Dream of Waking Ne Cede Malis

25Nov/09Off

#22 – Crysis Warhead (PC)

One good turn deserves another, right? Hey! Crysis was awesome! Crysis Warhead is also awesome! My biggest complaint is that there's literally too much story. The protagonist in Crysis was a faceless (but not voiceless) dude who ran around and defeated the North Koreans and invading aliens. The game was the story. Warhead suffers from side characters who are meaningless to the game, whom you never get attached to, and are too much the focus of drawn out cutscenes. I would've been much happier if the game took the approach of "Here's Psycho, remember him from the Crysis? Here's what he did on the other side of the island! He kicked ass and brought back a dead alien." and left it at that.

But that's really my only complaint. The action ramps up much faster in Warhead but that's most likely the result of the devs expecting you've already played Crysis and thus were already adept at switching suit modes and exploiting your own style of gameplay. There are a couple of not-exactly-on-rails segments which are fantastic, in particular a train that you are free to hop off of whenever you like, if you feel like hoofing it back to where ever it went, through North Korean checkpoints and machine gun nests.

Crysis Warhead has a couple more weapons, seven more missions, and Korean train full of action. Just skip the cutscenes and you'll be in for a fantastic six hours.

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