It's also absurd how they always know where you are, even when cloaked. They just don't shoot at you. You can sometimes see them looking at you every step of the way. And those motorboat patrols are just incredible shooters: they will aim for the head even when you are in the bushes at the middle of the island.

Yes indeed, you can drive many vehicles: from pickup trucks to jeeps, motorboats, tanks and planes... The world is yours, so to speak... What's left of it anyway... And I felt the driving control was pretty good actually. On harder difficulties you have to switch seats and cannot drive and shoot at the same time, so it seems realistic.

As a side note on other cool things: there are four difficulty levels Easy, Normal, Hard and Delta - and on the hardest difficulty your enemies talk in actual Korean (and I assume the aliens talk in their native tongue as well... though that's highly debatable).

You may or may not know Crysis was designed to be a trilogy. So as expected, the singleplayer story ends in a climax. Crysis Wars and World in Crysis are the next planed two parts... yet another masked main character, does sounds familiar?

Crysis supports up to 32 players in multiplayer, with two distinct modes and six maps per mode. Instant Action is your classical Deathmatch game, everyone fighting for survival ad for frags. Power Struggle is a brand new multiplayer mode. Two sides fight to control resources and destroy the opposing faction's base. Every player has a basic Nano Suit and starts with a standard Pistol. You gain credits for completing various objectives like capturing enemy outposts or getting alien outposts and you can then purchase more sophisticated weapons and vehicles to help you with the war effort.

Crysis comes along with Sandbox Editor allowing any smart player to create his own map and play with friends or online. The editor is advanced enough to support the creation of complex scenarios and missions, and CryTek encourages players to do so. I've heard that even as we speak there is some effort put into developing a Capture the Flag mode, a play mode that misses from the original game.

There are special "DirectX 10" servers that host Power Struggle maps with advanced effects like day/night cycles and all that. If you ask me that's all marketing stuff again, but hey - nobody ever asks me anything so...

Multiplayer is fine, but *again*... doesn't compare with Unreal...