There's already been some posts about this in the What are you playing thread. I downloaded it last night and have played maybe twenty minutes. It's very good, despite being in beta.

It seems to run very well on Medium (and an average 25 fps on High) and I have two year old hardware, but that could be because it's quite consolified. The game still looks really good, and it plays really well. Haven't yet found where to customise the graphics though, it seems as if there are only three different settings and not a custom setting.

There's no way to customize graphics in the beta version other than manually tweaking the game's config file.

Yeah I didn't think there was. I have no doubt there'll be a custom menu in the retail copy.

From what I can tell, going entirely by word of mouth, they're neutering everything I liked about the first game.

From what I can tell, going entirely by word of mouth, they're neutering everything I liked about the first game.

What was that? I can confirm it for you.

The main thing I've noticed people complaining about is the fact that instead of just giving you rather loose objectives and letting you solve how to do them yourself, the game insructs you in the various options you can take. That takes out a lot of the fun for me.

 Also the setting just blows, I liked the jungle.

The main thing I've noticed people complaining about is the fact that instead of just giving you rather loose objectives and letting you solve how to do them yourself, the game insructs you in the various options you can take. That takes out a lot of the fun for me.

 Also the setting just blows, I liked the jungle.

I haven't really noticed the thing about not giving you loose objectives, from what I've seen they give you at least two or three ways to do something. They certainly don't tell you how to do it though.

Personally I prefer the city to the jungle, I'm not sure why I just felt as if the island wasn't inspired. To much of a look back at Far Cry.

One thing you might not like about it is how streamlined they've made the nanosuit now. From what I've seen there's only a armour mode and a stealth mode, and strength mode only gets activated whenever you do strength things (like holding spacebar to jump high, etc). But on the flipside of those changes they've also made the nanosuit customisable by using "alien tissue" or some such to upgrade things and unlock new abilities for your nanosuit like being able to see bullet trajectories to dodge them, or make your armour mode last longer, etc.

I'm liking it.

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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/dead-men-crysis-2/710562

dis trailer is fucking sweet.

so i have been playing the multiplayer demo for a few hours this morning.

the multiplayer is so much better than in the original crysis. gone are the overly huge maps and new nanosuit is so much better. the upgrading system is nice since all the suit modules actually have impact on the way you play the game and they are pretty cool. i really like both maps in the demo, they aren't too big but big enough so that you aren't constantly fighting someone and you have time to look around and be sneaky and make use of your nanosuit's powers and heat vision. plus the levels are pretty vertical which is cool, i just wish power jumping didn't use so much of your suit's power.

there's one thing i really dislike though. whenever you hit someone or you're hit, you can't sprint right away even if you were hit in middle of sprinting. it essentially makes you a sitting duck in many situations and it kinda sucks because you die pretty quickly. it's good that armor mode doesn't make you a complete bullet sponge but they really need to let you sprint freely. another mildly annoying thing is that normal jump and power jump are both mapped to space (holding space for a bit results in power jump) and sometimes you accidentally do power jump even if you don't want to. there should be an option to map them in different keys.

anyway, other than that i'm really liking it so far. add me if you wanna play sometime. my nick is RikuFIN.

here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW1CwwyQq-U