Crysis 2 delayed, Need for Speed Shift 2 announced

Hmm ... so Crysis 2 is going to come out late !! ... but I don't think they are doing the right thing !! ... as a matter of face the RAGE also backed down from releasing this year and moved to the 2011 ... and there is other good games like DRAGON AGE 2 and Dead Space 2 has gone back ... and maybe DIABLO 3 is going to come out next year too !! ... and again SHIFT 2 !! WOW ... and no matter how good a game is it's still tough to survive in business competition ... I just hope it won't go down ... and still I would very much like it if it come out this year somehow !!.

@PenthiusX No, it isn't sad; the ragdoll physics presented by Crysis offers nothing new and indeed made a lot of steps back. Virtually every game nowadays, shooter or not, has a rag doll physics, and a lot of games pre-Crysis offers a ragdoll physics too much better, as you can see in Painkiller, Freedom Fighters, Half-Life 2, various Tomb Raiders, Call of Duties, Call of Juarez and a lot more, don't even asking you to have a futuristic PC. And I'm saying "Rag-Doll Physics", i.e., the bodies physics, not the materials physics like bottles, crates and whatnot, because these physics, Crytec made a good job. And no, I didn't play Crysis with the effects off; I don't have a next-gen PC indeed, but I think my Athlon 64 6000 with a GeForce 9600 256bit with 1Gb and 2Gb RAM can run Crysis 1 very well, to say the least.

Need for Speed Shift 2???????

Delay isn't always a bad thing , they will have more time polishing it to be better.

This delay has nothing to do with polishing up the game and everything to do with avoiding what looks to be a bad Christmas season retail sales-wise and to avoid the annual juggernaut of Call of Duty Black Ops. Hell Medal of Honor is going to have a hard enough time competing with Halo Reach and Call of Duty. When little Johnny only has $130 to spend on games this Christmas neither Crysis or MOH will be on the list. The problem is that a lot of games are getting moved to the late winter/spring release so that field will be over crowded as well.

If that's what it takes to make Crysis 2 as good as it can be, I'm cool with that.

I don't know, maybe EA learned their "rushing games out makes them horrible" lesson with APB. If so, then congratulations!

So upset that crysis is being held back but it aint all bad seeing how we've got loads of good games coming out by the end of the year (except for Cod), cant wait for Vanquish, halo reach, NFS:Hot pursuit (again), Medal of honor, dead space 2 and GR:Future warfare.

Dead Space: Ignition could work on the PSP, DS, and Cell phone; I bet the main Dead Space games could also work on a PSP and maybe the 3DS, but not on the Cell phone.

@Scottopia . NFS Hot Pursuit comes this year too :-) And yes , they are good .

Fking knew it, thats EA for you.

Wait... how many Need For Speed games they have coming out this year? I thought it was just World? Ah, well. I haven't played a NFS game since Underground 2, but it seems like they're kinda bunching them together. Are any of the newer games good?

Bah Humbug for the delay!!!

@ mardinn lol, ACTUALLY blizzard is notorious for delaying games or outright cancelling games that dont meet their standards, starcraft 2 was one of the first they didnt have a date set in stone until the very end. not that delaying a game for quality control is ever a bad thing as it always has worked for them and im sure crytek knows what they are doing.

Two NFSs in 6 months...hopefully they'll be good,but this is usually a recipe for disaster...I don't want NFS to end up like street fighter which is now just sad,they pop a new SF every 6 months...same stuff,new package...

However much I like when a developer takes time on a game. I'm dissapointed with the Crysis 2 delay :(.

@ Robinvd1986 Yeah, like it's been less than three years since Crysis came out - so that's pretty far-fetched. Still, not too far off. It would be cool if they released a demo slightly earlier for the PC-gamers.

haha i a knew it that Crysis 2 would get a delay. late 2010 was way to fast to release the next installment of the franchise.

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What a bombastic announcement! Who would expect an announcement of a new NFS with Hot Pursuit being already in development? No one. It seems NFS Shift has become a sub-franchise from EA.

Stupid Crytek.. No one can hold onto schedules. Blizzard at least announces it and hold up to the schedule unlike other companies.. even if it takes 10 years.

PEOPLE: CRYSIS IS NOT AN EA GAME !!!!

to be honest i am glad because it seemed to me that it looked horrible

@GodGundamNT1 whats the point of comparing it to halo? not like halo ever had amazing graphics/storyline or anything ,only its multiplayer is good ,and yes i had the chance to play crysis on low settings with my older pc and it still looked better than that microsofts money cow with stupid looking space suits and even uglier aliens.

NFS Shift 2 I can't wait for the massive online play :D

We'll have plenty of games to play until Crysis 2 comes out so I'm not worried.

Crysis 2 is going to own.

I don't mind game delays... better than rushing the game out unfinished

too bad crysis is delayed. who cares abt nfs shift 2. its been a waste ever since undercover. no one wants nfs anymore

@GabrielOnuris Crysis --> "shameful out of date ragdoll broken physics".........Really??!! i can tell ur system may not have been up to date but accusing a game for something it didn't do is just sad.

lol everyone wants to avoid call of duty

The Dead Space brand is spreading faster than a necromorph infestation. LOL

Yeah, I knew they were going to delay Crysis 2. A game with great graphics on all platforms has a lot of bugs to fix. Awells, at least it gives me time to upgrade my computer.

that sucks (Crysis 2)...one less game I have to buy during holidays though

Wow. A big company giving time to the little company to put out a proper sequel? EA learned something from Blizzard.

Damm it, C2 is delayed, i was waiting for it.

I was waiting for C2, hopefully it's delayed for good.

i was waiting crysis 2 bad news

saw it coming with Crysis 2, really. They haven't shown off nearly enough for it for it to be coming out any time soon.

Crysis 2 delayed? Meh! I still haven't even beaten the first... I think there's something wrong with the version installed on my PC. As long as Star Wars The Old Republic doesn't get delayed I'll be fine.

That's just great,just great!Crysis 2 delayed,WTF!

For me, if a racing game is not an illegal drag, it is not fun. shift 2? please. they only want to compete with Forza. just keep truthful to the brand and stop copying the ones who tried to copy you. EA = brands destroyer.

it is ea so realy crysis 2 should come out faster and worst. like the rest of there games.

Another SHIFT? WOO-HOO! I can't wait. And please put the ferrari's in the pc version so I can get some more fun out of my fanatec wheel and pedals! Or atleast make the car packages downloadble and purchaseable thru steam for the pc versions!

danggit! i want crysis 2 so badly

NFS Shift, AGAIN? Really, EA doesn't give up, they will push this fail sim race game down our throats again. If so, try to call it another name but "Need For Speed", you are forgetting its roots. Its a street game, not track one, as @admiral_picard said. Try something different like put the sims features into a street racing, and see what happens. Now, Crysis 2 delay... maybe this time they will realize that bombastic-future graphics would do better if it has decent gameplay instead of those shameful out of date ragdoll broken physics, and a real plot, instead of the saturated brainless "shoot the hell out of the aliens" shooter. Btw most of all will be able to play crysis 2 a couple of years after it's release, no matter what we do, it's system requirements will always make a time travel to the future and come back.

ohhh...that's not good news.

OMG oh boy.. oh boy! i cant wait for shift 2!! NFS IS SOO MUCH FUN! oh wait, i am just kidding...

You can't rush perfection so am not mad at crytek for pushing Crysis2 to 2011. but I do hope this means crysis2 will have a long single player campaign coz of late fps campaigns have beeen getting shorter and shorter, which to me is not good coz I consider the campaign to be the core experience of the game, and the mp just a bonus to play after beating the main game(campaign). So please crytek give us a sp campaign of decent length. Anyway am certain crysis2 will kick major a$$.

Shift 2? No. Not that again. Noooooooooooo!