Crytek released a new trailer for Crysis 2 and hot damn is it gorgeous. They are finally moving away from making games in the jungle and joining the masses that enjoy destroying New York. Despite the change they don’t fail to impress visually. The game looks absolutely stunning. There’s just one problem – the enemies.
If you’ve played Far Cry, Crysis, or the Warhead expansion for Crysis, you definitely know that Crytek can create a fantastic gameworld, lush environments, fun human enemies, and then shit the whole thing up by putting in some monster that no one enjoys fighting at all. In Far Cry it was the Trigen though I did learn to stop entirely hating on them after a while. More relevantly, in Crysis it was the aliens. As soon as they showed up in an otherwise very enjoyable game about reenacting Predator to a bunch of North Koreans, everything ceased being fun. As soon as they started showing up, my feelings toward the game turned as icy as the jungle environment they were ruining. No one has anything nice to say about them except for those that think they look neat. Firefights with them never felt intense but just tedious. Regardless everyone played on hoping the game would turn fun again like Far Cry did after the initial Trigen encounters but it was not to be. They were generally only near the end of the game, but here they look like they’ll be present throughout and the primary enemy.
Crytek is entirely capable of making a stellar game. With any luck they’ve taken in the criticisms they’ve received and will actually make these guys a blast to fight against. I’m being cautiously optimistic because if nothing else it’ll at least be pretty to look at. It’d be a shame for this to not turn out well.
