![]() ![]() We were a bit apprehensive about the game because of all the negativity about how Crytek sold out developing games for the console, ditching their die hard PC gamers in the process. Like Activision’s juggernaut, you play well and earn points that can be used to purchase and enhance upgrades like better cloaking, faster reloading and stronger armour. Multiplayer in Crysis 2 is more Call of Duty than Battlefield primarily because of the absence of vehicles. Hans Zimmer has composed the game’s score, which grows on you through the course of the game. Special mention goes out to the audio department that have done a brilliant job with the sounds that accompany your every move be it metallic clink of detaching a turret, firing off rounds from your machine gun or the satisfying thump of a shotgun. Watching this once thriving and lively city reduced to a crumbling reflection of its former self is chilling. New York looks phenomenal and the amount of detail gone into recreating the Big Apple is admirable. On our modest nVidia GTX 280, the game performed flawlessly at a 1920x1080 (full HD) resolution on ‘Very High’ settings. The game looks phenomenal and is highly scalable as well. Besides the run of the mill grunts, you’ll face some mini bosses who once again can be killed pretty easily thanks to their lack of brain cells. Things do improve a bit when you start battling the Ceph but besides their acrobatic, fast movements, they charge at you in a straight line, making it very simple to kill them. At the same time, Crysis 2’s enemy AI is so dense, we rarely felt threatened or challenged. Shooting even a silenced pistol while cloaked rapidly drains your energy. Unfortunately the new system is also a bit imbalanced. ![]() Where the first game tied it all down to the mouse, Crysis 2 allows players to map the suit’s abilities to the keyboard. ![]() Most of the suit’s abilities are back from the first game so you can run fast, cloak yourself, jump real high and hit real hard. Thanks to its plethora of abilities, it allows the player to adopt and run with their very own style of gameplay, opening the door for multiple play-throughs. Like its predecessor, Crysis 2 is all about the Nanosuit. You are Alcatraz, a special ops soldier sent in to survey the situation and provide back up to a certain scientist but obviously things don’t go quite as planned. Most of the citizens are dead, and the few that survived are dying painful contaminated deaths. Crysis 2 takes place nearly three years after the events in Crysis, where New York has been hit by a deadly virus and an alien invasion. ![]()
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