This is a game I've been into ever since it came out in 2007. It's pretty legendary for being a benchmark, even today, but I love it for the times I've had with it.

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The multiplayer was mindblowing for me when I got into it. Huge maps, so many vehicles, and nuke launchers! It was also very tricky, it's not easy to shoot players who are either invisible or flying across the room in speed mode. The multiplayer was full of adventures, I remember times when I'd go solo with a sniper and sneakily traverse the maps, sometimes not very successfully. I was always ecstatic when I managed a kill on my dinky desktop, which made it near impossible to hit anything with the fps I got. In some ways you could say the difficulty in getting the game to run at max settings helped contribute to this sense that you were getting to play something special.

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As a sci-fi fan, the campaign is a treat. Granted, the plot isn't overly complex or deep, but you can still appreciate it for what it does successfully. It's campy, it welcomes you to a grounded world of nanosuits and gauss rifles , and it lets you chuck north koreans into the air. The beginning where you jump out of the plane and land on the island seamlessly, always took my breath away and got me hyped for the adventure that followed. The only complaint I have would be that the ending left me wanting so much more.

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If you want to really test your mettle, try to get to the very top of the carrier on the Armada map in multiplayer. It's not easy!

Personally, I was disappointed by Crysis 2 and 3. They were good games, don't get me wrong, but I don't think they were worthy sequels to the first. I wanted games where you could ascend all the skyscrapers, clear aliens from each one, and then freely fly around Manhattan inside a VTOL, something that truly managed to one-up the original. Computers just didn't explode the right way.

Thanks for reading, I'd love to hear other people's stories and thoughts!