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Crysis 33/13/2023 Chinatown is flooded, buildings cracked and vegetation taking over. The story moves you, not emotionally, just physically.Ĭrysis 2 took place in New York City under alien attack. It has an Elmer’s Paste blandness, fine as long as you don’t ingest it. It’s about what it means to be human and a real hero, or at least thinks it is. It only exists because the medium’s gotten to the point where it feels like it needs to have it. I’m choosing to let the game’s story off the hook. Is not all this technology at the service of face shooting? Why would somebody expect a videogame to be anything more than that? Why view the game in any other context than the one that the medium’s artists have created?Ĭrysis 3 is a pretty okay shoot-people-in-the-face type of game, but it’s so annoyingly dumb that my first reaction was to roll my eyes and dismiss the game. I explained how realistic it looks, how much time and effort went into crafting this simulation of New York, and I lamented that all you did was shoot people in the face. One of the other guests, who confessed that she didn’t play videogames, asked what I was working on and, at the time, it happened to be a review of Crysis 2. I was at a party a few years back and, as it usually goes, I was outed as a videogame critic by a well meaning friend.
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