Obsessed, addicted or just a geek

I have now played all three crysis games admittedly I did not finnish the first one but enjoyed the second and hammered the multiplayer until early hours of most mornings.
When the third crysis came out I was not in any hurry to buy it only receiving it when it became free for PlayStation plus members.
I did start to play it putting a fair few hours into it on the first day I started playing it.
Starting as Prophet on a revenge mission after discovering his long term enemy CELL have enclosed New York in Nanodomes which they are using to help them find the alien technology and try for world domination. Ad well as the CELL forces you find out the the alien race Ceph have also returned making live twice as difficult for you.
The maps are made up of swamps, jungles and destroyed parts of the city, working your way though finding nanosuit upgrade, weapons and hidden logs. The maps look nice when outside and in open areas but the buildings don’t nt offer much else.

Crysis 3 gives you all the abilities that the other two games gave you, stealth, Armour, fast running and increased strength. These abilities are upgraded able with perks. You are able to have three perks active at once, all upgradeable though doing requirements, for instance increased armour by obsorbing so much damage.
I did alot of the game by stealthing around the map with my cloak active killing from a distance.
Picking up weapons not only allow you to use them but when you find one with a different addon that you have not seen before unlocks it for you to use on any of that gun you pick up later in the game, adding underbarrel. Scopes, nosel upgrades making you versatile in different ways, getting in close and quiet to long distance.
This time round you are able to use your visor to hack mines, sentry guns and even high light enemy’s all to help out.
My weapon of choice however was the good old trust worthy Bow, which you receive close to the start of the game.
Being able to fire it while remaining stealthed is a massive advantage, as well of having different tipped arrows to help you along. Explosive, scatter. Electric and normal all types for every sernareo.

I finnished the game in about 8 hours, about the the average time of every game at the minute.
Well all in all it was a average game nothing really new and the story was less than impressive. I am glad I did not buy it I am thinking that manybe it’s time for some new stuff instead of the same old.

It Has been many years since I played this first time round so I thought why not give it a replay and see how its held up….. Kind of wish I didn’t. this turned out to be the longest 6 hours of my life!

Playing it on the PC second time round using the keyboard was a complete pain so I had to end up using my PS4 pad instead witch was the correct choice in the end, how ever I did have problems when it came to combat rolling forward in the end I had to do this with my keyboard just to be able to get past two parts of the game.

X-Blades is a third person hack and slash with some gun play and quite a bit of magic you are able to use to help mix up your combat options. as you progress thought the game you will collect souls off every enemy you kill this is what you use to unlock new spells, gun ability and health regen. The hack and slash is a case of hitting one button over and over again, there felt like no challenge in just doing that. you are able to hot key four spells which allowed you to dispatch enemy’s  with ease, well at least it did early on in the game. the gun play was easy to use pull the trigger to shoot (has a semi-auto lock) pull one to lock on to enemy’s and the D-Pad to change what kind for gun ability you want to use.

The Map was not massive and the areas small, the time in each area only extended by how many enemy’s you had to fight to progress. You have to do two laps of the map before you can reach the final part that is the castle. Now this felt lazy with only the time of day and a few different enemy’s  in the areas that made the difference and even then it was small. It got boring going in the same areas, and at time you had to go back to grind in order to progress.

There where very little enemy’s thought out the game (spiders, lizards, ghosts and elements) not including the bosses. once you got over run with the spiders you could not move due to the silly attack speed and range getting stun locked and losing a lot of health made this a pain. the elements where just as bad not in the way they attacked but how you had to attack them, if you did not have the right spell you could not do any damage to them meaning you had to go bad and grind in order to buy the spell to take them down. Not know what was in the next area till you arrived was a pain, you had to wait to buy spells you needed over the spells you wanted.

The first boss you come across is a wolf who is easy to take down at first but you meet him three times in total and each time he gets, no so much harder just more annoying  many it be having to kill loads of enemy’s before you can hit him or gain having the right spell to do some damage to him, this became more and more important in order to do damage to more and more enemy’s. There where so many bosses that when badly designed and where so annoying to take down I found my self shouting at the TV in frustration. 

The last two bosses (which where the same person) tuck so much longer than it need to. with him freezing you in place every ten seconds and having ghosts flying around witch stop you hitting him with your magic and having to get rid of them first while being frozen was a complete pain. I did finally finish the game and a sense of relief  come over me when I did.

Would I play it again? Not a chance.

Did I regret starting it? Yes

Would I recommend it to anyone? No

Stay clear, save our money and buy something better.

Now to find me a better game to play