Crysis

1001 Video Games

The PC version of Crysis appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

GameTrailers

The review team at GameTrailers.com removed Crysis from their best graphics award of ''GameTrailers Game of the Year Awards 2007''. They claimed they spent a week upgrading their rig and still couldn't get Crysis to run properly.

Online servers

The game's online servers (which were hosted on GameSpy) were scheduled to shut down on 30 June 2014, like for other Electronic Arts titles in the wake of GameSpy's total closure.

References

Many fans discussed the aliens in the Paradise Lost level being a very similar to the squids seen in the cult-movie The Matrix. The game developers have never taken an official stand on it.

In the very last level of the game, Prophet says: "They're coming through the fucking walls!", which is a rephrasing of the famous quote "They're coming outta the goddamn walls" from the cult-movie Aliens by James Cameron.

Parody

Crysis was parodied in an episode of "Die Redaktion" (The Editorial Team), a monthly comedy video produced by the German gaming magazine GameStar. It was published on the DVD of issue 02/2008.

Awards

• Games for Windows Magazine
  • March 2008 - #7 Game of the Year
• GameSpy
  • 2007 – #8 PC Game of the Year
• GameStar (Germany)
  • Best PC Game in 2007 (Readers' Choice)
  • Best PC FPS in 2007 (Readers' Choice)

Information also contributed by Franziska Lehnert, Patrick Bregger, and PCGamer77.