Crysis 2 on X360 looks better than the original Crysis!

[disolitude]

hsrob said:

disolitude said:
All the joking aside, I think his point is clear. Crysis 1 was an unoptimized mess of a game which looked great but required skynet to run at max. With Crysis 2 they finally learned how to code an an optimized engine...

I don't think this is entirely fair. If it were true shouldn't we have seen many better-looking games by now given that PC graphics hardware is so much more powerful now than in 2007? All it would take is an engine decently optimised to take advantage of current hardware.

Not sure about you but I have seen no such game.

Metro2033, Battlefield BC2 (DX11) come close if not beat it in some areas.

All I know is that I can't run Crysis Warhead maxed out at 1080p with a GTX295 and overclocked AMD Phenom 940 and maintain constant 30 fps. All these other games that are almost as good looking I can run at almost 60 fps. It looks amazing but it really is badly optimized. You need a 1000 dollar video card in 2010...to run it flawlessly maxed out.

Here is a nice benchmark showing the performace you can expect with 3rd best video card on the market today.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,671298/Geforce-GTX-295-vs-Radeon-HD-4870-X2-Benchmarks-with-8x-anti-aliasing/Reviews/?page=4