Crysis 1 & 2 Screen Shots

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These were taken from my secondary gaming rig, i7 920 @ 3.3Ghz 6 GB RAM single GTX 480 single 1920x1200 monitor. Everything in game in Crysis 1 was set to Very High, even Objects at 4xAA and Crysis 2 was set to extreme. Crysis 1 was giving me about 35 FPS and Crysis 2 around 55.

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Their edge-detect AA algorithm appears to work pretty well. Not perfect, but they're getting some pretty decent quality out of it.
 
Well based on those it looks to me like Crysis 2 has more realistic graphics. Crysis almost looks grainy and too detailed.
 
Forget about it, it's not even close - I'm playing it right now, and Crysis 2 smacks Crysis on the head with its own baton.

That opening area, is just drop dead gorgeous. There's no way that the console can even remotely come close to matching what I'm seeing right now at 2560x1440 - no way. And WTF, there are god rays all over the frickin' place. The shadowing is vastly superior. And as Heatless said earlier, the geometry is far more advanced than in the original game.

AND it's running super smoothly. Right now, Crises 2 holds the crown for best looking game on the PC - no question about it.

EDIT: This comment has been made ten million times already about certain titles, but those screenshots just don't do the game justice. In action... it's mind blowing, really. This game has immediately risen to become the showcase product for my GTX 480.
 
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I'd like to see some close/medium range shots of trees. I think they look better at long range than the original crysis, but mostly because they seem blurred, making them look more full. I think trees in crysis at medium/close range like the tree to the right in the 3rd shot look better than trees in any other game because of the detail and the shadows, but at distance it can look a little off, like the detail almost works against it.
 
As far as how objects look, such as crates and the like, it's not even close. Crysis was even weak in this area for its time.

I might be commenting too early - maybe this starting area was just really touched up or something - but if the rest of the game looks this good then, purely on an aesthetic level, it's going to be an incredible ride. I'm surprised by this. Really surprised.
 
Game looks amazing, i ready to see it on the Xbox. sometimes when there is a lot of shit going on in COD: BO (on xbox) you can tell the frame rate drops drastically, with that said, i wonder how it will perform with this game. I know it will be nothing compared to PC, but im sure it will push the consoles are far as they can go. Probably cause a few RROD...


edit: NVM, jsut saw the screen shots at www.lensoftruth.com and they dont even compare to PC, i know that obvious, but they probably should have stuck to PC only.
 
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Bro, those screens are cherrypicked. That rock from your first screen is the single worst texture in the entire Crysis game. I just played through Crysis and Warhead over the weekend and it's not even close. Here are some REAL Crysis screens and not your BS trolling screens. It even looks like you are running Crysis in DX9 with tweaked configs rather than DX10, which lowers the quality of many postprocessing effects. All my shots are at 2560x1600, and the higher resolution really highlights the inferiority of Crysis 2. It's also important to note that Crysis looks WAY, WAY better in motion than Crysis 2. The post processing is of much higher quality, the shadows are a lot more detailed, the particle effects much more complex, higher numbers of godrays, etc.

A Crysis 1 vehicle. Make sure to view the screen at max size and note the amazing detail of the metal textures. If you have a <2560 monitor you may need to save it and use a photo viewer to zoom in all the way.

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A Crysis 2 vehicle. The texture looks absolutely laughable in comparison, like something out of Call of Duty. These are fucking PS2 era textures here, and not even from a good PS2 game but something like the PS2 port of Deus Ex.

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Actually scratch that. PS2 Deux Ex looks better. Compare this guard's thigh plate texture to that fucking godawful Crysis 2 car. The thigh plate is definitely crisper.

http://ps2.ign.com/dor/objects/16474/deus-ex-the-conspiracy/images/dx_7.html

Crysis 1 first level. Unlike your Statue of Liberty screenshot taken in a closet-sized explorable area, you can seamlessly go out to the distant shore. Crysis looks better in spite of pushing much larger environments than the sequel.

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Crysis 1 third level. All of these trees can be ripped to shreds and react to bullets in realtime.

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Crysis 1 Onslaught level. This level is absolutely massive and nothing in Crysis 2 even compares. The smoke plumes in the distance are from an unscripted realtime battle between hordes of tanks.

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Crysis 1 final level. I have not encountered many aliens in Crysis 2 yet but the ones I did looked like retards out of a Ratchet and Clank game or something.

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Crysis 2 again showing that stunning Call of Duty style texture detail. Sadly this isn't even something you have to go hunting for, most of the game is of this quality. One can pull good and bad textures from each game, but I think it's accurate to say that the lowest end Crysis 1 textures are comparable to the average Crysis 2 textures, and the best textures in Crysis 1 are way, way better than the best textures in Crysis 2. I tthink the largest contingent of Crysis 2 backers are going to be playing on 1920x1080 and below monitors that don't have the clarity to expose what Crysis 2 really looks like. Hell, if you shrink this screenshot down, that texture doesn't even look that bad. But the fact is, Crysis is a knockout at 2560 whereas Crysis 2 embarrassingly sputters out.

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This is the best looking and by far widest open area I've encountered in 6 levels of Crysis 2. It is like 1/20 the size of some of the free range open spaces in Crysis. Most of the areas in Crysis 2 are absolutely tiny, maybe 1/4 of this size. If you want to make a case for Crysis 2 here it is, this is the best looking spot, but keep in mind that 75% of what's in this picture looks like shit up close and none of the vegetation is interactive. What you see is pretty much the extent of what you can explore. Not too far off the screenshot to the right, there is an invisible wall that keeps you from swimming around the barrier.

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Really what it comes down to is that Crysis 2 is more colorful, yet technically and visually inferior. IMO Crysis 1 is actually better optimized than Crysis 2 when considering the size, scope, and detail of the environments it presents.
 
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nobody_here said:
Well based on those it looks to me like Crysis 2 has more realistic graphics. Crysis almost looks grainy and too detailed.
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You cannot enable regular AA and edge AA at the same time in Crysis. He is using regular AA which looks worse than the edge AA because it makes the vegetation extremely grainy.
 
anonmoniker said:
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How do you stop imageshack from resizing the image to fit your window?

Anyway, I agree. Heartless cherry picked the pictures. The "water" comparison is at 2 completely different distances and different times of day and certain rocks in Crysis had terrible textures at close range compared to the rest of the game.
 
Cry 2 is a consolized waste of time for pc. We all know this was a cash grab on their part. Move on to the real pc titles coming out this year.
 
spaceman said:
Cry 2 is a consolized waste of time for pc. We all know this was a cash grab on their part. Move on to the real pc titles coming out this year.
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Seriously who cares, I just want to stop playing in the jungle for once. Getting sick and tired of seeing that beach as well.(and bush wookies) If the multiplayer maps for Crysis 2 are not on the beach then that's a GIGANTIC step forward as far as I'm concerned. No more trees please, thanks
 
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Sixthsense said:
Seriously who cares, I just want to stop playing in the jungle for once. Getting sick and tired of seeing that beach as well.(and bush wookies) If the multiplayer maps for Crysis 2 are not on the beach then that's a GIGANTIC step forward as far as I'm concerned. No more trees please, thanks
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Personally I think if you want to play an FPS that doesn't have a lush tropical setting... play one of the million of other FPS games. I dont see how you can bitch about it when its only the Crysis and Far Cry (when it was owned by Crytek) that have had jungle environments.
 
Tudz said:
Personally I think if you want to play an FPS that doesn't have a lush tropical setting... play one of the million of other FPS games. I dont see how you can bitch about it when its only the Crysis and Far Cry (when it was owned by Crytek) that have had jungle environments.
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That's exactly my point, you can have your jungle shit in single player. I'm more concerned about multiplayer. If you played Crysis 1, you damn well know they need all the help they can get in regards to user's playing. Going back to the beach with more trees and shit is not helping any (note: refer to Crysis 1 multiplayer lobby)
 
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That's exactly my point, you can have your jungle shit in single player. I'm more concerned about multiplayer. If you played Crysis 1, you damn well know they need all the help they can get in regards to user's playing. Going back to the beach with more trees and shit is not helping any (note: refer to Crysis 1 multiplayer lobby)
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Crysis MP wasn't purely beach/jungle maps anyway. I dont remember which of these maps were from Wars or Crysis 1 (been so long) but I remember playing a big desert, an industrial area, a graveyard, a plantation (which was a bit jungly but not beach style) and a few others that weren't beach/tropical style.

EDIT: and an aircraft carrier.
 
I'm still going to wait for the DX11 patch before purchasing (or until a nice Steam sale if it never appears) but the game looks damn nice from those screens posted. A little "blurrier" maybe, but not bad.

Is the game trade-able? Will I have any issues trying to get a used copy of the PC version?
 
LOL, this is hilarious. A while back when the "rumor" about Crysis 2 being DX9 only, there was major outrage and the "visuals sucked", "DX11 was needed because the first Crysis was DX10" and "I'm going to cancel my pre-order"...blah, blah, blah...

Now after actually seeing the game "hey the graphics look pretty good"...even though it's "DX9 only"...

It's pretty obvious that some of those people just wanted an excuse to not buy the game and probably get it through "other" means...

I'm still waiting to get screenshots from another game in the same setting, with better graphics than Crysis 2, which was a challenge I made in that thread in the news sub-forum and obviously never got an answer.
 
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LOL, this is hilarious. A while back when the "rumor" about Crysis 2 being DX9 only, there was major outrage and the "visuals sucked", "DX11 was needed because the first Crysis was DX10" and "I'm going to cancel my pre-order"...blah, blah, blah...

Now after actually seeing the game "hey the graphics look pretty good"...even though it's "DX9 only"...
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DX9 = steak
DX11 = salt
Crysis trolls = vegans
 
Silus said:
LOL, this is hilarious. A while back when the "rumor" about Crysis 2 being DX9 only, there was major outrage and the "visuals sucked", "DX11 was needed because the first Crysis was DX10" and "I'm going to cancel my pre-order"...blah, blah, blah...

Now after actually seeing the game "hey the graphics look pretty good"...even though it's "DX9 only"...
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I dont think people ever said the graphics were terrible on a scale compared to other recent games, just worse than the original Crysis because it was a console sell out. I haven't played the full game yet, but to me it looks like a better artistic design but worse actual graphics.
 
Silus said:
It's pretty obvious that some of those people just wanted an excuse to not buy the game and probably get it through "other" means...
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A person doesn't need an excuse to pirate a game. All they need is a BitTorrent client, an internet connection and a modicum of patience.
 
phide said:
A person doesn't need an excuse to pirate a game. All they need is a BitTorrent client, an internet connection and a modicum of patience.
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That's true, but I think that there's a group of people that even though does such a thing, still feels the need to justify it (even if by some opinion based on nothing or some very weak argument such as "it's DX9 only").
 
Silus said:
That's true, but I think that there's a group of people that even though does such a thing, still feels the need to justify it (even if by some opinion based on nothing or some very weak argument such as "it's DX9 only").
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I actually think a large portion of the people who are "justifying piracy" because of shitiness in games are actually the type of people who buy games and get lumped into the "pirates" because they are complaining about certain things.
 
Silus said:
That's true, but I think that there's a group of people that even though does such a thing, still feels the need to justify it (even if by some opinion based on nothing or some very weak argument such as "it's DX9 only").
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I don't pirate games on principle. But even if I was inclined to do so, I wouldn't pirate this one, because I just have no desire to play it as is. Even for free I don't want to play this game in DX9, ever.
 
I'd like to see some screenshots for both games at bare minimum settings. When Nvidia did their Crysis 2 GPU comparison, and it showed an 8800GT being able to run it on Advanced at 1680x1050. Now, an 8800GT is labelled min spec, but I'm sure you can run it on something much lower.
 
anonmoniker said:
Bro, those screens are cherrypicked. That rock from your first screen is the single worst texture in the entire Crysis game.
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I just picked a level in Crysis and took screen shots, going back through there are a number of textures that don't look great in Crysis 1 and that's not really any different in Crysis 2, that brick wall is one of the better looking ones, some of the cars don't look great in 2 as you have pointed out.

But again when I look at the overall quality of 2 and then see it run SMOOTHER in 3D than the original Crysis does in 2D at least out of the box, yes, that made me smile.

But it looks like a number of PC gamers are going out of their way to slam Crytek and saying silly as shit like it would have been better for them not to have made a PC version at all, like the PC is just brimming to the rim with game content of this caliber.

I hope Cevat Yerli chokes on this giant flaccid floppy penis of a game, while he is pulling out his overstuffed-wallet. Yeah, I just said that, and I meant it.
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I'm sure comments like this just have PC game developers jumping with joy and full of enthusiasm to spend money developing for the platform.
 
heatlesssun said:
I'm sure comments like this just have PC game developers jumping with joy and full of enthusiasm to spend money developing for the platform.
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The point is they didn't spend money developing this game for PC, if they had they wouldn't get that criticism.
 
heatlesssun said:
I'm sure comments like this just have PC game developers jumping with joy and full of enthusiasm to spend money developing for the platform.
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If they're making money, comments like that should make absolutely no difference to them, particularly when console gamers are prone to being just as vocal about titles they dislike as PC gamers are.
 
Iam just happy that theres no popup anymore (or almost), Crysis 1 had vegetation popup at 10 feet from you and was mighty annoying, Warhead had better tought..
 
looks great :) hopefully it plays as well as it looks... I can't wait to get it.
 
FranklyShankly said:
The point is they didn't spend money developing this game for PC, if they had they wouldn't get that criticism.
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No they'd get different criticism... like Crytek did and continues to get for Crysis. There is no pleasing a lot of people on here.
 
Every game receives criticism. That isn't saying much of anything.
 
Should have just made it for consoles. Why they bothered with pc is beyond me.
 
spaceman said:
Should have just made it for consoles. Why they bothered with pc is beyond me.
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Then PC gamers would feel slighted and complain just like console users are still complaining about not having TF2 class updates let alone hats.

I haven't played much of Crysis so I can't say what the game looks like color wise later on however judging by screenshots my knee jerk reaction to anyone saying one looks better than the other.....Crysis has lots of blues and greens, by nature (ie tropical setting); Crysis 2 they incorporated more colors because it looks more industrial in nature (instead of in the middle of nowhere). Graphically they both look great to me, I could really care less about how much x texture looks at y range. If you really pay that much attention while actively playing the game then either the pace of the game is shit or you're really nit picking. ;) Could just be me, but I never ran around MW saying "you know, this grass just looks too dry for my tastes". :D I was too busy enjoying the game.
 
phide said:
Every game receives criticism. That isn't saying much of anything.
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Can you point out a game that received this sort of criticism ?

First, it doesn't run at uber settings on mid-range PCs. it's Criticized
Second, comes the expansion. It's criticized because graphics are worse than the original (highest quality setting in WARHEAD was equivalent to high in the original crysis)
Third, Crysis 2 is released and it runs great, looks great (even if not better than the original), but "it's DX9 only and MP feels like CoD, so let me cancel my pre-order"
 
phide said:
If they're making money, comments like that should make absolutely no difference to them, particularly when console gamers are prone to being just as vocal about titles they dislike as PC gamers are.
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It matters on the PC side if it effects sales which is why Kyle trashed the game, just look at how many people said they won't buy the game because of Kyle's comments. And my guess is most of those people won't buy it for consoles either even if it is geared towards that platform.

My point is simple, don't expect people to take risks in making PC exclusive content when people like Kyle go out of their way to slam and discredit things not to their liking. One slip up and now on top of all the other issues that developing on the PC poses you now have influential people in the PC gaming community sabotaging you.

Kyle's comments will in no way, shape or form help PC gamers and are actually a disservice to us. Telling the guy running the show to go choke on his "floppy penis of a game" helped no one except Kyle.
 
drako said:
No they'd get different criticism... like Crytek did and continues to get for Crysis. There is no pleasing a lot of people on here.
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Which is why I tend to stay away from PC gaming forums these days. I can understand legitimate criticism... I was horribly disappointed by the PC port of Resident Evil 4 and it deserved the criticism it recieved (same with other low quality ports/releases), but ANY game that's released these days that doesn't use the latest version of DirectX, doesn't give [insert random screen name] every feature that they demand and/or (god forbid) was also released on a console gets shredded apart by the extremely vocal minority of PC community.

Crysis 2 is a great example of this. From Heatless's screenshot thread, the second game looks much better than the original... and it sounds like it also performs better as well (and hopefully plays better), yet people are shooting it down before it's even released. I haven't played it yet either, aside from the MP demo, but I'll wait to play the retail version before jumping on the hate train.
 
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