Crysis 2 Confirmed For Multiple Platforms

EA and Crytek teamed up for an announcement at E3, confirming that Crysis 2 was under development for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Details are scarce (and the trailer is no help), but the game will use CryENGINE 3, which will be able to scale performance such that it will look good on consoles while still pushing the limits of PC graphics. Quoting: "When asked if that sounded like a contradiction, [Crytek's Cevat Yerli] responded that you have to think of technology as a tool that can scale. He said the game's content scales to the platform it's on. 'The PC version will look better, because of the fact that the PC can do more. It will be scaling up. But on the consoles, you're competing with console games,' he said. 'The goal is to be the best looking game on PS3 [and] the best looking game on 360 in the entire market.' On the PC front, Crysis 2 will compete with the original Crysis, which still sets the bar for PC graphics."

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Cool

[TheLink]

The popular PC graphics benchmark is going multi-platform :).

Re:Cool

[elrous0]

Only if you brought it back from the distant future.

Wait

[shellster_dude]

Didn't we have post running several months ago, bitching about how Crytek was going under because of all the piracy? Didn't they claim that because of the "evil pirates" there would be no sequel? Maybe I am confused, my memory isn't as good as it used to be.

Re:Wait

[ardor]

Cevat Yerli likes to yell. This was no exception. So, take his complaints with a grain of salt. Crysis sales did not suffer from piracy, they suffered from Crysis' insane price for what basically is a techdemo with a little bit of gameplay. The times where the hype about the graphics was enough to sell a game are definitely over. Crytek didn't learn this lesson yet.

Re:Wait

[wintermute000]

C'mon crysis's gameplay is nowhere as bad as its detractors say it is. Its not a patch on FarCry (the original) but still its a good game. The second half shooting matrix sentinels bit was a boneheaded move though. I had tonnes of fun in the first half of crysis and most people would be of the same opinion: give us more time to play predator with hapless grunts lol.

Still, I prefer my FPSes on PC (heck insert 'demand' instead of prefers lol) and from a purely selfish perspective, boohoo, but obviously this will help their bottom line so as long as they keep making good games its all gravy. Yes I have owned many consoles, the right tool forthe right job and all that (I would much rather play action games, racing games, fighting etc.on consoles).

Re:Wait

[Jurily]

Didn't we have post running several months ago, bitching about how Crytek was going under because of all the piracy? Didn't they claim that because of the "evil pirates" there would be no sequel? Maybe I am confused, my memory isn't as good as it used to be.

Turns out they don't actually lose money every time someone copies their game, and they still get money every time someone buys it.

Re:Wait

[Sibko]

You know, a lot of people out there keep smashing Crysis as being a tech demo. I thought the same thing until I actually PLAYED it.

The game is fun. Honestly, one of the better PC shooters I've played in a long while, and it has a pretty nice looking mod [Mechwarrior Living Legends] in development for it.

Crysis only falls flat on its face when it comes to:
- The AI [The biggest issue is their lack of taking cover and inability to find you when you stealth.]
- The aliens [Boring to fight compared to the north koreans]
- Wide expansive levels that you really can't go anywhere on.

At everything else, all I can do is shake my head and wonder just what the hell people are expecting a shooter to be doing.

User Friendly

[bmo]

"On the PC front, Crysis 2 will compete with the original Crysis, which still sets the bar for PC graphics."

Waaavy lines back to the days of UT, but substituting C2:

"Nice slide show, Stef, what is it?"
"Crysis 2"

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BMO

Maybe this time

[Caboosian]

They'll actually put out a game instead of a fucking tech demo. The first game was pretty awful.

Re:Maybe this time

[hairyfeet]

To me what is really really irritating about all this focus on graphics is while the games have gotten prettier I swear the AI seemed better five years ago than what they use now. I picked up the Medal of Honor anniversary pack recently and just got a chance to install and play the latest one Airborne. After I had piled about a dozen Nazis up by this crate that when they hid behind it let the top of their heads stick out by a good half a foot and watched with amazement when yet ANOTHER Nazi goes to stand behind the exact same crate where all his buddies bodies were piled neatly beside I thought "Geez, can you game designers spend even a little bit of time on the AI, please?"

Look, game designers, we ain't asking for rocket scientists here, just bad guys that ain't as dumb as a stump. I personally would be happy with 2004-05 level graphics in return for some halfway decent AI. Give me a little fight, okay? And before anyone comments, yes i was playing on hard, although for most games I have stopped playing on hard and gone back to playing on regular because they just use EA style cheating to ramp up the difficulty level. You end up with bad guys that know where you are exactly even if you are hidden in the densest jungle, low level grunts that can pull off a half a mile shot with a shitty rifle, meanwhile your gun may as well be a daisy rifle for all the damage you're able to do with it.

I just hope the law of diminishing returns will kick in on the graphics soon so designers might actually start giving us a little bit of decent AI. We have these multicore CPUs which end up doing a little of nothing or epeen physics while the bad guys trip over themselves to which one can get slaughtered next by picking the shittiest cover imaginable or not noticing they just walked into the killing fields with all their buddies lying in piles. That is seriously lame game designers, and seeing as how there have been games in the past with AI that would put up a halfway decent fight (Far Cry 1 comes to mind) it isn't like it has never been done before. Please quit wasting all the development time trying to turn our PCs into slideshows with the graphics and give us at least a halfway decent AI to fight. And no, giving us multiplayer isn't the same because if I wanted to spend all my time dealing with foul mouthed teabagging asshats and campers I would be playing Halo. I like having a little story with my killing, thanks.

Crysis 2 Confirmed For Multiple Platforms...

[BraulioBezerra]

Yes, to run Crisis 2 you will need 5 PCs, 3 Macs, 7 PS3s, 4 XBox'es...

"Crysis 2 Confirmed For Multiple Platforms "

[DamienNightbane]

But will it actually run on any of them?

Re:"Crysis 2 Confirmed For Multiple Platforms "

[Late Adopter]

No, you misunderstand. It requires ALL of them.

Memes

[papabob]

I wonder how many of the "but this time it will run on ...?" guys actually tried Crysis. The same with the "Vista is awful and slow and terrible" meme. How did they start? Maybe one guru posted it in his blog and everybody repeat it as a mantra? I feel curious...

BTW yes, I played Crysis with a nvidia 9600GT (I think it's now under $100) at native resolution with 'Ultra-Quality' settings, and it didn't loss any frames. And it was on Vista. And I still have to see a BSOD.

Re:Memes

[L4t3r4lu5]

If your native resolution is 1024x768, I'll believe you.

Re:Memes

[FreonTrip]

But Vista was awful and slow and terrible for me. Following the application of the first service pack the OS stopped loading the display drivers and cited a Code 43 error, and no power on heaven or Earth could get them working again. Performance was consistently slower than XP even on a Core 2 that was comfortably better-specced than Microsoft's recommendations, and in the end I found too few reasons to stick with it. As for Crysis, I thought it was pretty but otherwise played out like a Sci-Fi movie of the week with great production values. Combined with Vista it was a system-devouring sight to behold...

Re:Memes

[je ne sais quoi]

I've never had stability problems with Vista but my big gripe with it is that it's kind of slow. My 5 year old dual 2.7 GHz G5 at work seems to respond and run anything but graphics more rapidly than my brand new PC at home running a dual core 2 duo, 3.24 GHz. I find it incredibly strange, I feel relieved that I only require Vista for games and the rest of the time I'm running a very snappy e17 with the ecomorph composite manager.

Multiple?

[Tinctorius]

Does that mean there exists more than one PC in the world that is capable of running it?

XBox version

[Anonymous Coward]

Achievement unlocked: 10 FPS

Re:bespoked for each platformm, good luck

[hairyfeet]

While this is true, I can't count the number of times I've picked up a new game, installed it, and within 30 seconds of firing it up got slapped in the face that it not a multiplatform game but was in fact a console game ported to PC. In fact I would say most "multiplatform" games are exactly that.

One word: Controls. A good control scheme for the PC and one that works well for consoles is two totally different things and sadly most "multiplatform" games just give us PC gamers crappy console controls jerry rigged for the PC. Most of the time there is little to no customization and the developers never bothered to play it without a PS3 or 360 controller in their hands so they have no idea how bad their controls suck for the PC gamer. Just picking three off the top of my head, Cold Fear, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, and GTA:SA. Cold Fear was pretty much unplayable due to its bad console based controls, Turning point has a serious lag in the controls and sometimes refused to do a simple command like change weapons, and while GTA and GTA:VC had great layouts the ones for GTA:SA just never made you feel "in control" like the ones for GTA and VC.

So with them saying it will be "multiplatform" from the start will already have me leery of touching it. Too many times I have been burnt by a multiplatform that is just a console game badly ported. Controlling a game with keyboard and mouse is simply too different for them to just port the game without putting in the time and thought to the controls, and if they don't? Well it'll just be another suck game that I'll end up getting in the $10 or less bin just to see if I can squeeze a few bucks worth of fun like I'm trying to do with turning point now.