Crysis 2 DX11 Released
Crytek celebrates its release of the DirectX 11 1.9 patch release for Crysis 2 with a trailer detailing all the changes they’ve worked so hard for. Spoiler: there’s displacement mapping.
Crysis 2
Players: 1 Offline Player, 4-16 Players Online
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Genres: First-person Shooter
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Genres: First-person Shooter
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Developer: Crytek
MSRP: $59.99
Developer: Crytek
MSRP: $59.99
The world has been ravaged by a series of climatic disasters and society is on the verge of total breakdown. Now the aliens have returned, with a full invasion force bent on nothing less than the total annihilation of mankind, starting by trying to rip the heart out of Earth’s most iconic city. In New York, terrifying alien invaders stalk the streets and a nightmare plague strikes down the city’s myriad inhabitants with brutal epidemic speed. The city’s systems are in chaos, its streets and skyline are smashed and in flaming ruin. This is New York City like you’ve never seen it before.Neither paramilitary law enforcement nor the might of the US military machine can stand against the invaders, and all who choose not to flee are dead men walking. Just to survive in this maelstrom of death will require technology beyond anything any modern soldier has ever seen. One man will inherit that means to survive. One supersoldier, wielding the combat enhancement technology of the future with Nanosuit 2, will make the last stand to save humanity from destruction in the urban jungle that is New York City.
Crysis 2 Review
Posted By ReviewTechUSA about 2 years, 1 month ago
The original Crysis was released for the PC in 2007 and many critics and fans alike consider it to be the first “official next generation game”. Sporting amazing visuals, jaw dropping physics and a unique FPS gameplay experience, Crysis received large amounts of praise from both fans and critics. Nearly four years later EA and Crytek give us Crysis 2 for both the PC and consoles, promising it to be “The most engrossing and beautiful first person shooter ever created”. That’s quite a statement to make. So does the sequel actually live up to hype that Crytek created? Watch my full review to find out!
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Crysis 2 - PC Review
Four years ago, Crytek had to clean convention room floors of excess drool technophiles unwillingly left after watching their Crysis demonstrations. In 2011, does their sequel spur the same reaction in saliva glands? Could this text teaser contain more bodily fluid references? Johnny M. will pee... er, see.
Crysis 2 Review
Can it run Crysis...2?
Sage Reviews: Crysis 2
I don't know if the intentional misspelling of "Crysis" is pretentious, stupid, or pretentiously stupid.
RAD Episode 187-Crysis 2
It's time to take a big bite out of the big red apple as its been taken over by a bunch of alien bastards! Birdman dons the tight fitting and oddly bad ass Nanosuit in Crysis 2 for the PS3! 
Crysis 2 1.9 Patch on the Way
Crytek appears to be about to bring long awaited DirectX 11 to their well received shooter, Crysis 2. Patch notes and potential release date inside.
RAD Episode 187-Crysis 2
It’s time to take a big bite out of the big red apple as its been taken over by a bunch of alien bastards! Birdman dons the tight fitting and oddly bad ass Nanosuit in Crysis 2 for the PS3!
Sage Reviews: Crysis 2
I don’t know if the intentional misspelling of “Crysis” is pretentious, stupid, or pretentiously stupid.
Crysis 2 - PC Review
Four years ago, Crytek had to clean convention room floors of excess drool technophiles unwillingly left after watching their Crysis demonstrations. In 2011, does their sequel spur the same reaction in saliva glands? Could this text teaser contain more bodily fluid references? Johnny M. will pee… er, see.
Crysis 2 PS3 Demo Doesn't Work Either, is Shut Down
Breaking news: The Crysis 2 demo doesn’t work. You knew that already? No, I meant the other one.
Crysis 2 DX11 Released
Crytek celebrates its release of the DirectX 11 1.9 patch release for Crysis 2 with a trailer detailing all the changes they’ve worked so hard for. Spoiler: there’s displacement mapping.
Crysis 2 1.9 Patch on the Way
Crytek appears to be about to bring long awaited DirectX 11 to their well received shooter, Crysis 2. Patch notes and potential release date inside.
Sage Reviews: Crysis 2
I don’t know if the intentional misspelling of “Crysis” is pretentious, stupid, or pretentiously stupid.
Crysis 2 - PC Review
Four years ago, Crytek had to clean convention room floors of excess drool technophiles unwillingly left after watching their Crysis demonstrations. In 2011, does their sequel spur the same reaction in saliva glands? Could this text teaser contain more bodily fluid references? Johnny M. will pee… er, see.
Crysis 2 PS3 Demo Doesn't Work Either, is Shut Down
Breaking news: The Crysis 2 demo doesn’t work. You knew that already? No, I meant the other one.
Near Complete Crysis 2 Leaked
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Crysis 2 – PC Review
Posted By Johnny Maloney about 2 years, 2 months ago
Crysis 2 – PC Review
Crysis was one of my first; I had just got a brand new quad core, an aging (but still very capable) Nvidia 8800GT, and a new install of Windows Vista in November of 2007. I needed something to measure this… “DirectX 10″. Crysis looked like the right kind of pencil I could use to mark the wall, and then show it to my PC and say something encouraging like “oh my golly… look how much you’ve GROWN.” As a game, I received it lukewarmly. The first sixth was interesting, as was the last, but that still left two thirds of a game, stuck right in the middle that was fun, but not inspired. It was however, a technological marvel and I wanted to get my hands on its sequel to see what I could squeeze out of my tower. I got juice, but not the kind I thought I was going to get.
| PROS | Excellently Paced, Properly Epic, New Upgrade Features |
| CONS | A Few Questionable Plot Points, Technical Aspects, $60 PC Game Boooo |
| WTF?! | You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell! |
Right out of the gate, let’s address the elephant in the room. Regardless of Crytek’s assurances that the PC version would be the definitive version, it’s nowhere near the game that I thought we were going to get. Those of you brave enough to take on the limited demo will be glad to hear that the graphics settings are no longer labeled as the indecipherable ‘Advanced, Gamer and Hardcore’ levels. Now, they’re the much easier ranked (but no less obtuse) High, Very High and Extreme. Don’t expect to fiddle with your AA settings, your anisotropic filtering, ambient occlusion or even texture detail; these features are simply not there. What you can alter, aside from the basic brightness, is resolution, whether or not you want to run it in full screen, V-sync, and whether or not you think your computer is extreme enough.
I hope this is good enough to run Crysis 2… hey… is that PKzip?
Luckily, in the few days it’s been out, the interested parties have dug up some console commands you can use to alter a few things (like the abominable Field of View), and you can read about them here. I personally still haven’t found a way to turn off depth of field, which is usually added to give the illusion of dimension, a useless and confusing feature to someone like myself who plays these games in 3D (“Why is everything I look at in the background blurry? Am I going blind?”). There have also been some complaints, and indeed personal wrestling, with the multiplayer; some games are not starting at all, serial keys are not being recognized, and my personal favorite, hanging on the quick match screen for close to ten minutes before quitting out and joining a server manually.
The technical failings of the game aside, what lies underneath is a very decently concocted shooter. I often felt like the epic scale of the original didn’t come to full term, as the immediate consequences failed to distress me as a person. “What do I care if a bunch of squid aliens freeze this island to hell,” I’d think, “I don’t know this island from Timbuktu. Wait… IS this Timbuktu?” The consequences of a colossally decimated New York, a city I have been to and experienced in the flesh, seem a touch more dire. Are those extraterrestrial designs for New York dire, Johnny M.? Oh yes, they are as dire as the need for earplugs during Yodelfest… unless you’re into yodeling, that might be your thing.
Grand Central Station has never BEEN so terminal.
First person shooters and I are odd bedfellows. For me, they’re like those weird cousins that are half your age you get to see once a year, and each time you see them there’s some new, weird thing they’ve discovered and it’s the most amazing thing ever. You kind of pat them on the head and tell them slap bracelets are cool, or even if you don’t know what the hell a silly-band is, it’s nice to know they’re occupied with something. They tend to pick a gimmick and stick with it. Crysis 2′s gimmick tends to make the experience of the game a touch more cerebral, because running into the situation with the safety off, and rabid foam streaming out your mouth will tend to get you killed.
7/10
Crysis 2 - PC Review
Four years ago, Crytek had to clean convention room floors of excess drool technophiles unwillingly left after watching their Crysis demonstrations. In 2011, does their sequel spur the same reaction in saliva glands? Could this text teaser contain more bodily fluid references? Johnny M. will pee... er, see. Crysis 2 Review
Can it run Crysis...2? Sage Reviews: Crysis 2
I don't know if the intentional misspelling of "Crysis" is pretentious, stupid, or pretentiously stupid. RAD Episode 187-Crysis 2
It's time to take a big bite out of the big red apple as its been taken over by a bunch of alien bastards! Birdman dons the tight fitting and oddly bad ass Nanosuit in Crysis 2 for the PS3!-
April 03, 2011 at 06:54am
Sir, I would shake your hand personally.
Thank you for validating my awful and incomprehensible writing style. -
March 26, 2011 at 03:03pm
I must admit not having played Crysis 2 myself but rather looking over the shoulder of my brother playing it, since FPS games just aren’t my type of game.
But I found some of his remarks to be quite amusing / odd.
He played on the hardest setting but still managed to blow through the game in 10 hours, while making remarks of graphical mischieff (A.K.A graphic bugs) with the most amusing one being about floating bottles, remarks of the “linear corridor” feeling of the game (though as pointed out, so was the first game just to a wider degree) and a “Why isn’t the graphics better then this?”.
Possibly his most interesting remark was: “Why isn’t there a save feature besides this Checkpoint system?” (I would even go to say he bitched abit about it) (side note: if there is a manual save function then it might just be us that can’t see it / find it :S)
He did point out that a rather OP suit upgrade to start out with was the enhanced stealth, which may be why he flew through the game.
Now he also went on to the multiplayer and his summeration of it was: “Felt like Modern Warfare with suit powers”.
So taking in what I’ve seen him play of singleplayer, heard of multiplayer from him and also what I’ve read here, a 7/10 seems like a fair score.
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March 25, 2011 at 10:55pm
Would the score be the same if this was played on the PS3 or Xbox 360?
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March 26, 2011 at 03:27am
You shouldn’t blindly stare at reviewscores. But personally I think a 7 is waaaaaay too low of a score for this game. This game is easily a 8.5…I feel PC players are complaining way too much.
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March 26, 2011 at 08:39am
I’m a PC reviewer, I don’t try to make any apologies about it.
My score could easily have been influenced by it, but I’m not generous with my scores at all. I’ve only awarded 9 as my highest so far to Shogun 2. The thing is, the experience of the shooter was well done, but is behind the times. Collecting e-mails, receiving missives from voices that don’t ACTUALLY become characters has become average.
I like Crysis 2 because it uses the mechanism of the suit to further the FPS. But it fails to bring anything new to the genre in general.
Your estimation of “waaaaaay too low of a score” also reflects on the system of the site, and my own personal concept of game review. 7 is awesome in my court. When I hit a game with a 5, it doesn’t mean it’s a no buy; it means it’s a playable game in the genre that people expect it to be. It’s average.
When I say a game is a 7, I mean it’s well above average… the multiplayer cacophony was a giant problem.
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March 26, 2011 at 09:16am
By me?
I doubt it. I can’t pretend I’m going to create technical context for articles.
But, truth be told, I’ve played the whole of two games on the PS3.
I label my articles as “PC REVIEW” for a couple reasons.
1) I get annoyed at reading game reviews on console that fail to distinguish themselves from said articles.
2) Nobody else thinks Calexico makes the perfect gunfight music.
3) It was a money job to make consoles and PC products ‘closer.’ Crytek had a reputation to live up to. They never imagined (or could it be marketing?) their new entry on the console could be so groundbreaking.The biggest problem is that it is neither groundbreaking (at all) or compliant as a system. It’s an expected shooted that did well above its front.
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March 25, 2011 at 04:29pm
The game is 40 euro’s in stores here…your beeing ripped off.
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March 25, 2011 at 09:17am
The lack of graphic settings and DX11, as well as the less open level design, are disappointing. I could live without the multiplayer, but the campaign still looks fun despite all that. I’ve decided to wait for a price drop myself. Good review!
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March 25, 2011 at 10:04am
The level designs in the original Crysis weren’t that open. There were a couple of sections made to showcase the engine, but for the most part, the game stayed on a linear course with wide corridors. Crysis 2 definitely slims down those corridors, but you’ll occasionally find several ways to approach a situation. This is especially highlighted by an improved visor system. The game makes planning easier, more access points relevant, etc.
It’s a shame that the two games are so separate in their technical prowess and dramatic ability, as your POWERS COMBINED… I AM CAPTAIN PLANET!!!
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What I mean to say is, that the presence of the first game as a tech-pushing juggernaut, WITH the action, atmosphere and pacing of the second could have made this a landmark title; not only for Crytek/Crysis’ first console entry, but for all time. -
March 25, 2011 at 04:08am
$60 for a game? I’d jump at that! I’m an Aussie, and I know that our dollar is about parity to the greenback, but I’m still forking out nearly AUS$90, sometimes up to AUS$120 for new games!
Though prices aside, 7 hours single player? Is that average these days? What a let down. I’d expect around 15 to 20 hours from an FPS.
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March 25, 2011 at 09:01am
I review my games on the closest I can call “normal” level. Crysis 2 told me it was ‘Soldier?’ I don’t know really. I CAN tell you my PC is EXTREME.
But there’s no reason to review a game and say it took three hours, or fifteen if you’re pushing for time or supremacy. I’m trying to talk to the broadest audience, about the basic elements of the game… as far as my wordiness gets me… which is about as far as a badly spined thesaurus.The status of gaming these days, particularly to myself (PC gamer) is in an hostile flux. Publishers are suddenly realising the PC digital market is worth cash; games that are just about ready for release aren’t primed for it. Consoles have become capable of so much, and the FPS market has saturated. We’re back in the days of Rise of the Triad, Blake Stone, Wolfenstein, Doom and the Duke of Delay.
Good games, and ambitious players will always find more time from titles. I find it more apposite to express the core mechanics, my impressions, and offer some really terrible jokes.
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March 25, 2011 at 09:45am
Or let’s not forget that many publishers do a $1=€1 approach, so a $60 game in America often becomes a €60 game here in Europe, or, at the current conversion rate, just about $85, so I wouldn’t mind $60. =p Granted, on Steam Crysis 2 is €50, but that still rounds up to almost $71.
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March 25, 2011 at 02:35am
Then don’t buy from steam they’re pc prices for new games are like for console games
I bought from normal retailer for 50$ and in EU its even worse 50e for new game from steam HA! steam is only good for weekend deals and special deals . -
March 25, 2011 at 02:53am
I buy from steam for a number of reasons.
1) Digital download is easier on space and storage for me, and it’s more waste conscious. It also allows me to install old games on a whim, instead of searching around for the last place I left that damn CD.
2) The amount of money that publishers and developers earn from steam is estimated around 70%, in contrast to the 30% most physical retailers turn over to the dev/pub. More capital to the people who make the games I like, means more games from them in the future.
3) Easy updates. I don’t even need to check and see if there’s a new patch for any of my games. It just happens.
4) Integrated voice, chat, and even a web browser during play. You can invite people not playing your game to come play with you, make wishlists for games, install demos, watch trailers, send gifts. As a whole system, without support it would disappear. I’m voting with my dollar.I do confess, their international price schemes are ridiculous. But Steam has done more for the insistence of faith in PC gaming than any Gamestop, EB Games, Future Shop or Best Buy EVER has.
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March 26, 2011 at 10:01am
True words. PLUS you can get really good games for really low prices on sales.
just don’t buy new stuff there if it’s too expensive for you. But Steam > local store.(A big minus is that you can’t return or resell games if they don’t work for you)
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March 26, 2011 at 10:27am
Well said.
The used game market is now in full on battle, not ONLY with digital download, but retailers as well.
I, myself, retro game whenever I get the chance (which is goddamn difficult now that I write for a website, unless I attempt to justify my shut-in moments) to talk about Sacrifice.
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March 25, 2011 at 12:58am
Let’s hope they can still fix some of the issues in the PC version, because that’s the one I wanna play the most, and for the most part, it still looks great. But first, I should probably get a better PC. I still can’t even play Crysis 1 on this thing.
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March 25, 2011 at 10:31pm
http://clients.futuremark.com/gom/gameometer.action?gameId=10440
one of the many of sites online that can show you whether or not you can play a game on your current PC.
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RAD Episode 187-Crysis 2
It’s time to take a big bite out of the big red apple as its been taken over by a bunch of alien bastards! Birdman dons the tight fitting and oddly bad ass Nanosuit in Crysis 2 for the PS3!
Sage Reviews: Crysis 2
I don’t know if the intentional misspelling of “Crysis” is pretentious, stupid, or pretentiously stupid.
Let's Play BulletStorm Demo & Crysis 2 Beta
Benzaie tries the XBOX exclusive Crysis 2 beta for you guys… YAY or MEH ?
RAD Episode 187-Crysis 2
It’s time to take a big bite out of the big red apple as its been taken over by a bunch of alien bastards! Birdman dons the tight fitting and oddly bad ass Nanosuit in Crysis 2 for the PS3!
Crysis 1 > Crysis 2.
C2 story is downright redicolous, the whole game feels like it takes place in a different universe.
The Nano-suit has turned from what it was (advanced armor) into a Deus-Ex-Machina with super-advanced AI and bio-analysis abilities that would put entire specialized labs to shame.
The “silent protagonist” is horribly done, and hte take on these new aliens is terrible.
Weapon upgrades feel more limiting, since the same type of rifle seem to be restricted more.
Armor not being default (and working differently) makes little sense, but sombining speed and strength into one is a good call (since greater speed is achieved by hitting the ground harder)
Levels are smaller and far more linear than C1, and while nice, they are just not as pretty to look at.
Overall..singleplayer of C2 is vastly inferior to C1…Multiplayer is probably better.
Crysis 2 might be little better than its precessor but not much. Besides to me stunning visuals are secondary compared to game play. And Crysis 2 is lacking on game play.
you and sage should meet up in a coffee shop and have a review duel over this game
The day before yesterday I wanted to try out the Crysis 2 MP demo on steam and the result was summed up in three words: no servers online.
Too bad. I think i just might ask my brother to lend me his copy of Crysis 1 and play that and if i like it I might get Crysis 2.
I didn’t have too many problems with the campers in the PC demo, and there is nano vision which makes it easy enough to spot them, and some suit moduals if I remember right that make them light up while cloaked.
At the beginning, It feels like nothing special, but when you get into heavy firefights is when you realize how fun the game is and how tactical your abilities become. I don’t completely agree with the score but the game is very fun and all around enjoyable. I even found myself entertained at some of the bugs and poor AI in the game. For some reason I find myself laughing at what I’m supposed to be mad about, like when NPCs run into a storage crate, one of them fidgets a lot and the other shoots the ceiling.
Good review all around
you have nano vision for clocked ppl in multi use it or just use decoy(ability)
Curse you Corporate Commander! Only 4 customizable graphics options and no DX11 support for the PC? Must be the fault of the console toyboxes. Once again we’re entering the era when graphics must suffer because the kunsuls are getting too weak and PC’s are getting ahead of everybody in the visuals department – see also, Battlefield 3. Crysis 2 is just an example of kunsuls dragging down graphics on a multiplatform release.
The open platform model will always triumph over the “fenced off subdivision” that your toybox manufacturers would have you reside in. Stand up for your gaming freedoms and throw off your corporate oppressors! Join us on the PC and join the most hardcore of the hardcore, play the game on the same platform developers build the game. Down with Corporate Commander!
What I like about Battlefield 3 is that every trailer to date was shown as played on PC with all the wasd and mouse icons if that not a sign for pc users “that game is for you ” then I don’t know.
*scratches head*
+Fantastic Graphics
+Great Gameplay
-Quirky AI
-Unimpressive story
-Multiplayer has “big problems”
Final Score: Perfect 5/5.
Just based on the pros and cons you stated in your review, I find it hard to qualify your final verdict. This review felt like a 4/5, so the score you gave at the end came as something of a surprise. I certainly didn’t get “One of the greatest console shooters of this generation” from your review.
trust me, once you try it you will see why I gave it the score I did. Every game has flaws, but I score games on the experience as a whole. Small flaws aside this game was absolutely mind blowing. I am actually looking forward to playing the single player again even thought I JUST completed Crysis 2 just several days ago.
Despite the problems on the Pc Version I might still pick it up. I prefer the keyboard/mouse combination over the control pad for FPS games.
I used to swear by the good old keyboard and mouse combo but I swear for some FPS the controller functions much nicer. I have no idea why but find Crysis to be one of these games that when I use a controller I get much better results than with my gaming mouse, but Bad company 2 I find easier with a mouse and keyboard, Maybe I’m just odd lol.
I loved Crysis 2 as a single player experience I have to say, I did miss the nice natural environments and sneaking through jungles and rivers ganking Koreans that Crysis had but there is still a lot of fun to be had in Crysis 2 despite its flaws and bugs (which I hardly noticed if im honest)
Multiplayer on Crysis 2 is shit though, I find playing it extremely unpleasant and way to fast paced for a shooter, I guess its just too arcady for me, 32 Player maps are where FPS multiplayer gaming is at