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Skeeuk on 22 August 2010

Crysis 2: Xbox 360 startlingly weak, PC very promising

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,768839/Crysis-2-Multiplayer-Xbox-360-erschreckend-schwach-PC-sehr-gut-und-spielerisch-gelungen/Action-Spiel/Test/

At Gamescom 2010 PC Games Hardware had the opportunity to try out the multiplayer portion of Crysis 2 on both theXbox 360 and the PC. 

Following the presentation of CryEngine 3 on a midrange PC, the 360 version looked particularly ugly. While the final output is 720p at 30fps, it is obvious that the geometry natively renders at sub-HD and gets scaled up to 720p. Paired with a lack of anti-aliasing, Crysis 2 was a flicker fest that failed to impress with its rough shadows, blocky fog effects, blurry textures and pre-calculated physics animations. 

The lighting, reflections and camo mode were nice to look at but couldn't rectify the overall weak visuals. Previously published "bullshots" are nowhere close to how the console version looks.

At Gamescom 2010 PC Games Hardware had the opportunity to try out the multiplayer portion of Crysis 2 on both theXbox 360 and the PC. 

Following the presentation of CryEngine 3 on a midrange PC, the 360 version looked particularly ugly. While the final output is 720p at 30fps, it is obvious that the geometry natively renders at sub-HD and gets scaled up to 720p. Paired with a lack of anti-aliasing, Crysis 2 was a flicker fest that failed to impress with its rough shadows, blocky fog effects, blurry textures and pre-calculated physics animations. 

The lighting, reflections and camo mode were nice to look at but couldn't rectify the overall weak visuals. Previously published "bullshots" are nowhere close to how the console version looks.



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ZenfoldorVGI on 22 August 2010

A PC gaming site thinks a console game looks ugly. News at 11. We've seen video of the game, we know how it looks due to actual video, for a console game it is amazing. This is propoganda.



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.

darkknightkryta on 22 August 2010

If that's true and the 360 version is looking spotty I can't imagine how bad the PS3 version is going to end up (Probably why they're not demoing it off.)



thelifatree on 22 August 2010

not a surprise... at all.



Severance on 22 August 2010

yeah.... about that bullshit crytek was talking about doing something on consoles that can't be done anywhere else...... what happened to it?

one of most overrated developers IMO



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Chrizum on 22 August 2010

And we didn't know that? Only hardcore 360 and PS3 fanboys think their games look amazing. Gears of War 2? Uncharted 2? Don't look that impressive at all. Killzone 2 could be done on PCs 4 years ago.



haxxiy on 22 August 2010

That's pretty obvious.

I expect the difference between console and PC versions of Crysis 2 to be bigger than it is on DX11 Metro 2033 (which BTW was a disaster on the X360).



 

 

 

 

 

zgamer5 on 22 August 2010
darkknightkryta said:

If that's true and the 360 version is looking spotty I can't imagine how bad the PS3 version is going to end up (Probably why they're not demoing it off.)


crysis said the ps3 version would be the better console one.

things have changed now.



Being in 3rd place never felt so good

-Newcloud- on 22 August 2010

looking at the e3 demo it didnt look great it looked good but not near the level crytek hyped it out to be



STEKSTAV on 22 August 2010

This dosen't make sense? Best graphics ever-threads on this forums has been made with deep going discussions on differences between consoles based off of concept art... dosen't make sense i tell ya'.