Crysis 2 Screenshots Will Blow Your Mind and GPU

So there is hope that making it playable on 360/PS3 won't drag it into the mud for PC, too. Outstanding!

Ah can't wait more happy days to come for my G92s.

Looks sweet. Will my OC'd i5 and 5850 be able to play it?

Blow your gpu? Not all of us use nVidia cards with the latest drivers.

This is going to be an awesome game and I can't wait. Then again, I'm tired of all the buggy games that have been getting released as of late. I hope this game doesn't follow the trend..

because theyve dumbed it down for the Xbox and PS3 im guessing the system requirments cant be THAT much higher than Crysis 1.

The game has lower system requirements than the original Crysis.
Hopefully the highest settings will be more intensive. I'm fairly sure, though, that it takes place in the city for the reason that it will be easier to render, for the consoles.

take me to your maker

if the game genuinely looks like that, then i guess my console port worries are gone.

i just hope it won't require a 4 GPU system to run it at maximum settings. hopefully crytek have learned from that mistake.

as long as i can max it out with a 5870, im happy.

If this is just made for the PC i will buy it. I want to support games that are not ports and push computers to the limits. Crysis has done that only problem i fear is "Will it play crysis.... 2?

lol nice

That game will give the new AMD new line of GPUs a good work out.

I need that ATI Radeon 5970 now!!!

this will run with all max out when nvidia release fermi II

DAYUM!

It's unfortunately going to look like crap on my system, because no matter what vid card I can afford, the lower settings aren't going to do the game justice. Kinda like the first one I guess.

Impressive... MOST IMPRESSIVE - Darth Vader

Am I the only one who doesn't find these graphics impressive?

They added a smoothing effect to everything more than ~10 yards away, over indulged in the application of HDR/bloom, and literally cut corners everywhere they could in the models.

The burned out car bumper in this picture is a prime example of to much HDR and also shows the smoothing: http://media.bestofmicro.com/J/Y/2 [...] een_05.jpg

Look at an model except the player model (something you never see when playing)and you'll see round objects that are 8-12 sided polygons (which I only noticed because there are some very impressive round models in some of the pictures).

The only impressive aspect of these screen shots are the shadows. Those are quiet beautiful.

Hope its not a Port from dumbed down consoles. Hopefully fully DX11 ready and PC only special features. Listen up now Crytek dont screw this up like MW2 for PC! I will have to get a second 5870 this year to play this on ultra settings 1920 x 1200.

I'm only blathering because this is being touted as a new engine and doesn't look much more impressive when I compared to games like Killzone 2 or the original Crytec engine.

I'm already bracing myself for when they release the minimum and recommended system requirements...

My guess is that at Minimum we'll need at least an i5 and a Nvidia GT260 or ATI 5750.

Bleh.

Well played sir!

Don't know about you but the screenshots seem like something possible right now. Just tweak some of the settings (as in via console or use a graphics tweak). The hard part would be making the map.

Nonetheless, if they can make it run on consoles and look that pretty, then good job Crytek.

... Can't they wait until computers can play the first Crysis at 60 fps.

Well people don't get your hopes up I doubt even the HD 5970 will play this past 30 fps. But we'll see.

A game like that will never sell. Those are the RECOMMENDED settings you are talking about there, sir.

PS: To all the people who hope they don't need a QUADfire or Tri-SLI/QUADSLI set up in order to max out this game: WHO CARES? Does it really matter if you can't max out the game as long as the game offers better graphics at the same frame rates as Crysis1. I guess it will hurt your ego to know that your $400 GPU cannot max out the latest games @ 1080p. ...just think of it this way: Your 5870 is still the king of single GPUs right now, and even when the 5890 comes out, the 5870 will still be a mighty force to reckon with, and you will still look at the prettiest graphics in the world.

I'm not impressed. It's nice but not mindblowing. Furthermore I find Crytek games boring, from Far Cry to Crysis Warhead none of the games really kept my attention. I guess the run and gun formula got old for me way back in 2003.

I am surprise it took TOMS to report this a month after I saw these pics in Playstation Magazine! This article was meant for Crysis 2 ON CONSOLES. Which really blew my mind as I am now more of a PC gamer than a console gamer as I used to love consoles.

However, this Crysis should be fun assuming we can "interact" with the city terrain!!

@Honis - Yeah, my thoughts too. Not about your details per se; I just did not think these screenies are all that and a bag of chips. Not to mention, still caps are useless for anything less than wallpaper, IMHO.

I cant wait to see the buildings and marble crumble in 3d fashion! Instead of shanty houses and metal sheets for roofs we finally get to interact with everyday city structures! I am waiting to see that next gen DX11 can do for this game. I wonder if Crytech will ever adopt PhysX but I guess they dont need to having such a great physics engine to begin with. Imagine a 3 year old engine still maxing out computers and still visually sitting at the top of all games on all platforms!

i think this game could have looked much more realistic if consoles
weren't in the mind of crytek.

aw...now i'm going to have to start saving for a 5870.