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Number of Reviews: In response to all of the difficulties of installing, I noticed that the retail box has a warning in yellow that reads: "Notice: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disc and virtual drives." To those who have CD-writers and/or DVD-writers, you may have problems installing. You can borrow a plain DVD/CD drive without write capability and install the game. After that, you can resume your use of your original drive. Don't try to reinstall Windows and do all that software things, it's not worth it. Just borrow a plain CD-drive from work or a friend. On to the game. This game is visual candy. The weapons are cool and the enemies are tough! Even at the medium level, the damage level is very realistic. It's not recommended to do "Rambo" stunts because most likely you'll be out-numbered and a couple of hits will be enough to kill you. It's always important to be stealthy and be the FIRST to deliver the hit. There are around 20 levels with a variety of outdoor and indoor levels. For the outdoors, the sniper rifle and binoculus are your best friends. I had the most fun stalking around the trees and foilage with my trusty spiner rifle. But my biggest problem is the indoor levels. It's not that they are bad, it's just that there are TOO many of them. Crytek made a name for itself with it's superb outdoor graphic engine, and I thought it would be better if they really embellish this and flaunt their muscles with more outdoor levels. This would really set them apart from typical Doom-type games. The other problem is the save-game engine. This can be fix though, so don't ignore this game because of the lack of a flexible save game format. In my current system, I have patch 1.3. If you start the game with the -DEVMODE on (search the web for this), you can save the game anytime by doing the instructions below... press tilde (~) to bring down the console. then type \save_game [name] (exampe: \save_game [game1] ) then press ENTER To load game1, press tilde again and type: \load_game [game1] So far, I've found that this is 95% good. It does hiccup a little at certain areas, so beware. My last problem with the game is that some people complain that the AI can see you even when you're laying down flat and motionless. My hypothesis points to some sort of graphical glitch and my suggestion is to reduce the texture size and graphics. The reason is because at low graphic level, there are much less vegetation (grass, brushes, etc), which doesn't hinder my field of sight. But when I turn the graphics up, I suddenly have a much harder time seeing enemies with all those grass around me, but the enemies have no problems seeing me through all those grass. Kinda unfair. Hence, when I drop the graphical setting, I end up having a much easier time, but at the cost of eye-candy. Lastly, I felt like the game was getting a little dull near the end. The plot was decent in the beginning, but it felt rushed near the end. I don't want to go to spoilers, but I wasn't overly satisfied with the game near the end. But overall, this is a good game, and given the price, this is a great alternative to Doom 3/Half-life 2.