To the newbe's....it may be a question....what is Crysis?
No i am not talking about any economical state or natural disaster...Crysis is a science fiction first-person shooter pc game developed by Crytek Frankfurt, published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, and released in November 2007.
Crysis uses Microsoft's new API, Direct3D 10 (DirectX 10) for graphics rendering, and includes the same editor that was used by Crytek to create the game. The game runs on a new engine (CryEngine 2) that is the successor to Far Cry's CryEngine. CryEngine 2 is among the first engines to use the Direct3D 10 (DirectX 10) framework of Windows Vista, but can also run using DirectX 9, both on Vista and Windows XP.
Roy Taylor, Vice President of Content Relations at NVIDIA, has spoken on the subject of the engine's complexity, stating that Crysis has over a million lines of code, 1 GB of texture data, and 85,000 shaders.
Crysis is often used as a benchmark in computer tests, as Crysis at the highest settings and resolutions required processing power from computers that was unfeasible when it was first released. In its time the game was so demanding on previous computer hardware that the catchphrase "Yeah, but can it play Crysis?" was frequently added to graphics card reviews.
To the geeks and freaks,Crysis was a milestone in gameplay and gaming environment or graphics.
Now EA decided to extend their deal with Crytek to publish Crysis 2, due for release on Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360 in 2010.
It is the sequel to the 2007 game.It will be the first game to use the new CryEngine 3 development engine. A one minute teaser was released during Electronic Arts' E3 2009 conference. A trailer was released in the 2009 Game Developers Conference, showing footage from the new CryEngine 3 . On April 9th, a CGI trailer of the game was released, which announced the release date of 'Holiday 2010'
This post contains some more news and a new trailer of Crysis 2.....released worldwide on April 9,2010.
The "Kombo" (360.kombo.com) said that - "Earlier in the week, Kombo and a number of other media outlets were sent to New York City to partake in the festivities of the word premier unveiling of Crysis 2. Since the first game was a PC title, it's probable that not many of you ever played the game, but if you did, you likely remember the mesmerizing graphics. Home console gamers will now be treated to those very same graphics and it's going to be a joyride for all involved.
The A.I. is very intelligent this time around and utilizes cover and evasions techniques far more than they did in Crysis. This was further demonstrated when two aliens flanked the player. Instead of being flanked, he met with one of the aliens head-on and began to shoot the gigantic beast with a shotgun and threw a melee attack with the butt of the weapon at him which caused it to step-back and the secondary alien attacked from the player from the side. During the battle with just that one alien, the vision and location of the secondary alien was completely lost. It soon retreated back towards a building, but it wasn't getting away. Several rounds of grenade fire were shot surrounding it, thus leading to its explosive demise.
Crytek knows how to make great graphics and after Crysis, no one should ever doubt what this team can create. Despite being early in the development stages, the demonstration looked amazing and was already running beautifully on the Xbox 360 hardware. With the advanced physics engine in place, all the destructible environments gave off a realistic vibe with the way the rocks fell and reacted upon crashing down to the concrete road. Killzone 2 may currently be the best looking FPS, but, based on this footage, it has just been outdone. The city of New York was amazingly rendered so realistically that you'll feel like you are serving mankind and the city is its last saving grace. If you can protect this city, then you can protect the whole world. It's still many months away from completion, but what was shown will impress all shooting fans."The first teaser trailer of Crysis 2 was -
The trailer released on the worldwide premire was named as "The Wall" trailer.This is a demo trailer of Crysis 2 containing PROBABLY all in-game graphics and shows the new type of aliens.
Here are three more videos on crysis 2,one is "Demo Reel" -
Second is "WireFrame" -
Second is "WireFrame" -
And third one is "Nanosuit Trailer" -
The story - Crysis 2 takes place in a ravaged and destroyed New York City after aliens invade and begin their assault on mankind. Equipped with advanced alien weaponry and intelligence, these aliens are ready to takedown mankind once and for all after failing to do so in Crysis. Everything in New York is consumed by flames and you are the last to fend off these invaders and save the world from the brink of destruction. To properly give you the power necessary to complete this task is the Nanosuit 2, the most advanced piece of technology on the planet.
There are two different looks of the game, one with you battling against Crynet Security, whom are PMC. In this first section they are the bad guys, but the game's story will become far more complex than that and the Crynet story is deep and volatile. The actual gameplay shown here was intense and graphically very rewarding. It opened with your character perched on a building looking at the roofs of the surrounding New York structures. The player then zoomed into Crynet Security PMC members patrolling a rooftop and you hear them talking about your character. Expanding on the abilities found in Crysis, you'll be able to enter a longer invisibility mode this time around for stealth gameplay, and that's exactly what happened here. By going invisible for sneak attacks, the player was able to wait until the moment was right to shoot an enemy or use a sneak melee attack to neutralize the soldier. Of course, we also saw some intense gunning action in this section, too. After exiting the cloaking ability, the player slowly stalked a soldier by watching them walk behind several solar panels and then opened fire, completely destroying the solar panels and the soldier, but this alerted more soldier who were stationed across the way, whom proceeded to fire in you direction. To start off this attack with a bang, one enemy was shooting machine gun round in your vicinity, but the other one shot a rocket, which caused the rock structure to fall apart and forced the player to move to a new location for better protection. This gameplay demonstration utilized all the functions of the Nanosuit 2. Stealth was used, increased armor protection against bullet fire, and sensory to listen in on enemy communication.
The second gameplay section shown had the player battling the alien invaders. This scene opened up with your character being captured and taken away by Crynet. After boarding a helicopter to evacuate the area, a sudden quaking occurs just before the building by your side gets destroyed by an alien attack, thus causing your chopper to crash and leaving you in the middle of an incoming alien attack. What differentiates this building destruction from other games was that the building didn't appear to be static or have a different color palette to it from the rest of the outside world. Although the game was setting up for an attack to occur, everything happened so fast and seamlessly, the destruction of the building looked natural and it kept the whole environment feeling alive as one thing and left you wondering where the attack would be coming from.
The rest....is coming..........
Personally i am really dyng to play this game....what about you?
