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Very nice, though I'm a little disappointed by the alien-mech design. Graphically, it looks fucking sweet, though. Hope my computer can handle it.

Nice engine, but agreed about not liking the character designs. I hope the game's graphics are more than just technically proficient but I suspect it will suffer from shooter-itis -> poor artistic choices.

Hot damn, any indication of whether this is PC or console?  PC I'm guessing, but I thought I heard somewhere they've mostly showed console footage.

Totally unimpressive compared to crysis on very high. Look like crysis on medium settings meets resistance 2 and mirrors edge, consolized and downgrade complete.

I wouldn't point this out for, like, any other game, but really? You're laying newspaper textures right on the concrete? So I can blow that car up or knock that tree down, but if I shoot next to the newspaper it'll just stay glued to the concrete. I only notice because this is the cleanest invaded city I've ever seen and the only thing they have to indicate any kind of chaos is a newspaper texture on the concrete. Again, only noticing because the developers seem to be egging it on.

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Totally unimpressive compared to crysis on very high.

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When was the last time you REALLY needed to use a compass in a shooter?
 
And of course the shell casings kick to the left even though it should be on the right... animations should bring everything to life in video, if the previews are anything to attest to.

Looks really impressive. Does anyone know whether it is PC or 360 screenshots? 

Looks great. I look forward to 2014 when I will have a computer that can run it like this.

" I wouldn't point this out for, like, any other game, but really? You're laying newspaper textures right on the concrete? So I can blow that car up or knock that tree down, but if I shoot next to the newspaper it'll just stay glued to the concrete. I only notice because this is the cleanest invaded city I've ever seen and the only thing they have to indicate any kind of chaos is a newspaper texture on the concrete. Again, only noticing because the developers seem to be egging it on. "

looks good, i prefer the alien design to the first ones, and the gun looks badass.

SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOD

We interrupt this program to bring you breaking news: Crysis 2 looks good.

Impressive if this is console.  I'm guessing it isn't, because I'm guessing that's volumetric fog in the first screenshot.

linky is always ontop of things. nice pics man thanks

Aliens sure have changed a lot.
 
UI looks pretty ugly imo. Probably because the res is sub 1280 x 720 though.
 
Gun model is decent.. the thumb looks weird though, or is that just me?

looks pretty good 
and remember guys, the thing about crysis is that it always looks better in motion. 
 
looks very very different from the first crysis because it's in a city but this still looks amazing. 
 
think my future crossfire 5850's will be able to run this?

Impressive if this is console.  I'm guessing it isn't, because I'm guessing that's volumetric fog in the first screenshot.

i hope this are consoles screens, because crysis1 looks much better than this (on my friend's crazy expensive gaming computer)

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Impressive if this is console.  I'm guessing it isn't, because I'm guessing that's volumetric fog in the first screenshot.

Of all the details in the screenshots, you pick a graphical effect from 1996 as to why it can't be console screenshots :P "

" linky is always ontop of things. nice pics man thanks "

Not as good looking as Crysis 1. But it's pretty damn good looking for consoles.

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" @Jimbo said:

Impressive if this is console.  I'm guessing it isn't, because I'm guessing that's volumetric fog in the first screenshot.

Of all the details in the screenshots, you pick a graphical effect from 1996 as to why it can't be console screenshots :P "

No, I picked the graphical effect that is sometimes the only difference between the console and PC versions of a game.  Crazy I know!

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" @Jimbo said:

Impressive if this is console.  I'm guessing it isn't, because I'm guessing that's volumetric fog in the first screenshot.

Of all the details in the screenshots, you pick a graphical effect from 1996 as to why it can't be console screenshots :P "

No, I picked the graphical effect that is sometimes the only difference between the console and PC versions of a game.  Crazy I know!

Not to go too far off topic, but examples?  I don't think that was ever true, maybe you're confusing it with volumetric lighting?  Anyways, I'm not so impressed with these screens, even in terms of a console game.  Their recent tech video was pretty poor too.  I'm not sure Crytek really has a good handle on the console hardware and I'm thinking they don't have the resources to develop a high end PC version at the same time.  I actually expected more out of them.  These pics are reminding me too much of The Conduit :X "

Thanks a lot, my macbook just exploded trying to load those pictures, the graphics are to powerful.

The only reason the original crysis looked as good as it did was because it was largely foliage, particle effects and dirt, the indoor/building parts never looked quite as good. When you have natural shapes, theres more leeway, visually, for things to be a little off, but when your dealing with hard edges and shapes, it can be alot harder to make the game look realistic. I think putting Crysis 2 in a Urban setting was a risky move for such a graphically intense game, but it seems like they are doing as good as anyone can given the setting.

" i hope this are consoles screens, because crysis1 looks much better than this (on my friend's crazy expensive gaming computer) "

I hope that's the console version shown in the shots :/  
 
That actually looks kind of bad even for console. Hopefully they'll brush it up before release. 

I hope the game is fun. Because the original Crysis was killer fun, even if you had to put everything on High or Medium. 
 
Also, is anyone else surprised to see blood effects given that Crytek's a German company and Deutschland has a habit of wielding a two-handed Banhammer +5 (with an additional 2d6 fire attack vs. "immorality") on anything that hints at the red stuff?

" @Three0neFive: If I'm getting complimented from you I must be doing something wrong. :P  The genre is definitely stagnant, but sticking with TF2 forever would be pretty stagnant too. "

They changed the alien design to be more innovative, personally I think the aliens in Crysis 1 were more unique: 
 

Missing some distance blur and motion blur and blur on the guns and bloom to rival this generation.

Yep...looks like a shooting game.

" @zudthespud said:

" Looks great. I look forward to 2014 when I will have a computer that can run it like this. "

 
Crysis 2 is coming to 360, PS3 and PC. "

@bitcloud: Don't blame me because I like my games near photorealistic instead of semi realistic art design and low rez textures. Crysis is my all time favorite game, crysis 2 is simply not a good looking game compared to crysis. I blame the console engine 3, I mean cryengine 3, it can't produce realistic graphics.

" @Three0neFive:  Alright, cool man.
 
@Jimbo:  Ahh, gotcha.  Yea, PhysX fog, big difference, I know exactly what you're talking about.  The reason they added that stuff is probably because Nvidia paid them, because then Nvidia can then sell newer cards with PhysX support.  I kinda doubt the game will have that unless they announced PhysX support when I wasn't paying attention.  Impossible to really see such an effect in a screenshot anyways.  Volumetric fog to me refers to the kind of fog Superman 64 on N64 had or the fog you'd see in Unreal 1, so I didn't think that's what you meant.  If I ever buy Crysis 2 it'll probably be on PC, unless they really mess up the performance on PC side. "

@bitcloud: I don't hate consoles, I hate crytek for selling out and downgrading my game. We pc gamers had this as our exclusive. How would you feel if a game like killzone 2 went multiplatform and they downgraded the graphics by half? You would probally not be all that happy. I'm not trying to be an elitist, however if you played through crysis on a high rez monitor on very high, crysis 2 doesn't even look half as impressive. Maybe our graphical standards are different, don't blame it on me. Your hilarious btw, also crysis character models are better than anything crysis 2 can do.