How does the original Crysis hold up?

[GrantMeThePower]

I'm building a new gaming PC and believe it or not I never played the original Crysis. How does it hold up to modern games and its own sequels? Are the graphics still that impressive or do they pale now that it is years old?

in other words, is it worth it to install the game or would I feel like i'm playing an 'old' game?

 

[Maximilian]

Its better than most modern games in both gameplay and graphics.

/totallynotnostaliga

Its got the open world that farcry had and its graphics are still amazing today as graphics haven't really moved forward much since crysis as consoles have been the primary development platform.

 

[Red Storm]

Pretty sure it's still the top dog when it comes to pure graphics.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

It holds up fairly well. It's by no means the top dog in the graphics department any more, so if you're just looking for eye candy, I'd go for Crysis 3, Battlefield 3, Witcher 2, Skyrim with a boatload of mods, Max Payne 3, Far Cry 3, Crysis 2 with the Maldo mod, etc... But Crysis still looks great enough when run at ridiculously high settings that you won't feel like you're playing a 4+ year old game, and it's a fun experience (along with the expansion Warhead). That said, even with the latest patches and drivers, Crysis isn't exactly well-optimized, so even though it doesn't come close to looking as good as Crysis 3, it doesn't exactly run a whole lot better, especially at max settings.

That said, you should definitely play it. It's a great game, and still probably my favorite of that series.

 

[gorcorps]

Once you mod it it's very nice. There's good texture packs and shader mods around which is needed to bring it up to date. I personally never played it back when it was the big thing, and 2 years ago when I played it without mods I was disappointed. IMO it doesn't age nearly as well as people claim it did, and they may be a bit biased based on how good it was at the time. But with mods it looks damn good and it's fun enough. The suit powers were kind of clunky to switch between but it's not a bad shooter.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Crysis with mods actually looks better than Crysis 3.

Crysis 2 is just a major disappointment in terms of graphics. Crysis stock looked better.

 

[KaOTiK]

I'll say Crysis 3 is a very very pretty game from what I've seen. I've seen a lot of screenshots that look like concept art and give a pretty big wow factor graphically.

 

[Pheran]

Play it! Even with no mods, it looks incredibly good. It's definitely the spiritual successor to the original Far Cry.

 

[GrantMeThePower]

Thanks, guys!

Where can I go to get/learn the mods? Any recommendations on which?

video card is 7950 boost w/ 3gb

 

[Pheran]

Thanks, guys!

Where can I go to get/learn the mods? Any recommendations on which?

video card is 7950 boost w/ 3gb

Check this thread. But just try loading up the game with high/ultra settings, it's still pretty darn good.

 

[bigrash]

Original Crysis was awesome. Graphics and gameplay was great.

 

[pauldun170]

I'm building a new gaming PC and believe it or not I never played the original Crysis. How does it hold up to modern games and its own sequels? Are the graphics still that impressive or do they pale now that it is years old?

in other words, is it worth it to install the game or would I feel like i'm playing an 'old' game?

I played it for the first time a few months ago.
thoroughly enjoyed it.
Nice to be able to max out everything on a game that once pushed a lot of PC's to a crawl

 

[gorcorps]

Thanks, guys!

Where can I go to get/learn the mods? Any recommendations on which?

video card is 7950 boost w/ 3gb

You can honestly google it and come up with some good ones. Since the game is old enough there's a few pretty well established "go-to" texture packs and stuff that will show up in your search. You can try playing it stock first though just to see how much difference it makes.

 

[Stringjam]

Check this thread. But just try loading up the game with high/ultra settings, it's still pretty darn good.

I did a fairly thorough step-by-step in that thread for modding Crysis.

All of those files are also still available to download from my SkyDrive (which I would recommend downloading from me, because a few of the files will need modifying if you download them from anywhere else).

Crysis is still a pretty fantastic looking game. It never did get a really good texture pack (like Crysis2 got with MalDoHD), but it still looks quite amazing.

The game was a monumental graphical achievement for the time. Crytek invented SSAO and I'm pretty sure this was the first game to use subsurface scattering (which is why the vegetation and human skin in the game look so realistic.....allowing sunlight to pass through translucent objects like leaves and thinner areas on the edges of human skin).

A good example on this big leaf:

As much as people were complaining that the game wasn't optimized, the fact is it was rendering A WHOLE LOT MORE than any other game at the time, and most games since.

 

[GrantMeThePower]

THANKS!!! That is awesome

 

[Red Storm]

As much as people were complaining that the game wasn't optimized, the fact is it was rendering A WHOLE LOT MORE than any other game at the time, and most games since.

Yep that's why I believe it's still the most graphically impressive game to this day, although I have yet to see Crysis 3 in person.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

A 7950 oc can max it out at 1080p with AA disabled with avg 60 fps.

 

[HeXen]

Crysis is NOT open world...why do people keep saying that? It just has a wide linear path.
FC2/3, GTA4, Skyrim...those are semi open world games, semi because they still pose restrictions on where you can go, as in not every building is accessable, not every mountain can be climbed..etc.