• Summary: First-person shooter Crysis returns powered by CryEngline 3 and is coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360, as well as the PC.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 54
  2. Negative: 0 out of 54
  1. Mar 29, 2011
    100
    This is not COD with an afterthought of a campaign, nor is it Far Cry 2 with its open expanses and sand-box gameplay. It's not a corridor shooter like Doom and it isn't Battlefield or Killzone 3. This is Crysis 2 – a magnificent first-person experience in its own right that stands out from the crowd by focusing on a campaign that is wholly engaging, at times highly challenging and often truly memorable.
  2. Apr 7, 2011
    94
    For the best part of seventeen years consoles have been trying to emulate the unparalleled experience of playing first person shooters on the PC. For the first time Crysis 2 shows console gamers that they can have the PC experience without the massively expensive gaming rig.
  3. Apr 21, 2011
    72
    Gets a hell of a lot of things right and is fun - especially if you're willing to experiment with your approach. But some poor design choices and a bizarre level of bugginess let the whole ting down. [Issue#204, p.78]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 75 out of 103
  2. Negative: 18 out of 103
  1. Graphics = 9.0 Don't know if Crysis 2 are the best but they are up there. Not much to say about the graphics, clean cut and dry, their "GREAT". Sound = 7.5 The sound wasnt that bad but I came across an repeating issue throughout my gameplay, every now and then I would get this machine gun sound non-stop while playing and then only way to stop it was to load or quit game. The guns sound pretty nice, not as nice as some other shooters but good enough not to complain. Gameplay = 9.0 I have to say, addicting in all the right ways. I did feel as though there were times where I fired directly at an enemy and it had no effect. Dont know exactly how many times this occured but it was enough for me to notice it. Also if there are going to be aliens that are able to absorb that many bullets, please dont have me looking for ammo, I found it absurd that I was running around a lot of the time looking for ammo especially when I have the military right beside me. I did feel that enemies were able to see you much too easily, which made using stealth more of a hassle than an accomplishment. Implementing the nano suit was a great experience and having the freedom to choose to play the way you want, whether it be stealthy or right out guns a blazzing. I have had no framerate problems. Replay = Moderatly High There are plenty of trophies to get, which is always a wonderful motivater. Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. Well the game is not bad... but it's more eye candy more then anything else until you start to see that not everything has the same level of graphic quality. The gameplay is nice, the story is weird but acceptable to bad at certain occasions you kinda need to have completed the first game to understand everything. The online mode is great not the best out there but still really good. But again the graphics are overrated and there are a whole lot of frame drop moments in the game which a game of this level shouldn't have. Expand
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  3. 1
    I just can't underastand where all the positive reviews are coming from. Crysis 2 has to be the worst multiplayer experience I've ever had. Here are the reasons why it is so terrible. 1. Poor framerate. I've played games where the framerate might dip when a lot of stuff is going on, but it wasn't terrible. In Crysis 2, the framerate is game breaking. Running around, the screen updates slightly faster than a power point slideshow. Close encounters tend to just be random, because neither player gets enough visual information on the screen to be able to react quickly enough. 2. Controls are sloppy and unresponsive. I turned up the sensitivity, but it doesn't help much. Pulling up sight and aiming at someone is clunky. It reminds me of the controls in Killzone 2 (though that was a solid game otherwise). 3. Lag/hit detection are embarrassingly bad. It can take a whole clip to kill someone, or it may just take a couple bullets, you never know. Gun battles are clumsy and awkward, and has nothing to do with skill, and everything to do with luck and lag. Aiming right at somebody and firing more shots doesn't mean you will win. Every gun fight I've been in seem to be both players struggling to stay on target. Close encounters will have both players spraying and meleeing wildly. Midrange has people aiming and strafing, hoping enough shots will be detected. Long range gun fights seem to be nonexistant, and would be utterly pointless anyway. 4. Graphics are just terrible. Low resolution and muddy textures. This is one of the worst looking games I've played on the PS3. Even Black Ops has better graphics, and that's saying something. I can accept bad graphics if it means higher framerate and more responsive gameplay (Black Ops), but I get none of these benefits in Crysis 2. 5. People's playstyle have to accommodate the terrible framerate and lag. This means a lot of people just sit cloaked until you run by, then they switch on armor and shoot you. You can't turn around and shoot back accurately because of the lag and terrible controls. It's just not a fun game when 90% of the players are just sitting somewhere cloaked and waiting. But I can't blame them, it's almost the only way to guarantee you'll get a kill. Overall I am hugely disappointed with this game. I paid 60 dollars for it, and it is so bad I never want to play it again. I will probably force myself to try it a few more times, to try to get my money's worth, but it's just a hideously bad game. I am really upset, because I was expecting this game to be amazing. I can't understand where all the positive critical reviews came from, but now that people are playing it, some of the negative reviews are starting to appear. Apparently this game is actually good on PC. But on PS3 (and Xbox from what I hear), it's just terrible. There are no redeeming qualities to this game right now. Maybe they can fix some stuff via patches, but I don't think they can completely overhaul it enough to make it a good, playable game. Expand
    • 5 of 10 users said yes

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