I remember playing Crysis around that same time as after Far Cry was released, Ubisoft took over the Far Cry franchise and Crytek focused on Crysis which in my opinion is an excellent single player game... right up until the aliens come into play. Then the game play dynamic dramatically changes in a way that doesnt have the same appeal. Maybe it's just me but same thing happened in Crysis 2, aliens get involved and the game becomes much more linear. Crysis >=2 are not good games. They suffer from overly boring, linear consolitis gameplay.
BUT I still recommend you pick up a copy of Crysis as it was one of the last great single player PC-first FPS games. The lush jungle graphics, AI and super suit along with large open-ish maps allow you to approach goals in many different ways. Very fun state of the art game from 2007. My brother thought Far Cry 2 was a technical achievement until he played Crysis and said the graphics blew away Far Cry 2's. He also complained of the repetitive convoy attacks and annoying malaria thing.
BUT I still recommend you pick up a copy of Crysis as it was one of the last great single player PC-first FPS games. The lush jungle graphics, AI and super suit along with large open-ish maps allow you to approach goals in many different ways. Very fun state of the art game from 2007. My brother thought Far Cry 2 was a technical achievement until he played Crysis and said the graphics blew away Far Cry 2's. He also complained of the repetitive convoy attacks and annoying malaria thing.