Crysis 3 – maximum disappointment?

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February 20, 2013

The highly anticipated Crysis 3 is finally upon us, and as Crytek releases its newest PC melter, the international reviews are starting to pour in.

The game currently sits with Metascores of 79/100 on Xbox 360 and 82/100 on Ps3. Over on GameRankings it holds 78.33% on Xbox 360 and 81.25% on Ps3.

Many will consider PC the real test of Crysis 3. It currently holds a Metascore of 79/100 on PC and a GameRanking of 75.2%.

If you are interested in picking up the game, check out some of the pre-order options for Crysis 3: Crysis 3 pre-order pricing roundup .

Scores are one thing, but what are the international critics saying about Crysis 3?

IGN: 8.5

“It’s not quite a next generation experience come early, but it’s a superbly controlled, tightly paced and tactically flexible shooter with a satisfyingly focussed story, and an excellent way to tie up the Crysis series… for now.”

GameSpot: 7.5

“As a piece of technology, Crysis 3 lives up to the series’ legacy. As a game, it doesn’t reach the same heights. The campaign is several hours shorter than Crysis 2’s, and doesn’t reproduce the thrills that lit up the previous games. “

CVG: 8.5

“Crysis 3 is a difficult one to score in a multi-format review. It’s a showpiece, a supermodel FPS, but on consoles there’s less makeup to conceal its lack of ideas. On PC, however, the beauty is so effective in papering over the cracks, the fact that the series still remains a long, long way behind Half-Life 2 and Halo hardly seems to matter.”

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Destructoid: 7.5/10

“A solid game that definitely has an audience. Might lack replay value, could be too short or there are some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.”

GamesRadar: 3.5/5

“Overall, Crysis 3 is a gratifying shooter experience. Even though the campaign is on the shorter side, there are a few visual hiccups, and some of the enemy AI is unbalanced, those small gripes get overshadowed by Crysis 3’s tactical gameplay, beautiful environments, and superb online multiplayer.”

VideoGamer: 6/10

“By the end of the game I was bored silly, and considering the scope of what was going on that shouldn’t have been the case. Sadly, bar a few exceptions – a Jurassic Park-style hunting section in long grass, an open-ended assault on Ceph AA emplacements – I’d rinsed and repeated the same thing so much that I couldn’t care less. Which, given that I was the world’s most powerful being, says it all.”

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Game Informer: 8.5/10

“Crysis 3’s evolutionary enhancements don’t move the needle for the series very far, but the core nanosuit-based gameplay is still thrilling.”

Edge Online: 6/10

“It looks beautiful, of course. Everybody knows Crytek can work magic on a gaming PC, but it’s the Faustian pact that the studio has presumably entered into in order to conjure such imagery from consoles (while avoiding Far Cry 3 levels of performance) that has us concerned. What was lost along the way? The first game’s soul was traded away by Crysis 2, but at least that game was aware of its limits, using its new walls to guide players through a series of emergent, reactive encounters. Crysis 3 has neither direction nor freedom, though it does have human weapons, alien weapons, a cloaking device, an Armour mode, and a bow. And with this many options at your disposal, Crysis 3 insists, surely you must be having fun.”

PC Gamer: 81/100

“The legacy left by Crysis, assuming this is the last we’ll see of the franchise in the near future, is much different than the craterous impact the original game made in 2007. It’s still a terrific, dazzling action experience with a core mechanic that empowers you, and ultimately, this feels more like Crysis 2: Episode 2 than a sequel that deserves your maximum enthusiasm.”