Crysis - First Impressions

I know it's not out in the UK until Friday and I know I've pre-ordered it and it's shipped, but I saw the RZR1911 release for download and I gave in to temptation. I've only played for about an hour so far, but so far I'm very impressed with what I've seen. The game is beautiful to look at when you whack the detail up; motion blur, HDR, focusing effects, water effects & very vibrant colours - and I'm not even running it with the full DX10 setup (as I've eschewed Vista in favour of an OS that occasionally works).

One thing I will say is this: EA, I know you don't really care much for your customers a lot of the time, but for the love of God, make your startup splash screens and cut scenes skippable. I don't want to have to sit through the animated EA logo, Crytek logo, Nvidia logo & Intel logo just to get to the menu and then pretty much have to sit through the entire trailer when I start a new game. You know things are bad when there's a scene release to remove said splash screens from the game.

I'll have something more concrete to say once I've played a little more.