I meant high, not very high settings.
Anyways, beat the game. Took my roughly 15 hours or so.
Its a great game. Not the best and not worth 98% that PC Gamer gave out. Its roughly the same score as Far Cry would get.
The gameplay tails off near the end. The first 5 hours are brilliant and makes you feel that your some Special Op guy. Just a blast. You stalk enemies through jungles, attack bases, drive tanks, drive heli's and just do some cool shit.
When you start to face off against the Aliens. It turns into more of an straight shooter. It does help with the pace because sooner or later, the stalking gets a bit old, but the alien part is not as good as the start.
It didnt help that the graphics were a bit more taxing after the ship level, so I had to put it down to medium. There is some cool moments though, especially when the alien tank starts to move. I wish that I saw it High settings though because it would of look awesome.
Overall, the gameplay is a blast. If you loved Far Cry, you'll love this. It's better than it.
Graphics, unbelievable. I tried on very high settings at the first level, and it will be the best looking game for a very long time. The waves are just amazing, the sand looks like real sand and even has little twigs in it, and other sandy objects. I looked down and saw that my movemens leaves footprints, but not just footprints, but indentations. It looked totally real. Explosions are amazing, and when you look at a waterfall, there is slight rainbow effect that changes when you look at it at different angles.
But the coolest thing I saw at Very High Settings is when your getting shot at and you jump into the lagoon, the bullets leave wakes in the water. Remember Saving Private Ryan, well, thats exactly how it is. I dont actually remember, but I thought I saw some bubbles where the bullet was.
Overall, a kick ass game. Very worthy of the system requirements. When I tried Very High, there was slowdown, but it wasnt a slideshow.
So far my new processor kicks ass and lets me use my card to its full potential, i am able to play crysis at high with 30 FPS average with DX9 and with the DX10 hack i get an average 20-25fps and it drops to 15-20 under intense battles with many AI.
I seriously want to get a GTS but after seeing its benchmarks compared with the GT, there isn't much difference.
It seems good.
Everything runs pretty well. My startup is kinda of weird. It usually starts up, but sometimes it doesnt. I dont know if thats is because of the 64bit edition, but other than thal, I dont have any problems with it so far. I actually like Vista better than XP. The only thing that was weird is when you install an "Game For Windows" game, it uses the game explorer windown instead of putting it on the desktop. I looked for about 15 minutes till I found all of them.
I only got it because I wanted 4 GB's of RAM, and 64 bit Vista is the only one that supports it.
I thought you would of gone the 4 core route?
After playing Crysis, I was wondering about the game if it was as good as it was. After awhile, and playing Call of Duty 4, I kinda of want to go back and play it again. The first half of the game is amazing.
4 core is too expensive, that's really all there is to it at this point. I'd like quad, but can't afford it right now. Which is okay, as the difference right now is non existent. Perhaps I'll upgrade to a quad in a year or something, who knows.
I think your startup problem is just Vista, I've heard it's rather buggy. You got all the latest drivers and bios? May help if you don't.
Yeah, only reason I'm going 64 bit is for 4 gigs as well.
Originally posted by BackFire
4 core is too expensive, that's really all there is to it at this point. I'd like quad, but can't afford it right now. Which is okay, as the difference right now is non existent. Perhaps I'll upgrade to a quad in a year or something, who knows.
So the quad isn't even necessary to utilize now? Even with this game?, with it being the most graphically advanced game on the planet.
Nah, games don't utilize quad-cores just yet.
In the future, they probably will, but for now it's more or less future proofing.
Smas - Yeah, the cpu I'm going to be getting is new and tough to find, as such sites are price gouging, there's a place near here who's selling it for $199 (which is what the suggested retail price is, about).
What I may do, depending on when Intel launches the rest of their new CPU's, is get one of their new quad cores, but we'll see if they launch those before I start my build.
I've started buying parts for my new PC. So far today I picked up:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130318
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119137&Tpk=cm%2b690
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128050
and a Seagate 500gig HDD for $95 bucks.
Just need PSU, Ram and CPU. Unfortunately that CPU is tough to find for a decent price, so may have to wait it out a bit.