Crysis 2 PC Demo [Download link]

[jhoson14 10]

Wont buy after playing this demo, will stay on my good and old Crysis and Crysis Wars. (playing Mech Warrior's Living Legends MoD)

Why in the hell they even call it "Crysis2"?

They should have named it "Call of Duty: Nano Suit Warfare". Its a CoD franchise Clone.

[Capt. Sand 10]

you guys seen this yet?

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gdc-11-cryengine-3/711208

caught my attention while I was looking around gametrailers.

[ziiip 1]

Oh wow that fall scene was wonderful.

Regarding the demo: how can I force the game to turn off AA? In the ATI CCP, the lowest if 2X.

[11aTony 0]

Crysis 1 still looks a hell of a lot better and didn't have the bloom and blur at levels Crysis 2 does.

The visuals are still good despite them but it just doesn't have the HOLY F$%#!!! effect the first did when you loaded it up.

It's clearly been consolized.

Because the game uses unlocks, XP points and such which are saved on a remote server.

Consolized? Yeah, thats an understatement.

[h - 169]

you guys seen this yet?

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gdc-11-cryengine-3/711208

So is that the 'start' button the nanosuitguy presses at the end of the video :rolleyes:

Edited March 3, 2011 by h -

[ricbar89 0]

Doesn't seem to be worth the trouble. I mean aim assist, really?

And of course the usual...

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Schindler's list music for a video game...lol. Talk about over the top.

[Zipper5 74]

In other Crysis-related news: my jaw just fell off.

Edit: And in further, more important Crysis 2 news: Crysis 2 will only ship with DirectX9.

I just canceled my pre-order. I was willing to overlook some slight consolefication of the game that I saw in the MP demo, but now it's clear that the PC version is literally just a console port, rather than the lead version (or only version, as was the case with Crysis). Shame what the mainstream does these days...

Edited March 3, 2011 by Zipper5

[ziiip 1]

So what? It looks great on Dx9 too and you'll get Dx11 later anyway.

[SteveJA 12]

I think the problem Ziiip is Crisis used to be a cutting edge game, with graphics and physics that blow your mind. Now its just one of em kinda like.

[Zipper5 74]

Yup, I like the game, but I won't support this constant moving away from the PC as a platform despite developers, like Crytek, starting there, simply due to reasons of greed. Games have never been made better by being made multiplatform.

[Capt. Sand 10]

@Zipper5

that's weird. I would've expected it to go up to at least DX10. also, those screenshots look crazy good.

[PuFu 4600]

got it to log in eventually. Mindless fun, nothing spectacular though. once you get the grip of it, it is pretty simple.

For mp only, this is no buy...

[Zipper5 74]

Due to a broken DVD drive that I've had for months, making hard copies relatively useless, I bought the Crysis Complete Pack on Steam today for $60 (Crysis, Crysis: Warhead and Crysis: Wars). Couple them with some community mods, and I realized I forgot how much I missed the game. Crysis 2's story seems a lot better, but its innovation seems way down.

[ben_s 11]

Innovation doesn't sell ...

[jeza 5416]

Due to a broken DVD drive that I've had for months, making hard copies relatively useless, I bought the Crysis Complete Pack on Steam today for $60 (Crysis, Crysis: Warhead and Crysis: Wars). Couple them with some community mods, and I realized I forgot how much I missed the game. Crysis 2's story seems a lot better, but its innovation seems way down.

Had a simlar experiance a couple of months back, it really is a fantastic experiance and looking at cry2 , I 'think' this may follow suit.

[jblackrupert 14]

Innovation doesn't sell ...

It's not that it doesn't sell, it's the fact that studios doing the innovations

don't have the massive advertising budgets the AAA studios have.

Activision throws 3 times more in advertising for COD then they do to make the game itself.

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I think the problem Ziiip is Crisis used to be a cutting edge game, with graphics and physics that blow your mind. Now its just one of em kinda like.

This. ^^^

I remember when Crysis 1 came out.

An employee of Futureshop near me slapped together a demostration system

hooked up to a 60" Plasma HDTV which at the time cost something like $20,000.

The lineup to play it was longer then the lines on Boxing day.

When I got online, there were servers that had a "No shooting" rule

hosting user made maps. Players just walked around admiring the graphics

and going for a swim.

[Defunkt 431]

I just wish somebody would make a contemporary MP shooter that realises CryEngine's considerable potential. Casus Belli is one very good propsect but, like all good total conversions these days, is taking a long time. I also recently discovered that Fortran (briefly an ArmA modder and a lead for the SP mod Task Force Black) appears to have joined a team planning a next iteration of the Source mod Insurgency.

[jblackrupert 14]

Free to use Cryengine

http://www.develop-online.net/news/34466/Free-to-use-CryEngine-plans-emerge

Free CryEngine 3 Standalone Release Planned

http://www.shacknews.com/article/63275/free-cryengine-3-standalone-release

[jblackrupert 14]

Crysis 2 PC Demo patch....

Good news, it's no longer a console port.!

It says "Press Enter instead of "Press Start to begin"

http://www.ea.com/crysis-2/blog/pc-demo-patch

Edited March 10, 2011 by jblackrupert

[Zipper5 74]

It says "Press Enter instead of "Press begin" to start.

I lol'd. I really did.

[h - 169]

I lol'd. I really did.

Ditto..

Funny as the patch for that one game that just basically fixed credits..

[Zipper5 74]

It's what they advertise as "dedicated post-release support" these days. ;)

[Deadfast 43]

Dedicated post-release support pretty much means any post-release support at all these days :(

[runforrest 10]

i like the demo

grafics r better than in crysis1 and performance is better.

u can notice that they put some time in balancing the nanosuit powers.

the feel of ur own charakter in the game is great, the sounds, the movement, headshaking etc...

the climbing of walls is nicely done but i wished they had a bit more "mirrors edge"-like movement in it.

walking, sprinting is a bit to fast for my taste(for this kind of game- the time-space-weaponhandling proportions are just not right) and the weapons recoil is to low.

the gameplay is still nice imo, but could be so much better with different speeds and recoils *sigh*

getting the demo running was a total mess, and crytek failed hard there. how in the world can some1 f*** up a gamerelease like that? and im not happy about that, i really think crytek deserves good sales, because the engine is awsome and has so much to offer....

for those who dont like bloom and motion blur and want to tweak a few other things, try this:

just add to the startup command line. (right click , properties on the crysis 2 shortcut and paste it after everything in the "target" box. - note that u have to link to an other exe! replace Crysis2Launcher.exe with Crysis2Demo.exe)

+g_skipIntro 1

+cl_fov 70

+r_DrawNearFoV 70

+pl_movement.power_sprint_targetFov 70

+r_motionblur 0

+r_glow 0

+sys_maxfps 125

+i_mouse_accel=0

+cl_crouchtoggle 0

+cl_zoomToggle 0

pretty self explanatory really

so the target in ur shortcut might look like this :

"K:\Games\Crysis2 Demo\bin32\Crysis2Demo.exe" +cl_fov 70 +r_glow 0 +i_mouse_accel 0 + g_skipintro 1 +r_motionblur 0 +cl_crouchtoggle 0 +pl_movement.power_sprint_targetfov 70

found here(german):http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,814314/Tipps-fuer-die-Crysis-2-Demo-So-verbessern-Sie-Grafik-Steuerung-und-Spielspass-Update-SLI/Action-Spiel/News/

or google it

Edited March 10, 2011 by RunForrest

[Zipper5 74]

getting the demo running was a total mess, and crytek failed hard there. how in the world can some1 f*** up a gamerelease like that? and im not happy about that, i really think crytek deserves good sales, because the engine is awsome and has so much to offer....

Every pre-release beta/demo has the same issues these days. It's no longer just an issue of not anticipating the demand.

Those tweaks sound interesting, might make it more enjoyable. Doesn't change the fact it's a blatant console port in its demo state though, and given that the game won't ship with DX11 it won't be much better at release either.