It’s tempting to pussyfoot around with weasel words such as ‘among’, ‘could be’ and ‘we said the same thing two issues ago, twice’, but no. Look at the screenshots. This is awe-inspiring, and not in a lazy, misapplied superlative kind of way; I mean that it causes mixed emotions of reverence, respect, dread and wonder, as inspired by great beauty.

Crysis is so beautiful that when picking screenshots for this post I chose one that contains no enemies or explosions.

My review is now online.