Crysis 2

INFORMATION
Genre: FPS;
Number of Players: 1
The presence of a network game: there is
Web site: open
Release Dates
Russia: 03/28/2011
Europe: 25/03/2011
USA: 22/03/2011
DEVELOPER
Crytek
PUBLISHER
Russia: Electronic Arts Russia
Europe: Electronic Arts
USA: Electronic Arts

About Crytek developer

CryTek UK - so if someone does not know, bought by the Germans in the past, the studio Free Radical, to the extent of which produced a successful series of console shooters TimeSpliters (and more - just an average action game Second Sight ), but strongly stumbled on a failed PS3-exclusive Haze . It is responsible for Crytek UK multiplayer component of the game - the Frankfurt office only provided the engine and perform quality control. Now Crytek UK are developing parallel to Time Splitters 4 on the engine, CryEngine 3 - to appear as a shooter on consoles, and, for the first time in the history of the series on personal computers. The official announcement is likely to take place at this E3.


Magazine review «PC GAMES» 8.5

brief story Crysis 2


Multiplayer mode

About multiplayer Crysis 2 you need to know two things: it's not just the most beautiful network shooter to the PC and beyond, but only from copying Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer entertainment, which get away with it.

The point, of course, Nanosuit - a piece that's great-changing situation. Crysis 2 - is an endless fight predators from the same film, invisibility, it is Stealth Mode, - the most important and essential function in the game that turns everything upside head. Stored energy is severely limited, so you will hardly hide more than ten seconds (if at this point to jump or run - and then even less). Any shot made ​​instantly removes masking and reset the scale of energy, making you weak and vulnerable to enemy bullets. Besides, you still casts a shadow and slightly distorting the air - in short, life in Stealth Mode is not so sweet as it might seem at first glance.

Modular construction

Is intended to correct the so-called "modules" - special upgrades nanokostyuma open as you use some of its functions - that is, if you often kill in stealth, then assessed for these murders and experience is also added to the scale pumping stealth mode. The resulting "modules" (you can activate only one choice) accelerate the transition from stealth and back to block the display of your guests on the radar, "muffle" the enemy's mini-map when you are near, and even illuminate the traces of enemies or the place where they last once included invisibility. Interestingly, all these modules also have their own scale pumping - and more often and more successfully you use their features, more powerful and functional than they are.

The other two modes of costume - Armor Mode and Power Mode - also have six-activated and pumped modules, which together give just a dizzying possibilities for customization nanokostyuma: yes, true, and frankly useless things, like Air Stomp - opportunities to jump on the enemy from above, making powerful impact on the earth (and dying a few times in the process). Given that the Armor Mode rather than increase protection from bullets, what makes you glow and twinkle like a Christmas tree, one of the most sensible purchases for this mode is Armor Enchance - module, first a little, and then significantly reduces the absorption of energy when the «Maximum Armor ». Mode Power (grimaces and jumps) to get, basically, weapon upgrades: you can reduce the impact by aiming to increase accuracy when firing on the run and much more. Our personal recommendations can be found in the box nearby.

About this developer

CryTek UK - so if someone does not know, bought by the Germans in the past, the studio Free Radical, to the extent of which produced a successful series of console shooters TimeSpliters (and more - just an average action game Second Sight ), but strongly stumbled on a failed PS3-exclusive Haze . It is responsible for Crytek UK multiplayer component of the game - the Frankfurt office only provided the engine and perform quality control. Now Crytek UK are developing parallel to Time Splitters 4 on the engine, CryEngine 3 - to appear as a shooter on consoles, and, for the first time in the history of the series on personal computers. The official announcement is likely to take place at this E3.


As in the single-player mode in multiplayer Crysis 2 outstanding graphics (although some optimization is still visible).
As in the Black Ops, in Crysis 2 Kill Cam made a first-person - but by pressing the "gap" can switch to a view from behind the nearest teammate, as in Counter-Strike.

Mode Team Instant Action - the most popular game. Team needs to score 50 "kills" before it will make the opponent.
Some cards almost verbatim quote from a single location, while others - are not used in a single game.

Automatic machmeyking works well, though sometimes still runs on the "empty" server.
"Mayak» (Lighthouse) - favorite map snipers. Narrow rectangle with a good sweep of extreme points, where the majority of team members and are reborn.
Class struggle

All of the above is true if you use "customizable classes" - a game that means, though, and offers the first five-harvested (in fact - set of weapons, units and equipment). Assault suit those who prefer the tactics of "running up and kill" (assault rifle, plus upgrades of armor and weapons), Scout is recommended to fans of stealth (in the kit included a shotgun), the classes Gunner and Sniper are unlikely explanation needed - by the way, sniper rifles in the game rather powerful. But with "camping" the developers are fighting a very original way: in order to get the award for a series of murders ( kill streaks ), must be collected from defeated enemies army special tokens. After collecting three, you can activate Maximum Radar - the location of enemies instantly displayed on the map at all sokomandnikov. Five murders can be exchanged for a more serious bonus - a blow to the orbit, blocking Nanosuit (empties the scale of energy at enemy players), and seven collected coins may even encourage the assault ship and aliens personally to arrange a reward from heaven (another award - Maximum Nanosuit, temporary berserker mode with unlimited energy). By the way, the type of awards for a series of killings depends on a card and game modes.

Labor regime

As for modes, there are no surprises - Crysis 2 diligently adhered to the letter and spirit of Black Ops , and does it very well. The most popular attractions are the Team Instant Action (team defmatch) and the Crash Site. The latter is only slightly different from the classical capture and hold points - the card drop capsule aliens (no more than one at a time) that must be taken under control and that explode from time to time, to appear in another place. Other modes also cause a strong feeling of deja vu: Instant Action (conventional "war of all against all»), Capture the Relay (Guess) and Assault (one team captures a point, while the other defends them.) In the latter, however, there is one catch: the defending team does not have Nanosuit, but enjoys heavy weapons, the attackers, by contrast, are armed only with pistols and light SMG, but they can enjoy all the benefits of nanotechnology. Finally, the mode Evacuation - yet another variation on Capture the Flag, only one team here has to take two special cans, and another - to protect them.

But the entire deficit of the original multiplayer mode Crysis 2 successfully redeems many phenomenally beautiful and well-designed cards - most of them are significantly remodeled the location of a single regime, but with different lighting, time of day and plenty of new nuances. Total arenas 12 (interestingly, that access to open gradually), and most certainly to be expected from Crytek new content packs are made ​​in the form of DLC.

Give a chance

Summarizing, we can say that the multiplayer in Crysis 2 is really a success. Huge (to open all need 60-70 hours of battle) and varied (the number of options for equipment, natural, off scale), it might be too much to copy from the standard of the genre and so is secondary - but Nanosuit saves the day, giving a truly new experience of familiar to all modes.

A gorgeous graphics and an improved, compared with a single campaign optimization can easily send the Black Ops to the dustbin of history - at least before the next Call of Duty , the inevitable, as the New Year.

Crysis 2

INFORMATION
Genre: FPS;
Number of Players: 1
The presence of a network game: there is
Web site: open
Release Dates
Russia: 03/28/2011
Europe: 25/03/2011
USA: 22/03/2011
DEVELOPER
Crytek
PUBLISHER
Russia: Electronic Arts Russia
Europe: Electronic Arts
USA: Electronic Arts

Magazine review«PC GAMES» 8.5

brief story Crysis 2



In 2007, Crytek and EA have released the PC shooter Crysis , and so far this game used to test computer graphics. Will the continuation of something big?

Speaking of Crysis , can not ignore the topic of graphic engines. Developed by Crytek technology Cryengine two baffled most powerful home computers, which one could buy. It really delivers the most realistic graphics on the market, but the system requirements too ahead of time. For the same reason Cryengine 2 was not ported to the console, although the first version of this technology (used in Farcry) to set-top boxes reached. Now, after a lapse of nearly four years, Crysis has got a full-fledged sequel ( Crysis: Warhead is not - it is still customary addition, even if issued on a separate drive), and even multi-platform. We especially were interested in how Crysis 2 looks and plays on the consoles - where iron is not pulled Crysis four years ago, has not changed - and, of course, how much the extension is different from the original.

Already in the first few minutes it becomes clear: no compromise in picture and sound. Scenes videos and actually play good look alike. Presenting the new gamers to the hero (with the call sign Marine Alcatraz), Crysis 2 immediately throws him into the thick of things, which brilliantly used the very same graphics technology, which are strong programmers Crytek. The story begins on board a submarine that goes to Manhattan - the city was attacked by aliens, and requires reinforcement. The submarine is attacked - and Alcatraz with his comrades have to hurry to evacuate. Once out on the beach, the hero is aware of the catastrophic situation, and as a result of certain events (I do not want them to repeat, not to spoil the impression by chance those who are just going to run Crysis 2 ) is a new and improved Nanosuit. Here, incidentally, gets the first gamer Achievement called "pull and whether he Crysis ? "- Yerli Tsevat can laugh at themselves.


Eighteen levels of Crysis 2 will be enough, even the most demanding gamers.
Of course, the top PC game looks better than on consoles. However, not so much that because of this cry and beat my head against the wall.

Alien mobile armor ("robots" in the terminology of vulgar igrozhurnalov) will certainly spoil you blood.
As for the game you can move around in cars and other vehicles, but in reality it is only necessary in one place.
New and new levels of only prove: Crysis 2 - high-quality, expensive game that looks equally good and in closed and open spaces. Do you surf on the streets of Manhattan, looking into whether the buildings, whether jumping across rooftops - anywhere graphics engine to do the job. Texture - crisp and colorful, or vague and murky - depending on what needs to game situation. Weapons, enemies, allies, the interior of buildings - not to say that quality of study models, something had to give up. The picture looks even better thanks to greater use of post-processing, like dynamic lighting and blurring of fast motion. Since the action of the game takes place in real-time gamer personally see how the time of the day - from dawn to dusk and beyond. Many games include pre-prepared set of textures - a "day" or a "night", but Crysis 2 calculates the image in real time, which adds an event plausibility.

In fairness it should be noted that the flaws in graphics is still there. The game can not keep in memory the entire level, so it often pops up in the trash screen in front of a hero. Takes a step back - and he disappears. Forward - reappears. With large objects, like skyscrapers, this does not happen ever, but on little things - annoying. However, this is the price for the quality of the picture on the iron of five years ago.

Visuals supplemented music, which has recorded with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Hans Zimmer, composer, winner of the "Oscar". However, at the forefront of his work extends only to the key plot rolls, the rest - is hiding in the background and creates the necessary mood. In-game sounds are made qualitatively, albeit without much zest. Alien spaceships explode as we always imagined - aloud.

However, all of the above would be useless if not for the wonderful graphics and music are backed up by good play. In the end, this was the main problem the first part of Crysis . Fortunately, the studio Crytek correctly perceived all the criticism and was able to remove the label with Crysis' graphics benchmark. " The protagonist of the game, as we wrote in the last issue - Nanosuit 2.0. It is based on alien technology and gives the owner of three unique features. Armor mode - to neutralize the enemy attacks, Speed ​​mode - to run faster and jump higher and Cloaking mode - for those who like to attack on the sly.

Impressions from the 3D
Publisher gave us a full set of consoles, games and TV with support for 3D, so that we can personally evaluate the new technology. Well, Crysis 2 - one of the few top games, which can take entirely in 3D, even without the use of active shutter glasses. Passive glasses show two pictures at the same time that we perceive as a three-dimensional image, but on the whole 3D effect are much more modest than in other steoreoskopicheskih games. That is to say, "departing from the screen" objects much smaller than in the same Killzone 3 . Due to this, 3D can really play long enough, and the deterioration of graphics in this mode is negligible.


Two dozen weapons - more than enough for even the most ardent fans of FPS.
In the darkness it is best to include night vision mode.
Their use of energy efficient, so gamers have to save and faithfully to choose the moments laid out trumps. Nanosuit fits perfectly into the mechanics of first-person shooters - kind of a cherry on the cake of traditional solutions and strategies. The fourth power suit - the tactical mode to help gamers navigate the battlefield. In fact, an advanced interactive map of the area that displays the opponents.

Nanosuit can upgrade by adding a permanent passive ability, such as accelerated recovery of energy or enhanced mode of disguise. You need to collect so-called "nanocatalysts" (Oh, how all this looks like a movie "Black Lightning"!. - Ed.), Which fall out of the corpses svezheubityh aliens (in a sense, you suck out of their DNA!) . In total there are 12 possible upgrades, four of which you can "equip" on Nanosuit. They can be changed depending on the situation, note only that at the time of conversion of the game does not pause, and the enemy may well kill you. This is done to maintain the momentum of battle - or a gamer on every occasion included a break and start thinking of what to do with a new challenge. However, the rest of control - fast, responsive and friendly.

Crysis 2

Developer: Electronic Arts

Shook the world series of environmental disasters, and humanity is on the verge of extinction. The aliens have returned with a determination to sweep of people from the face of the Earth and began with one of the most iconic cities.
The New York streets flooded by alien invaders and gradually engulfing the city and its residents have nightmares of the wave axis. Communication systems have been destroyed, the buildings of the city's politicians were in ruins. The New York you've never seen ' '.
No law enforcement organizations, nor the u.s. military authorities is not the time to avoid all the invaders and can cope, already dead. No earthly life in chaos that still have no idea where the troops we need technology.
One person will inherit something that will help him to survive. One super-soldiers armed with the latest technology of the future in the Nanosuit 2, take a desperate attempt to save mankind on the streets of New York.
Key features:
State of the art computer graphics, in any existing game unique
Alien inventive: You want it to be the world's most advanced artificial intelligence with the ability to coordinate the behavior of the whole group of characters and realistic response to your actions
Nanosuit 2: change combat tactics in real time, adjust the nanosuit and weapons, and your super soldiers will become more and more power
Multiplayer: Now a film collective action internationally acclaimed studio Crytek UK all Nanosuit 2 are available in multiplayer mode. Thanks to the almost unlimited possibilities, nanosuit technology, fighting will become even more interesting and more dynamic

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Compatible systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP