Crysis

     Now, I may not have mentioned it, but I don't intend to just do the brand new games. I might even decide to do some of the old classics, like Half Life and Call of Duty. But, down to business. Crysis when it came out was probably the at the top of it's league for graphics, and is probably still way up there, even if it isn't the top. Crysis is a futuristic shooter where you play a supersoldier using something named a nano-suit. Unlike other games where you play supersoldiers, like Halo, for instance, in Crysis, your nanosuit has many features that you can change during encounters, for instance, if you want to kill your opponents before they know what hit them, then you would use the stealth mode.
     As well as the stealth mode, you get an armour mode, where your suit's energy bar acts as a sort of shield, strength mode, where your recoil is reuced, your jumping is higher, you throw things further, people and objects and your melee attacks are strengthened (obviously), and finally, there is the speed mode, which increases your movement speed in general.
     Crysis also allows you to customise your weaponry during combat. Changing the kind of sights, the kind of ammo used, the kind of attachment, whether your gun should have a silencer on it and whether it should have a laser pointer or torch on it.
     The island-jungle you play upon is home to a plethora of colours. I just love how vibrant the game becomes. It almost kills me a few times as I play, since I'm usually too busy staring at the lovely scenery to note that there are enemies starting to shoot at me. Most buildings you come across are destructable, a grenade or a well-placed punch in strength mode will often do well enough to take down a few walls, and anyone inside, for that matter.
     I find it quite a good idea that you can pick enemies up and use them as, in essence, shields for enemy shots, along with being able to shoot while holding them. After your finished with the makeshift shield, essencially when the shield is full of holes like swiss cheese, he becomes a makeshift projectile, and so long as people are close by and in front of you as you throw the shield away, more often than not it'll kill them.
     All in all it is an amazing game, with pleasing results around every corner, whether it be raining corpses and debris, or a tank waiting for you to hop in and blow up a few enemies.

Ingenuity-9
I really do think it deserves that nine, the ideas of all the things you can do with it are incredibly smart and, quite frankly, ingenius.
Graphics-10
As I mentioned, it is easy to lose yourself when you stare into those vibrant and tropical colours, those sandy beaches and picturesque oceans.
Story-6
Unfortunately, it explains little of what's going on, what happens to most of your team and why, even in the expansion.
Overall-8
I really do hope that the new one, Crysis 2, plays as well as this one did. I'd be quite dissapointed if they cut out most of the things that make you a one man army, though, it would be a little nicer if, not only the enemies died a little faster so you don't have to fill them with lead, and that friendly soldiers actually aid you in some way.