Crysis Warhead; Deja Vu All Over Again

If you want to play more Crysis levels without having to deal with all the cost of innovative content, you’re in luck.

Where to start? After thirty minutes of playing Crysis Warhead, I saw a couple new guns, some new particle effects, and a new mission. A mission that, outside of a dull scripted vehicle sequence, could have passed as content from the original Crysis.

Don’t get me wrong: I very much enjoyed the original Crysis, and the stand-alone Warhead’s $29.99 price point keeps the lack of new features from being insulting. Apparently Warhead will feature a larger variety of enemies than Crysis, though I saw none while playing it. And it will supposedly be better optimized, so a few more of you might be able to run it. There will also be some new multiplayer maps, and a couple new modes.

Did I mention those explosion effects already?

I can at least confirm that there will be no new suit powers… Read more