crysis 2 singleplayer is terrible.

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Got the game today been playing for a few hours, and I must say its awfull.
Runs ok, looks pretty in some spots, but it is boring as hell, storyline sucks, gameplay very average

Unless u can get it really cheap, or are only interested in multiplayer, dont buy it.

[Tera]

I'm finding the single player much more enjoyable than the orignal.

[Nightstaar]

A new thread just for that? Really?

[DarkMellie]

Such an amazingly detailed review, I feel compelled to heed your opinion.

In a similar flavour;

I really like the SP for Crysis 2. Starts out a bit iffy, but works up to be awesome fun. Linear corridor shooter sure, but when the corridor is so freakin' big I don't care, maps invite multiple playthroughs. Great balance too... can stealth through the game quite easily, but then you miss out on nanites from fallen aliens with which to boost your nanosuit.

Get this as soon as it's affordable to you, it's good fun.

[Rnegade]

I am with Dark on this one, I am busy playing through the single player and I am having a great time. The 1st half hour or so was a bit average and its funny, today I found myself saying "I want the Aliens already!" where as with number 1 and warhead I wasn't enjoying them as much.

Mainly because I want the suit mods and upgrades but its a good challenge. 2mins after i had that request i found myself up against 5-6 of the suckers which was great and then a few more battles.

I am enjoying the story actually, sick of being called Prophet tho! haha. Seems I don't correct them either, ohwell.

I think I will up my difficulty setting tho, i set it to easiest i am pretty sure to start with but think I will step that up to almost the hardest and make it a good challenge. I LOVED playing c1 through on the hardest setting more then the others.

Anyways, my recommendation is GET THIS GAME for the SP, MP will be a side line option. If you have a mate or two to play MP with, then you will get more out of it, i am not enjoying playing with randoms in MP, but then again, i haven't spent much time at all in MP online.

GO CRYSIS2!!!

[CosmicBlue]

Got the game today been playing for a few hours, and I must say its awfull.
Runs ok, looks pretty in some spots, but it is boring as hell, storyline sucks, gameplay very average

Unless u can get it really cheap, or are only interested in multiplayer, dont buy it.

It's a ~16hr SP m8 you may wanna play a bit more of it to get the full idea, like others have said it gets better as you go through.

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[It's a ~16hr SP m8 you may wanna play a bit more of it to get the full idea, like others have said it gets better as you go through.

im on level 10 of 18 after about 4-5 hrs ,vet difficulty, its running out of time to be good.
sorta like a lame cross between halo, half life2, and bioshock, im sure most crysis fans expected better.

[DarkMellie]

Hi. My name is DarkMellie, I'm a Crysis fan!



Nah really, each to their own man. It's a shame you're not enjoying it!

[yiker]

Hi DarkMellie! Everyone welcome Dark to our special group. We're here to support each other....

I haven't been as engaged in a story since Mass Effect 2. I didn't WANT to spend most of yesterday playing and not writing silly assignments about constructivism, but there you go.

Compared to something inane like Homefront, this has balls. Black Ops is just a continuation of previous titles. This has substance.

But each to their own. I hope you give it more of a chance. I believe it deserves it.

[DarkMellie]

Black Ops is just a continuation of previous titles. This has substance.

Excellent point.

[Rnegade]

Its interesting, I had my youngest bro inlaw watch me playing a bit oc C2 yesterday and he was engroused after about 5 mins with the story line (we were some where near the section when you have to go find the 2nd chair and your about to rumble with a bunch of aliens and CELL guys.

Anyway, he asks "do you have to play number 1 for this to make sense?" I thought about it while i strangled a alien and then blew up 2 more with some C4 and replied "Well, I guess it will help put some of the peices together but you dont have to, but i would recommend it".

When his old man said its time to leave, he was pretty pissed as he was getting into it.

Guess that shows how some dont get into it easily and others really do.

I am enjoying the cut scense, flash backs and other info that we are collecting along the way.

[Soz]

I think the game establishes a really nice atmosphere at the start, the cages full of decaying bodies and all the people suffering from the spores scattered around struggling. Though the confronting atmosphere gets broken once they decided to copy and paste the people all over the game with action loops and zero interactivity. The scene with the lady screaming "They took my children" is probably the most memorable part of the whole game.

But I feel that the game rapidly degrades as you suddenly find yourself becoming a faceless nameless grunt taking orders from random radio people.

*SPOILER ALERT*
The whole hunt for Gould was quite interesting, there was a sense of vulnerability as you are on the run and still new to the game. Also Gould represented a piece of the puzzle that would help explain the situation you are in. But I feel like after all the effort Gould was a complete let down, the revelation that "We're getting our asses kicked but squid," and "I can't do this man," suddenly shoves the focus of the entire early part of the game into the background and sets you on a completely different path.

At this point you've got a good handle on the nanosuit and human targets should have completely stopped being a threat, the game just did not seemed to be designed in a way that provides difficulty for users of stealth mode. There aren't enemies positioned to get in the way of you advancing into good positions and the extremely lackluster AI makes watching enemies search for you a complete joke, especially if you have a silenced weapon on elevated ground.

The entire section with Barclay where you work with soldiers to fight aliens is also quite bland, it's just a series of getting to a location, jumping on a turret, blasting aliens who advance towards you all from the same direction, rince, repeat. The occasional Ceph ship battle is kind of interesting as you hop from cover to cover retrieving weapons to deal with the threat. Alien Brutes are also quite lacking in threat once you work out you can just strafe around them with a shotgun or take them out quickly with a K-Volt. The big walkers are simply tedious to deal with, not entirely difficult but very time consuming. Overall I think I would have liked to see more enemy variety or at least better tactics used and less generic level designs. That's not to say the levels themselves aren't beautiful but the playing areas you end up in become quite repetitive.

The game does however redeem itself a bit at the end when you mount your assault in the central alien structure, the ability to fall to your death felt a bit unnecessary however the number of aliens and their placement as well as the slightly reduced availability for cover and overall layout provided quite a lot more fun in terms of challenge. I also would have much preferred more opportunities to deal with the cloaked Ceph that appear at the end of the game, it seems such a waste for them to have restricted such an interesting enemy to a single encounter.

*SPOILER END*

Overall I think that the game is decent, moderately enjoyable single player, multiplayer is quite fun if not a bit limited compared to other shooters. However the game had a lot of potential to be much better that it didn't seem to meet. The single player feels schizophrenic and unfinished, being able to use a microscope in the game as well as phones that don't work seem like awful wastes of time when there's a bunch of copy and pasted NPCs that cannot be interacted with. Having the hold down the throw button to do a big throw also severely limits the fun you can have with explosives (Even with power throw it doesn't go very far). Though I highly recommend everyone to try powerkicking a car as a weapon at least once, this is especially fun against brutes.

[Theyleon]

Good write up Soz, and I agree with most of it.

The multiplayer has been growing on me as I play it more, the cloak and armour mechanic adds enough to the gameplay to not make it a simple COD clone. I do hope something is done about the SCAR however, just like in the demo almost everyone is using it and nothing else. The fact that pirate copies can go online also doesn't bode well for the hacker situation - I saw at least 4 different blatant hackers yesterday.

[awaisroxs]

Got the game today been playing for a few hours, and I must say its awfull.
Runs ok, looks pretty in some spots, but it is boring as hell, storyline sucks, gameplay very average

Unless u can get it really cheap, or are only interested in multiplayer, dont buy it.

story line 5/5
gameplay -5/5
Graphics 3.5/5
overall
3.5/15

[Soz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4w7f3Zp ... age#t=106s
I think this sums up the single-player pretty well.