Crysis 2

[thaima1shu]

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I really need to finish the first one. I wonder what the system requirements for this is gonna be.

[Flawless]

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[Flawless]

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[Flawless]

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IGN: Hands-on

The alien soldiers are agile and fast and can take a fair bit of punishment, and more importantly, they use their mobility to avoid you just enough to make it fun to catch and kill them. This is complemented by the previously mentioned level design. After watching a developer play through the level for a bit, I took the controller and played out the situation completely differently, using a combination of cloaking and sniping and in-close melee attacks to handle combat situations. I was aided in that by the nano-suit upgrade system, which allows you to purchase new abilities to customize your approach to Crysis 2.

I'm going to say something that may irk some of you, but I mean it in the best way possible: Crysis 2 seems to have taken some pages from the Halo series' design manual. The idea of strung together combat sandboxes is all over the place, though the sandboxes in question are enormous, and the organic feeling AI evoke Bungie's influential series. Clearly, Crytek has a number of tricks of their own in store for the game, but the comparison isn't hard to make.

I was also aided by significantly improved game-pad support in Crysis 2. I was playing the PC version of the game with a wired 360 controller, and aside from the raw visual splendor on the screen - and seriously, I'm not one to to fellate the original Crysis's graphics, since I found them a little boring, but DAMN is Crysis 2 looking amazing on PC - it played very smoothly. Crytek has thrown in some snap-to targeting on the left trigger and a bit of aim assist to boot, and configurations are customizable, a major change from the last game. Switching between powers might actually be easier on the 360 pad than on the PC; pulling off manuevers like taking aim, quickly uncloaking and firing, then cloaking again are pulled off quickly using the bumper to phase in and out.

Unfortunately, while my recent time with the game has reassured me that Crysis 2 will translate perfectly well to console controls, I'm left with more questions than answers as to how the game will fair technically speaking. To be blunt, I'm not quite sure how Crytek will be able to pull off the enormous combat environments on the Xbox 360 and PS3. We haven't seen the console versions of Crysis 2 for months; in fact, we've never seen the PS3 version at all. With just a few short months of development time left, I'm growing more and more curious about how Crytek's first foray outside of the PC space will end up.

[Flawless]

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Multiplayer demo for 360 next week

A multiplayer Crysis 2 demo is heading exclusively to Xbox Live on 25th January, publisher EA has announced.

The demo will feature the game's Skyline map and two game modes: Team Instant Action and Crash Site. The former pits two teams against each other as they attempt to kill as many opponents as possible to earn higher ranks. In the latter you'll battle for control of alien drop pods, earning points by guarding their pods and keeping enemies at bay.

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[Cyros]

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WOOH!
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[Candyman5]

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I wish there was a IQ test you have to take before commenting....Some of those comments were horrid. The funniest one was : Well EA, I hope your happy. Im not buying the game now because the demo is for 360 and not PS3. -_-

Anyway cant wait to try it out, while I agree that I wish all platforms could get the demo the comment above just is idiotic...

[canes21]

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Nice! Can't wait. Hopefully tis as good as the first two.

[Klocker]

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my god that looks beautiful

[Methlab]

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damn...im grabbing this demo

[DickDalewood]

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I wish there was a IQ test you have to take before commenting....Some of those comments were horrid. The funniest one was : Well EA, I hope your happy. Im not buying the game now because the demo is for 360 and not PS3. -_-

Anyway cant wait to try it out, while I agree that I wish all platforms could get the demo the comment above just is idiotic...

Well, to be fair... it's not exactly reassuring to PS3 owners that almost nothing has been seen of that system's version and now only the 360 is getting the demo. He may not have expressed his concern very well, but, at this time, his point is certainly valid.

[Klocker]

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GT just put a couple vids up

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/mu...rysis-2/709699

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/mu...rysis-2/709697

GT MP interview

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ga...rysis-2/709695

[SinisterAlex]

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Demo tomorrow! Should be awesome!

[SinisterAlex]

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Multiplayer Beta is live!!! I'm downloading now so when I wake up tomorrow, I can get right in on the action. 18% so far.

[frostbyte06]

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Multiplayer Beta is live!!! I'm downloading now so when I wake up tomorrow, I can get right in on the action. 18% so far.

Link for Gold Live Members

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Crysis-2-Multiplayer-Closed-Beta/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80245418946?cid=SLink