I like the hologram, reminds me of duke nukem 3d, but the multiplayer looks like a future cod. At least Crysis Wars/ Crysis 1 mp was unique, power struggle was pretty damn fun and tactical, and the nanosuit and ingame customization of weapons made it so much better. Now we are down to 12 players, and looks like no PS. This is what pisses me off, crytek copies too much.
Far cry 1 - Great game until trigens (mini hell knights from doom 3) come out but still okay.
Crysis - Great game until Aliens come out (the matrix) but alien gameplay dull as shit (warhead fixed this somewhat) - the only cool alien was the hunter that could throw you.
Crysis 2 - Aliens look like a cross between halo/transformers. MP is MW2 in the future essentially (maybe better, maybe worse - need to play it first)
The thing that will make or break crysis 2 for PC - custom level and mod support.
Crysis was hurt by having to download every single fucking map from a site, Crysis Wars it was fixed with an autodownloader but they lost a lot of players already by DROPPING SUPPORT for crysis. Hell, crysis wars should have been a free patch for crysis - although i will say a lot of the new maps were cool, and the game was a lot better overall.
More people play the MECHWARRIOR MOD then the original game. That’s just sad. At least the mapping community is still alive, because the editor is an amazing tool.
I’m not one for graphics, but for crysis - that’s kind of the point (Crysis 1 being fun for the first half was a big surprise to me) Crysis 2 (for PC anyway) i fear will suffer, not because the engine is worse, but because of time constraints and an overall lack of detail. Crytek says that the PC version won’t lose any focus but we’ve yet to see one truly amazing looking picture like we saw with crysis. And the sandbox seems much smaller, more like a series of non-linear areas in levels. Crytek is a pretty good company, but I hope they stay true to their roots and push the boundaries of everything, and not just one platform(I say that because every multiplat ends up looking the same on xbox and ps3 anyway) and forget about the PC.