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Twisted
March 24th, 2011, 13:07
Hai dur.
Well, I just picked up Crysis 2 about, 8 hours ago? Played it for about 5, and there is some positives and negatives.
Firstly, the campaign.
This was the first thing I played and finished in about 4 hours, that is its first flaw. To me, it was WAY to short, Red Dead Redemption took me 3 days to complete 100%, but 4 hours to finish an entire game's campaign? Arg.
Also another problem with the campaign is the Checkpoints or display points or what ever they are called, the things that point you to where you're supposed to be or to an important location.
Sometimes, I don't know if my game was glitched or that's how it is, but it didn't show sometimes. I was mindlessly walking around trying to find my way to the next location.
And other times, when it does show up, its half way across the damn map and takes AGES to walk there. This is only a SMALL flaw, but an annoying one for me.

Also, (SPOILER), there is a mission where you go into this guys lab to destroy his shit cause the enemies want it, and I don't know If I am just docile as fuck, but you are supposed to locate a elevator to ride it to the top, it took me 10 minutes to find it, and I can guarantee if I play through the campaign again, I won't find it a second time. And the SAME level, after you cleared out the room and destroyed the guys hardware, a chopper comes and the guy over your little intercom thingy says for you to get out. So I explored for 5 minutes a route to get out, there was none. No-one, not the mission objective, not anyone over the intercom, not the mini-map, nothing told me you had to fucking destroy the helicopter, so it flies threw the building and gives you a way out.. Annoying..

Anyway, enough of the bad shit, lets get onto the good shit.
Overall, the campaign was fun, but annoying at times. It had some cool characters, an awesome story line, and over-all was action-packed.
But I was playing on the 3rd setting, and holy shit it was hard. The second last level especially, running out of ammo, trying to find some, dying, and repeat until I finally one.

Multiplayer is FUCKING EPIC, only 2 words to describe it. Fucking epic.
Its a mixture of COD, Halo and Battlefield BC rolled into one nice little package.
The lagg is almost unnoticeable, we got a 2bar game and the hit detection was still 50x better than on other similar games.
The guns, well I don't know I played for about an hour and only got to level 13. Shit I know, but I was more trying to get the layout of the maps.
The 2 assault rifles I have, the SCAR is sweet, and the jackel I think its called is decent.
The class loadout system is sweet, although the stronger armor ability might be a little bit overpowered, but eh.
And overall, its just action-packed, filled with just killing and repeat. Awesome game.

Singleplayer- 3/5
Multiplayer 5/5

I know I sound like some hardcore gaming guru, but meh.
Good game, overall 8/10

:D

Sunni
March 24th, 2011, 14:38
Thanks for the review I was wondering about this game.

Spear
March 24th, 2011, 14:40
Same here. Have you tryed out Homefront yet?

Sunni
March 24th, 2011, 14:40
Same here. Have you tryed out Homefront yet?

This.

Journal
March 24th, 2011, 22:11
Thanks for this.
I was debating on getting AC Brotherhood, TFU II, Crysis 2, or AC Brotherhood, TFU II, and Kane and Lynch 2 Dog Days but this pretty much sealed the vote ^.^

Twisted
March 25th, 2011, 00:47
Homefront, I haven't bought it cause I was tossing and turning between Crysis 2 and Homefront.
I personally think I made the right decision.
A lot of people where complaining about the server issues, how you can't play with friends cause it kicks everyone else out but the leader.
Also apparently the guns are all the same.
Killsteak system is bad.
And the drone is overpowered.
That's what I heard.


Also forgot to mention that Crysis 2 has unique killstreaks for every map. You can change the killstreaks, so its not MW2 where its just easy as shit to get kills and easy as shit to get killstreaks.
You get 3 killstreaks, 3 - 5 - 7, they change depending on the map to alien killstreaks like the UAV, Some thing that disables armor and a spaceship flying around and owning people. So no over-powered killstreaks like MW2 and even Black op's, everyone gets the same.
Also the dog-tag system is awesome but challenging, normally in most games you kill people and you get + 1 on your killstreak, on Crysis 2, you kill the enemy and you need to run over to where you killed him to pick up his dog-tag to get killstreak + 1.

This ELIMINATES camping completely if they want a killstreak, but it is also challenging to get over to the dog-tag before someone mows you down XD

Daedalus
March 25th, 2011, 08:55
Already had it pre-ordered, and installing it now :)

Twisted
March 25th, 2011, 14:06
Played it a bit more today, there is 1 map I REALLY hate, I can't remember its name, but its in like an apartment that has been blown to hell, or some kind of building, and some of it is on an angle.
I fucking HATE that map, the spawns in it are terrible, 9/10 times I find myself spawning next to someone, and its so small people just run around with shotguns and SMG's hipfiring like nuggest.

Apart from that, still good.
Level 17.

Daedalus
March 26th, 2011, 03:02
kekekeke look at the way this guy died when I snapped his neck.
Only the registered members can see the link.

Twisted
March 26th, 2011, 03:58
kekekeke look at the way this guy died when I snapped his neck.
Only the registered members can see the link.

I just noticed you had 5 months online, holy shit.
And nice.

violetnine33
March 26th, 2011, 04:02
i cant wati till i get.. it looks like it is going to be a very sick game..

Daedalus
March 26th, 2011, 15:51
I just noticed you had 5 months online, holy shit.
And nice.

Oh ahh lol, I know :P I'm always browsing what's new on RuneLocus, and what's worthy to post on xD

OT: Theres only 1 down-side to this game, and that's the graphics settings ... You can't set it any lower then High.

Twisted
March 27th, 2011, 00:39
Once after playing it a bit more and more, there are a few more flaws.
Namely, getting shot, go into armor mode, and die with 1 extra bullet, like I didn't even go into armor mode, which I did but I think that is a glitch.
Really annoying, I have gotten into a habit of as soon as I get shot I go into armor mode, and a couple of situations, guy behind me, shoots me, I go into armor mode, he shoots a bit of my armor of, I turn around, strafe and own him.
Other situations, guy behind, shoots me, I go into armor mode, he shoots me once and I die.

It quite annoying, knowing that you're supposed to be alive but dead to this possible glitch -.-'
Few more as well, will post more later.

Journal
March 28th, 2011, 01:48
Do you still think the game is good?