In console standards, was Crysis 2 underrated

A bit underrated to be precise? And CONSOLE standards, mind you. Because I know herms are still mad at Crytek for ditching huge open spaces from the first one. However, I still think that for a console game the technology powering it was pretty much groundbreaking, and the game still offered more sense of freedom than pretty much any other typical FPS on consoles. So, in retrospect, would you say that Crysis 2 was a bit underrated upon the release? As far as I'm concerned, my number one complain is the occasional tendency of AI to get braindead, what about you?

I thought the game looked really nice... but I didnt really rate the gameplay very highly.

The only good thing it had going for it were the graphics to be honest. The MP was a borefest with loads of camping and the campaign was really boring for the first half of the game. I had way more fun with Crysis Warhead to be honest.

never finished it.

and if i remember correctly, if you were shooting from far enough away the AI would literally just stand still while you unloaded on em.

I didnt much care for the game, but then again I enjoy call of duty campaigns, so by internet standards my opinion is meaningless.

the game was very uneven, the first half is kiinda boring, then the middle is good and then the ending is bad. Pretty but mediocre game.

Game had weak gameplay and was inferior to its predecessors(Crysis and Warhead). Not underrated at all. Game sucked.

Personally, I thought it was incredibly overrated at the time, but that died down big time once people had time to go and play it.

I had a very, very hard time finishing this game...and I played it back when it was new. It was NOT hard (although I played on hard), it was just boring. I play games for entertainment and the game failed me in that respect. After this game, I decided that I am not a fan of Crytek's design choices, they make pretty eye candy, but the actual games are very by the numbers.

I know some people like it, so I'm glad they felt they got their $60 worth.

I really enjoyed the campaign. I had a lot of fun for the short 8 hours it took me to finish. I can overlook the poor A.I. as crysis 2 campaign doesn't over welcome its stay

original far cry is underrated,

compared to the later titles and what ubi and crytek have done after,

crytek is a one hit wonder gaming wise.

they should re release an hd port of that game

It was actually overrated. There are much better FPSs on both HD twins.

Yes it is the second best looking game last gen behind crysis 3 on consoles. Mind you I'm referring to the 360 version. I'm not really sure why people knock crysis for it's gameplay, I mean you have stealth, sprint, armor, different visions, slide more. What exactly are these other fps games doing that is so much better?

Nope. Great game. Better than the its predecessor

I haven't played any of the crysis games.

wut?

I think the series is overall overrated.. however Crysis was the best out of the 3!!

I don´t mind Crysis franchise anymore . Far Cry 3 is my new Crysis. All heil Far Cry.

No was average. I think MP was underrate maybe, it had interesting design choice and decent map but they screw it up in Crysis 3 MP and make it even more like COD. Assault mode was fun because like playing campaign except good AI lol.

Crysis 2 is a shitty game for any kind of standards, just like Crysis 3. Crytek is mediocre

Far Cry 3 is my fav shooter of 2012 I love that game and I'm still playing it to this very day.

Yes, but Far Cry 3 was good and it was also developed by Ubisoft Montreal, not Crytek. Crytek did the first game, after that Ubisoft took it over...that is why FC3 is good. Crytek deserves zero credit for FC3.

Yeah crytek went down hill after they developed the original far cry

I agree. :P

Hold it there!

Crysis and Warhead were both excellent.

I've played all of them and I say:

Crysis 3 > Crysis 2 > Crysis

seriously, Crysis is so overrated by hermits its not even funny. Yes, its more open but what does that matters if its empty? Its even more agravating when gamers complained about the guards that see you from miles and miles away in Far Cry 2 when Crysis does the exact same sh*t. Oh, and dont get me started on the armor mode cause its pretty much worthless on Delta difficulty. Seriously, I beat the game on the highest difficulty and I spent most of the time crawling for HUGE junks of terrain and waiting for the energy metter to fill up between breaks to use stealth mode, just to not be spotted. Seriously, both Crysis 2 and 3 were more well paced games, that threw up most of the worthless sh*t Crysis 1 had.

The only thing Crysis 1 had for it was graphics. Its just an overglorified tech demo that hermits used to brag about their specs.

I generally agreed...I thought Crysis was an excellent tech demo for my GPU at the time. I remember shooting trees and watching my FR counter...but the game itself didn't do much for me. Still, that game and expansion were better than their recent stuff imo. I'll revise my statement and say that Crytek aren't as good as they were 2007-2008 (War).

Better game than all Killzones.

I thought so, sure the game had the flaw that you could essential stealth your way through the entire game... but what's the fun was that? Straight up fighting was a lot of fun, use of the stealth and armor controlled great and the suit upgraded nicely through the length of the campaign. It also had a solid MP mode that was a lot of fun, I didn't think much so during the beta testing / online MP demo or whatever it was but once I got a hang of things in the game itself the MP was a blast.

I think the greatest harm done to it was from the PC gamers who spent months before and after release exhausting themselves badmouthing the game, because they weren't pandered to, because it wasn't as beautiful looks as Crysis with mods running on a beefy PC. I thought the game was a huge improvement on gameplay though, and by console standards it looked magnificent.

I don't know if you played the PC version or console version of the same game. But, on the PC version (Delta), the KPA and aliens only shot at you from long range if you shot at them first. I can get relatively close to the KPA undetected without cloaking by using the abundant foliage and other cover.

As for Crysis 2, I liked it. I knew there's no way Crytek could make it as open as Crysis/Warhead because of the urban setting. I didn't care. The core gameplay was similar enough.

I played Crysis 2 on PC a couple weeks ago

The graphics are nice, very nice.

The gameplay itself, I didn't care for it.

It's not even about wide open spaces, it's about constantly having to stealth/recharge/stealth/recharge.

Throws off the pace and rhythm.

I remember I didn't have much fun playing through it, so I'd argue it isn't underrated at all.

Most of people which hated the game made knee-jerk reactions and failed to keep an open mind and assess the game's strengths based on its own merits.

@ Salt_The_Fries

Thats just how gamers are. Whiny lil babies.

The game wasn't underrated by console gamers. The game just sucked. Is this is what PC users brag about? This, Gears 3, and RAGE were so boring, I didn't even try to finish it.

Crysis 2>Crysis 3>Crysis

Pretty mediocre series overall though.

Didn't the console version run at like 20fps?

After playing it properly, I have to revert my opinion, it is a frustrating glitch-fest, with extremely short campaign and very shallow tactical choices. It pretends to be a quasi-sandbox but isn't EVEN THAT. The architecture doesn't tempt you to capitalize on different options, afte some time you'll end up following the line of least resistance, figuratively speaking. Even Halo games were more open than this. Not to mention more fun.

What is more, after some time, after a tremendous spike in difficulty, open fights are no fun and it's better to run past everyone, most abilities are almost useless.

The first half of the game Aliens were a total joke btw.

The plot is extremely poorly pronounced, and the game doesn't even want to keep your attention with regards to it. The overall atmosphere is neither epic nor even gritty, it's horribly stuck somewhere in-between.

What a waste of a theme song by Hans Zimmer. Its epicness is nowhere to be matched within the game. Kinda like The Avengers trailer with the NIN song "We're in this Together" vs the actual movie.

that what console version of nearly all games averaged at.

lmao consoles

Console gamers generally speaking, don't have sophisticated shooters. Shooters and the state they are in, can be primarily attributed to the rise of the Xbox. To the mind of a young console gamer person, Crysis 2 was most likely a revelation. However to a pc gamer such as myself, older, more experienced, it comes across as something of a crushing disappointment.

In general terms, when it comes to FPS and influence, influential console front runners such as halo can be attributed to a Micheal Bay movie with a hot girl, while influential pc titles like Halflife can be compared to a Akira Kurosawa masterpiece examining human nature.

It's just better.

I loved Crysis 2. My favorite in the series. Such a great game for me.

The worst thing about Crysis 2 is that there is no incentive to anything you do in combat If there was a more sophisticated leveling up involved a'la The darkness 2, that'd make more sense.

The game never had a chance. You had the PC crowd pissed off at Crytek for ruining the series and taking it in a different direction; then you had insecure cows bashing it because they couldn't face the truth that a multiplat game on the 360 was declared in the media as the best looking console game after so many were talking about how ps3 exclusives were untouchable in terms of visuals. As a matter of fact till this day in terms of technical and visual merits combined it was the most advanced game to come out on console from last gen.

It was overrated by console gameplay standards and overrated by PC graphics standards. It's just a bad game no matter what you play it on. C3 is worse though.

Crysis 1 is the only one worth mentioning tbh. Even the graphics in C1 are still the best of the 3 imo.

@uninspiredcup: Nah, I'm a console only gamer and Crysis 2 is one the most boring games I have played. Most of PC only games are boring as well, so I wasn't suprised at the suck in that game when I played it. It was originally a PC only franchise.

wasn't anything special. I played crysis on ps3 after finishing crysis 2 and crysis was way more fun to play

This. Way better than COD and Halo.

"in console standards"... oh god, pc idiots