Crysis 2 review thread

[Paulwithagun]

CGI-Quality said:

Paulwithagun said:

Crytek managed to squeeze Cry Engine 3 onto the consoles while maintaining such extraordinary level of detail? But this world sits next to Uncharted 2's as the most detailed and well-expressed yet seen on our TVs.http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-22-crysis-2-review?page=2

Eurogamer still says it’s next to Uncharted 2 which to many people is still the best looking console game. I know that was posted earlier but people seemed to turn it around and make it sound negative. That’s a huge honor. Cgi says the walls look flat up close in Crysis but yet Killzone 3 suffers from this same thing and it’s really liner. There are walls in killzone 3 that are so low res that they look pixilated and when you shoot them they don't even have a bullet decal. Every game is going to have low res textures this gen. Still doesn't take away from the lighting and all the other stuff going on in the game.

Yes, Killzone 3 has flat walls (never argued to the contrary), but so far, it isn't to the degree of Crysis 2. And unlike Crysis 2, Killzone 3 isn't called out by many reviews for glaring graphical mishaps (like texture pop-in).

From my personal experience thus far, Crysis 2 is a marvelous game, (with arguably better combat  moments than any other FPS on the market - including Killzone 3, although Killzone 3 is a far more hectic, true-to-war like experience) but it's not without it's graphical/performance issues. Nearly every wall I've looked at is flat (and it has some serious issues with shadowing, significant framerate drops, texture pop-in, and pixelated reflections). The water, lighting, and character models all look great however (truly, the game does look great), but I wouldn't say it's the best I've seen overall.

What really matters is that I'm having a great time with it! Opinions on graphics have done little to affect that.

Crysis does have many walls that are flat but none of them are as flat as the walls I've seen in killzone 3 that’s the point. The lighting and water effects take a dump on killzone 3. The weapon models are equal. The levels are far bigger in Crysis as well. Take a look at the buildings the skybox all these things look better than most games out there and yes even the mighty killzone 3. Shadows well again both games have shadow problems. In my opinion Crysis has better looking anti aliasing. There is a lot of texture pop in and killzone doesn't have this problem, but killzone is nowhere near as big as Crysis 2. So overall Crysis has many elements that are better than (in your opinion)  god like ps3 games. Does it beat them in every single way no but it doesn't have to. God of war 3 has some of the best looking things in a video game as does Crysis 2, but In Gow 3 there are things that look terrible. Like hair, character models other than kratos. The point is no game is perfect but In my opinion Crysis beats out killzone 3 and is the best looking fps I've seen. Best looking console game? If killzone 3 has that crown then yes, if it’s still uncharted 2? I would say that Crysis looks more realistic but Uncharted is still more consistent.I would say they are close with Crysis beating it in someways and Uncharted in others. Crysis looks better than good. (make sure you play it in hd) =p    Crysis looks fantastic. It doesn't hide in the dark or with the dark gray and brown. Crysis has color. 

On another note this gen is just to old I really wish the next gen would hurry up and get here. Moble phones are gaining on our consoles this is awful. In many cases moble phones has more ram than the 360 and ps3.