Thursday 2 June 2011

The Aliens Cometh!

Review: Crysis 2 (360)






Crysis 2, Where to begin? There are so many great things about this game. Ehhhh I think I'll just talk about the graphics. If you thought Crysis one had amazing graphics then you need to slap yourself across the face a dozen times then play Crisis 2. It has by far the best graphics in any 360 game that I have ever seen (now call of duty wont do me justice). Graphics are not all that make up this game though, It does have some very interesting gameplay features and a wicked story line to go with it. Although I admit, sometimes in certain aspects the game seems very weak.


The guy you play as is called Alcatraz, and the game starts off you and your buddies on a submarine going to New York were aliens have invaded and started fuckin' shit up. Your sub gets blown up and the guy with the awesome body Armour called the nano suit (his names prophet as you get told LOTS), your all like diein' n' shit and he saves you. And for some weird reason he gives you his nano suit, which can let you turn invisible, have super strength and Boost the strength of the nano suit. You can implement them anywhere on the field to pull of some pretty cool strategies. (it does not make you invincible D:)

The enemies is this game are kind of stupid sometimes and other time really annoying like being in places you don't want them to be, I was sitting on top of a builing waiting for this guy to turn away from me so I could shoot him... There was another guy behind me... I died....
BUT to counteract this you can go into this visor mode thing and mark out enemies and ammo crates onto your HUD (very useful). SO before EVERY combat engagement you can look at where the baddies are :D


There are alien dudes called the ceph (pronounced cef duh) They're pretty much a little jelly thing in a suit of Armour.. And for some reason they're attacking New York and killing all the people. I wont really explain much about it. I don't really want to spoil anything for people. :3


Raaa I'm an alien :3 yea....

ANYWAY There's allot of cool shiz in this game so it's definitely worth buying/renting which ever. I rented it over night and I think I finished it at around 3am, around 9 hours standard FPS time.
Oh and one more topic: Multiplayer.

I never got into a match even though I tried, I just gave up after a while. But there was about 10 thousand people playing I think so I have no idea why I didn't get into a game. Oh well.

Meta score 8/10

Pros:
Lots of different play styles.
Good range of different tasks.
ISN'T boring!
Amazing Graphics.

Cons:
Multiplayer is dying down a bit.
Not worth playing in standard definition, You need 1080p.