The highly customizable Nanosuit returns as the new and improved ‘Nanosuit 2’. The new suit is essentially a more streamlined version of the previous suit and will allow the usage of multiple power modes simultaneously. Gamers can use strength, increase armour strength, use stealth and use a Tactical Visor to scan for information.
Living in the city, you know you gotta survive.
Unlike the original Crysis and the Far Cry series, which took place in a jungle environment, Crysis 2 will take place in New York city, which in this game, is an urban wasteland. This new setting will provide gamers with a very different experience as the urban environments will allow for a much different gameplay style and approach. It will certainly offer more options and change the way players explore things, as they will be able to navigate buildings and interact with the city. You can do things like picking up cars and tossing them around, among other things. You could even stick grenades on cars and toss them at enemies, for much more disastrous results. The urban setting also allows for a more tactical urban stealth like experience, allow you to perform stealth kills and take cover will standing.
The sandbox gameplay form the previous game will be present but it has been evolved to a ‘Polygraph Sandbox’ style gameplay, and what that means is that Crysis 2 will be far a more cinematic gaming experience. The game will feature several dramatic and intense cinematic moments that have a strong influence on the core game, for example, there was this one moment where a couple is trying to get out from underneath a collapsing building, tension builds when they get stuck and you are forced to abandon them because otherwise you would have been crushed yourself. Gamers can expect plenty of heavy and emotional moments like this.
Times when being in the spotlight is a bad thing.
Among all the new adversaries we saw, we should give a special mention to the ‘Pinger’, a mech like enemy that uses sonar to detect enemies. They look a lot like the Metal Gear Walkers from Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4, and they took a lot before going down for good.
Graphically, the game looks really impressive and packs one hell of a visual and technical punch. There were a few minor hitches in the build we saw but overall, the game seems to showcase the powerful new CryEngine 3 really well and we can’t wait to see other games powered by it.
Crysis 2 looks to provide the same engaging and open world sandbox gameplay the previous game did. The new urban setting will add a whole new dimension to the way the game will be played and offer an experience unlike the original.
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