Thread: 2 for Crysis 2

Funny thing happened to me. I'd overslept but my parents knew my copy of Crysis 2 Nano Edition was going to be delivered today, so they were surprised when two massive boxes arrived through the post...

It wasn't until they'd checked their emails and opened them they realised that, probably sometime before Christmas, they had pre-ordered the game for me, and then pre-ordered again in January when the last few copies were left!

So I have two, but we're going to send one back so somebody else can purchase it.

I almost did something similar with Assassins Creed 2 but I remembered just in time.

If we are talking about c2, what do you think about graphics quality? Imo its just awesome! I was playing about 3hours and the environment looks beautiful! Btw does anybody knows whats happening with sdk kit? ( sandbox 3 isnt in instalation)

Can't say I've played the full game yet but judging by the demo it does look to be stunning!

Stunning indeed - I think the lightning is the most outstanding achievement in this version; looks like a great balance between warm and cold colors, vivid and desaturated and so on. Not to mention the shadowing is just awesome!

When that's said; because of the Post MSAA in CE3, they blur the textures too much - everything seems a bit low-resolution and blurry, which I don't fancy too much.

On the regard with the SDK-kit; yes, there will be a SDK-kit, similar to the UDK from Unreal. When this will arrive isn't certain yet, but they've confirmed it at least.

Maniche

I think DURLi was talking about a mod SDK for Crysis 2. To be honest I'm not sure there will be one considering the "CDK" is slated for a couple of months from rumours and that's about a similar length of time to what we had to wait for the Crysis Wars SDK.

Originally Posted by Maniche

Stunning indeed - I think the lightning is the most outstanding achievement in this version; looks like a great balance between warm and cold colors, vivid and desaturated and so on. Not to mention the shadowing is just awesome!

When that's said; because of the Post MSAA in CE3, they blur the textures too much - everything seems a bit low-resolution and blurry, which I don't fancy too much.

On the regard with the SDK-kit; yes, there will be a SDK-kit, similar to the UDK from Unreal. When this will arrive isn't certain yet, but they've confirmed it at least.

Maniche

I agree. I think the graphics are very good, the lighting and shadows are definite improvements on ce2. The textures are lower res that what were used to but it's not really noticeable unless your 2-3 feet away from a surface. Gunplay and movement seems much more convincing and enjoyable now too, strangely I now prefer holding down the right mouse button to aim!

A lot of forum goers are totally trashing the game having only played the multiplayer demo which was in my opinion a complete mess. The single player experience is turning out to be my favourite single player campaign since playing red dead redemption.

Got a Manual in the box too!! don't see that these days very often .

You'd recommend it then Brrr? Must admit I've been holding off until after examinations but I could be tempted to get it before then

Originally Posted by General Naga

You'd recommend it then Brrr? Must admit I've been holding off until after examinations but I could be tempted to get it before then

Yeah I recommend the single player definitely. I'm 2-3 hours in and the only thing I don't like is the AI sometimes being stupid, like walking into walls, and guards just standing there when I shot they're mate in the head with a silenced pistol . The levels are still reasonably open too, not on the scale of crysis 1 but enough to take advantage of all tactical options.

I'm on my final modules at uni too and always find that playing fps games doesn't distract too much time away from working - strategy games however are best played when you don't need to get anything critical done hence y I'm holding off buying Shogun 2 .

Actually the graphics do improve if you have the settings on "Extreme". I thought the fact that they removed customised graphics would be an issue, but they really have tightened the handling on the engine; even my Nvidia 9800 GTX mobile card can operate the game flawlessly on maximum graphics compared to the demo.