Why Crysis is Legendary

Visually far ahead of its time, Crysis became a legendary PC game when it released in 2007. While it's graphics are often the aspect of the game people remember the most the gameplay was also fantastic. In this Crysis retrospective I breakdown my history with Crysis as well as the games mechanics and story.

Video Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:32 Gameplay
15:09 Story
22:57 Versions and Issues
25:51 Ranking

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[VirtualLegacy]

If you have any fun memories of playing Crysis I'd love to hear them.

[livelong_]

as a korean, It's impossible to not laugh listening north Korean soldiers' voice. The lines are awkward but also sounds funny. True legend.

[AaronParkerFTW]

It's impressive how good it still looks for its age, but almost as impressive to me is how smoothly it plays. It still feels very modern. Heck of an achievement in gaming history

[an_sound]

Crysis was one of the best single player games I've ever experienced.

[platty]

The first game that only managed 7 FPS on Ultra, but 20 years later managed 1000 FPS and still looks great 👍

[SuperHns]

I also think strength mode in Crysis 1 reduces recoil.

[IAmMoF]

Crysis wars was one of the most underrated part of the Crysis IP imo. It was so much fun doing PVP with the nano suits. You could get tanks and all kinds of things, so many good memories.

[HeyBalii_EH]

It was my first FPS that I played as a kid. I will never forget those times. I only had 2 hours daily to play with the PC because my parents were really strick. I used to sneak in to the PC room evey single dawn and play Crysis. I loved every second of it. I had a lot of Lego back then end I built a V-tol without any instructions and I only went from pictures. I still have pictures of it somewhere. Those were the days...

[jacktodd]

Probably my favorite game ever, love the music and that setting. It was so groundbreaking in 2007 to play this.

[SuperHns]

Bro for real 2007 was the best year in gaming. You forgot to mention Mass Effect 1, and many others.

[Cheiff]

I remember as a kid watching my dad play this, then I grew up bought all 3 and finished them all ! What a series

[vivavideo-videofilmer]

it still amazes me, how good this game looks. Had the same Experience back in the day with a PC, having only a Geforce 6800...it ran horrible, hahaha. Years later I was able to have the right gear.

[divedrive]

To this day, I have still never been as hyped for a video game like I was for Crysis. When it finally came out I could hardly play it on my PC but I still had a blast. I remember seeing other people on gaming forums that had the 'Can You Run It' benchmark for Crysis as their signature and I would get so jealous that theirs was in the green. Lol

[sam]

I was obsessed with graphics and game engines when I was a teenager, so this game was like the holy grail for me when I learnt about it and it took me ages to finally get my hands on it. I played this easily over 1000 hours on a busted PC with a 512mb vram GPU. I got into modding and map making and because of that I credit this game with getting me into game dev. Just by trial and error, learning how to make maps for this game using its world editor, and playing with other people's mods, I gained probably more understanding of how games are made then my actual university degree I got after.

[Sean-fjpn]

The game not just pushed the boundaries of graphics but importantly was actually very fun with clever gameplay innovations and mechanics.

[Punisher]

Can't wait to hear more about Crysis 4 soon. Crytek did announce they were working on it awhile ago.

[Chas_Kahler]

I watched this video up until the Story, where I then went and downloaded Crysis Remastered. I played through the game on Veteran difficulty and completed it in ~7.5 hours. I couldn't stop on that cliff hanger though and had to then download Crysis 2 Remastered. I also played through on the hardest difficulty, Post-Human, and completed in ~10.5 hours. Prophet's storyline was pretty intriguing so you know I had to download Crysis 3 Remastered and play on Post-Human once again(~8 hours).
I'm blown away by this Trilogy, I don't get why I never played it before, apart from the beginning of a mission from Crysis 2 over a decade ago at a friend's house, as well as the multiplayer with split-screen I believe. I'm now eagerly awaiting Crysis 4, Crytek has made an impressive Trilogy and I'm here for whatever they have in store next!
I've come back to finish this video and I also eagerly await your reviews of the next games! Especially Warhead, as I didn't play through that one.

[tasost]

This game must be top 10 ever.The graphics back then was beyond imagination.Gameplay from another planet.A masterpiece of gaming industry

[robineuson]

I suspect you might have missed some subtle game mechanics. For example the keyboard shortcuts for activating maximum speed (double tap shift) and strength (double tap space), allowing you to nearly seamlessly do what you were most likely to use those abilities for (sprint/jump). More importantly those abilities also affect weapon handling.

Speed speeds up reload and allows you to move and turn fast with heavy weapons.
Strength is more useful here, allowing you to move and turn at normal speed with heaving weapons, reducing recoil and reducing weapon sway. This is the mechanic to steady your aim while sniping!!! Can also be used for an accurate burst of minigun fire.

Edit: It toke me years to realize these mechanics existed and how useful/fun they could be. The game does not do a great job of helping you discover these aspects of the suits abilities.

[kingcars]

I remember picking it up at the local mall on launch day and booting it up on my gaming rig with a heavily overclocked Core 2 Duo E6400 and a 8800GTS 320MB. Good times. Crysis Warhead was even better. If you haven't had a chance to play it, you need to.