So I just played Crysis1 for the first time in a very long while.
Here's a shocker: Crysis is a 6 year old game. And boy does it feel like it. Its just.. clunky. I have a super high-end rig so it definitely looks nice. But theres a few very obvious things that feel off. First, the scale. YOU ARE TINY in this game. You're like 30 inches tall! I ran up to a pickup truck and it the bed of it was at shoulder height. After noticing this, it kinda ruined the whole sense of immersion for me. I started to notice that all the plants and ferns are GIGANTIC as well. The ENGRISH of the KPA jumped out at me tool. Something I did not notice when I played this game way back in 2008. This is possibly the worst part.
Finally, the combat is way less fun than I remember. Juggling between the different abilities is very cumbersome. I felt like a drunk trying to juggle or something. My memories of Crysis are basically me as the fucking predator phasing in and out of abilities at a rate so twitchy and hyper that to the observer I must have looked like a shape changing chameleon. In practice though you're more like an amnesiac wizard trying your damnedest to cast the right spell. Its suuuuuuuuuuuper frustrating. To top it off, theres just not enough ammo.
It's still viscerally impressive and uniquely Crysis. But not quite as monumentally amazing as I remember. Kind of a bummer.