Crysis Warhead®
Crytek · 2008 · FPS, Action, Sci-fi, Shooter, Singleplayer
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About Crysis Warhead®
Command Sergeant Sykes on an intense covert operation to retrieve captured war assets behind enemy lines in this explosive standalone sequel. Experience enhanced AI, customizable weapons, dynamic vehicles, and fully interactive war zones that react to your tactical approach.
- Pulse-racing new installment from 2007's PC Game of the Year*: Play as Sergeant Sykes and experience a whole new side of the battle. A standard combat mission behind enemy lines becomes critical when you discover your enemies have captured something of vital importance to the ensuing war. It's down to you to retrieve the cargo, at any cost.
- More explosive and dynamic minute to minute game play: new customizable weapons, new vehicles, new photorealistic locations to explore, and a fully interactive war zone to dominate.
- Enhanced human and alien AI: Intelligent enemies, bigger challenges, and all-new ally squad support.
- Crysis Warhead is a standalone release and does not require ownership of Crysis to play.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Crysis Warhead is praised as a solid expansion that captures the spirit of the original Crysis with varied mission design and enjoyable gameplay for fans of the series, though it's criticized for technical instability with frequent crashes, flickering visuals, and audio issues. Players also note complaints about sluggish default movement speed, poorly balanced suit abilities, and mission design that prioritizes action and explosions over the exploration and freedom that made the first game compelling.
— I'm British, you muppet! (с) Michael Sykes. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=29515668194 found this helpful
Way too broken1 found this helpful
Keeps crashing on level start, has weird flickering issues with skybox, audio missing at random times, and classic suit mode is abysmal. Default sprint is hilariously slow and sluggish. Speed mode gives a second of mobility before it complete drains, and having to toggle a wheel for suit skills makes combat so weird and wonky.1 found this helpful
Sure, it's more of Crysis one but the mission design is more varied and back then it came with some really cool multiplayer maps that I enjoyed, made by Sven ‘c4te’ Metzge (RIP). It also felt way more polished at release than the main game while its story is not much worth to highlight and the play time on this one is a bit short when looking only at the singleplayer.
If you liked Crysis, you'll love Warhead too. It's a standalone DLC. It's short, but it shows everything it needs to. The only problem is that the game crashed constantly in the last three missions. I partially solved this by disabling VSync, but it also crashed sometimes during cutscenes.
Crysis Warhead is what I keep calling Crysis 1.5. Not a real sequel. Not Crysis 2. More like a side story showing what Sergeant Michael “Psycho” Sykes was doing during the same island disaster as the first game. That idea is good on paper. The first Crysis had a big island, alien mystery, nanosuit soldiers, and a lot of story happening around Nomad. Warhead could have made the world feel bigger by showing another part of the same nightmare. But for me, it does not really do that. Warhead takes away too much of what made the first Crysis interesting and replaces it with more noise. More shooting. More rushing. More explosions. More “go here, survive this, now go there.” The first Crysis was flawed, but it had space. You could scout a base, sneak through the jungle, swim around, steal a vehicle, use cloak, strength, speed, armor, or just cause chaos. When it worked, it made you feel like a hunter inside a dangerous open sandbox. Warhead feels tighter, louder, and more directed. Some people like that. I understand why. It is shorter, faster, and more action-heavy. Psycho also has more personality than Nomad. He is louder, angrier, rougher, and more human. But that change also …
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