Crytek's upcoming title, Crysis, has been catching interest since day one of its unveil. With graphics that are baby steps away from photo-realism and highly-immersive game play this game is going to be a hit for certain. From the demo, I have seen some of the functionality of the "Nano-Suit" that Crysis prominently features. I found the suit to be incredibly fun and fairly believable. The control scheme for triggering the suits functions is quick and easy making it a key tool during your battles as well as out of combat situations. Only one function can be used at a time and for a limited amount of time at that. The suit has a small energy charge that is used upon activating any of the functions and is expended after about 15 to 20 seconds and recharges somewhat quickly.



For the sake of immersion, I decided to take some time in the very beginning to toy with my suit and see if I could come up with a theory on how it could actually exist and function in the real world. Since the suit itself is made up of a high-quality synthetic material and its placed on the body in an arrangement that closely resembles muscle tissue placement, this was easier than I thought. Upon seeing this I remembered a Popular Science article that I had stumbled across a small time ago. The article described a suit that was being developed that assisted the user's muscles and joints in order to amplify capabilities. Since there were no images of said suit my mind developed a mental image looking fairly similar to the Crysis Suit. The suit was worn over the users bare skin almost like a second set of muscles and acts like them as well. Supposedly able to sense and gauge the amount of effort being put forth by the user and when commanded to, amplify it by up to 60%(stats from the given time, may have improved). There was no mention of any resistance to gun fire, however, it seemed likely that it would be the next step. The re-chargable energy source I figured to be achieved through a conversion of the mechanical energy created through movement into electrical energy which would be stored in some sort of capacitor and most likely assisted by a small moderately powered battery. As for the other functions of the suit, if it interests you, you are more than welcome to message me and discuss. I finished my theory and pre-paired to play through the available missions.



The game begins with a very immersive sky dive out of a military plane. A maniacal smile quickly grew on my when I saw the quality job done on motion-blur and texturing. I don't want to give away much of what was in the demo, because I would like for my readers to play the demo themselves and experience the game in their own way. I will give a few of my feelings on the game though. I was very impressed with the amount of "goofing off" I was able to do between objectives. I spent quite a while toying with the environment and establishing my limits. There was extensive exploration of everything I could get to, a sufficient amount of plate throwing and watermelon smashing, and a nice bit of crab-throwing to spice things up. I buckled down and progressed through the missions, my curiousity ofcourse getting the best of me every chance it got. Having played the demo on my new eVGA 8800GT, this game was exceptionally beautiful and visceral. Unfortunately, the maximum graphics settings where unavailable in the demo, with reason, and due to my dislike of Vista I did not use any of the games DX10 features if there are any available in the demo. I had quite a bit of fun making use of the suits functions, often for things like cloaking to get behind someone and then breaking necks or flipping trucks over and throwing people. With practice you can ration your energy and form combos with the suit.



Overall I found this demo to be very entertaining and visually stunning. I will be purchasing this game as soon as possible and will recommend it to anyone who likes FPS's and/or has an eye for immersion and top end graphics. Of course, if Destructoid were to mail me a copy of the game and ask for a full review that would be even better. (hehe that would be excellent)

P.S. If I can find a link to that article about the suit I will toss it in this blog or in the comments. :P Happy Reading.



A very High-Res image of one of the character heads Very cool.