bit-tech News: Crysis Warhead - 09/23/08 09:28 AM
Hi all,
We have just published a review of *Crysis Warhead* - if you could post
a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.
*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/09/23/crysis-warhead/1
*Picture:*
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/09/crysis-warhead/fp_img.jpg
*Quote:
*/That of course raises the issues of how one should judge the game --
as a self-contained game, or as an accompaniment to the original. If we
use the former scale then Crysis Warhead is a competent, if slightly
incomprehensible experience given the initial lack of exposition. It's
fun, but not something you'd find hugely essential.
If you judge it using the other metric though, then Crysis Warhead
becomes something different entirely. If you've played and loved Crysis
first then you'll play and love Warhead because it offers up essentially
the same experience, but with more of a focus on huge cinematic set
pieces with developing Psycho's character.
Let's put it this way; If you're new to the series, or didn't care all
that much for the original then Crysis Warhead is to Crysis as Blue
Shift was to Half-Life. It's an essentially fun game, but a little bit
flawed and disappointing on a story-telling level, feeling more like a
mod than a real game.
If you're an aficionado though then Crysis Warhead is more like how
Opposing Force was for Half-Life. It lets you see the same scenes from
another pair of eyes, getting you closer to the action and unveiling
some important details about the story and setting things up for a
sequel, as well as providing a fun game when you boil all that away.
If you like the original game then it's a fair bet that you'll like
Warhead as it's a very, very similar game. If you didn't play the
original though then you'll definitely want to do that before you play
Crysis Warhead, because its major failing is that although is tries to
be standalone experience it doesn't entirely succeed./
*
*Cheers guys!
Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net
We have just published a review of *Crysis Warhead* - if you could post
a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.
*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/09/23/crysis-warhead/1
*Picture:*
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/09/crysis-warhead/fp_img.jpg
*Quote:
*/That of course raises the issues of how one should judge the game --
as a self-contained game, or as an accompaniment to the original. If we
use the former scale then Crysis Warhead is a competent, if slightly
incomprehensible experience given the initial lack of exposition. It's
fun, but not something you'd find hugely essential.
If you judge it using the other metric though, then Crysis Warhead
becomes something different entirely. If you've played and loved Crysis
first then you'll play and love Warhead because it offers up essentially
the same experience, but with more of a focus on huge cinematic set
pieces with developing Psycho's character.
Let's put it this way; If you're new to the series, or didn't care all
that much for the original then Crysis Warhead is to Crysis as Blue
Shift was to Half-Life. It's an essentially fun game, but a little bit
flawed and disappointing on a story-telling level, feeling more like a
mod than a real game.
If you're an aficionado though then Crysis Warhead is more like how
Opposing Force was for Half-Life. It lets you see the same scenes from
another pair of eyes, getting you closer to the action and unveiling
some important details about the story and setting things up for a
sequel, as well as providing a fun game when you boil all that away.
If you like the original game then it's a fair bet that you'll like
Warhead as it's a very, very similar game. If you didn't play the
original though then you'll definitely want to do that before you play
Crysis Warhead, because its major failing is that although is tries to
be standalone experience it doesn't entirely succeed./
*
*Cheers guys!
Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net