Crysis 2 Screenshots Will Blow Your Mind and GPU
But can it play Crysis 2?
Looking for PC gaming eye candy? Believe it or not, after all these years, Crysis is still among the top for eye-popping, GPU and CPU smokin' visuals. Now Crytek is back for round two with the first official screenshots for Crysis 2.
The two screenshots below first appeared in the Crymod forums, which provided the following description:
Taking place in New York city, Crysis 2 brings highly vertical gameplay to the table, made possible with the Nanosuit 2, developed by Crynet Systems.
The first of these images includes a Nanosuit-clad character in an all-too-familiar pose, with a backdrop of destruction as the city is laid to waste.
The second features Crynet Ops infantry in combat with the Nanosuit 2 whilst the city crumbles down around them, for reasons that will be revealed in due time.
Here are some of the previously released screenshots, all of which are quite unbelievable.

















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.
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.
lol nice
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/240478/original/crysis2_wip_screen_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.
My guess is that at Minimum we'll need at least an i5 and a Nvidia GT260 or ATI 5750.
Bleh.