Crysis Warhead

[Errdoth]

Just released on steam yesterday. (I think)

 

 

 

Overall it was a pretty good game, and it didn't melt my computer (actually ran better on my 8800GTS than the original crysis did D:)

 

Gameplay wasn't a whole lot different than regular crysis, which was awesome (except for the idiot who defaulted the grenade key next to the interact key. I blew up a lot of vehicles I wanted to use :( ) and the story and action were excellent. It took me a while to figure out that this was taking place at the exact same time Nomad was on the other side of the island in Crysis, though :oops:

 

 

 

Only downside is that it totaled just 4 hours of gameplay for me :|

 

But the multiplayer looks very promising, I've yet to try it though.

 

 

 

Anyone played it yet? (I have to say this is one of the best shooters so far this year, can't wait for far cry 2 now :P)

[eggzs]

EA releasing a game on Steam? Hell has frozen over.

 

 

 

Must be cause so many people were pirating it and releasing it over Steam actually costs less.

 

 

 

I heard some good feedback for it and its better optimised than the original and its actually quite a good bargain.

[Vansing]

Once my new pc comes i will have to get this : And yeah i cant wait for Far cry 2 either it looks great :thumbsup:

[megakiller32]

I wrote a massive review of the game for my shared-blog (Click the sig if you're interested :D)

 

 

 

And i shall post it here too. But in hide tags 'cause it's so damn big.

 

[hide=Beware, moderate amount of text]There, completed Crysis Warhead, in about 5-7 hours, and it was fairly good.

 

 

 

Despite the misleading name, there is not ONE warhead in the whole game, except for when you beat up an innocent civillian to steal his hummer with a gun attached. He has a tiny warhead keyring attached to his keys.

 

 

 

But for a review, lets start from the beginning. The Installation.

 

 

 

Installation was fairly straightfoward, click a few buttons, wait a bit, License agreement, click some others etc etc; however, being EA, this one attempts to make you install all this extra crap, and for me, i declined defeated EA's ploy to rule the world with crappy add-ons.

 

 

 

Bwahaha!

 

 

 

But the obviously most irratating, and pointless part of the installer, is that is plays some backing music, (although it's difficult to call it backing music because as i had music playing already, i thought it was an aeroplane outside taking a flipping long time to cross the sky.)

 

 

 

Then Crysis Wars, the improved multiplayer, comes on a separate disc and requires a separate installation, however still tries to make you install all the pointless extras. But look on the bright side, being a Crysis multiplayer, they realise people just want to play various kinds of skirmishes and deathmatches, not some overly-complicated difficult and hard super-conquest-invade-enemy-base-to-get-nukes game mode, which was infact so difficult i played it four times until i actually replayed single player. *le gasp*

 

 

 

But that's nice, which means Crytek, despite having a graphics engine in all thier games that require a Graphics card which doesn't technically exist yet, means they listen to thier customers. (May i suggest as well as chickens in the next game, llamas you can pick up and throw?)

 

 

 

Then when i opened the game, i realised that the menu was exactly the same as the first crysis, except orange. But i changed it back to blue like what i had in ye ol' times Crysis, for reminiscence sake. The difference is there's a small SAS logo in the top right corner, and reviewers probably thought "This makes it completely different and new! Inspiring! 10/10 bravo, and encore!" But me being a non-reviewer reviewing a game, thinks "What the hell? this is exactly the same..."

 

 

 

Into gameplay, something me and J-man enjoyed about the original Crysis, was that you have to manually pick up ammo, and so you find little ammo munitions dumps and crevices stuffed with weapons, and it gave you a sense of euphoric glee to stumble across one. (Well not really, but it was a nice touch.)

 

 

 

But some smart-[wagon] who designed it, thought "HEY! LETS MAKE THIS GAME THE SAME AS 95% OF OTHER FPS'S AND MEAN YOU CAN JUST WALK OVER AMMO TO PICK IT UP!" and various other smart-[wagon] agreed and went "GOOD IDEA!" Of course to make this more accurate, repeat in a funny accent holding a comb under your nose to represent the fat-cats moustaches. It's not all bad news though, atleast there's more swearing.

 

 

 

In the first Crysis, there weren't enough explosions or choice of weapons. Thankfully, they corrected this, in an over the top fashion, too. Now, instead of two pistols, you can have two uzi's, and as a nice touch, instead of smashing your G button so often to throw grenades, you find a grenade launcher just before the halfway point, and can use that. And you continue to keep that until you find a super-mini-nuke launcher towards the end, which you can kill ONE FREAKIN' ALIEN WITH.

 

 

 

Whose idea was it to make a whole level, you on a daring train robbery? Except it's not a train robbery, it's you sitting on a train with a couple of miniguns attached to the side, so you can shoot at anything that so much as blinks at you wrong. (Which is all Koreans according to the game.)

 

 

 

Finally though, they fixed the tanks, so they don't explode quicker then the humvees, and now can run down innocent bystanders without exploding because of the bullets in thier barrel.

 

 

 

As you would expect anyone to say, Graphics were immense, even if my computer did choke and wheeze while going through the particularly intense moments. I wouldn't know about the soundtrack, because i play with the sound off and cool NuJazz on, but I did play a level or two with the ingame music and sound on properly, and from what i heard; it's abysmal. It's either some beating tribal drums to show that you happen to be on an island, and some tribal-like people live on...islands, or it's that philaharmonic classical music, which in all honesty, is atmospherical to a whole new level.

 

 

 

A new level so low, that infact, it's not really a level it's subterrain and below ground. For the little bit slow people out there, i'm trying to say IT'S [bleep]ING AWFUL.

 

 

 

As for the characters, they all lack detail and other...such things. The main character you play is a stereotype brit, the kind you find in the high-budget American WW2 movies. The koreans who capture him numerous times will call him "Ah american!" and so the response you give is "I'm not American, you muppet." Directly quoting from the cutscene (And i shall move onto cutscences below) "aah, what is this word, muppet?" (Because if those nasty Koreans aren't stereotypes, what CAN they be?) "IDIOT."

 

 

 

Being a real live brit, who doesn't drink tea all day, but does drink a fair amount, I cannot remember the last time I heard someone use the word "muppet" outside the Muppets show. Thus making this word, VOID! (I am definitely not nit-picking.)

 

 

 

Far too much of the game is cutscenes. In the first Crysis, when you started a new game, before you did anything you saw a fantastic cutscene, (which looked perty) of the Crysis suit guy. You get more or less the same this time round, except that it's not made like a movie, it's basically somebody playing, and someone else filming it with an ingame capture tool. This makes it cheesy, and pretty boring to watch. There are hundreds of other cutscenes, to establish Psycho's over the top British character, and how he believes in the Geneva Convention, because he is infact in the wrong video game and should be in a WW2 game. Psycho is at the same time, my PE teacher if he was bald.

 

 

 

But pushing that aside, you find out that the suit is useless when someone tasers you. So you'd think someone would invent a taser gun for use against the suit...? And another thing, why can Psycho carry roughly 63.4% more weapons and ammo than Nomad? He can carry an additional 11 Frag grenades, and various other kinds of new grenades, mines and (i never managed to see just one in action) claymores.

 

 

 

I played it on high, so anyone with a non-super gaming pc, but you sometimes like to play games, don't get it, it will dissapoint you. Also anyone who has the capability to play it on Very High, or as they have re-labelled it "Enthusiast" is a rich snob.

 

 

 

Speaking of relabelling the graphics, what was the point? They've just made it more confusing, and it doesn't make anyone feel better or special. The hierachy is all wrong anyway, it goes:

 

 

 

Minimum > Midrange (or something like that) > Gamer > Enthusiast

 

 

 

Now surely, if you're a gamer playing Crysis, you'd have a better PC then an enthusiast, who prefers looking at motherboards for fun?

 

 

 

But all considered, it was enjoyable, and even if it did lag slightly

 

 

 

BEWARE, BORING COMPUTER SPECS BELOW

 

 

 

on 1024x768 on a 1680x1050 monitor, with an Nvidia 8800GTX, all set to "Gamer" (High) It ran fairly well, even if a tiny bit laggy at the more demandingly intense times, and recommend it to only those with gaming-ey or powerful PCs. (Forget the processors, for this, it's all really down to the GPU)

 

 

 

And finally to J-man, enjoy Morocco, while our 1 person who looks at all our hard work and effort, our blood, sweat, tears and semen blog checks for my possibly regular update. (Maybe i'll get round to the Music-related post?!?)[/hide]

[sloter]

I wrote a massive review of the game for my shared-blog (Click the sig if you're interested :D)

 

 

 

And i shall post it here too. But in hide tags 'cause it's so damn big.

 

[hide=Beware, moderate amount of text]There, completed Crysis Warhead, in about 5-7 hours, and it was fairly good.

 

 

 

Despite the misleading name, there is not ONE warhead in the whole game, except for when you beat up an innocent civillian to steal his hummer with a gun attached. He has a tiny warhead keyring attached to his keys.

 

 

 

But for a review, lets start from the beginning. The Installation.

 

 

 

Installation was fairly straightfoward, click a few buttons, wait a bit, License agreement, click some others etc etc; however, being EA, this one attempts to make you install all this extra crap, and for me, i declined defeated EA's ploy to rule the world with crappy add-ons.

 

 

 

Bwahaha!

 

 

 

But the obviously most irratating, and pointless part of the installer, is that is plays some backing music, (although it's difficult to call it backing music because as i had music playing already, i thought it was an aeroplane outside taking a flipping long time to cross the sky.)

 

 

 

Then Crysis Wars, the improved multiplayer, comes on a separate disc and requires a separate installation, however still tries to make you install all the pointless extras. But look on the bright side, being a Crysis multiplayer, they realise people just want to play various kinds of skirmishes and deathmatches, not some overly-complicated difficult and hard super-conquest-invade-enemy-base-to-get-nukes game mode, which was infact so difficult i played it four times until i actually replayed single player. *le gasp*

 

 

 

But that's nice, which means Crytek, despite having a graphics engine in all thier games that require a Graphics card which doesn't technically exist yet, means they listen to thier customers. (May i suggest as well as chickens in the next game, llamas you can pick up and throw?)

 

 

 

Then when i opened the game, i realised that the menu was exactly the same as the first crysis, except orange. But i changed it back to blue like what i had in ye ol' times Crysis, for reminiscence sake. The difference is there's a small SAS logo in the top right corner, and reviewers probably thought "This makes it completely different and new! Inspiring! 10/10 bravo, and encore!" But me being a non-reviewer reviewing a game, thinks "What the hell? this is exactly the same..."

 

 

 

Into gameplay, something me and J-man enjoyed about the original Crysis, was that you have to manually pick up ammo, and so you find little ammo munitions dumps and crevices stuffed with weapons, and it gave you a sense of euphoric glee to stumble across one. (Well not really, but it was a nice touch.)

 

 

 

But some smart-[wagon] who designed it, thought "HEY! LETS MAKE THIS GAME THE SAME AS 95% OF OTHER FPS'S AND MEAN YOU CAN JUST WALK OVER AMMO TO PICK IT UP!" and various other smart-[wagon] agreed and went "GOOD IDEA!" Of course to make this more accurate, repeat in a funny accent holding a comb under your nose to represent the fat-cats moustaches. It's not all bad news though, atleast there's more swearing.

 

 

 

In the first Crysis, there weren't enough explosions or choice of weapons. Thankfully, they corrected this, in an over the top fashion, too. Now, instead of two pistols, you can have two uzi's, and as a nice touch, instead of smashing your G button so often to throw grenades, you find a grenade launcher just before the halfway point, and can use that. And you continue to keep that until you find a super-mini-nuke launcher towards the end, which you can kill ONE FREAKIN' ALIEN WITH.

 

 

 

Whose idea was it to make a whole level, you on a daring train robbery? Except it's not a train robbery, it's you sitting on a train with a couple of miniguns attached to the side, so you can shoot at anything that so much as blinks at you wrong. (Which is all Koreans according to the game.)

 

 

 

Finally though, they fixed the tanks, so they don't explode quicker then the humvees, and now can run down innocent bystanders without exploding because of the bullets in thier barrel.

 

 

 

As you would expect anyone to say, Graphics were immense, even if my computer did choke and wheeze while going through the particularly intense moments. I wouldn't know about the soundtrack, because i play with the sound off and cool NuJazz on, but I did play a level or two with the ingame music and sound on properly, and from what i heard; it's abysmal. It's either some beating tribal drums to show that you happen to be on an island, and some tribal-like people live on...islands, or it's that philaharmonic classical music, which in all honesty, is atmospherical to a whole new level.

 

 

 

A new level so low, that infact, it's not really a level it's subterrain and below ground. For the little bit slow people out there, i'm trying to say IT'S [bleep] AWFUL.

 

 

 

As for the characters, they all lack detail and other...such things. The main character you play is a stereotype brit, the kind you find in the high-budget American WW2 movies. The koreans who capture him numerous times will call him "Ah american!" and so the response you give is "I'm not American, you muppet." Directly quoting from the cutscene (And i shall move onto cutscences below) "aah, what is this word, muppet?" (Because if those nasty Koreans aren't stereotypes, what CAN they be?) "IDIOT."

 

 

 

Being a real live brit, who doesn't drink tea all day, but does drink a fair amount, I cannot remember the last time I heard someone use the word "muppet" outside the Muppets show. Thus making this word, VOID! (I am definitely not nit-picking.)

 

 

 

Far too much of the game is cutscenes. In the first Crysis, when you started a new game, before you did anything you saw a fantastic cutscene, (which looked perty) of the Crysis suit guy. You get more or less the same this time round, except that it's not made like a movie, it's basically somebody playing, and someone else filming it with an ingame capture tool. This makes it cheesy, and pretty boring to watch. There are hundreds of other cutscenes, to establish Psycho's over the top British character, and how he believes in the Geneva Convention, because he is infact in the wrong video game and should be in a WW2 game. Psycho is at the same time, my PE teacher if he was bald.

 

 

 

But pushing that aside, you find out that the suit is useless when someone tasers you. So you'd think someone would invent a taser gun for use against the suit...? And another thing, why can Psycho carry roughly 63.4% more weapons and ammo than Nomad? He can carry an additional 11 Frag grenades, and various other kinds of new grenades, mines and (i never managed to see just one in action) claymores.

 

 

 

I played it on high, so anyone with a non-super gaming pc, but you sometimes like to play games, don't get it, it will dissapoint you. Also anyone who has the capability to play it on Very High, or as they have re-labelled it "Enthusiast" is a rich snob.

 

 

 

Speaking of relabelling the graphics, what was the point? They've just made it more confusing, and it doesn't make anyone feel better or special. The hierachy is all wrong anyway, it goes:

 

 

 

Minimum > Midrange (or something like that) > Gamer > Enthusiast

 

 

 

Now surely, if you're a gamer playing Crysis, you'd have a better PC then an enthusiast, who prefers looking at motherboards for fun?

 

 

 

But all considered, it was enjoyable, and even if it did lag slightly

 

 

 

BEWARE, BORING COMPUTER SPECS BELOW

 

 

 

on 1024x768 on a 1680x1050 monitor, with an Nvidia 8800GTX, all set to "Gamer" (High) It ran fairly well, even if a tiny bit laggy at the more demandingly intense times, and recommend it to only those with gaming-ey or powerful PCs. (Forget the processors, for this, it's all really down to the GPU)

 

 

 

And finally to J-man, enjoy Morocco, while our 1 person who looks at all our hard work and effort, our blood, sweat, tears and semen blog checks for my possibly regular update. (Maybe i'll get round to the Music-related post?!?)[/hide]

 

Nice job on just comparing and [bleep]ing about the two.

[jjrox32]

I've never seen the big deal about Crysis. Once you take away the great graphics (I'll admit, they look freaking awesome), it's pretty average. Average AI, average point-shoot gameplay. The only great things are the gun customization and the different suit functions.

[OldJoe]

Currently playing Warhead when i'm writing this (paused game lol).

 

I know it isn't as long as Crysis, but it's damn good and a much more optimized engine. It runs much smoother than Crysis (played Crysis on medium and playing Warhead on medium), my card is crap - 8600GT overclocked a bit, i had lag on Crysis a bit here and there but Warhead is smooth! Haven't lagged anything yet.

 

I don't notice much difference between DX10 and 9 versions lol.