Sorry about that, folks! You would have seen this story go up on the site earlier in the day had my monitor not erupted in flames upon loading the first two screenshots of Crysis 2 in my browser.
Perhaps I'm easily impressed by fancy-looking visuals, but jeez, the way this game appears in these shots is starting to frighten me. Running around a realistic depiction of New York City in the second generation Nanosuit sounds like good times, doesn't it?
In the Crymod forum thread from which the pictures surfaced, "highly vertical gameplay" is briefly mentioned. If that actually means what I think it means ... oh boy. My experience with videogames has taught me a few important life lessons, such as: "jumping off of high structures is never not fun."
First Official Screenshots! [Crymod]
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6:40 PM on 03.04.2010
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This looks AMAZING.
Makes me CRY-tek get it?
*iPhone explodes*
It's probably heavily downsampled. Here's what the first Crysis looks like rendered at 25600x16000 (yes, 25 thousand by 16 thousand) downsampled to 720p.
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,695146/Crazy-Crysis-screenshot-25600-x-16000-pixels/News/
Looks like I'm not the only pinoy in dtoid.
Looks like I'm not the only pinoy in dtoid.
We all know the pc version will be superior of the three. I'm more interested in the shit storm of fanboys from the ps3 and 360 side of things :).
That is the most exciting prospect, regardless of how excellent Crysis 2 may be. Timesplitters is one of the greatest series of all time. No library is complete without a copy of T2 or Future Perfect. When this gen's TS comes out, it'll be a day one purchase for me almost irregardless of critical adulation or lack thereof.
oh you joker, you.
Yes, I know that you can still play it at "lower settings", but then why even bother creating a game that only 5% of gamers can experience at maximum settings?
I don't know, maybe I'm just missing something, but games like this don't make any sense to me.
I suppose we can all enjoy it next decade?
Perhaps they will only be HOLYSHITWTF. That would be disappointing.
its just that most pc gamers are ignorant and wont play a game unless they can play it at maximum detail and like 100fps.
Play it on regular settings and its still pretty and smooth.. i dont get why everyone has such a problem with doing this.
I found it to be quite the amazing game, thanks. The flack it gets from people who can't play it, or from people dissapointed by anything after the hype, annoys me, because it's just a damn good shooter with pseudo-open world levels and awesome suit powers in the most photo realistic graphics ever.
I cannot imagine how anyone could actually play the game and say it sucked, unless they just don't like FPS games.
I thought it was crap myself first time around as all i did was jet through the game with speed on.. but then I realised all the things you can do with the suit, after you realise what options you have its amazing.
"May melt console if played for more than 20 minutes at a time"
The first game was actually very well optimised, hence it could run on pc's at the time. It probably has more optimisations implemented than a source game, and if anyones ever optimised a source map, you'll understand what I'm saying. :P
Worse: it makes you x1251.