So, I was pretty psyched about the crysis series, I must admit I wanted to play this since the first game came out on PC, but unfortunately as the Crytek games requires a really high configuration on PC. So, regarding Crysis 2, I am utterly disappointed by the boring story, as well as the gameplay. And to top these shortcomings, the Xbox version of the game seems to be full of glitches at numerous places. The previous games of Crytek (FarCry, which I played on PC), has an awesome AI, but in this game I found the enemies, particularly the Aliens are so so stupid. More than often, I find them running around in circles, without doing anything in particular, or just running into a wall, as if they got stuck in the environment geometry, and only attack you when they you go in front of them blatantly. I am half way through the game and every time it seems there are same kind of enemies, the nanosuit's power and usage is not well explained. May be, if I play this game in supersoldier mode, the AI will be probably improved, but the graphical glitches are far from less. In addition, there is a subsequent amount of load time, everytime you power up the console.
When it comes to story, it seems very linear but it is so confusing, the guy who is giving you missions, doesnt know who exactly you are, most of the times you dont know what is the final objective its more like running between check points and shooting down the aliens, which gets so boring after a while, the bosses are also same in most of the levels.
I started the game with all good intentions, and as I saw the reviews on IGN and gamespot.com, which claimed the game to be one of the best looking games of 2011, and praised many aspects of it. I still find the game story in-captivating, the graphics look better in the beginning, but the glitches in the graphics and kill the pleasure. The guns are not so varied. The games are the mundane ones found in any FPS game for that matter. Towards the later part of the missions, its dark and it seems so repetitive. After a while, I get really bored and leave it. The game has good music, which is cool, but that credit goes totally to Hans Zimmer, who scored the tracks. I will just like to add one more comment on the voice acting, it is not so good as well. It doesn't seem personal at all. Infact they are so monotonous I just dont care what they are saying, I just go from point to point taking down everyone in between. The nanosuit though looks pretty awesome.
I will still finish till the end of the game, just for the heck of it, but so far it has been a little disappointing... :(
I'm also playing to finish it... it's so boring .. and there are better games out there.. it feels like such a chore to play Crysis 2. the first game was a little more enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree.... But still I do not understand why all the websites like ign and gamespot are saying crysis is awesome.., infact what they say about the graphics is also misleading.. I got stuck in the geometry so many times on the Xbox version and to be true the graphics is good but not so good that one keeps talking about it... :)
DeleteI found it the opposite. Crysis 2 I found more enjoyable. Somehow the more open world the game the more flattened the action sequences end up. AI tends to be more interesting in confined areas like the first FEAR game. Even goes back to Far Cry the combat was more monotonous compared to the more confined console re-imagining Far Cry Instincts. And after playing Crysis 3 which had a more spacious level design than 2 though not as much as 1, I see the same problem with the action with 1.
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