Crysis 2 Trailer Is Light On The Crysis 2

Why bother releasing a sequel on a platform that didn't have the prequel? I just don't get it.

I sense time bending powers in this one. Or the trailer is just messing with my senses.

xrabohrok

@curori: Don't think any of that was in-game, at around 00:36 you can see a riot that looks very stock-footage-esque.

@Monsignor: pipe down silly fanboy.

Winterbringer

@Space_Cakes: The fact that it's 2 years old and still has the best graphics of any game is a testement to it, not a detriment.

-MasterDex-

@alf717: EA have dropped SecuRom as far as I'm aware so it should be ok. I'm basing this off of Sims 3 (their biggest selling franchise) not having SecuRom on it.

-MasterDex-

@Yofu: And wiimote support!

@Adnoz: I understand where you fears are coming from but really, there shouldn't be such a difference graphically or gameplay-wise just because it's coming to consoles.

Consoles will most likely be using medium settings so that will mean High settings will still be at least as good as they were for Warhead.

The gameplay can't change that much (perhaps the console version might have an auto-aim to assist aiming) and physics will probably be toned down slightly on the consoles.

The game was already compatible with the 360 joypad and while I haven't tried it with the game, I've heard it works pretty well.

Either way, I don't see any of the allowances that will have to be made affecting the PC version. Hopefully that alleviates some of your qualms.

@Monsignor: The graphics in a PS3 are the equivalent to the 7600 released back in 2006 and the cell cpu can be a tricky architecture to program for so both consoles should fare equally well or equally bad at handling the game.

@LllusionX:Proud Commander of the Sony Attack Force Helghan!: He's a purist because he has understandable fears that porting a game that's the pinnicale of graphics technology in the gaming world from a technically superior platform to lower powered platforms might encroach on the technically superior platform's version?

-MasterDex-

@Yofu: except you couldn't prone.

What a useless trailer. Got nothing to show?

Taz

Lol...multiplatform.

Where is the wii? ^^

Manuel Melo Andrade

this will be godly but whats the story gonna be about? o.o

ViperXdelkar

@Adnoz: Crysis had really awesome 360 controller support.

@otis123: PC requirements go up because they have to. All of the computer hardware in the present and the future exists because of PC gaming - you don't need an 8800 or an eight-core processor to browse the internet or use Excel or Word. And because of all this constantly improving hardware has always been the platform where gaming innovation happens. And innovation costs system resources.

Desi Quintans

The stupidest piece of stupid pieces I've ever seen.

Desi Quintans

@D3m0n1k_Ang3l: You'll miss out on a lot, though, even in this multiplatform world.

mcderek3000

@LllusionX:Proud Commander of the Sony Attack Force Helghan!: Companies like Epic and Insomniac have been working on their respective platforms for years now. It's unlikely that Crytek will be able to catch up to them within one game.

mcderek3000

@Drogmir: I'm not even certain that passes the Teaser bar.

@Kaneda: You can probably find higher resolution versions. I was just lazy.

Please stop wondering what it'll look like on consoles. Is your memory that short? Crytek was at GDC. With a demo.

[www.gametrailers.com]

@otis123: What a PC will need to play this on par with a console will probably cost as much if not lower than a PS3.
To play it on Very High with 16 AA and AF at 1600 x 1200 resolutions? Uhhh... Ask that next year.

Esper mind tricks

Enjoy our nearly two-year old eye candy! Not that my computer could actively participate though.......

Yeah that was nice....anyway crysis 2 will surelly cause some red rings, I will be having to turn on every fan and put ice around the 360.

@LllusionX:Proud Commander of the Sony Attack Force Helghan!: I think most PC games think that it could look and run great on the consoles. What they are saying is that to get to run great on the consoles they are going to have tone down the graphics a bit from the first Crysis or the PC version of Crysis 2. This is nothing new though, the graphic potential of PC games have always been higher then their console counterparts and probably always will be.

@Fieldy: Part of me wonders why they're even bothering with Crysis 2 on consoles. Why bring a sequel of a game to systems where the majority of the userbase have absolutely no experience with the first? Seems like it would make more sense to just do a completely separate game in the new CryEngine.

Sir-Lucius

@Adnoz: I doubt it. Crytek has always been a PC dev, and unlike a company like Epic, they still seem to be a PC first dev. I have no doubts they'll optimize the PC version just fine. I wouldn't worry about having another GTAIV on our hands.

And yes, I'm bitter about Epic all but abandoning the platform where they got their start.

Sir-Lucius

@D3m0n1k_Ang3l: "Don't expect this E3 trailer to shed light on how it will look on consoles. It doesn't."

I didn't write that. I simply answered the question.

Matt0505

@Adnoz: Yes because the PC version had no level design mechanics or control scheme not tried/incompatible with consoles--because the game didn't support the 360 controller or anything.

Delano_J

@D3m0n1k_Ang3l: The main draw of Crysis is that it looks amazing. The gameplay is standard FPS stuff, nothing amazing or revolutionary what-so-ever. So if the game looks like every other generic shooter, it's going to be yet another forgettable generic shooter.

SwissArmyKnife

@Adnoz:

I think I've seen this comment at least a thousand times since CryEngine 3 was announced.

What on Earth makes you think they would dumb down the PC version of a once PC-exclusive series just because consoles are getting a port? That's all CE3 is, CryEngine 2 with optimizations to make porting to consoles possible and easier. They were already doing this with CryEngine 2 alongside the development of Crysis and Warhead.

That's where scalability comes in. Just like with a weaker PC you play at lower settings, they can turn things down on console ports while players with high end PCs can crank it up until it's a slideshow.

There's absolutely no way CE3 is a "dumbed down" engine, nor is it even logical (from any aspect) for Crytek to limbo any further below the bar that they themselves set in the first place.

I wonder what a PC will need to run this thing, anyone else find it funny that PC specs need to keep going up when the PS3 and 360 are static boxes that cant be upgraded? you would think that since consoles have taken the front seat in the video game world (IMO) that PC reqs would be in the same ballpark for awhile.

otis123

@Adnoz: How the hell do you dumb down an FPS further than the genre has already been? I mean, they're practically rail shooters these days.

@Adnoz:
Compare Fear to Fear2 and you will see what you can expect.
Oh happy times...

@LllusionX:Proud Commander of the Sony Attack Force Helghan!: the new engine does'nt do anything new (as far as i know). it just make the game can run multiplatform.

Syed Husain

Damn, I thought the Front Mission Evolved trailer was pretty bad, but nope this is even worse.

@Matt0505: who cares? graphis arent everything, im personally more into gameplay. and now that a crysis game is comming to consoles, I can finally play the damn thing. only game ill ever play on a PC is Diablo 2, and 3 once it releases. everything else ill get on console, or if it isnt on a console then oh well, dosnt catch my interest.

Hmm, so it seems like we're not going back to the island? Weird, considering the ending, but then again, a teaser rarely means anything.

Either way, so long as they develop with PC in mind, and then downgrade to port to consoles, I'll be a happy nanosuit-wearing super soldier.

@emwurst: OMG you shit your pants

drizzt_rocks

Weak.

chromegnome

What the? Is it going to ship with an FX chip or something? There was nothing genuinely exciting about that teaser at all. Most company logo splash animations are more elaborate than that!

Worse than the PC version. There's your answer.

Matt0505

As long as I don't get "X" amount of installs I will probably pick this one up once more info is released about the game.

alf717

that was the worst trailer ive ever seen. EVER

Timothy Sou

Right, that's the logo sorted then.

Maybe the next "trailer" will reveal what the 'Select Difficulty' screen will look like?

Riquez

@Monsignor: They had a PS3 vs 360 Cryengine2 video on GT months ago. PS3 looked a bit better. Crytek claims their engine allows them to take maximum strength... I mean maximum advantage of all 3 platforms.

F.E.A.R. 2 All over again...

Boxxy

@Adnoz: Oh, wow, console*

@Drogmir:
damnitt you beat me to it.

bableebooblah-new and improved.

@Monsignor: lol, no.

@Monsignor:

+1

March on my Sony Snipers, and may the Cell be with you.

i think it's more of a teaser than a trailer.

bableebooblah-new and improved.

Wow. They might as well have just put a big giant X on the screen, courtesy of Kojima.

@curori: I don't know... I've got chocolate all over my underwear.

emwurst

@LllusionX:Proud Commander of the Sony Attack Force Helghan!: ppl on crymod noticed that some of the mountains in the tech demos earlier this year were almost the exact same shape as mountains in cryss 1...except they looked like crap. makes me believe the viewing scale will be destroyed completely..which will be very lame for mp..if the maps are even anywhere near the size they were in crysis

Kougeru Matsuoka

@Adnoz: I'm pretty sure the PS3 can keep up. It's the Xbox I'm worried about.

Monsignor

@Adnoz: I agree with this statement.

@Adnoz: Here is one of said purists.

Man that's a teaser not a trailer.

Drogmir

God I hate those kind of trailers.

The whole thing could be summed up in a poster, I didnt need to waste a minute of my life. Not that I was doing anything with it.

svenhoek: Is Eagerly Anticipating Red Faction: Guerilla

I hear this new engine is really good and suited for crysis on consoles. I know there are plenty of PC purists who will defend to the death the right to say otherwise, but, i'm sure they know what they're doing, since they made both engines anyway. But if this does by some chance become the best looking game on consoles, then what?

Looked pretty vanilla.

curori

Hope they don't dumb down the superior PC version because of the conesole versions.

That trailer made me think of Frank Gehry, and that in turn made me think of the possibility of a "Housing Crysis" franchise...

@Kaneda: I see what you did there.

@ViperXdelkar: I assume where the first game's cliffhanger left us?