Crysis 2: Official Thread

Story:

Players control Alcatraz, a Force Recon Marine; the successor to Nomad – the main protagonist from the first game. As Alcatraz, players gain ownership of the Nanosuit 2 from Prophet, who returns from the original Crysis. Crynet Systems has been hunting Prophet to retrieve the suit, inadvertently pursuing Alcatraz, believing he is Prophet. The Nanosuit 2 gives players less freedom in their options for tackling situations on the battlefield. The aliens seen in the original game have undergone a major redesign, transforming their ancient, tentacled exosuits into high-tech armored cyborg war machines that stalk the ravaged Faux York City.

Console Comparison:

• 360 runs at native 720p, PS3 runs at 1024×720
• PS3 version is stretched horizontally leaving a ‘stretched’ effect
• Occasional tearing but is basically invisible during gameplay
• Both versions employ temporal AA and also use edge detect blur for the foreground
• PS3 has better texture filtering
• 360 has better framerate than PS3 version
• In the most stressful areas PS3 actually manages to hold the framerate a bit better than the 360 even though the 360 commands the framerate advantage
• Shadow offset issues on PS3 but on closer inspection the PS3 shadows are less blocky

Screen Captures I took:

My videos of singleplayer and multiplayer are rendering now and should be up soon on the homepage with my impressions.