Crysis Remastered Review (PlayStation 4)

The classic first-person shooter from Crytek is back with the action-packed gameplay, sandbox world, and thrilling epic battles you loved the first time around – now with ray tracing, remastered graphics optimized for a new generation of hardware.

Pros:

• Beautiful graphics.
• 14.72gb download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• First-person shooter gameplay.
• Opening tutorial in that it shows the controls then you get pop-ups.
• Gore-on/off.
• Aim assist-on/off.
• Four difficulties-easy, normal, hard, and delta. These affect what binoculars you get and what language the enemy speaks.
• The vehicle camera-set gunner and driver as a first or third-person view individually.
• Invert axis and sensitivity sliders.
• Four-button layouts and four stick layouts including lefty and legacy. You can flip the bumper buttons round.
• Vehicle and player control layouts are separate.
• Performance mode-quality, performance, or Ray tracing.
• HDR support.
• Motion blur-on/off.
• Suit voice-male/female/off.
• Subtitles-on/off/cutscenes only.
• Can skip cutscenes.
• Eight crosshair choices which also include a no crosshair choice.
• DS4 touchpad support.
• Quick selection menu to add attachments, lights, and sights.
• Can pick up new weapons from enemies.
• Grab and throw objects in the world like boxes.
• Drive vehicles and you can swap views with a button press.
• Pick up ammo from enemies.
• Weapons- you can set ammo type and ammo shot type like auto or single shot.
• Hud shows damage, ammo, and where you have damage when in a vehicle.
• Near-instant respawn load.
• Suit-jump, super jump, shield, and cloak.
• Each gun does feel different even if it’s just as simple as the recoil.
• Beautiful locations.
• Vehicles can take damage like losing a wheel and also blow up.
• A lot of destructive elements from objects to vehicles and buildings.

Cons:

• Not the best loading times.
• Stutters and freezes as it autosaves.
• Makes your PlayStation work for it.
• Some horrible textures in places.
• No Fov slider.
• No way to turn off the autosaving.
• Running feels unnatural and slippery.
• Plays like a remaster as in its old but look modern.
• Clunky in places.
• No run toggle.
• Regardless of the difficulty, you die easily and quickly.
• Checkpoints feel like they are constant but when you die and respawn you realize how much game you have to replay.
• Hard to aim down sights on many of the guns and especially the mounted turrets.
• Got shot when cloaked by boats many times.