Crysis
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Military dialogue includes strong profanity between soldiers during combat.
The player shoots human soldiers and alien creatures with a wide range of firearms; hits produce blood and enemies can be thrown or killed by hand, but there is no dismemberment or gore.
The story depicts a military conflict and an alien threat in which named allied soldiers are killed on screen.
Later alien and zero-gravity sections use dark, unsettling atmosphere and a hidden threat, without being built around scares.
Island wildlife such as chickens and turtles can be picked up or shot by the player as incidental, non-rewarded play.
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What it is
Crysis is a first-person shooter in which the player is a special-forces soldier wearing a high-tech Nanosuit that grants switchable powers — armor, super strength, super speed, and invisibility — during missions on a tropical island. Fighting begins against North Korean troops and shifts to extraterrestrial enemies as the story unfolds across jungle, frozen, and zero-gravity settings. Combat uses realistic firearms against human and alien foes and produces blood, though without dismemberment or lingering gore. The game carries strong military profanity, war-driven subject matter including on-screen deaths and a nuclear detonation, and some dark, unsettling alien environments. There is no sexual content, nudity, or purchasable content.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as heroic military action: the player is an elite soldier defending against an invading army and an alien threat, and enemy soldiers act as tactical squads rather than being singled out as a group. Its power fantasy centers on the augmented suit, and the darker turns — mounting casualties and a nuclear strike — are presented as the stakes of a losing war rather than as spectacle.
Details
- Developer
- Crytek
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Released
- Sep 17, 2008
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