I've played through this game back on release at 360 btw.

One, the startup is so much more polished than previous Crysis games. Warhead, Crysis 1, even 2 if I recall, all take an eternity to boot and are loaded with time consuming splash screens. The startup screens on previous Crysis games also for lack of a better word, dont look/seem polished I'm not even sure what I'm trying to say here, but Crysis 3 startup/menu/etc screens just seem so crisp, snappy, and polished compared to past Crysis games. It's a joy. Basically almost feels like a console game in menu/startup polish. Kudos Crytek for doing that, and what took so long?

Now on to my rig, it's a (unoverclocked) Q6600, 4GB RAM, and a HD6970. So I was curious how it'd run. The CPU is my weak link. Well I already knew from looking at benches, but this game isn't very CPU demanding. I turned down all graphics options to low to put the bottleneck on the CPU, and the game ran up to 100 FPS (though I think there were some drop down to the 50's, even on low these could be my GPU)

Another thing, and this seems to be a problem with all PC games lately, is for testing I started on all very high settings, then dropped to all  lowest. The thing is, honestly I'm not the most eagle eyed, but there's not that much difference really. Sad but true. I am sure somebody not that into gaming wouldn't notice any difference at all. I think diminishing returns is here.

On all very high (well, I used the less demanding FXAA), the game was actually almost playable. Dipped to maybe ~15 FPS, but often ran 30-40. I'm farthest from a FPS slut, so 25-35 is fine for me in my games, so this was really almost playable for me. Surprising, I figured both 4GB RAM and the Q6600 would bottleneck.

I'm sure the game can bring any 5 teraflop card to it's knees, but just by upping the SMAA, which will make like a 2% actual difference in visuals. Such is PC gaming.

One other thing I'd like to do, is I have a 27" 720P TV (bedroom TV) and my PC monitor is 27 (1080P) also. I want to set the two displays side by side, run the 360 version of Crysis 3 on the 720P set and the PC version on the 1080P, and see how much graphics difference there is side by side. Yes, I'm that much a nerd. So yeah I'll do that probably sometime and post about it later.

I got this on ps3. Never finished it though.

I mainly bought to play online with a friend, but the matchmaking was so horrible we stopped playing it.

Crisis 3 is a terrible game.

I played through the game a couple months ago and loved it ( PC Version Of Course ) . Halo 4 and Crysis 3 are my best FPS of last gen.

That's not to bad considering your CPU/Motherboard/Ram set-up is essentially 6 years old with a 3 year old GPU.

Personally I disliked Crysis 2 and 3, far to consolised for my taste and didn't push the PC hard enough, granted I can't run it at max at my full resolution unfortunately, but 1440P is a cake walk.

My biggest issue with the crysis series is their "consolization". From the levels limited size/exploration, to the games length, to the suits abilities to that damn tactical visor being thrown in your face so many times. I also hate the humanoid ceph. They took away everything that Made 1 and Warhead so good imo.

It is a big mistake to buy a Crysis game for multiplayer. The multiplayer portion becomes ghost town 1 day after release. They are horrible in my opinion.

I think the MP is great. The ghost and armor specs add a lot to the gameplay.

Just sad crytek doesn't know how to make decent matchmaking. I think my average waiting time for a game on day 1 was more than 10min

I played Crysis 1 and enjoyed it on hardest because it then played like a stealth game, but Crysis 2 sucked. I putted a good hours into Crysis 2 multiplayer, but don't ask me why.

I won't bother with Crysis 3. No way. Crysis has become a borderline irrelevant franchise now. Wouldn't be surprised if it gets terminated soon (with Dead Space and Medul of Honor who also are EA franchises that disappoint and underperform).

Bought Crysis 3 for 12 dollars. It may have been the worst games I purchases all gen. If not the worst, then top 3. It was pretty but utterly boring.