Crysis® 3
A small note: My hours aren’t accurate. I played all the time on the XB360 (even if I was never very good) so I do know what I’m talking about.
Regarding the story, it’s solid. Not the next greatest thing, but it had its moments and was fun to play through. Characters felt believable, but you might need to play the prior Crysis games to understand some of them a little better. The game can be played standalone, however, as I first did.
While I’m not a fan of the Ceph (the alien race) and combat with them, I very much enjoyed fighting the human opponents. This holds true for all the Crysis games, in my opinion (with the possible exception of Warhead - I haven’t played that)
– Real player with 67.0 hrs in game
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Introduction
Crysis series, especially the first game and its expansion, always had a special place in my heart, as I played it a lot on the original disk, and the following games always left me with conflicted feelings. On one side, the 2nd game got better with its story-telling and music, but the large open levels got replaced with more linear levels, and the multiplayer got completely redesigned. Now, with the third game, it seems that it exactly does not know what it wants to do. It tries to do a bit more open levels, but it restricts you at the same time. It gives you quite a lot of tools to play with, but not enough time to experiment with them all. To put it shortly, in the single-player, it tries to combine everything the series did before, but it ends up not being best at anything.
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
Ryse: Son of Rome
fun game that holds up today even though it was just a “tech demo” when release. decent story, solid graphics, and mediocre gameplay. plays like a simpler version of the batman arkham series. the only downside is that campaign is very short (4-6hrs) and the combat is repetitive. still, worth checking out since it plays like an extended action movie.
– Real player with 60.8 hrs in game
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Contrary to what the game’s title might leave you believing, the protag’s name is not actually Ryse, but it’s actually Marius. Some characters do tell him to rise from time to time when he’s being a lazy slacker falling asleep in the middle of a war, and the subtitles use an i instead of a y, but that’s just semantics. I’d also consider the “Son of Rome” part to be a little inaccurate since a city can’t conceive people. Although people can be conceived inside cities, and Marius’s daddy-o, Leontius sure laid down the pipe on his wife Septima. And we have confirmation that he did so at least twice since Marius has a sister! I might be going a little off track here, so let’s get down to the game itself.
– Real player with 21.8 hrs in game