Did I play the wrong game? Did steam load a different game for me when I bought Crysis? I don't get why people still have this game in such high regard. Has anybody booted it up recently with no mods to see how it holds up? Was there a bug that if you picked the highest details it would load something lower?
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with no mods." Who plays vanilla Crysis? Crysis was meant to be modded, and there are lots of great mods out there that not only improve graphical fidelity, but also improve performance as well.....at the same time!
For example, here's some screenshots I took.....and this is actually in the single player campaign......with mods of course:
Crysis still probably holds the overall title of best looking game ever, because the lighting and shadows are excellent, combined with a massive sandbox and great textures.
Metro 2033 is also really great looking, and in fact, exceeds Crysis in terms of lighting, shadows and texture detail. However, Metro 2033 is a corridor shooter for the most part and doesn't have the large playable areas that Crysis does, so is less impressive imo..