Knee-Jerk Reaction: Crysis 2
By jakob187 48 Comments
Good Impressions
- The game is pretty
- You can slide like in Far Cry 2
- It's thoughtful to have a lobby that is specifically for those who are level 10 and under to learn how the game plays in multiplayer rather than throwing them in with the big guns and getting wrecked.
- Multitude of nanosuit abilities in tandem with perks and loadouts offer a lot of variety...
Bad Impressions
- ...except for the fact that Xbox 360 is filled with 'tards that only want to camp in corners while stealthed...or sit on buildings while stealthed with sniper rifles...or want to noob tube while stealthed...
- The hit detection is relatively weak until you get used to the handling, and even then, it still feels off sometimes
- Rather unsavory and unstable servers at the moment. Had a number of issues with Host Migration, disconnects, and hard freezes last night.
- TOO MANY MENUS! Slim it down and make it simpler to find the shit that I want to find.
- The multiplayer feels like nothing more than an amalgamation of so many other multiplayer shooters rolled into one with this one sole "unique" thing: the nanosuit. It's not enough as of yet.
- I can't count how many times that I've used Armor to survive a grenade from injuring me. However, if I try to do that with bullets, the Armor seems far less effective?
- What's the point of nanovision (read: heat vision) if you aren't going to let people always see stealthed people? I mean, what's the point in a counter to a counter to a counter? That's fucking DUMB!
- My reflex sight disables my mobility by HOW MUCH? One bar of mobility? Yeah, because that sight is SOOOO heavy. T_T Seriously, encumberment in a game where I have a nanosuit that can generate a shield that allows me to withstand the blast of a grenade...or sprint at almost double the speed of Michael Johnson on a record-setting day...is kind of fucking stupid. Actually, take that back. It's just fucking stupid.
- Terrible UI with far more information than needs to be displayed, and most of the information is displayed in rather odd places. Other games have done this better for nearly a decade. Why the hell aren't you following that example...kind of like your X at the crosshairs for hit confirm (Call of Duty) or your slide (Far Cry 2) or your Halo-height jumping or your overshield or your active camo or the millions of other things you are ripping off?
- Overblown audio mix and clipping issues, which pisses me off to NO end. Particularly, the music as soon as a match is "Activating Session..." is the primary culprit.
- Frame rate hitches suck
Overall Reaction: Not impressed so far.
Maybe the single player will give me some better impressions, or maybe it's the fact that I find some of the physics in the game's style of shooting to be a bit wonky at times. There were plenty of times that I'd lay an entire clip into someone from my SCAR...literally, a full clip and then needing to reload...and it resulted in no death. Meanwhile, when I died, I'd check the Kill Replay and the enemy would spray 'n' pray with a total of about three bullets hitting me in the stomach, and I'm a dead man. There's also this feeling that a lot of the stuff you would unlock before level 10 is kind of fucking useless. Why would I bother using this holographic decoy when all he does is walk in a straight line? Fuck, man. Make him duck and weave, dive into cover, SOMETHING! This is the goddamn future!!!
Right now, I couldn't honestly recommend the game to anyone. I'm no slouch when it comes to first person shooters. I know my skill level, and I know that I fucking destroy people online. I may just need time to learn the maps (which started coming around by the third and fourth time I played some of the maps last night), but there's a lot more that I need to learn before I can give a final analysis on this stuff. I'll probably dig into the single player sometime soon as well, but who knows?