History Crytek resembles sugary Hollywood tale about how came from backwater protagonist through charisma, talent, patience and a drop of luck worn out rags to riches. Seven years ago, the existence of a German company known only to visitors to the NVIDIA booth at the show ECTS 2000, paid attention to the demo project X-Isle.
Seriously about an ambitious team of Turkish Yerli brothers (Yerli) spoke after the debut of Far Cry at E3 2002, when the race for the title of "Best Shooter" and "The Most Advanced Technology" game yielded only DOOM 3. In March 2004, the battle for the wallets of buyers dark horse on equal struggled with Unreal Tournament 2004, and for the year is not lost in the company's Half-Life 2 and already mentioned creation of id Software. After the release of Crysis with the convenience of settled on a kind of throne, an action-king, but who put on her crown? Internet forums are full of excitement and shouts that this is the best shooter to date - the most beautiful, brightest, most intelligent writing ... Usually it's people in it do not play, the new king is very picky, very picky about the hardware. Their opinions are formed on the basis that caught a glimpse of action on a computer from a friend, tried to run the demo at home and watched numerous videos. Now, when an enthusiastic little noise died down, and you could see the game in person, we will tell about their own experiences.
 | |  | "Bolivar would not stand two". Daughter of the scientist rescued desperate pilot, but the protagonist had to stay in the devastated mountain. | | Murphy Law in action: to get a sniper rifle, took the commanding heights, and at the bottom, unfortunately, not a living soul. |
Syndrome is the second project While Canadians from Ubisoft Montreal rivet alternate adventures of Jack Carver for consoles, the authors of the original game, like monks, hermits, a long time without leaving their offices. All the questions they gave one answer: "Sorry, not now. When the time comes, we'll tell you everything. "
Vow of silence was lifted in January 2006. But after the official announcement of Crysis, we anxiously read numerous interviews of staff Crytek. They promised too much: almost photo-realistic graphics, the most believable physics of the world, influencing the gameplay Nanosuit, fantastic plot in which North Korean soldiers were replaced by alien invaders. How realistic are the authors' project? Talented teams do not happen to stand the test of fame. Opinionated designers gave untold promise, but upon release it became clear that further pledges process did not go.
Fears proved groundless. Even a brief acquaintance with the game enough to understand: the employees of Crytek does not rest on our laurels, and worked hard.
 | |  | Level with the destruction of the tanks in Crysis is different from that in the Call of Duty 2 except that the model of your vehicle. | | No matter how steep was the main character, to destroy the cruiser alone he can not. Require support from the air. |
The first in a battle For pathos, stupidity, and inflame passions plot Crysis compared with the best Hollywood movies: Brave Americans once again save the planet from total destruction. This is not a lack of dignity and does not - just a fact.
Crazy rhythm sets the scene with a night landing. August 14, 2020, Philippine Sea, the archipelago Lingshan, aboard cargo aircraft. Afro-American commander "Predator", nicknamed the Prophet (you also reduces the cheekbones from the original name and nicknames?) Rapidly enters the ropes. Foursome of brave soldiers - Psycho, Jester, Aztec, and the protagonist Nomad (localizers have decided not to translate the English word "nomad", and all the characters pronounce it with an accent on first syllable, while Colonel Strickland - a second) - listen to the sad story of how North Korean soldiers captured a peaceful archaeologists.
Why a rescue team of scientists sent an elite unit of Special Forces - is unclear. However, to clarify the details in no time. Details you will find out later, but now have to jump. Devil's parachute was not disclosed. The first thing that comes to mind: "All right, boys, do not think badly of me." But no! It is not necessary to kill the hero in the first few minutes. It turns out that the five lifeguards dressed in special nanosuit. Leading scientists design worth a million dollars turns ordinary people into perfect killing machines.
 | |  | Someone from the shooters still contrived to make an accurate shot. The bullet pierced the windshield, but went in a matter of millimeters away from the body. | | This alien creature prefers to constantly move from one point to another. But this time it took to fly. |
In the program "High" There are four modes. Default is "maximum armor. Next to the health indicators have an additional green stripe. To send you to another world, an ordinary machine gunners have lime almost a horn.
"Maximum speed" turns the hero into athletes, but by pressing Shift Nomad hundred-meter race will run through several times faster than an Olympic champion Justin Gatlin. Scarce energy is sufficient only for a few seconds. However, they are sufficient to wash out of the army, or suddenly get around the enemy from the rear.
For lovers of the silent passage provides the option "masking." Nanosuit instantly blends with the environment. Sometimes patrol almost hurt you gunpoint, but do not notice the trick. If you stand still, the energy stocks enough for about a minute, and while walking the strip melts in schitanye moment.
The latter mode - "maximum force".With it, the hero does crushing blows with their fists, lifting heavy objects, and leaps on high ledges. Unfortunately, the level design does not allow to get on forbidding mountains and cut off the path. Once you cross the invisible line, the game asks to go back, otherwise it will destroy your commander Nanosuit.
 | "Cannon" Ride |
As the game progresses the main character can supply their weapons with additional modules. Most gadgets placed on assault rifles. First, the Treasury SCAR (futuristic SOF Combat Assault Rifle is very similar to real-world HM8) and its analogue Korean FY71 (copied from the Soviet AK-74) equipped with a flashlight, a silencer, a traditional "mushechnym and red-dot sights. But over time the number of available devices and ammunition will increase. Often spoil the shelves on the enemy weapons caches and do not be lazy to search the dead bodies of enemies - sometimes come across interesting titles. For example, useful during the shootings at an average distance of a laser designator, barrel-attached grenade launcher, assault and sniper scope and a powerful dual-mode magnification. Depending on the game situation, you can choose between two types of rounds: standard and incendiary. The latter have increased power and stitch kevlar body armor.
 | |  | Remote control of aliens. No matter how much Cheshi tanned neck, to understand what was happening, it is unrealistic. | | The sun is slowly but surely rolling westward. We must have time to complete the mission before nightfall. |
Pandora's box Thus, a group of commandos landed on the island. After a short exchange of fire with the patrol on the radio screams Azteca. The guy was praying to the Creator. Help appeared in time is too late - someone hung a partner to a tree and mutilated his body. Koreans? Definitely not they flimsy four soldiers were lying nearby. It looks like there is someone else. Big, strong, scary. Whoever is able to scare a seasoned warrior.
At the next level writers will answer all questions. A group of archaeologists led by Dr. Rosenthal found in the mountains of unusual statue. A week ago, the island invaded by North Korean soldiers led by General Khon. Military scientists have taken hostage and ordered them to continue their excavations. Recruited by the CIA's daughter Helen Rosenthal incredibly managed to get through to Americans.
Toward the middle of the game reveals that would-be researchers have found no ancient statue, a spaceship of aliens. About 2 million years, he quietly stood in the mountains, but the curious little people drove the aliens escape.
 | |  | Wonders of the physics engine: the guy has managed to wrap his hands behind his back and tumbled into the water. | | One of the intruders in search of the victim managed to climb into a small container. |
Features breaking bottles The death of comrades, rescue hostages, the invasion of aliens, stolen Koreans Nanosuit and other developments - minor. Crysis in the first place - an interactive advertising technology CryENGINE 2. The grass on the belt, dense thickets of palm trees, alluring to his water, wrapped in green mountain ... Whatever landscape, a small work of art. But first place in the hit parade of virtual beauties of nature occupy sunrises and sunsets. Great directors traveled in search of a place and time, just to shoot the sun, slowly the arising of the waves. Masters of Crytek treated to views of us like almost every five minutes. By the end of the game in the folder with the program FRAPS have accumulated more than a thousand screenshots. Whatever the frame, the picture postcards from the resort town or a picture from a magazine with advertising of tourist travel.
Not podkachala and physics. Nowhere before the hero could not really interact with lots of items. Dishes, lie under the feet snags, helmets, jars, and boxes from under the arms, containers, tubs with plants ... All this is allowed to lift, throw, shoot or blow up. The engine takes into account every nuance. For example, fell on the concrete glass bottle shatters, but the fall in the sand it will remain intact. The wheels get stuck among the heaps of stones, a few hundred meters of road punched rubber flies to the rim. Grenades disperse into pieces flimsy construction, and each time thin iron sheets fall to the ground from a different angle. With nanokostyuma can throw barrels of fuel into the enemy armored vehicles. Particularly desperate players during online battles arrange an entertaining contest titled "Who, after punch in the face automatic fly farther." Against this background, the folding variety of bricks from Half-Life 2 in order to overcome the obstacles may seem childish prattle.
The world around us is living by himself. Chickens running around the village, on the shores bustling sea birds in the shallows sorted out pincers bevy of crabs. If you sail away, then we can fall prey to sharks. Creatures attack in the best tradition of the movie "Jaws": first do some narrows, and then suddenly grabbed the limb.
 | |  | No, this is not a nuclear explosion. So take off the air Korean truck loaded with barrels of fuel. | | Helicopter maintains about a thousand bullets hit. Simply double the recoil from a grenade launcher. |
From summer to winter If the game ends at the sixth level, we would have chided the authors for the shortness, but it increased the final assessment on polballa. Mission before and after travel giant spaceship aliens are strikingly different. No, the picture quality, the physics and level design is all right.Just in the first half of the game you feel small deity, ruler of destinies of North Korean soldiers. Wanted - pity poor devils, and ran past all the patrols at breakneck speed or turned into the Invisible Man. Did not want to - kerf "maximum armor, and shot bedolag of assault rifles, or plucking arrogance activated" maximum force "and staged a fight without rules.
Once a flourishing island is covered with a thick layer of snow, the game becomes trivial FPS. The remaining time has to go on invisible rails, as in the series Call of Duty, steps to the left or right, is prohibited. Yes, fights with alien invaders seem more interesting than the monotonous shooting people, and the winter landscapes of the imagination, but not the main thing - freedom of action. Of the four modes nanokostyuma are the benefits of a strip of additional health. Warriors Silushka you need, just when the hero itch to do rock climbing. Before that you were a predator in the wild and very dangerous world, and then put a leash on you, without asking placed in an artificial environment, and said: "Hunting, pal."
 | |  | At first glance, the modest shy girl. In fact, that even little things. | | Do not want to give the jeep in an amicable way? We'll have to pick up in bad things. |
About megabytes and gigahertz Should I buy Crysis? If your computer is turbocharged sad without cause, do not hesitate. Game justify every ruble invested in it, every penny spent. Do I need to break the piggy bank and do the upgrade? It's up to you. In the U.S. the first two weeks of sales out of print only 86,000 copies of the game. Result for authors and publishers, of course, not fatal, but comparable with a low blow. Apparently, calculating the Americans thought, thought and decided that spending money to buy expensive "iron" for the sake of another shooter pointless. Simply add a little bit and go to warmer climates than enjoy virtual waterfalls, palm trees and crabs.
| Three discs instead of one |
Besides the usual options in sale of special collector's edition game. The first disc is playing, the second DVD is completely devoted to the history of the project. To explore the unique videos and early concept artami artists will take several hours. On the third disc contains the composer's works Aynona Zura (Inon Zur). At that bonuses do not end there. The kit includes a small book with illustrations and reading a figure of futuristic armored personnel carriers.
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