Crysis game of the year? Hah!
Finishing Crysis has confirmed my disappointment that PC Gamer chose it as Game of the Year, especially with Bioshock as a contender. Jeesh, what’s a game got to do to win Game of the Year around here?
Crysis was good. The graphics are the most photo realistic ever, even though I had to stop ‘em down and revert to DX9 to run the game — and this is with a high end machine and graphics card. But, the plot is totally familiar, the enemies were derivative — Matrix-y vermin, HalfLifey striders — , and the game play was fun until it ran out of steam in the final acts where increasing the size of a boss replaces having a new idea. Overall, Crysis is good but not great, much less best of the year.
Bioshock, on the other hand, was far more creative. It was an improbable yet convincing world, beautifully rendered, with fantastic sound and terrific comic acting. It was involving not just as a narrative but as a place. Yes, there were some nits ,the DRM was especially insulting, and the gameplay was occasionally off — solving the pipe flow puzzle gets tiresome after the first couple of dozen times — and the very last scene sort of sucked, but Bioshock violated rules in the name of creativity and actually had some ideas in it.
In the fullness of time — now — the crowning of Crysis over Bioshock will be seen as the folly it is.
PS: The Orange Box was also better than Crysis, and is officially your PC Gaming Value of the Year.
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Fully agree on Bioshock – flawed, but utterly beautiful. The Orange Box is a killer deal, too.
I agree up to a point here. I played all three: Crysis, Bioshock, and Orange Box. Bioshock was fantastic. It was utterly original with some very cool emergent gameplay. Crysis, too, was fantastic, though the two distinct parts of the game were good in different ways. The freedom of the first part of the game, paired with the stealth-commando gameplay, was extremely engaging. The alien-hunting of the second part of the game was less engaging from a gameplay standpoint, and the story was, indeed, familiar, but it allowed for some excellent cinematic moments. Orange Box is my current addiction; Portal was incredible, fresh and original, and Team Fortress 2 is highly addictive. I am, however, growing somewhat bored with the Half-Life universe, and have yet to pick up Episode 2 again. It remains, though, great value for money.
But which one is better? I’d be hard-pressed to pick one. They’re all great for very different reasons. I enjoyed them all immensely. And I’d argue that, despite the fact that they’re all essentially first-person shooters, it seems silly to compare them to each other. I honestly don’t understand this need to point out the Best PC Game Out There; gaming is an entirely subjective experience, and no matter what you choose, someone will disagree with you. Ultimately, anyone who chooses a Game of the Year or some such is simply choosing their own favorite game of that time period; though it does, it really shouldn’t hold much weight with anyone else.
Yeah, I must agree with brian. I’ve played all but crysis, but i understand its gameplay. i beat far cry, and, crysis is almost like a sequel to far cry. i’ve seen gameplay, and everyone plays just like i would play far cry. Anyways, they’re all completely different games. Crysis is like COD 4 in the jungle, a bit harder, and a lot more stealthier, and very open ended in terms of gameplay. Bioshock is a rpg fps, it is open ended in terms what weapons or plasmids or upgrades or whatever. and halflife is…, well it’s its own genre, a really fun and appealing one at that. So they are completely different from one another. It’s like comparing apples and oranges, they’re completely different. You can’t compare games with a good movie, and you cant compare crysis, bioshock, and half life 2.
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