I have been hearing so many good things about Crytek‘s newest game and spiritual successor to 2004’s sandbox shooter Far Cry that I decided to pick myself up a copy of Crysis and play it while I enjoy this wonderful Spring Break, especially having recently built myself a computer that can run it. With few exceptions, I did not have any trouble running the game at my LCD’s native resolution at 1680×1050 at high detail, but there were rare times when it felt like it wanted to destroy my computer.

The game is fun, I’ll just say. If you’ve played Far Cry and liked it, you’ll love this game because it is loads better. If you didn’t really care for Far Cry (I fit into this category), you’ll probably still love it because it is loads better. Honestly, they fixed so many things I had a problem with in Far Cry, not the least of which is the horrible voiceover acting. The story is quite well-done, even if it is a bit recycled, and the combat is just plain fun. There are a few times when an action of mine would trigger one of those blasted helicopters to hunt me down, but thankfully those times were rare. Finally, I need not mention the freaking awesome graphics. There isn’t a game out there now that can match them, and yes, it does cost a pretty penny to get the hardware to pump out visuals like that.

The only thing I can really make a legitimate complaint about is its length. It is way shorter than Far Cry and feels artificially shortened. Well, as it turns out, it is the first game in a trilogy. Frailty, thy name is Halo Syndrome. Nonetheless, if I had played Crysis in 2007, it would have been my number two game of the year. Definitely worth picking up.