76. Wet and Watery Games

Uh, well, uh, my, for my ocean, I have gone for, uh, the other side of the planet.

I've gone for the Pacific.

In fact, even my honorable mention is, uh, also in the Pacific.

Oh.

So this game definitely, um, fits the bill.

At the very beginning of the game, you are, uh, not exactly parachuting, but you're dropping down i- into an island.

You get hit, and then you end up in the Pacific.

So the very beginning, you are literally, uh, swimming, uh, to the shore, which is a Pacific island.

Uh, I'll give you the name of the island.

Um, if I...

Ling-Swain Island, I believe-

Ooh

... uh, which is a made-up island, um, in the, in the Philippines.

Um, now I, I'll give you one very brief clue, um, as to what it is I'm talking about.

So this is a 2007 game, um, initially on the PC.

Um, it has been subsequently re-released, uh, on consoles, and it was the game which pretty much spawned the phrase, "Yeah, but can it run..."

Hmm.

And Simon's nodding away, and that game is Crysis.

I was gonna say, that's the ultimate benchmark.

Even, even PC Gamer mags still talk about that at this point.

It really is, because I'm, I've done a lot of looking into...

Um, I became a little bit obsessed with it for a while, because I, I just, I love the idea the developers created this game.

Um, they tried to future-proof it so much that even the highest end of PCs at the time would struggle to, to, to run it well.

So if you had the top, top PC around at the time, you're still gonna chug to try and find those higher settings on, on, on, on a lot of things.

You're gonna have a lot of frame rate dips and what have you, even with the highest end.