Why do people like to dismiss visual quality in FPS games? While a good story adds to the experience, really, what FPS has a story that couldn’t have been written in an afternoon? Now, how many rendering engines could you write in the same afternoon?
Sure, we’ve seen the story a hundred times before in other games, on TV, and in the movies. But when have we seen it told like this? The FPS, like a movie, is a visual medium. There is a certain thrill to seeing something that one has not seen before. That’s way a movie like Transformers made hundreds of millions.
Spot on, spot on.
Anyone bashing this game has either not played it yet in full, or doesn't have the proper equipment to play it in a way such that they will appreciate the whole package -- graphics and gameplay.
The graphics of course, are easily the best of all time for any game ever produced, but they are merely just, "the icing on the cake", as the aphorism goes.
The gameplay then, goes hand-in-hand with the graphics to create an unparalleled experience.
So, graphics aside, the game is still INCREDIBLY fun to play, and it has almost limitless replayability.
Heck, the demo alone I played about 15 times, and that's just one level.
Im about 2/3 of the way done with the full game itself, but I already have plans of going back through it many many more times.
I could never say that about a game such as CoD4 for example, which is a single afternoon time-killer, and then it ends up collecting dust on the shelf thereafter.
Crysis singleplayer alone is just as addictive as most game's MP modes in terms of replayability.