Crysis 2 ... anybody got it yet?

OK, so the game is out already and I am patiently waiting for those who pre-order or got it today and will fire up the Campaign... Give us your thoughts on:

Storyline

Gameplay

Graphics

Game smoothness... walking, running, jumping, etc.

Weapon Ergonomics

and whatever else you would want to discuss. I would ask you to not just say... it sucks, or its awesome, or Epic Fail or its just a run-and-gun, why? well, it seems that, these are all the games we got so we have to lower our standards a bit and as much as I love the sporadic run-&-gun firefight but prefer tactics within the game... if the storyline is good and I am allowed to play it at my pace, I am so there.

I've just barely dug in at this point.

The graphics are surprisingly clear and functional even at higher settings on my little 5850.

Anyhow, a few basics.
The suit is now upgradeable, using alien components you find around you can actually increase, or change certain features/modes of the suit, this apparently is also true of multiplayer, (anyone that's played the demo should know that much) The world is persistent and at times almost stunning just to look at. The game does feel noticeably more linear than the original, while you aren't walking down one way corridors and you are left to decide how to handle each engagement. You do get a significantly more start to finish feel from how the game plays out.


This may upset some people, but for me it keeps you from wandering around just for the sake of it.

The storyline (at least as far as I am into it) has a feeling of building up to something epic. I can't really say a whole lot outside of that, weapons and their mods are fairly similiar to how it worked in the first game. (there is a basic weapon menu opened by pressing the appropriate key)

Having toyed with the settings I can tell you, you are really going to miss out with anything but dx11 graphics on this game. There is a noticeable amount of tesselation I can only assume the aliens are going to look like pinkish blobs without tesselation active. (they have a see thru property to them)

As for smoothness of play I've noticed no control problems and as I mentioned above performance is actually above what I expected to get with my mid range card.

That's about all I can say being only an hour or so into the game though.

Hmmm..... didn't even know the game was released.

Thanks Maguscreed, you may have talked me into getting it.

Maguscreed said:

I've just barely dug in at this point.

The graphics are surprisingly clear and functional even at higher settings on my little 5850.

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Funny, I consider my single 9800GTX+ to be little and have been considering upgrading to a 5850.

Didn't know it was already out either. Must have been pretty quiet..

pparks1 said:

Maguscreed said:

I've just barely dug in at this point.

The graphics are surprisingly clear and functional even at higher settings on my little 5850.

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Funny, I consider my single 9800GTX+ to be little and have been considering upgrading to a 5850.

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They claim it plays tolerably on 560ti nvidia card.
It's a fairly cheap card to, so you may want to look into that as well.
Yeah the release was announced at midnight on the crysis 2 blogspot. Outside of that I haven't seen much on it though.

pparks1 said:

Maguscreed said:

I've just barely dug in at this point.

The graphics are surprisingly clear and functional even at higher settings on my little 5850.

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Funny, I consider my single 9800GTX+ to be little and have been considering upgrading to a 5850.

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If you're going to upgrade to a 5850 you might check out a 6950. I haven't looked at the price difference between the two though. I will however say that the 6950 is a good card for the price. They can be had for under $300 bucks. I got mine for $280 from Amazon.

Anyway I think I'll give Crysis 2 a try. I did enjoy Crysis and Crysis Warhead.

Will that run on my system?, The first Crysis used to lag at max settings

My copy is on the UPS truck at them moment. It'll be there when I get back home and I'll fire it up this evening.

I probably wont play it but if i decide to play it will it work on NVIDIA Geforce GT 220 ?

Searching around I don't see a whole lot of buzz about on the game, especially for a newly released Crysis

One thing I did find out though.... No DX10 or 11 - MyCrysis and here - Ok - enough! Will Crysis 2 have DX11 on release date - confirm please - - Steam Users' Forums

sygnus21 said:

Searching around I don't see a whole lot of buzz about on the game, especially for a newly released Crysis

One thing I did find out though.... No DX10 or 11 - MyCrysis and here - Ok - enough! Will Crysis 2 have DX11 on release date - confirm please - - Steam Users' Forums

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DX11 will be offered as a future patch, the current release is only DX9

Yeah.... seems to be all the rage now. Dragon Age 2 had the same BS. I had to download a 1gig file to get the texture pack which supported DX11.

I don't understand why these can't be included with the game.... on release day.... not downloaded "later"

That's my point. Anyway looks like I won't get the game till the patch is released. Stupid I know, but....

I would think it safe to assume that the buzz is waiting for some people to finish the game. I'm trying to juggle a dozen things today which is the only reason I haven't been plowing straight through it.

As for dx11, I windowed the game and the window stated it was a dx11 application.

...if that's dx9 they've totally reinvented it. The ground and wall textures are definitely using at least dx10 mapping.

I've traced everything stating it won't have dx11 support to a single website in sweden that released the information over a year ago.
Maybe something changed?

Maguscreed said:

As for dx11, I windowed the game and the window stated it was a dx11 application.

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I don't know what you mean by that but Windows can't turn a DX9 game into a DX11 game.

I don't think that's what you mean but....

Maguscreed said:

I've traced everything stating it won't have dx11 support to a single website in sweden that released the information over a year ago.
Maybe something changed?

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I linked two sites in my previous post. Bottom line is as of now the game is DX9

I'm not insinuating that windows is magically making it dx11, I'm just stating what I saw. CE3 remains a dx11 engine regardless of the current support on it though.

I have a bud on a mid range system and a nv 560ti @ hard core gfx settings he says it runs smooth- better than the other crysis games.

I will get it some day.

It does seem significantly more refined than the previous, if what everyone is saying is true and this is only dx 9, the shaders have really been cleaned up.

Well hell- if it is only dx9 I guess it is running good- I bet my bud does not even know that- so the second or 3rd post here- guy talking about how it runs and tessellation etc. How can he talk about such things if it is not even in the game- that is dx11- Or am I missing something. Are we talking retail or steam USA the World or all or what?

I am about sick of stupid game crap or bug crap or this game already and do not even have it. It should have or play in dx11 If not it is stupid and should not be out yet- I thought the game was made for or with dx11.

Never mind- I do not care now and will never buy it- the confusion is enough for me.. Id bet money being a port has to do with everything..

Ha ha I love it.. See ya..

That was me talking about seeing dx11 features in it, and I still hold to that. Even though most everyone seems to disagree. I know dx9 though played games in it for years. If there is nothing going on in this game but dx9 then they've completely redefined it.