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No Editor. Linearity. Cliche. Disaponted
I am greatly disappointed in Crysis 2. While the game is not worse than most other available first person shooter games, it has lost most of the appeal that original Crysis series have, namely:
1. NO EDITOR INCLUDED! and apparently the company has no plans to release one - that means that most of the replay value for the game is lost. Forget about downloadable levels, forget about custom terrains, forget about all the fun and tweaking you could do with the editor. Once you go over couple of hours worth of run-of-the-mill game-play and saturate yourself with run-of-the-mill multiplayer, you are done. Is it worth $60.00? NO WAY!
2. All open environment of Crysis 2 is gone - you play just another fancy corridor shooter with most actions scripted and unchangeable and all your movement restricted by closed doors, road blocks, fences and such. The fact that the stage for the game is Manhattan makes no excuse - many other games, notably Prototype that take place in precisely the same location are incomparably more open than Crysis 2.
3. Boring, stale, non-original story. You are bad ass marine with big machine gun fighting the usual suspects: army of corporate troops and squid-like aliens. With each level you get bigger gun to fight proportionately bigger aliens... yawn...
Go to corporate hell, Crytek, with all your thirst for profit you became just another Call of Duty clone.
March 2011 · Video Games
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Crysis 2 - PC
4.3★ · 603 ratings, as of 2023