Although you technically couldn’t call it 2012 standards, and it isn’t technically as impressive as it’s successor the lush and expansive environments can aesthetically hold their own with the slightly more generic (but more detailed) setting of Crysis 2. Luckily, the game has a huge modding community, and thanks to the wonders of mods, I was able to get it looking quite nice again.
November 2012 is the first time I’ve installed Crysis and actually thought to myself “Wow, this really doesn’t look very good.” 5 years is a long time in the gaming world, and we’ve come a long way.
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Up until recently, Crysis still remained a benchmarking tool for PC gamers to test out their new machines, but mostly because of how unoptimized it was. Crysis eventually even came to the Xbox360 and PS3, albeit with considerably watered-down visuals. Little did we know how long this generation would last, and the kind of visual quality developers would be able to squeeze out of them, with the PC at the forefront. In 2007, Crysis looked like a next-gen game, only 2 years after the seventh generation of consoles had begun. Crysis kind of took the whole gaming community by storm and even people who would never dream of gaming on a PC knew what Crysis was, and what it stood for, simply because of how incredibly gorgeous it was for the time. Officially bringing graphical superiority back to the PC once more, as it happens with every generation, but in a way for the world to see what a high-end PC is capable of. Whizzing back to 2007, when UnrealEngine 3 was in it’s early days, and people thought the Heavy Rain “The Casting” trailer was amazing (watch it again now, I dare you), Crysis came along.
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I hack, mod, tweak, and stress games (and myself) to not only make them as beautiful as possible but to explore their environments free of HUD, overlays, and physical confinements and take interesting, high-resolution screenshots.