid strategy, actually. Only problem is I find myself running out of ammo much faster than I'd like, needing to summon more soldiers to take their stuff. It's like the circle of life, except...not really.
So when my CO tells me to proceed discreetly to a nearby checkpoint, of course I steal a jeep and barrel right down the road at a full clip. When my CO tells me to keep a low profile, I steal a boat, go skimming right over a peninsula, back through the water, opening fire, planting the boat across a road. A jeep full of soldiers stops in the road to look for me? One bullet into their gas tank (Yes, I know, myth busted. Still.) and two soldiers get out in time (right where I was aiming) and two don't before the jeep blows up within visual distance of the village I was supposed to be "infiltrating."
I, meanwhile, am just enjoying every second of it.
I've also found the soldiers to be a tad less prescient and observant than Yahtzee; as I was hiding under a house overlooking a river, one of the soldiers walked past the house, started swimming across the river looking for me, turned around and spotted me. At that point it looked like he was...I don't know, maybe a fish was attacking him, maybe he was surrendering, maybe he was signaling "touchdown," I don't know. But as a covert operative, I was not authorized to accept prisoners, so bang.
That extra-special moment of artificial intelligence was followed by my infiltration attempt -- moving through this area which I noticed hadn't been patrolled very heavily. Yes, I notice that, I don't notice the skull-and-crossbones sign until after my nanoteched ass had been blown off by the minefield.
It's silly, stupid fun, I gotta admit. I was expecting an interactive slideshow, but it's just...nifty.
I should really stay home from work and play this for the rest of the week.
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The tank section? Nnnot feeling it yet. Actually, I'm just trying to get through it so I can play with incendiary ammo some more. Rggh. And I know it'd be unrealistic (even for the nanosuited soldier) to carry more than two main guns, but making me choose between the precision rifle and the shotgun? Not fair.