Crysis

Game review by Chad Sapieha, Common Sense Media
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Common Sense says

age 18+

Super-realistic violent sci-fi shooter.

Windows 2007
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Parents say

age 12+

Based on 9 reviews

Kids say

age 13+

Based on 13 reviews

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A Lot or a Little?

The parents' guide to what's in this game.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this game is a mature-rated science-fiction shooter filled with a good deal of blood and strong language. Its military violence is on par with most other mature shooters, but the game's bar-raising graphics serve to intensify the combat experience by making everything seem hyper-realistic. Note also that its innovative visuals require high-end PC hardware, which means you may need to upgrade your computer in order to play it.

Community Reviews

Bandersnatch
Bandersnatch Adult
September 20, 2020
age 13+

Rated 13 for strong bloodless violence and profanities

It almost has PG-13 level violence, if u remove blood from settings. To do that, go to graphics/game setting and remove the 'cross' from the blood setting. Profanities is also not such issue until your child watches cutscenes. Even if he/she doesn't watch cutscenes the story is still understandable, as in simple synopsis, "you are just a Marine named Nomad who tries to save Dr. Rosenthal and his daughter, both professional archaeologists, on an island filled with North Koreans 'KPA' soldiers, who are suspected to make a destructive technology. After going deep into the story, the technology is known to actually be an alien spaceship filled with aliens('Cephs'(referred in Crysis 2)) who have come here to suck the energy from Earth." See it is that easy!!! There is no climax. Think it as Halo. And he must have heard these profanities in school too. So come on, don't be such overprotective to your child.

This title has:

Great messages
Great role models
Easy to play/use
Too much violence
Too much swearing
eliazer
eliazer Adult
December 11, 2016
age 18+

Great Gaphics Terrible Vocabulary

This game has an amazing loads of realistic graphics. The game has every single imaginable kind of profanity in a dictionary, including blasphemies. The violence it is realistic but not as violent as other rated M games, except for some scenes of gore inside the movie parts those are very violent as you see one man ripped in half. Do not let your kids trick you there is absolutely no Profanity/violence filter in game. if you would like to add a profanity filter you can download it through this website (http://gamesoap.net) and one can manually edit it but it will be a ton amounts of work and one would need to hear those profanities and blasphemies in audacity software to edit it if you are up to it you can go to this website which is an instruction by instruction (http://blog.wilcoxfamily.net/2008/01/censoring-crysis/). However this game even without Profanity it is still a rated M game due to violence. (in the game you kill both humans as well as aliens. although there is no sex nor sensuality, in very few parts the Korean Soldiers are urinating in the game when they need to. You may also kill that individual while they are doing it. There are other games your kids can play this one is not a healthy one.

This title has:

Too much violence
Too much sex
Too much swearing
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What’s It About?

CRYSIS' is straightforward: You take the role of a soldier of the future who dons a high-tech nanosuit that augments natural human qualities like speed, strength, and fortitude. Your mission is to find out what happened to a group of American archaeologists who have stopped communicating with the outside world. Turns out the North Korean Army has invaded the island. But, before long, it becomes apparent that the true threat is something decidedly less terrestrial.

Firefights typically take place in massive environments with believable geography that allow for diverse strategies of attack. Will you sneak around an enemy encampment, or hop into a truck and barrel through the front gates? If enemies are hiding in a hut, you can roll a grenade into it, or shoot out load-bearing timbers to make the roof collapse. You can jump in any vehicle you run across, grab any weapon you find, and choose how gung-ho or stealthy you'd like to be.

Is It Any Good?

This adult-oriented sci-fi shooter is a dazzling visual achievement -- indeed, it is among the most visually realistic games ever made. And by virtue of this unmatched verisimilitude, Crysis immerses players in its world like no other game that has come before. But all of this comes at a price: the cost of a state-of-the-art gaming machine. Play without a technologically advanced rig and you'll have no choice but to run the game at the lowest visual settings, which unfortunately makes it feel more or less like an average PC shooter.

The almost limitless gamut of possible tactics is impressive, but it's not unprecedented. From Assassin's Creed to the Grand Theft Auto games, open-ended play is de rigueur these days. And since most people don't own machines powerful enough to take advantage of Crysis' bar-raising graphics, most players probably won't find that it stands out from the pack.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about the difference between playing games on home computers as opposed to consoles. Which method of control do you prefer, a keyboard or a gamepad? What do the game's hyper-realistic graphics do for this game? How does this story line compare with other sci-fi shooter games?

Game Details

  • Platform: Windows
  • Available online?: Available online
  • Publisher: Electronic Arts
  • Release date: November 13, 2007
  • Genre: First-Person Shooter
  • ESRB rating: M for Blood, Strong Language, Violence
  • Last updated: November 4, 2015

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