We’re still knee-deep in Crytek’s latest shooter, Crysis 2, with our copy of the PC version having only just unlocked for us to play through – which was why we had to do a Crysis 2 Xbox 360 review first. Still, when we booted up the PC version of Crysis 2 this morning we couldn’t help but notice how much better the game looked on PC than console.
As such, while we’ll have a full PC review and graphics analysis done soon, we wanted to share some comparative screenshots we’ve taken on both platforms, to provide the best idea of how the game looks. This is an apples-to-apples comparison, free from publisher-released images.
Left to Right: Crysis 2 on Extreme, Very High and High PC graphics and Xbox 360 - Click to Enlarge
The Xbox 360 images were captured with an Avermedia 727 HD Capture card. The PC screenshots were taken on a Scan 3XS Scorpion-X, which packs a 4.8GHz Intel Core i7-2600K CPU, 8GB of DDR3 RAM and an overclocked Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 3GB graphics card. The Scorpion-X was more than capable of running Crysis 2 on all of the three graphics presets (High, Very High and Extreme), never dropping below 60fps. At least one PC definitely can run Crysis 2...
It is obvious that Crysis 2 would look better on PC. That is a no brainer. But how much better? It seems to me, not as big of a gap as I would expect. The 360 version looks muddy compared to it, but it does look nice. I really wish they showed what medium and low looked like, because I'm fairly sure the 360 version would be a bit better looking than medium, based on the degrade between very high and high settings on PC. Still the 360 version does look quite good. Impressive actually based on many other titles released over the last year or two. Crytek did a nice job on the console version. I can see Crysis 2 being a graphical benchmark to beat for many companies over the rest of the 360's life.
