Lol... I like the end of the article, quote:

"Immediately you’ll notice not only a downturn in color (almost 32.3% by our benchmark), but also a significant reduction in flora."

Tech talk aside, I don't understand his point. If you are in a city, wouldn't you expect a "significant reduction in flora." due to the fact that a city, by design has streets, buildings, in essence, man made structures?

As I said in a previous comment, Crysis 1 showed that Crytec could max out and make a beautiful game that took advantage of all the tech available at the time. With Crysis 2, Crytec seems to want to demonstrate that their engine is as flexible as Unreal, able to get good results across the board.

It's business. They want to make money licensing their engine. If you don't like the game, vote with your wallet. Simple, easy, effective.

Totally agree shaman, it's a better game all round.

Crysis 2 just gets better and better as you progress.

I can't really understand why people are making such a huge fuss over whether or not the graphics got compromised because of consoles or the whole DX11 issue. At the end of the day its still a great looking game no matter the system and especially on PC. That's the version I'm playing and it looks damn great.

I'd rather a great looking game I can play than one I can't. It's funny the rig I built to play Crysis runs its predecessor much better and looks good doing it too.

damn you people, read the article, its a complete joke.. geez.

I am honestly dumbfounded by how someone can criticize the graphics of Crysis 2 when the actual game is way better than Crysis. Yet here the author is comparing box textures, I mean seriously, box textures?!

HAHAHA
good one RockPaperShotgun

*picks up popcorn*
should be interesting to see how the idiots on here see it as truth

I'm so sure the author is mocking people. The reduction in flora part can't be serious.

Funny...yes. Truth.....no

Ah, funny.
Loved the first graph, numbers all over the place, some are even dates and times. LOL

"and a raise in carbon production by over 300%".
ROFL.

The texture comparison was the funniest to be honest, no one on this planet will ever play a game with a camera zoomed in that much.

I hope the hooligans that run wild on this site realise it's a joke.

early april fools ehhh,

honestly, i am pleased with the game and crytek

they launched a worldwide game on 3 very different platforms and it looks kick ass on ALL of them

That's damn fine work crytek, damn fine

i hope it sells 10 million

I was confused reading that lol like WTF is he talking about? Than when I realized it is a joke it's even funnier! :-D

"Rock, Paper Shotgun pc gaming since 1873"

This site is legit. I have to say im disappointed in CE3's 0.1m pixel drop. A BSR of 43 is totally unacceptable.

Trololololollolololol.

Surely you could all figure out that it was a trolling article when he did the box comparison? I laughed pretty hard at that.

The draw distance comparison is also a cracker.

Nice job.

The reason why there are pictures of a pixelated box is to show there was negligible improvement of texture quality. I'm dead serious, no sarcasm intended.

...someone please tell me this is a joke. If these guys are serious, they need to be strung up by their man-parts, and left to die in the harsh sun.

Oh god, satire is above the intellectual capacity of most N4G users.

huurrr durrrr blame teh xbox hurrr

The game on consoles is also compromised. After the first raining level all I see the worst film grain ever. It's film 'blocks' and these wierd waves going across the screen - it looks like a bad cable reception in parts. It's really terrible looking sometimes.

Some parts are beautiful others look like absolute crap. Get rid of the grain blocks and the game may indeed have the best console graphics, for now there's too many graphical glitches.

Sounds like a PC fanboy boy whos angry because the game went multiplat. They had to make cuts so what? You can still enjoy it on the PC.

maybe people are upset because crytek have been demoing cryengine 3 with dx11 since 2009 so people kinda expected the game to be dx11. I don't care all that much I just wont buy the game but you can't blame people for being disappointed in the(PC)game.

I was completely enjoying Crysis 2, the gameplay, how good the game looks...but, after reading this article I just cannot enjoy it anymore, knowing that there are pixel resolution differences at 50x zoom just ruins the whole experience! I am just grateful that there are good people out there saving me from enjoying this crippled game with these comparisons.
To think, I was relying on my OWN opinion of the game! Crazy! huh?

(before some idiot tells me the article was parody, so is my post.)

powered by a 1.21 giggawats PSU! with flux capacitors (japanese made)

Really, another dumb jaded blog? With the energy used to complain he could.have fixed the bloom and blur easily.

period.

APRIL FOOL'S JOKE! And a good one at that.

My eyebrow went up pretty quick at the beginning, when he was throwing around random obscure graphical tech terms with no real context...and the pic illustrating the "13J*eRAM"...LOL.

It still took me until the last paragraph to label this a joke, instead of just a subtle troll: "Immediately you’ll notice not only a downturn in colour...but also a significant reduction in flora."

Good April Fool's. Thumbs up.

Early April Fools.

"meaning the PC version of the game is crippled to the point where it’s literally impossible to look at without feeling physically sick"

is this guy serious? lol

physically sick? people are ridiculous these days.

edit: whew, just realized its a joke. i was about to say.

"the PC version of the game is crippled to the point where it’s literally impossible to look at without feeling physically sick"

overstate much?

Crysis 2 looks worse than Crysis 1, in 4 years they really should have pushed the graphics boundary rather than fail to achieve their previous standards.

When the dx11 patch gets around things might change though. But I don't think that will improve texture resolution. It could, if they make it several GB in size or if they release a high res texture pack with it.

Basically, add tessellation and higher resolution textures and crysis 2 will look better than crysis 1. Though the scope of the environment is far smaller in 1 individual scene which could be argued as a loss in graphical brilliance (though, it's almost certainly a design choice).

To be honest, the engine is absolutely fantastic - but the game itself doesn't currently take full advantage of the graphics on offer.

lol

If your machine can handle it, you can see the real difference for yourself.

http://forum.xentax.com/vie...

People complaining did NOT read the article. But then, I guess it was written to satirize people like that in the first place.

Agent VX + 5h ago
Yes, this obviously is a joke article. But even though the writer is making fun of PC elitists, his joke is the truth.

Consoles are limiting PC games in terms of graphics. If the best console have or will soon have is Killzone 3 and Gear 3, this is and will be a big disappointment for the next few years.

Technology is supposed to progress, not stagnate with old and out of date consoles. For those of you who find this insulting to your cherrished piece of old and out of date consoles, get a different hobby, for this is not how technology is supposed to progress.
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yet we're still seeing 360 games and ps3 games surpass old games in terms of graphical prowess. Uncharted 3 is going to set new bar for console gaming.

*NEWS FLASH* Crysis 2 is awesome!!

Crytek are smart because by bringing the game to consoles will get them more sales and bring them more fans. At least the quality are still there.

It would be nice to see crytek actually release this one…

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