Crysis will introduce concepts such as bendable and destructible foliage, which doesn't sound like much, but when you see it in action it can change the way you play the game. Yerli said that in the past, plants in games were used only as cover, and they were always static and unchanging. But in Crysis, if an enemy is hiding in tall grasses, you'll see the vegetation bend and sway, which means that you can now read the terrain to try to detect enemies. In the trailer, we saw heavy gunfire cut down a tree, and the trunk fell over realistically, which illustrates some of the realistic physics in the game. Yerli said that they've seen trees fall over and crush enemies standing in the wrong spot.

Yet Crysis promises to be far more than Far Cry with a better graphics engine. Yerli explained that the company learned many lessons about gameplay with Far Cry. As an example, he cited the introduction of mutants into Far Cry's story about halfway through the game. Up until that point, Far Cry was an intelligent shooter that let you approach the game however you wanted to. You could skulk around in the jungle, sneaking past guys. Or you could take down an armed camp using your own tactics. Once the mutants were introduced, however, Yerli said that the gameplay switched to being "reactive," just like pretty much every other shooter on the market. In other words, a bad guy suddenly appears, and you have to shoot him quickly. Obviously, the nonlinear approach was better, and so the company learned its lesson.