Two More Crysis 2 Screenshots - The 'Halo Killer'?

Please dont make crysis into a "Multi year franchise"

Not to shabby looking there, but letting us know you're going to run it into the ground down the line isn't too promising...

Crysis is not going to Kill Halo, have they seen or played "Reach," i bet they haven't and there just playing themselves for fools. In matter of fact even if the game looks that good. Why bother spending money on an upgrade when the console counterpart does the job 100% better with no problems or worries. Yearly franchise, sounds like something thats bound to die after the 2nd release just like MW2. Good Luck EA and Crytek. Sequels are a dime a dozen in this market, and if your looking at a year to year release you can go shove the next year installment in your anus and forget about it. From the looks of it, most console gamers i talk to don't even know a game named crysis 2 is coming out for consoles. Once they knew, they asked me why it was coming to consoles, i told them it was because corporations like you EA and developers like crytek just can't live with making a few million dollars out of a game, they want grab stupid gamers in the console market and take hundreds of millions running to the bank and then bringing out shit sequels year by year.

Use the Cry Engine to make a new Outwars! That would be uber awesome @_@

So your saying that the Halo franchise was done after the first one by your way of thinking? IMHO Halo 2 was better than the first, and The beta for Reach has been AWESOME!

I Cant wait, Crysis 2 should be a game to remember not only for the graphics which it so rightfully deserves, but also a story to go along, 3 years is a lot of development time so i hope it went not only into the scenery, but into a very long story kept interesting with special twists that come together just right.

screenshots look great, just hope the gameplay itself is better than the first one.

CRYSIS 2 + Cry Engine 3 >>>> Halo

Will Crysis 2 be as big a yawn as the last? Looks are nothing without content.

I think a lot more people are going to buy it now, said game is said to have been optimized to run and look better than the original (if all is true of course)

Don't need a i7 980 for 1 grand when you can have a Phenom 1095T for 300 at a loss of roughly 2-3FPS per game.

fuck halo

Err the original Crysis was heavily GPU limited, not CPU. Doubt Crysis 2 will be much different considering Cryengine 3 and 2 are actually very similar.

You could run original crysis with as much FPS on a Phenom II as an i7, even with a 5970.

People that complained about not being able to run the original are retards. It ran decent on my 8800 GTS system with nearly all extra high visuals. I could've gotten it to run even better if I lowered the visuals. And that's pretty much the issue. The game had a scalable graphics engine, but EVERYONE wanted to play the game with the highest graphic settings and bitched when their computer couldn't handle it, and they refused to lower their settings. If they didn't have an Extra High setting and the game just shipped with High as the maximum, people wouldn't have bitched.

I never played the first Crysis. Never had any desire to really. All I ever heard about was how good it looked, never heard if anyone said it was fun. Graphics can only take you just so far and somewhere there has to be good gameplay.

As far as it killing Halo, god I hope so. The guys at Bungie are using Halo like Bernie (Weekend at Bernie's). They are just dragging this lifeless rehashed game around and getting everything they can out of it. Very similar to what the Call of Duty franchise is doing. I am so tired of multiple sequels (1 sequel is okay) that are the same game with no inovation. Please come up with some New IPs.

i wonder how many console gamers look at those screenshots and think it will look that good on there 360 (obivously not)

That is exactly what Halo is. How many games by todays standards have terrible graphics, but are still a blast to play? I agree visuals get you in the door, but gameplay is what makes a great franchise. Crytek should work on making great gameplay, not making a benchmarking utility...

So it's not going to max out monster rigs at medium this time?

I always thought that was the real reason to Crysis being alive and still pushing development of GPUs...

To be honest, I really liked that part of Crysis; it brought a new era of graphics using technology that required way more that the current maximum performance.

To sum it up, please make Crysis 3 a sluggish beast with mind-blowing graphics.

I completely agree with your statement. Crysis was so boring that I almost fell asleep towards the end. It's one of the reasons why the game mount and blade: war band was more replay value than say crysis: multiplayer or singeplayer. The multiplayer action is simple yet fun, doesn't require immense graphics capabilities, and each server can hold about 50 people.

I think I'm coming to dislike graphics showcases that are supposed to be nothing more than graphics showcases. Unless the action is more engaging and the storyline improves, Crysis might as well be unreal tournament 4 or shatter horizons, before the last update.

"I never played the first Crysis. Never had any desire to really. All I ever heard about was how good it looked, never heard if anyone said it was fun"

Gamespot gave it a score of 9.5 same score as Halo 3, while Halo 2 was given 9.4. So I'm sure it was fun, and it was more than just a "benchmarking utility"

If thise screenshots follow the others, then they are taken from the 360 build of the game.....

SO when's the release anyway?

Can someone explain why a game of this quality is being showcased with Screenshots of 1280 x 701 resolution??

Nice screenie. The original Crysis did kill systems, but I'm not sure if they've established the brand enough to call it a "Halo-killer" yet.

Come on , even the original crysis was a halo-killer let alone this beauty.

It ran just fine on a mixture of medium but mostly high settings on a 9500 GT with an AMD Athlon X2 5200+ @ 2.7 Ghz. Yeah, I've no idea why people complained so much.

Why all the negativity?! I LOVE CRYSIS, I love it so much. I cannot wait for this to come out. However, I can't in good conscience buy it for both the 360 and the PC. Once I get used to my PC's rendering, I'll never be able to play the console version. Same thing happened with Left for Dead 2.

It looks like they are making an attempt to keep the HUD from being a distraction, but based on the second screen shot in particular, it may be a bit too hard to read. I think you need to be able to glance at HUD info quickly, or just get the info from the corner of your eye.

I realize this is mostly a PC community, so I'm fully expecting to get negative for this, but whatever.

After playing the Halo Reach beta, I must say that being a Halo killer isn't going to happen. It needs some re-balancing for sure (I'm looking at you, Mr Frag "Nuke" Grenade), but that's one of the main reasons they had the beta. The core gameplay is amazing and incredibly refreshing.

I love Crysis, don't get me wrong, but Halo's not going down for at least another 3 years.

At what point did I ever even mention Halo? All I meant was I don't want to see a new sequel every year, hence running the franchise into the ground.

Tom's re-sizes the photos to save bandwidth as they are hosting them on their own site.

They're released at 1080p. Some at full size can be viewed here
http://ve3d.ign.com/images/fullsiz [...] Screenshot

lmao Marcus, Crysis is in no way a Halo killer. Halo is incredible because of its multiplayer and that's something that Crysis will never shine in.