I Got the PC going, most settings medium, added config tweaks for DirectX9 (forget about DX10, unless you can't) to set physics and textures to high and foliage draw distance to high (I don't like the vegitation appearing and disappearing "popping" so much) then in the island level coming into the first emcampment it becomes clear it was totally worth the pain... Crysis is gorgeous. Walking into that camp seeing the sunlight, the water I just wanted to Cry :/ I don't want to disalusion anybody though, the hardware requirements are stiff and even with what I had described above I still had to turn my graphics down considerably during two major parts of the game one of them being the ending.

Continuing your mission you also realize you have to think and plan a little more (definatly not Doom). You have alot of choices though and ways to die too. Vehicles to drive include trucks, boats and tanks (tank battle was my favorite). You have this really nice state of the art suit that makes you strong, fast, armoured or cloaked (all at a cost of rechargable enery though) along with the ability to pickup spiffy guns and customize them. You also have a sprawl of land in front of you, openess is half the appeal of Crysis. This all makes for an awsome spectacle that is a fun game. The voice acting, artwork, animation, lighting, "in-game" cinimatics were all "top notch". The story played out well and it gave you enough information without boring you or making you scrounge for it. Overall I think it is a great example of how you can lead a player through a story without having it feel or be so static and scripted with everything spelled out for you. There was enough closure in the ending that you were fairly satisfied but, of course there is more to the story. I don't care who you are you don't ever kill a franchise by actually having an ending and even if you try you can always bring it back. So we can only hope that Crytek will make another Crysis for us. 

Physics derserves a paragraph by itself. I swear I spent 20 hours playing demo waiting for the full version. Blowing up trucks and generally doing as much physics/damage as possible. Mind you though, you must be running physics at high settings for it all to work. Trees were shaking, falling, splitting there is dust, rocks, crap, crabs flying, buildings falling and flying apart, unbelievable! Trying to mess with the game engine proves that although all software has bugs Crytek managed to pull of something I likely would have not thought possible not too long ago. To me it is like providing the power of an authoring program like 3D Studio Max in real time with the same breath and stroke (not really but, awful close).

I did play multiplayer and I was able to get into some of the non goal oriented maps and have fun. I also noticed less annoying people (a little more calculating set I believe) than the typical Halo 3 match on XBOX Live. I do intend to play some of the other map types as I believe they could be insanly addicting. To be fair though I have not played enough multiplay to give it any real judgment.

A little more bad...  Games are short these days and you could easily tear through this one, you certainly don't have to that and I highly recommend you don't. Take time to smell the translucent palm leaves.

I rate Crysis as Pretty Tasty! If you have the PC for it then you already have hundreds invested... buy this game! Just to show off if nothing else. If  you wanted a worthy successor to FarCry this is also your game. Comment.