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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare vs Crysis 3

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is an FPS game from Infinity Ward (2016) while Crysis 3 is an FPS sandbox game from Crytek UK (2013).

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

2016 · Infinity Ward

6.1GamingPickz Score

$59.99

Steam: Mixed

Crysis 3

2013 · Crytek UK

7.4GamingPickz Score

$13.49

Steam: Very Positive

What each one is

Steam files Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare under FPS. In contrast, it files Crysis 3 under FPS and Sandbox.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Infinite Warfare delivers three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies.

Description from its Steam store page

Crysis 3

Experience the single-player experience from the iconic first-person shooter, Crysis 3, optimized to take advantage of today's hardware in Crysis 3 Remastered.

Description from its Steam store page

At a glance

Call of Duty: Infinite WarfareCrysis 3
GamingPickz Score6.1/107.4/10
Steam ratingMixed (61%, 29,919)Very Positive (88%, 8,191)
Critic aggregate73/100No aggregate
Price$59.99$13.49
Install size70 GB18 GB
Steam Deckplayableverified
Released20162013
DeveloperInfinity WardCrytek UK

Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare vs Crysis 3, point by point

Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.

  1. Genre and premise

    Call of Duty: Infinite WarfareFPS game
    Crysis 3FPS sandbox game

    What each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.

  2. How it plays

    Call of Duty: Infinite WarfareAction, FPS, Zombies
    Crysis 3Action, FPS, Shooter

    The tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.

  3. Reception

    Call of Duty: Infinite WarfareScore 6.1 · 61% on Steam · 73 critic
    Crysis 3Score 7.4 · 88% on Steam

    The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.

  4. Content and scale

    Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare29,919 reviews · 6 add-ons · 70 GB
    Crysis 38,191 reviews · 18 GB

    Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.

  5. Price

    Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare$59.99
    Crysis 3$13.49

    Read live from Steam and subject to change.

  6. On a Steam Deck

    Call of Duty: Infinite WarfarePlayable
    Crysis 3Verified

    Valve's own Deck compatibility rating.

Crysis 3 takes 3 of the marked rounds to 0. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.

The two on the grid

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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Crysis 3 on the axes the GamingPickz Score is built from, on the full 0 to 100 scale so each dot is its real position. Change either axis to compare them on any measure.

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01000100PlayersPopularity

Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.

  • Multi-platform

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How positions are decided

No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
  • Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
  • Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
  • No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
  • A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
  • Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.

Which to pick, by what you want

  • The higher-rated of the two: Crysis 3 (GamingPickz Score 7.4)
  • The cheaper right now: Crysis 3 ($13.49)
  • Better on a Steam Deck: Crysis 3 (verified)
  • Lighter on storage: Crysis 3 (18 GB)
  • The safer bet by weight of reviews: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (29,919 reviews)

What they have in common

Both are tagged by Steam players with:

ActionFPSFuturisticShooterHero ShooterFirst-PersonSingleplayerSci-fi

Where they differ

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is also

MultiplayerZombiesSpaceRobotsAdventureAtmospheric

Crysis 3 is also

AliensDystopian SandboxShoot 'Em UpCombatPhysics

Tags players apply to one game and not the other.

Difficulty and who each is for

By the tags players apply, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. Crysis 3 is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.

System requirements, side by side

Call of Duty: Infinite WarfareCrysis 3
Minimum GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GBNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
Minimum CPUIntel Core i3-3225 @ 3.30GHzIntel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470
Minimum RAM8 GB8 GB
Install size70 GB18 GB

Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare · Crysis 3.

Accessibility features

Steam store pages declare 1 accessibility feature for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and 1 for Crysis 3. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

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Common questions

How different are Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Crysis 3 in scope?

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has drawn 29,919 Steam reviews, ships 6 add-ons and installs in 70 GB. Crysis 3 has drawn 8,191 Steam reviews and installs in 18 GB.

Is Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare or Crysis 3 better?

By the GamingPickz Score, Crysis 3 rates higher (7.4 to 6.1). That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, not our taste. "Better" also depends on price, length and platform, which the table above lays out.

Which is cheaper, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare or Crysis 3?

Crysis 3 is cheaper right now at $13.49, against $59.99. Prices move, so this is read live from Steam and can change.

Do you rank one above the other for a fee?

No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.

How we compare, and what we will not do

The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.

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