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Crysis Warhead is probably one of the most anticipated games of 2007, ever since the success of Crysis, fans have been patiently awaiting a release of a sequel. So, Crysis Warhead was released, but it’s not really a sequel, as much as part of the original story, just played from a different point of view. Honestly I was a bit disappointed with this aspect of it, I was hoping for an actual sequel to Crysis, new areas, new weapons, new plotlines etc, and I was expecting to learn more about what’s going on, to help fill in the blanks, and answers the questions from the last game.

As it stands though, that’s about the only thing disappointing about Crysis Warhead really, gameplay is as expected, nothing new here, basically the same weapons, and same type of scenery really. Though it says that there are new weapons, and new areas, yes there are, but it feels the same as Crysis did.  You can’t really be disappointed with something that’s very familiar, this isn’t a bad thing, just more of the same again.

Warhead is more of an extension of the original game, in my opinion it could have been included with the first game as a second section, or maybe just an add-on to the original Crysis. It seems to me it’s something that came along to keep interest in Crysis alive, while they worked on something else. I think a better alternate version for Crysis would have been to be able to play as the aliens.

The game isn’t bad at all, it’s fun to play, and it is exciting, but again it feels like I’m playing Crysis, with a few changes.

It might seem like I’m being hard on this game, but I’m not really, as I said I’m more disappointed than anything with this ‘sequel’ to Crysis as it doesn’t bring much new to the table…

I just call them like I see them…

As with Crysis, the graphics are amazing, all of them really, I found myself walking around looking at the trees and water, and watching how the sun light came though the trees and hit the rocks or reflected off of the water or ice. It’s really cool to just walk around after and area is empty of enemies and just look at things, the graphics are truly stunning, they seem to be better than Crysis overall.

Gameplay is essentially unchanged from Crysis, there’s no difference in that area, if you played Crysis, you’ll be able to jump right in and play Warhead with no problems.

There are few new weapons, a grenade launcher, sub-machine gun and land mines as well, but here again nothing special or spectacular. The grenade launcher is cool in that it has two firing modes, the first is just explode on impact, and the second is triggered explosion, fire the grenade and it won’t explode until you detonate it.

Warhead is action packed and can be intense at moments,  it’s also not a game you’ll want to play if you’ve got kids around, quite a few F-Bombs are dropped during the dialogue. You can turn blood on and off, but even with it on though there really isn’t that much blood, or at least not what you might expect or are accustomed to seeing in other games.

Crysis Warhead comes with Crysis Wars as well, a multi-player stand alone game, which is actually fairly decent, it reminds me of BF2142 actually which I really liked, though with my schedule I haven’t had much time to play Crysis Wars, though what I did play I liked quite a bit. If just for Crysis Wars the price of Crysis Warhead is well worth it, Wars could easily be sold as a stand alone game in itself. I’m actually thinking Crysis Wars deserves it’s own separate full review.

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Conclusion:

Crysis Warhead is a fun and exciting game, and for the cost of $29.95 it’s well worth it, especially if you consider Crysis Wars comes with it. Crysis Wars alone is worth the cost of the the game.

Gameplay is fine, there’s nothing changed from Crysis really in that regards, the graphics are obviously much improved over Crysis, and that’s saying quite a bit as Crysis looked very good as well.

I think it’s worth grabbing Crysis Warhead if you liked Crysis, if anything if gives you more of the Crysis world, exo suit and fun.

Pros:

-More of Crysis! 

-Fun and exciting 

-Low priced and bundled with Crysis Wars 

Cons:

-More of the same 

-Not really a sequel 

-As with Crysis you still need a decent system to play it 

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