I just realized my wife's laptop supports a lot of games. first game i want to get for it is crysis. Just started downloading the demo. Any of you guys played the game? What do you think of it?

I watched a friend of mine play the opening of it, and I was certainly impressed. Sadly, my comp can't handle it.
On a related bit of news, Crysis 2 is being released on console, so I won't miss out on that.

Would like to know what happened in the first one though so a port would be recommended before they bring out the second one.

Ditto. I know it involves commandos and aliens. And super suits.
So, it's an 80's movie.

I'm with you though. I'd like to see the first one on console.

So Predator meets Guyver then?

More like Predator meats Jedi who can only use powers that effect himself. lol (Screen play done by next fall. )
For example, the strength enhancement increases melee damage (to 1 hit lethal, and they fly off somewhere too) and allows you lot do things like punch a tank to death. Also lets you jump higher. There's another enhancement for speed, as well as at least two others I can't recall. Might also have built in night vision/thermal vision. Can't clearly remember.

...Sounds like PROTOTYPE... which I am replaying at the moment.

Played about an hour of it.

Preeeeeeeeeeeeeettttttttttttyyyyyyyy.

I love the nanotech suit.

I Know its awesome rite. You must have great PC, if you able to play the game.

Sadly u need a very high end PC to play this game. My wife's a graphic designer and she has a pretty High end PC, like 512 mb graphics card and all that. I downloaded the demo and played on it, the game could only run on the lowest setting and that too was very glitchy. Got a feel for the gameplay though and thought it was awesome.

Crysis 2 is coming out on consoles, so that's great news. If they port the first one for consoles and do a decent enough job i am sure it'll have quite a few buyers.

Hopefully they port it would be good to play the first so I know whats going on.

I'm not sure they can port it...

It has so many buttons you need a keyboard to be able to use them all.

I'm definitely going to pick up Crysis 2 for PS3 when it comes out. My PC couldn't handle the first one (it tried, it failed, it's never worked since) so I doubt it'll even be able to install the sequel

They're supposed to be turning stuff down for the sequel as the first one is almost ridiculous.

You know. Making sure the consoles can play it.

Bah, there are places that use PS3s for their supercomputers. I'm sure it'll be able to handle some purdy graphics and nice physics...

I tells ya though, my laptop... my friend brought over Crysis (he has an amazing computer, that can run 16 different games of EVE... and he uses them all ) and was like, "I don't think this'll work on your computer." I said, "Well, we'll try it out, see what happens." Worst. Idea. Evar. I don't know what happened, but my computer has been damned to enternal lagginess.

Time for a rebuild?

I should get some more of this played tomorrow. I'll have to alternate between Crysis and Fall of Man.

you should be really careful if you are playing games on a laptop, the graphics chip could blow up.

laptops aren't ment for gaming, have you tried getting a PC?

I used to have a desktop PC years ago, but over time as I began to play my games on consoles more and more, I finally decided that I didn't need my desktop taking up space so I switched over to my laptop. I can play a couple of games on it fine, as long as I turn down the graphic settings, but I'm never going to try something highend again. Can you actually blow a graphics chip?

By the way, welcome to the nation, Siyamm

yeah, once this guy bought one into a local computer shop where i work and his laptop (HP Pavilion) had blown its graphics chip, turned out he needed to replace the whole motherboard

That's brutal.

So you work at a computer store, you say? I've been meaning to ask this for a while to someone. Last year, my laptop was falling apart. As to say, the hinges that connect the monitor to the rest of the laptop were breaking apart, until it virtually wouldn't close without snapping. I went to get it fixed, and we gave it to them, but then they called us later and said they had to wipe the harddrive The place we brought it to (Futureshop, where I bought it) was an hour away and we didn't want to have to make the drive again, so we said sure but I was pissed off. I had a ton of music on that, and I didn't want to have to rip all those CDs again (I have a ton of CDs). So did they actually have to do that? I didn't think the Hardrive was connected to the monitor in anyway.

if the screen hinges are falling apart you should only replace the hinges or maybe even the screen lid, its got nothing to do with your hard drive if it isnt folding properly?

(o.O) Whoever you brought it to are a bunch of Gobshites. Siyaam is right. Ask them why they had to wipe it.