Yesterday, my housemate shared with me his latest game offering. Thankfully his PC is high-end (self built, too) and could handle the game.

CRYSIS.

First person Shooter that redefines the way games should look. And gets it right.

I had a little play, but not for very long. I was gobsmacked. I do mean that. I was humbled into silence when I saw the game, and humbled a little more when I tried to have a go.

Here are some extracts from online reviews:

Crysis is one of, if not the, most stunningly beautiful games we've ever seen. But even beyond that, it's a pretty fantastic shooter. Solid weapons, intelligent enemies, and fairly open level designs mix with nano-suit powers to make this one of the more entertaining ballistic showdowns in some time. From Here

So let’s have a look at the environment, which for me is actually one of the crowning glories of Crysis.

How do I put this without sounding gushing?

Erm, the graphics are good?

No, that's not right. The graphics are really, really nice?

No, that's not it either. Ah yes, this is it: The graphics do the same thing to your eyeballs that an oily threesome with Kiera Knightley and Jessica Alba does to your libido...quite simply your eyes'll be having the best time of their lives. Stunning is probably not strong enough to explain what Crytek have achieved with the visuals in Crysis... they're all just bloody marvellous. Games of this ilk are all about immersion and Crysis has this in spades.

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Yeah Crysis sure is a great game if you've a state of the art PC and the game puts the graphics of the 360 & PS3 to shame

Every tree is destructible leading to some really fun firefights and it's great to fell trees onto the baddies... such and open-ended game too with lots of different ways to play

Lucily I'd just got a new Quad core PC and 8800GT card and can run it really well at 1600x1200 (no AA though)

Yeah my older PC (Pentium 4, 3.2 ghz, ATI x800pro, 2Gb RAM) can run the demo, with all the settings on low, as a window on my widescreen monitor on a low resolution, just.

Its been said that there are simply no components available today that can run this game on all the highest settings.

Yeah my older PC (Pentium 4, 3.2 ghz, ATI x800pro, 2Gb RAM) can run the demo, with all the settings on low, as a window on my widescreen monitor on a low resolution, just.

Its been said that there are simply no components available today that can run this game on all the highest settings.

I've been hearing this said also. apparently the design is for the next generation of hardware.

At which time another cool game that pushes the benchmark higher comes along...

And so the journey continues....