Crysis 2 Maximum Graphics Edition Unboxing

Man for a sec I thought it was a super duper ultra texture mode!

Crysis 1 has better graphics than 2? Why would someone need to update?

lol. when they said maximum graphic i was expecting DX11 XD

Lol "Some Warning Stuff"

Lol why buy a new GPU when the game isnt as advanced as 4 yr old crysis. I shall not be upgrading until a game comes out which justifies new hardware. AMD and Nvidia can suck it.

they won't release dx11 on pc until after this fiscal quarter ends. they get a great quarter 2 balance sheet cuz of all the xbox/ps3 sales. q2 ends march 31st, they release dx11 in q3, get a nice pc sales bump for q3. i wouldn't be surprised if the dx11 patch is all prepped and ready to go, they just withholding it for q3. accountants rule the business world.

Crysis announced that DX11 and DX10 support would be added in at a later date with a patch.

Well that's what a mod said on the Steam forums :|

Dont you think its absurd paying so much for expensive GPUs, nvm not getting DX11 on a game like crysis 2 at launch. we dont even have a AA slider. We should stand up to AMD and NVidia to tell the devs to treat us better or else simply refuse to buy more hardware.

it's because they developed the game for consoles....consoles can't keep up, therefore graphics are crappy

Can't wait to get my hands on this gear...

I saw the gameplay on youtube, from start to end. It’s garbage.

The game is repetitive. No tactics are needed. Just fire at the clumsy aliens (which are childish like Halo dumb characters). It’s even boring. Sustain fire for long enough until they die (with another childish animation).

You have not liberty to wander. Natural environments are gone. You can’t spy on enemy camps and plan how to attack. The game is short.

It’ so boring that many people just run to checkpoints avoiding the fight.

there should be one for Battlefield 3 but with AMD/ATI!!

yeah, the 4 year old crysis was great when it came out.... couldn't even play it on max settings until 3 years later when powerful enough gfx cards came out. plus it wasnt exactly a great game. They probably realised they could have sold more copies of crysis 1 if it could run on lower end hardware. Crysis 2 seems well optimised and im sure the full version will have higher res textures and more eye candy than the demo. The demo was obviously more like a beta demo than a demo of the full game as they were still fixing bugs. Why would anyone make a game that can only run on high end hardware and sell less copies? If your a gamer that likes eye candy buy a super high res monitor or eyefinity setup, then you will need to upgrade your gfx card.

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Its not like the 1st crysis didnt sell well. It sold 3.5m as of may 2010. Which is as good as any console exclusive.

Question is we buy such expensive GPUs, yet in the latest games we arent even getting an option to control AA simply sad how PC gamers are being treated of late. AMD and Nvidia should be focusing on getting software support for all the hardware they are selling us.

It still sucks. They sold out.

Well, they can at least have low settings if it has super high requirements right? Then u still able to play the game with graphics standard like the current crysis 2. So, u have the option to choose extreme graphics, which even the current 6990 has hard time keeping at 30fps. This crysis 2 is not well optimised, it's just console ported, end of story.

Is this what was in the top secret box that was shown in yesterday's publicity blurb?

Maximum Armour....check
Maximum strength...check
Maximum graphics...malfunction

I want my 2:46 back.

how the hell do you "patch in" DX10 and DX11?

Honestly, crytek and other devs have to learn that we're not gonna buy up their crap until they actually start programming for the PC and utilize my hardware to its full potential. If i wanted a crappy xbox game I'd have bought one.

Waiting till battlefield 3 and D3...

Meh! Still keeping the 4870x2 in my i7 rig.

It's still not worth the upgrade. Maybe the 7 series Ati cards will be worth it. I have never skipped 2 generations before..... 4870x2 still rocks.

I thought Cryengine 3 has the potential to look better, but they just aren't shipping it with all the DX10/11 features enabled?

Well, from maximum graphics edition, I sensed DirectX 11 support or hires textures or something like that. This is... meh!

Did anyone else notice the Sierra Nevada on tap next to the computer??? LOL

Its not about DX10/11 here mate, remember Crysis 1 looked amazing in DX 9. Hence its not like good looking games cant be made in DX9. Problem is this game was designed with consoles in mind first, hence the graphics had to be dumbed down for it to work. Unless we dont get hi res textures etc i doubht DX 10 or 11 will help.

Yeah, I was gonna actually buy Crysis 2 but after hearing the bs about no dx11 I think I'll find a nice torrent

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Maximum Graphics Edition huh?
You know I would to this day still sit down and play Warcraft 2. The graphics aren't very good and it could run on any computer but I just want to point out that I would still play it because the game is fun. That's the REAL bottom line. Too many people weigh a game too heavily based on it's graphics. To me, graphics don't have much infulence on how much I like a game. Lately I've been playing The ledgend of Zelda Ocorina of time. Why? Because I never finished it and it was given very high ratings. I don't really care about the graphics. Especially when you play more modern games like BioShock and BioShock 2 LOVED BOTH OF THEM! The graphics were indeed pretty good. Where they the best graphics ever for any game? NO, Did I care? No, it was the gameply that I liked not the visuals. If you like neat visuals then you should buy a 3D setup and watch Avatar. Personally, I'll still play this game, I'll just lower the graphics settings a bit to get a good frame rate.

I just want the game to work... It is a great game, but 2 days after launch NO ONE can even play multiplayer as EVERY SERVER IS BROKEN!!!! Worst launch of a game in history... I am sooooo sad, cause I love the franchise.

PS, I can't wait for the DX 11 update... I am already playing maxed out 1900x1200 4xAA 60+fps, and it is beautiful.

That game would be BF3 this fall.

Shogun 2 pulled this same crap- they're realeasing a "patch" that will add DX11 to it in a couple of weeks. Why didn't they just wait and finish the game instead of rushing it out. It's really frustrating when developers release almost-finished games. It's like really- you spent like 2 years of time making a game that you didn't even finish. Come on. I agree with dark_lord69- in most cases gameplay trumps graphics. Luckily you sometimes get gems like Half-Life 2 (or even when it was released HL1) that combine the best of both worlds.