Crysis Crysis Review By Baseline By Baseline on Dec 14, 2007 - Updated Oct 15, 2011

Ahh, Crysis. The game that has had the PC-gaming enthusiast market buzzing for quite a while. We all knew this game would have some of the steepest system requirements seen from any PC game yet, and it held true to that when they came out.

Many, like myself, went out and upgraded to the latest and greatest PC components in anticipation. However, things did not go over so smoothly. It doesn't take a genius to go to any of the more active Crysis message boards and see a slur of people complaining about performance, even people that have just spent $1500+ on quad cores, 4gigs of ram, and 8800GTX'es. Yes, I am one of those people that upgraded to those specs, but I am not one of the people complaining. Why? Because it was obvious this would happen. The real limiting factor right now is the GPU (the video cards), and even people from the crysis team have said this. After all, the 8800GTX / Ultra are now over a year old, and they aren't exactly handling DX10 games with ease, to top that with vista's poor performance.

You'll instantly be reassured of these sore facts when you refresh the multiplayer server browser and set it to DX10 games and notice there are only a handfull of servers with people playing if you are lucky. That is very sad for a game that just game out.

Some of you might be saying though "wait, this guy gave this game such high marks, why is this review so negative?". To put it simply, Crysis is a great game. I love it. NVidia is to blame here for not putting out new cards because they want to milk what they have while there is no real competition in the high-end sector from ATI. It's very unfortunate, and very detrimental to the PC gaming sector as a whole. While we should all be enjoying crysis to it's fullest potential without having to take out a loan to make a Tri-SLI system, we are stuck with sub-60 FPS on low settings with even new pc's that cost $1500+ to build.

Crysis is a great game, It just came out at a time when there is no competition in the video card market, which hurt it, and us gamers as a whole.