Just keep in mind that realistically this won’t be a benchmark game for as many years as Crysis was. There are some great niche features for you to fiddle with and make your system sweats. Crytek is at its best when catering directly to the PC crowd and not trying to make a product that realistically runs on console hardware.īut consoles sell, and Ryse looks pretty damn fantastic on the PC. For that matter, the same affliction struck Crysis 2 and 3. Ryse isn’t quite as big a graphical leap as Crysis was in its day, and I’m going to go ahead and blame that on the fact that it was originally built for the Xbox One’s “Captain, I don’t think she’ll reach 1080p!” hardware. I know because at one point one of the scenes bugged out and I had to jump over to this YouTube video to sit through it again. The game itself is less than five hours long, and then there’s something like an hour and a half of cutscenes to sit through. Remember how I said the game is six hours long? I lied. It’s a whirlwind of bloodlust, occasionally broken up by cutscenes that are at times five minutes long. There are basically two things to do in Ryse-you’re either progressing through an endless series of combat arenas, chopping the arms, legs, and heads off an entire army, or you’re throwing auto-aimed spears at the few troops who were smart enough to stay out of reach. At least Ryse never tries to pretend above its station.

The plot is telegraphed so hard that you could probably guess 90% of it after the second mission (out of eight), but that doesn’t mean you can’t sit back and enjoy it in a mindless sort of way. It’s bombastic, ridiculous, and even fun at times-if ultimately unmemorable. I mean, at one point a character says to you, “Rise up, son of Rome” and you’re probably supposed to point at the screen and go “Ooh, ooh, that’s the title of the game! I get it!”

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