Comments on: Crysis: Warhead

By: Droniac

Droniac — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:48:47 +0000

I just stuck to the top of the train tearing them all apart. Focus on the healing aliens first, because the rest will be very tough to take down otherwise. And focus on one side before eliminating the other, it’ll be much easier to dodge fire when it’s only coming from one side.

Other than that I don’t really know what advice to give. Just stick to train, use the guns at your disposal and try to get out of the line of fire when it gets too hot. Fortunately the aliens aren’t the most accurate bunch, they just spray a lot of bullets (or needles, whatever it is that they’re shooting).

By: SAeN

SAeN — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:54:37 +0000

The train in the swamps, its still doing my head in! :(

I can ussually manage the first wave but after that I’m toast.

By: Droniac

Droniac — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:10:36 +0000

I’d say Crysis: Warhead did worse than repeat the mistakes of the original, it expounded on those mistakes. Warhead featured notably less sections fighting Koreans than Crysis did, although it did have a few more intense Player vs Aliens vs Koreans scenes.

But I’d have to say Crysis was easily the better game. Oddly, Warhead was a more linear experience than the original and the story was, well, unnecesary. It might have worked better had Warhead been a prequel (only vs Koreans) or a sequel, in which case at least the story might have been worthwhile. As it is, Warhead just repeats mostly everything you already know and adds very little.

To SAeN: I wonder where you get stuck? I’ve played through both games on Delta and neither was especially challenging. To be perfectly honest, I found Modern Warfare on Veteran mode to be a lot more difficult, if only because of those lame infinite spawn sequences (that Crysis thankfully didn’t have).

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:20:06 +0000

It was the same with Farcry -> Crysis

This is the conversation that actually happened in the development of Crysis. Actually.

Everyone in the world ever: “Trigons were shit you know”
Crytek: “Yeah; you said. Ok, no Trigons this time. Promise.”
Everyone in the word ever: “Ok, great. Killing those koreans sure does look like a hoot”
Crytek: “Yeah, it’s brilliant. And you know what comes after the koreans? ALIENS!!”
Everyone in the world ever: “Sigh.”

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:15:07 +0000

It’s especially odd as the critical reaction to Crysis fairly uninanimously derided the alien sections, so Warhead was a good chance to concentrate on what was really great about the first game and put things right. Instead Crytek seemed determined to ignore all that feedback and did exactly the same thing again. Seeing a potentially amazing game fall so far short is always worse than playing something that’s outright bad.

By: SAeN

SAeN — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:41:11 +0000

Well said, Ive rage-quitted numerous times after being told to defend myself against a horde of blue floaty death. Its worth noting though that I play it on Delta difficulty and even toning it down to normal is still just too much.
Crytek have some great ideas, just a shame there is always someone shouting “Aliens!” in their board meetings. ‘sadface’

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:26:07 +0000

Excellent debut. I’ve always enjoyed your stuff over at MVH, but you really donned the top hat of professionalism for this one.