The game's menu mouse pointer would sometimes continue to appear during play, and at other times would drift into a corner and become lodged there so I couldn't move it to click on menu options. I had to unplug my controller to stop it interfering when I was playing with mouse and keyboard. Alt-tabbing out and back into the game turned the screen black, forcing me to quit and reload. Load times are as slow as they ever were. The parts of the technical experience I care about most in a remaster like this are all quality of life issues, but Crysis Remastered falls down here, too. Or, to be more specific: 8K is a very large resolution with which to view terrain which is fundamentally low-poly by modern standards. Lifting those restrictions and selectively modifying the graphics does not work, because the whole is lost. Crysis looked beautiful in 2006, but that was because Crytek's art team made a series of choices designed to make the game look its best as a whole, within (or slightly beyond) the technological limitations of the time. Less ideal: the game recommended I play on 'medium' graphics settings, with most of these options off, and Steam's most recent hardware survey suggests that around 2% of players run games at 4K resolutions.įor me, these kinds of polish jobs are aesthetically wrongheaded. The new edition brings better reflections, support for 4K and 8K resolutions, and something called "rippling caustics", which conjures images in my mind of beefcakes flexing their muscles while mocking me. There's nothing in the Remastered edition to make me think it's worth the extra pennies. The original is also regularly reduced in price during Steam sales, costing as little as £2.50 in January and £4.50 in June and the beginning of September according to SteamDB. I'd normally leave conversations about value to you and your wallet, but Crysis Remastered is £28 via the Epic Games store, while the original game is £18 on Steam or £15 from GOG. Crysis was and is a first-person stealth playground, with destructible buildings, clever enemies, and a set of flexible superpowers with which to make one collide with the other.Ĭrysis Remastered is that game again, with new graphical bells and whistles you probably can't use, and a substantially higher price than the original game costs now. Crysis is a first-person stealth playground and a staggering spectacle, but new tech wizardry doesn't justify the new price.Ĭrysis was always about more than its graphics.
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