Crysis Warhead PC Game Review - Maximum Expansion!

[@MrSniper9296]

strength mode stabilises your gun, helps stop recoil.

[@Broformist]

Yep, good for them very long range headshots. You can also jump much higher with it.

[@jurajlesko911]

yep...and you can throw grenades further

[@forcemedia444]

Kick thing far

[@bunkaaa8726]

"No use for Strength" .. Dude.. first and foremost - recoil control, you can blast of a huge number of shots with a sniper rifle with out needing to recover and re aim before diving and taking cover killing multiple enemies quickly. Secondly its really useful for that ghost playthrough, leaping over fences hitting cloak milliseconds after leaving the ground, knocking out soldiers with ease, or even punching a fucking house down to kill people inside.

[@jetranger6159]

Yeah, he got that wrong. Also, in the Strength mode you can throw grenades WAY farther. P.S.: Or finish off small aliens by punching them dead. Good times... ))

[@Gggmanlives]

Strength is useful during combat, but I just found that every time I was in combat I had to use armor mode or else I'd die in seconds, hence I found no use for it. If you're playing on easy or normal difficulty, you can go nuts and throw people off cliffs or into buildings, but on Delta difficulty, it's a completely different kind of game.

[@AmirDarkOne]

Gggmanlives Gggmanlives you mean you can't stealth kill enemies in delta difficulty? c'mon dude admit it , you didn't know how to use it

[@bunkaaa8726]

Nope, I play on hardest and for that VERY reason you NEED Strength to reduce recoil for the exact reason I said ; You need to dispatch 3-4 enemies in one burst before re cloaking and moving on.

[@jetranger6159]

+Gggmanlives Yes, here I agree - Delta difficulty feels quite different, it's very tricky to use the Nanosuit to the fullest, let alone perform spectacular stunts when you've done only a few playthroughs. However, the more you practice the more useful details open up in its mechanics and the game becomes much more fun as you begin to "feel" it better. Though for that to happen, you have to like it enough from the get-go, I guess. Not many people play a game more than a couple of times.

[@bernardo4157]

Maximum Sonny Jim

[@FallenOne3]

"I'm british you muppet" - Psycho

[@meris8486]

Nicolás Monzón Maximum Brit

[@badsiknius4862]

*Bri'ish ye muppit'*

[@MAYOFORCE]

>Play wartime fps game >Enemy soldiers shout out their plans >Turn it up to the highest difficulty >Enemy soldiers shout out their plans in korean TECHNOLOGY

[@hemangchauhan2864]

They are obviously trashing each other's waifu. "Noizomi is really the best girl, all other choices are wrong" "Excuse me, you said Hanoko in the wrong way"

[@RaveNNNN]

Sonny Jim squad reporting in.

[@CAWAgentNiko]

Cray On would you kindly show yourself to the door?

[@DamienAzreal]

Try running it in DX9. Unlike the original game, Warhead doesn't lock out certain visual effects behind DX10. So, DX9 looks just as good in Warhead, and runs much better. Smoother.

[@MrSuperVikingo]

After watching this I'm more psyched about finally playing this. Cool review dude.

[@IOxyrinchus]

One thing I've always loved about the crisis series (particularly crisis 3) is the open ended level design, the levels are large, open areas that allow for a number of different approaches in a level. It makes you feel like a badass when you take everyone out the way you want to. I love it when this type of game design is done right like in dishonoured for example. I love it how crisis allows you to play at your own pace as well. Man I friggin love crisis

[@VampiresCrypt]

one of the best expansions ever released. No microtransaction bullshit no achievment bullshit just passion for the game and it shows !

[@LieRenThePope]

Well, I mean, it was released in 2008 before all the "microtransaction hell" of games... So...

[@CyberLance26]

I like achievements as long as they are not too hard and frustrating to get.

[@Larry]

What has always bugged me about the Crysis series is they're so stingy with the suits powers. They never once let you open up and have fun with them. Games are meant to make you feel like a bad-ass, but if they're so concerned you might be OP in the game, then they shuldn't be there ever, or you earn them gradually ALA Metroid.

[@darktitan3025]

Yeah that always bothered me as well, like you have the setup for an amazing power fantasy FPS, and they never fucking do anything with it.

[@wabbit234]

Far Cry Blood Dragon is the best Crysis game in that respect, really.

[@OmegaCoolsterDX]

this was my biggest gripe with the series right from the get go, i mean all of the cinematic intros make Nanosuit seem like a badass thing to have yet in-game it feels like it's made out of tin foil...

[@darktitan3025]

Wabbit you've got a point. Shame we're probably not getting a full fledged Blood Dragon 2

[@wabbit234]

Yeah, Blood Dragon really felt like Far Cry at it's full potential. It's a shame the main games are always bogged down by being set in sort of realistic settings and stories. The big open environments really lend themselves to a ridiculous gun turret man with knives, moon jumping all over the place.

[@DatGrunt]

Those snow and frost effects...damn good.

[@DrAgAnBaroul]

Best shooter game reviewer on youtube.

[@OtsdarvaOS]

2:55 Increased strength was to lower your recoil when aiming, and tighten the aim as well if I remember correctly.

[@Gamingpastime64]

8 years later and it still can't hold a solid frame rate maxed out. Still a great expansion.

[@jancz357]

the first Crysis and the expansion is the best IMO, in each subsequent title they took more agency away from the player, managing the suit yourself was the best thing about the game and they took it away in crysis 2 and 3

[@jasonnesbitt8983]

glad this channel popped back up in the recommendations. About a year or so ago youtube randomly unsubbed me from 95% of the channels that i was subscribed to, including this one. It was impossible to remember each one at the time. Glad to be back, I got alot of catching up to do on your vids!

[@GlueSniffer4Life]

Some pointers to improve Crysis' and Warhead's performance: * Run through the 64-bit executable (available in the GOG and Origin versions). This mitigates stutter by removing the memory limit. * Change the Vista compatibility mode in Crysis.exe to the Win7 compatibility. This improved performance for me but the game still fails to run in the native Win10 mode. * Reduce the shadow level from 'very high' to 'high'. * The game is shader-heavy so it slightly favors AMD graphics. Strength mode does have uses. I use it to punch holes in buildings and (even on the highest difficulty) for silent melee takedowns (I don't like silencers because they reduce damage). Even without cloak, you can usually run up to enemies and melee them when they're behind cover or just around the corner. Enemies on the highest difficulty are accurate and perceptive but their reaction time is still slow so you can usually run up to them from behind cover and punch them if they're close. As for the aliens, I find that it's better to change your playstyle completely when fighting them. Because they fire slow-moving projectiles, after they appear, I find myself playing the game much more like a Serious Sam game than a tactical shooter: lots of running-and-guning and circle-strafing.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Also consider reviewing *Delta Force Black Hawk Down*. It was THE military shooter before COD4.

[@InfernalMonsoon]

Soldier of Fortune 1 was also THE military shooter before that.

[@LieRenThePope]

Damn, that game is good. Really good. It's tactical and hard, and that's what I like. Plus the enemies die in 1-2 shots so no bullshit there.

[@potatoesblink3299]

That game was lacking in so many levels and yet it was one of the tpost immersive pre COD shooters i've had in my childhood

[@nicolasdesantafe]

dude, thanks for all the reviews you are making and the funny thing is that i found your channel through youtube recomendation

[@stefciok]

What I like about Warhead is the fact that they really listened to reviews and crytics. They really tried to fix the issues with Crysis. Either they suceeded or not is not really the point but the fact that they bitten their own pride and tried to do a better game. Modern Developers really should learn from them. I know there are not many strategy games fans on this channel, but look up Total War series. They streamlined these games to shit, release bullshit DLC that even EA and Ubisoft would think twice about doing and completely ignore the critique.

[@Reedster49]

5:00 I love adding flashlights to my high powered assault rifle.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Not an FPS, but *Brigador* is a fantastic mech shooter. Do give it a look.

[@DiegoAlanTorres96]

I second this

[@IanPeon]

Maximum strength is good for recoil control, btw.

[@user-ll3gt8jj3c]

Still got my hardcover copy, it's Crysis with extra cool exactly like you've said. Remember how hard it was, you were on the right track with switching powers on the fly, but there's a way to maximise the suit strategy: use armor to soak some damage but not deplete your energy... switch to strength when you take aim, recoil becomes non-existent, then stealth, reload and take it to the enemy again, aware of your surroundings and tactical advantages. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

[@somerandofilipino6957]

For the love of GOD, please...PLEASE! Put my anxiety to rest and MAKE A NECROVISION REVIEW!

[@cyborgparrot1996]

This Liberal Shithole I Agree, NecroVision is an Underrated Gem.

[@VampiresCrypt]

yeah I agree I mean he already reviewed Cryostasis so he should do Necrovision.

[@blakecasimir]

Good God, I remember that game. I'm still not entirely sure it was good or not, but some of the environments later in it were quite grim. In a good way. Wasn't there an expansion pack? They really need a GOG release.

[@cyborgparrot1996]

BlakeCasimir Yeah it did feel a bit iffy in some parts, but from what I remember the Dual Wielding was Awesome.

[@VilisacLuka]

Yup, there's an expansion called NecroVision: Lost Company that serves as a prequel to the original game.

[@FrozenByFire3]

put the difficulty on either of the 2 hardest difficulties and you'll see how realistic the AI is. they flank, toss grenades at areas you may be when cloaked, take cover way more often, extremely aggressive when in groups and they charge

[@hemangchauhan2864]

It's also surprising to see a PC exclusive AAA game in 7th Gen, when even the PC-centric publishers were going after consoles.

[@merihaday5067]

8:40 you can actually do some ini editing magic to make the ai speak korean on any difficulty, you can also change whether or not you can use the mounted weapon on vehicles also enable/disable us the binoculars spotting for any difficulty. its also possible to cheese in the game by changing suit energy drainages and what not.

[@0NodMan0]

*_I sure did enjoy fighting the Scrin again!_*

[@noahwatt1269]

Arent you now in a mobile game? What has the world come to?

[@gtafans93]

Loved your comments on the expansion packs, these days only rarely do we get expansions packs of old. Sometimes we get real lucky and get an expansion that could be sold for a full game (Blood and Wine)

[@SicSemperBeats]

Crysis 3 are as fun as gameplay goes but I love crysis 1(the first half) because it's just so awesome.

[@Themanwithn0eyes]

Interesting Fact: Steven Yeun (Glenn from The Walking Dead) voices some of the Korean Soldiers.

[@Parto5]

2:56 - I found some uses for strength mode - I remember I once played first Crisis on highest difficulty and tried being stealthy by grabing alone soldier and dragging them into forest and throwing them into ground then do it again until base was left with one Korean - maybe not the most elegant way to play Crisis, but hey it worked. Other than that it helped reducing recoil to help fire with rifles on long distances and maybe jump higher - I'm not sure about last one because I haven't played these games for a while.

[@abeprangishvili]

killer review ! you are the best !

[@seiler3485]

Clear, on-point review, as always. Keep it up, mate!

[@marciomaiajr]

This gonna be good. I'll even make a coffe for me to watch it. Thanks man.

[@nigralurker]

Despite being decent in terms of a singleplayer, the game still looks amazing and the CryEngine 2 was light years ahead of its time. It's almost a decade old and very few games have yet to tap into various visual techniques used in this game. Primarily volumetric clouding and the amount of destructible environments and complexity of flora.

[@JJop123]

no practical use for the strength ability? Increased accuracy with no recoil? Throwing grenades further? Using environment to throw things at enemies?

[@Gggmanlives]

I never bothered with any of those. If you're getting into heavy combat on delta difficulty you're dying a lot.

[@Broformist]

You can jump a lot higher too. I always played on highest difficulty and I never had problems making use of it. Super long distance headshots with decreased recoil ain't "heavy combat" dude.

[@Nere94]

Strength is useful to jump high so you can get at an advantage point and also it makes your hand completely steady which offers dead accuracy when sniping.

[@RMJ1984]

Sonny Jim should never run away!: That is bad jim behavior!.

[@SolarMoth]

These games still hold up and I still love them

[@wariodude128]

That reminds me, I should try looking into getting a GTX 1080ti. I have a 960 right now and it seems like I might need to get a better card to keep up with the games coming out.

[@TheKproductionsful]

A bit late, but it depends on what resolution and framerate you want to play games at. If you're sticking to 1080p at 60fps then a GTX 1080 Ti is way overkill and a waste of money. At 1440p60 it will crush any game out there but there will still be some horsepower that's still left unutilized. 4K for gaming is still not worth IMO. But if you want high refresh rates at 100 or 144fps then yes get a 1080 Ti even at 1080p.

[@felixseven8958]

Crysis 1 and Warhead still amaze me in 2019

[@mrblk1981]

I actually Play Warhard again. It is a amazing Game. The only thing i dont like is when i am under MG Fire the Frames stutters sometimes:(

[@pagb666]

The Crysis 1 games only use 2 cores from your CPU, it's those cores choking, not the GPU, hence the frame drops at key points.

[@pagb666]

If you're getting 30fps then it must be something else, I got a 6 year old CPU with 3,33Ghz cores paired with a 980 and I'm getting steady 50fps except for those occasions. Unless... your CPU cores have really low clock.

[@excessiveworry3838]

pagb666 I wonder how disabling hyperthreading would affect performance. I also wonder if technologies like AMDs XFR 2 which clocks one single core higher while underclocking the others would do for framerates. I have an Haswell e3 Xeon and it can reach 3.6Ghz on all cores, but it can also hit 3.8 on one of the cores. Crysis runs great on my system luckily.

[@excessiveworry3838]

Trixmay 988 The AMD Athlon 64 X2 ran 2 cores at 3.2 Ghz in 2007. CPU tech has moved really slowly since then because of lack of competition from AMD. So happy to see that change.

[@Broformist]

I think it's really mostly just one core. We'll have to arrive at extremely fast single core performances before we're able to play it with stable framerate at all times. More powerful GPU helps with running game at higher resolution but not much else. This game has heavier physics than even most games today and that is not gonna be solved by GPU.

[@Lat3ksi]

This and the first game are the best in the series. Also some of the best looking games I've ever played!

[@pacivalmuller9333]

Crysis 1 and 2 are amazing

[@DaveOshry]

BEST CRYSIS.

[@Kenshiro3rd]

Remember when expansion packs added to the game instead of subtracting from and retroactively completing them upon purchase? GGGManLives does.

[@Zockopa]

What Crysis & Warhead shares with the best of the genre is a exellent core gameplay and no hand holding. And no consolitus. From what is suffers is lacking patch support and to early abandonement by the developers.

[@gtabro1337]

One thing I'll give the Crysis games - they look good even today.

[@bigbitehood1353]

2:28 ok no but like, why is that a thing? In all games. We all know what bot accuracy is like but why dies the same principle not apply to doorways?

[@JNST2023]

One issue, you didn't mention the awesome soundtrakc of Crysis Warhead. It's just plain epicness. Especially Airfield Outro buildup themes during the ending chapter

[@chrisroesel8517]

Great video review.

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

CRYSIS was at its best when it was just about Soldiers with advanced technology fighting North Koreans. The alien bullshit was unnecessary.

[@agrashh]

Just like Far Cry was with the mutants

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

Well Far Cry I can give some leeway to. The "Island of Dr. Moreau" twist was OK. Fighting higher-balanced mutants was fun. But Crysis is supposed to be about using a supersuit to fight North Koreans. The alien twist just isn't as good there. They did the same thing in Halo by mixing the Flood into the battle after you've spent so much time fighting Covenant. It's as if developers don't feel that their enemies are strong enough to carry a story.

[@newolku]

Crytek has always had a boner over aliens and monsters but they cant seem to make it fun to fight agaisnt them. FarCry is an great example of shitty bullet sponge enemies,the tridents or what ever the fuck these things were. At least in Crysis 2 the aliens weren't bullet sponges but the stupid armor on them is annoying.

[@MaTtRoSiTy]

As much as it is the Crysis cliche, I totally agree as obviously do others. I have to admit I have never finished the game for that reason. I also agree about Far Cry, the Trigens were fun and added a lot of nervous tension for me. It was awesomely suspenseful to view an area before entering with binoculars and you can hear Trigens but you sometimes cannot see them, so there is a lot of suspense entering areas! (I wish they would make a Far Cry like that again rather than this other crap that isn't anything like the original)

[@InfernalMonsoon]

Aren't the nanosuits based on ceph technology? If so then it makes a ton of sense for them to be there, plus I think they're cool as hell - I actually prefer them way more than the soldiers because they're so weird.

[@InnuendoXP]

practical uses for strength mode: shoot full auto with no recoil jump high to get a height advantage or escape a situation on ground level shash through the side of huts like kool aid man for surprise attacks throw chickens extremely far cut a tree into rounds, throw these at enemy to kill very inefficiently

[@etho86]

I wonder if we'll ever see a fps PC exclusive with this type of budget again? One that pushes the technology further than if it was being hamstrung by console requirements.

[@DevenAbhyankar]

Beautiful review

[@dude2542]

Well for me Crysis is the game. You know everyone has that game, for some it's doom, or Zelda, half life, the one you grew up with, or had the very first memory. It helped me get my first friend in primary school, and besides that I just love the concept, how they made it and the wackiness. It's a true sandbox for me, the rope bridge in the first game, I just love shooting it to pieces, better if people fall off with it... oh and of course it helped me that as a 7 yo I didn't understand English at all but the game had Hungarian audio, omg you should hear it, it's a perfect dub. So if I had to review it, I couldn't objectively, it's just a game I love and could talk about for an hour or so. (Funnily enough HL2 was the second FPS game I played, and my father - omg the memories - so he played the first game around 2000, I wasn't borned yet, so you have to understand that it's Hungary in the early stage, we just got a PC, so he bought the game to get a copy of the pirated game, because the CD and the burning costs money but not the actual game because that was pirated. My sister and brother even my mother watched him play through HL1, you can just imagine the typical moustache with the glasses sitting at the white PC playing the old game with the wife and two small kids, in the room with the rug floor. So back to HL2, it's around 2011, dad is searching the Hungarian piracy webpage, and he founds the orange box, orange box with all HL2 episodes, he was screaming that a second game came out. He downloaded it and installed it, we played through, I was scared of the zombies - ravenholm especially - but I was good at fighting the combine, so he killed the zombies and I killed the combines... The good times!)

[@dgcmondouk8416]

I played the orginal cysis early as got it free on ea orgin I played it on 1080p with max settings and since the game is ten years old it looks fantastic still just shows how far consoles are behind

[@itaybron]

i remember my friend used to play the shit out of this and it's packed in multiplayer

[@derp8357]

Man,crysis was my first game ever.I remember when i was a kid and saw my dad playing crysis and asked him "was dat?" then my father let me play it and here i am as a 17 year old boi.

[@cocopud]

Most games do not look much better than this since it is difficult to make something look better than this. The closer to photorealism you get, the smaller the improvements you can make, law of diminishing returns and all that. It will take different technologies to make noticeable improvements now, i.e. How TVoEC was made, or that 'voxal' infinite detail system that Australian company invented. Those are probably the way forward, plus maybe performance capture. Or go for style over realism e.g. Super hot.

[@lorrewatkins5925]

A very good review thank u !

[@Pyro-Moloch]

even though Crysis is demanding, I was able to finish both of them back when they were released on my 2005 computer on lowest setting. I can't say the same about some other games released at the time.

[@CzBeno]

Miscellaneous info about the game: -the game was developed by Crytek Budapest -the whole game was dubbed in Hungarian for the release in the country

[@halsaufschneider1446]

Never use armor, because it sucks...your energy dry! Always have either speed or stealth activated. The moment armor mode drained your energy, you are basically done for. The amount of time it takes for your energy to regenerate, is the time your position is either swarmed or blown to pieces by overwhelming grenade fire.

[@gilgamesh310]

This is the only game in the series I genuinely enjoyed.

[@TheClaybones]

Any chance you'd consider reviewing the older Mechwarrior games?

[@Gggmanlives]

Maybe.

[@TheClaybones]

I have a lot of nostalgia for the third game but it's been so long and there's just so much to them. It'd be nice to hear an impartial opinion on it (also, I just like your reviews).

[@3croN]

Also Project I.G.I. is an underrated gem (as far as I remember)

[@wabbit234]

Warhead absolutely did run better than the original game. I remember being able to run it at max and get playable framerates while the original game would float around 20FPS and I had to keep it locked to medium on my contemporary computer. I remember looking forward to Crytek backporting the optimizations into the original game and then they came out with their "too many people pirated Crysis so we aren't going to patch it ever again. :^)" press release. It still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth after paying full release price for the game (over 100 dollars in my country). Sticking up the middle finger to your paying customer base to spite pirates isn't logic I can really follow but okay.

[@Ayhan03]

Many reviewers need a bloody hour to review this game, you're doing it in 10 minutes.

[@Gggmanlives]

Why would they need an hour?

[@Ayhan03]

Gggmanlives I don't know, Mate. They just need longer

[@TannuWannu]

hey gggman, if you've never taken a look at Shellshock 2: Blood Trails i think it'd really fit on this channel

[@bioshock6935]

This is why i like the crysis game you play the game how you want to play it most games you have to do this and that just to do a special move to kill them havent played crysis 3 so i cant say much about that

[@hollenhammer]

shooting in strength mode makes you more accurate

[@detectivelizard9532]

I do love me a good expansion. There are some good DLCs as well but they're few and far between. It looks fun, I have to try it sometime. I'm guessing you missed reviewing this game when you were doing the Crysis trilogy a couple of years ago?

[@arhickernell]

I always liked this more then the original but they're both really good obviously. Also I agree the snow parts are amazing

[@SES-Shepard]

Fun how much different Psycho looks compares to Crysis 3, I know 3 is many years in the future but still

[@srinednco]

gggman you gonna review Rising Storm 2 Vietnam?

[@Gggmanlives]

Probably not.

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

Psycho was the man. Best character in the whole series, in my book.

[@pippo17173]

The enemies must of have the power to fire direct shots at you.

[@Overlai]

I remember being kind of disappointed we couldn't take the new guns into the old campaign, considering how short the campaign in this was. :b

[@Qrzychu92]

First of all, the performance boost was huge with lower settings. I remember playing Crysis1 on High and Medium and being able to play on Very High with much better FPS. As for difficulty, I fully agree. Dying so easily was not a problem when you had the whole jungle to play with, but I wanted to cut my wrists on that fucking train...

[@w0bbl3r]

This was my favourite of the whole series.

[@Janjibro66]

What kind of CPU do you have? The Crysis games have certain points that get very CPU intensive where it doesn't matter what kind of GPU you have you'll need a great CPU as well.

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

I do agree that CRYSIS games difficulty and AI aren't as perfect as first thought. When I run a Crysis game I play on the hardest difficulty level possible. The nanosuit still makes you more powerful than them simply because they can't hit what they can't see. You're more likely to die by accident - or falling.

[@colbyvandehey6124]

Hey could you review Metroid Prime? I would like to hear your opinion on what I consider my favorite game of all time.

[@Doomreb]

Hey Gman, are you looking forward to Wolfenstein: New Colossus?

[@TheAgeans]

Joke aside, l really enjoyed Delta difficulty on Warhead, except the jeep defense second level. Just know when to back off and cover and you'll be fine.

[@ItThunderbolt]

Hey, would you ever do a Q&A?

[@Gggmanlives]

Nah, just talk to me on Steam or Discord if you have any questions for me.

[@ininja32]

Could also show in the description the release date for the games you review, just a friendly suggestion.

[@Gggmanlives]

How come?

[@ininja32]

I guess for research valve to know when the games came out. I have this habit to record everything, and date it on when it came out for nostalgic purposes. Just like how KZbin posts the dates of the videos we make. Also, with those release dates, it has other games that came our during those release dates during the years.

[@Buraunia]

Should I play this game if I haven't played the 1st one?

[@noahfremer1554]

Expansion pack... what's that? Oh, wait, I remember those. *sigh. At least they still sorta exist.

[@Canma890]

This game is a graphical beast !

[@gangstaman7002]

Why not review Half-Life:Zombie Edittion ?

[@RapidSting]

Maximum strength heavily reduces recoil. That's useful.

[@sunnynexxt]

Bah! 360p still. I'll be back later.

[@civilwarfare101]

I was never a fan of this series but this game looks interesting.

[@Scott32297]

Please do the original Dead Space! I know it's 3rd person but it's really awesome!

[@ShootingStar1313]

Strange, I don't remember the A.I being braindead. In fact the soldiers were pretty competent compared to other open world games.

[@TamalPlays]

my fav game