Crysis Remastered Reviews
Crysis Remastered is an uneven remaster that highlights the greatness of the original game while failing to deliver a definitive edition of the game. Crysis deserved better.
I’m glad I was able to dive back into a game I genuinely consider to be one of my favourite shooters from back in the day. It feels a little more cliché now than it did back in 2007, but you can still see why Crysis was able to make such a name for itself. With more than serviceable gameplay and narrative, Crysis Remastered is worth a play for those who are yet to check this title out. Although with visuals that feel a little underwhelming, I wonder if those who already own the original would get much out of this remaster.
While many a fan of the franchise hopes Crysis 2 and 3 rereleases are also on the cards, this particular outing doesn't inspire much confidence that those two games will receive the love and care they deserve.
Crysis Remastered is still the same game you remember, but for the most part, this remaster doesn't sufficiently improve the game's visuals enough. The lighting can look good, but dated textures and gameplay, poor AI, and a number of bugs and glitches hold this remaster back. Crysis Remastered is only worth checking out if you haven't experienced the game yet.
Crysis Remastered has beautiful lighting and textures, but a stylistic misunderstanding of the original as well as technical issues galore make this remaster feel lacking.
Honestly, it's difficult to recommend Crysis Remastered. Its premise and design remain impressive to this day, but poor optimisation makes it difficult for players to enjoy the new graphical additions. If you already own a copy of Crysis, you aren't going to miss out on much here.
As a fan of the original Crysis it’s very hard to recommend this remaster. The changes to the art direction on top of the missing content and technical issues make this arguably the worst version of the game to play. Though if you have no other way to experience it, then there is some enjoyment to be had with it.
I quite enjoyed the time I spent with Crysis Remastered. The game does hold up well to this day however the performance issues and the frustrating AI really hindered my enjoyment.
Long heralded as the pinnacle of graphical performance, the Remastering of Crysis leaves much to be desired with a style of combat and fidelity that can't quite match its contemporaries on PlayStation and Xbox
Crysis Remastered is a very pretty game when it runs smoothly, which sadly isn't often. That said, it's still a satisfying shooter, even if the AI needed more of an overhaul than the graphics
Crysis Remastered is a lazy console port that weighs a lot even on modern PCs: it shows an incredible work of art on global illumination, but the performances are held back by some bad choices.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Crysis Remastered is not a lazy and indolent re-edition, of those carried out only to make money and finance more important projects. This is evidenced by the commitment shown by Crytek in creating a completely new technique to bring, for the first time ever, ray tracing on the consoles of the current generation. Unfortunately, however, the result of these efforts fails to fully satisfy the senses of the players, and ends up highlighting other aspects of the technical sector much less exciting.
Review in Italian | Read full review
It still is a great shooter, but it undoubtedly shows its age. The graphical improvements are just anecdotic.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Crysis Remastered is more of a capsule from a simpler time of the first-person shooting genre. Playing is undoubtedly fun because of the various things that players can do, with the inclusion of tight gunplay and engaging missions. However, I can’t help but wish for a complete remake because the age of this adventure holds it back from being anything more than a way for us to show our kids the terrible mechanics and AI that we used to put up with.
Crysis Remastered is still a solid first-person shooter in 2020 but more could’ve been done to make it better. The open-ended gameplay still makes running around in the Nanosuit a fun power trip but the problems with enemy AI do sour the experience a bit. If you never played Crysis or were a die-hard fan there is fun to be had here but you may want to wait for a sale or for some tuning to be applied.
In conclusion, Crysis Remastered is a good time, but unfortunately it does suffer from not only having some disruptive glitches, but also in the gameplay itself. The game, while still enjoyable, shows a lot of age in its design. The core gameplay loop of fighting, then looting, then fighting some more still works, but since then many games have come out that takes this loop and makes it much more enjoyable. The old timey story of the super soldier vs. the world also suffers as plenty of players have heard of such a story so many times by this point in the history of video games.
A remastered version that improves some graphics aspects of the original and preserves its gameplay, but is plagued by poor optimization and suffer bad framerates even on the most powerful hardware.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The 2007 shooter returns loaded with countless visual enhancements, as well as being once again relevant as a benchmark tool. Although with some rough mechanics, the fun is still there, and visiting the Lingshan Islands has never been so vibrant.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Crysis Remastered is not a bad game but getting on a lot in years. If you can live with a generic AI, some technical hiccups and don't think you'll get a graphical surprise as back in the day on PC you'll still get a solid shooter from the oldschool days.
Review in German | Read full review
While I wouldn't say that Crysis is at the absolute upper echelon of FPS titles it certainly has its adherents...