Is Crysis 2 a Decent success or a Major flop?

Is Crysis to a Decent success or a major flop?

http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=crysis%202

The game has sold 1.49 million units world wide on the platforms it was released on.

Considering the hype, and the time of release and of course the Cryengine 3, what do yo consider Crysis 2 as?

(I do however like the SP.)

Crysis 2 pleasently surprised me, I didn't see too much in the previews and whatnot but the final product was pretty damn good. The single player was a blast.

The single-player campaign was fun and everything, but the story...ugh, well the story was just awful. I didn't have any real issues until it got towards the end, with a particular indecisive antagonist...

Is Crysis to a Decent success or a major flop?

http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=crysis%202

The game has sold 1.49 million units world wide on the platforms it was released on.

Considering the hype, and the time of release and of course the Cryengine 3, what do yo consider Crysis 2 as?

(I do however like the SP.)

Captainqwark10

EA announced that it sold over 2 million. VGChartz sucks.

Regardless, it wasn't a massive success.

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Is Crysis to a Decent success or a major flop?

http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=crysis%202

The game has sold 1.49 million units world wide on the platforms it was released on.

Considering the hype, and the time of release and of course the Cryengine 3, what do yo consider Crysis 2 as?

(I do however like the SP.)

KingsMessenger

EA announced that it sold over 2 million. VGChartz sucks.

Regardless, it wasn't a massive success.

the single player was pretty slow, but picked up a lot! I didn't get to finish it though, but i got really far! The game had too many bugs such as me running without a gun, or no objective. It was funny seeing my commrades running with their arms by their side without any weapons! But I blame my PS3 because it is on the verge of death. It shuts off while playing uncharted 2 single player and blinks red! This also causes graphical hitches in games! So I tried it on my new slim that I am saving for college, and it ran better without any graphical hiccups. So this makes me wonder if when people who review games keep in mind that the bugs in a game can be from faulty hardware...

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[QUOTE="Captainqwark10"]

Is Crysis to a Decent success or a major flop?

http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=crysis%202

The game has sold 1.49 million units world wide on the platforms it was released on.

Considering the hype, and the time of release and of course the Cryengine 3, what do yo consider Crysis 2 as?

(I do however like the SP.)

Captainqwark10

EA announced that it sold over 2 million. VGChartz sucks.

Regardless, it wasn't a massive success.

VGChartz still sucks. because they should have a normalization factor to account for that... Statistical analysis is not actually that difficult to do. The issue is that they don't do it at all. They basically guess and then fix everything once NPD figures come out. And then they add some random figure to account for international numbers. Stop using VGChartz. But that is not really the point of this thread...

Is Crysis to a Decent success or a major flop?

http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=crysis%202

The game has sold 1.49 million units world wide on the platforms it was released on.

Considering the hype, and the time of release and of course the Cryengine 3, what do yo consider Crysis 2 as?

(I do however like the SP.)

Captainqwark10

I can care less about sells unless its going into my pocket. Otherwise Crysis 2 is a great game imo. Its not a genre defining fps like the first Crysis but it is a great game in its own right imo.

New generation console gamers have low standard. They will be awed by anything thrown at them.

It was a fun game, but it's a major flop when compared to the first game.

Major flop. I was immensely disappointed.

flop I doubt it'll be selling much more than the original, which was PC only

decent game but giant turd compared to the original

its way better then the 1st don't listen to the bitter hermits.

its way better then the 1st don't listen to the bitter hermits.

Golden_Boy187

It's nowhere near as good as the first :|

its way better then the 1st don't listen to the bitter hermits.

Golden_Boy187

what? it's horrible compared to the first. and the main reason why I bought the game, sb3, is absent. sure, they're working on a cryengine sdk, but they also said that crysis 2 would retain the same freedom as crysis

Decent success in terms of quality and sales. Not the major success it could have been, but hardly a major flop.

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its way better then the 1st don't listen to the bitter hermits.

Firebird-5

what? it's horrible compared to the first. and the main reason why I bought the game, sb3, is absent. sure, they're working on a cryengine sdk, but they also said that crysis 2 would retain the same freedom as crysis

Exactly. I could make a list on why Crysis is better.

Crysis 2 did improve in some small ways though; the gunplay is more satisfying and the soundtrack is absolutely fantastic.

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[QUOTE="Golden_Boy187"]

its way better then the 1st don't listen to the bitter hermits.

UnrealLegend

what? it's horrible compared to the first. and the main reason why I bought the game, sb3, is absent. sure, they're working on a cryengine sdk, but they also said that crysis 2 would retain the same freedom as crysis

Exactly. I could make a list on why Crysis is better.

Crysis 2 did improve in some small ways though; the gunplay is more satisfying and the soundtrack is absolutely fantastic.

Actually, I preferred the first game's soundtrack.

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[QUOTE="Firebird-5"]

what? it's horrible compared to the first. and the main reason why I bought the game, sb3, is absent. sure, they're working on a cryengine sdk, but they also said that crysis 2 would retain the same freedom as crysis

NeonNinja

Exactly. I could make a list on why Crysis is better.

Crysis 2 did improve in some small ways though; the gunplay is more satisfying and the soundtrack is absolutely fantastic.

Actually, I preferred the first game's soundtrack.

I enjoyed the soundtrack of the first one as well, but I think Crysis 2's is better :)

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[QUOTE="UnrealLegend"]

Exactly. I could make a list on why Crysis is better.

Crysis 2 did improve in some small ways though; the gunplay is more satisfying and the soundtrack is absolutely fantastic.

UnrealLegend

Actually, I preferred the first game's soundtrack.

I enjoyed the soundtrack of the first one as well, but I think Crysis 2's is better :)

I felt like Crysis 2's OST droned on a bit. It really tried to bring in overly melodramatic feel. But Hans Zimmer can't do anything other than overly melodramatic anyway. :P

a good litmus test for how **** a game is is how close its multiplayer is to CoD

It's funner than the boring ol' Crysis. It's a shame to see many fellow PC gamers with the mentality of "better graphics = funner."

In terms of the game and not the sales, on its own, it was really good... in fact, one of the best shooters (SP) this gen. But then when you look at it as the sequel to Crysis... it is a flop. So many things were better with Crysis and Warhead.

Better graphics, mods from the start, editor from the start, DX10, larger MP, much larger scale (SP and MP), better story, better physics (C1/WH actually had physics), better used of the nano suit (Crysis 2's nano suit was ways too streamlined), and a few more minor things like dynamic weather, vehicles, better AI, the zero gravity part, the aliens were much more different than the humans (Crysis 2 aliens were basically just heavily armored humans), etc...

Crytek said that Crysis 2 had a much bigger budget than the first one. Bigger budget, three platforms, lower profit margins for Crysis 2 and 2 mil units VS smaller budget, one platform, higher profit margins and 3,5 mil copies for Crysis 1. Seems like a huge flop to me.

*****, Crysis 2's total sales are even less than Kz3s:|

And KZ a series infamous for disapointing sales

Sales wise, yeah thats a flop

is a decent succes with amazing graphics

It's a very good game on it's own right, but at the same time

-it looks worse than almost 4 years old now part 1

-it scored lower

-it's sales aren't propably bigger enough to make up for huge increase in development and marketing costs.

So a moderate flop I would say.

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It's a very good game on it's own right, but at the same time

-it looks worse than almost 4 years old now part 1

-it scored lower

-it's sales aren't propably bigger enough to make up for huge increase in development and marketing costs.

So a moderate flop I would say.

sts106mat

Anyway, it's hard to say how long it will last because the whole difficulty is based on solving puzzles. Still, it's a long adventure game and one of best ones ever made. So, yeah...I higly recommend it.

A good game but nothing special. Soon to be forgotten if it's not already. What made the first one fun apart from the suit was the sandbox nature of the whole island with the vehicles to move around, day/night cycle to help with the immersion ect. Remove all that and you'll have a generic shooter or Crysis 2.

The campaign is good and the graphics are incredible. Mp couldnt be more generic.

The game should have sold better than it did on consoles. But trying to convince the CoD crowd that they should try another game is impossible. GoldenElementXL

Biggest flop this year, bar none.

Its a shame it turned out to be nothing more than yet another FPS with a 'hollywood' like linear scripting, and CoD clone MP.

Decent success in terms of quality and sales. Not the major success it could have been, but hardly a major flop.

NeonNinja

Decent success in it's transition to consoles. Not quite a resounding success because it's performance is not 100%, but its still top 5/top 10 console game (only in terms of graphics engine) which is pretty great considering it's their FIRST multiplat. The PC version is also a decent success, but again it didn't really push forward the genre or do much better than Crysis 1, it failed to blow anyone away.

I would say sales wise, only selling 1.5Million is at least a flop, maybe even a "major" flop. They seriously had to expect something more like 5 million+ (if not 10 million) for a game with a budget like this being sold on all platforms.

i dont know in term of sells, but to me it was a major dissapintment

I wouldn't call it a major flop or a decent success. It didn't reach Cryteks hopes after selling out, that's for sure. If you want a major flop take a look at Brink.

Very very poor sales, less then original game and that was only on one platform.

Crytec don't deserve to do well with this game having disregarded their own fanbase.

I believe it was a good game. I prefered Crysis and Warhead, but Crysis 2 was a good fps. It didn't live up to the hype, but there is a lot of hate going round that is not justified.

[QUOTE="Captainqwark10"]

Is Crysis to a Decent success or a major flop?

http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=crysis%202

The game has sold 1.49 million units world wide on the platforms it was released on.

Considering the hype, and the time of release and of course the Cryengine 3, what do yo consider Crysis 2 as?

(I do however like the SP.)

KingsMessenger

EA announced that it sold over 2 million. VGChartz sucks.

Regardless, it wasn't a massive success.

Vgchartz tracks games sold by the retailer to the consumer. Game publishers typically report shipped games to the retailer-- without reading the report I'm not sure which # EA is reporting here. Vgchartz actually does a pretty decent job-- it has its flaws, but I've trackedmany, manygames that were spot on. Also, the NPD is not a perfect source either and features sampling error. Now that NPD stopped reporting numbers, vgchartz is one of the only resources we have.

I enjoyed it. It's definitely not a flop by a long stretch. Homefront and Brink were flops. Crysis did exactly what it said it would... bring Crysis to consoles.DevilMightCry

Homefront wasn't a flop-- it has been selling very well. It may be a metacritic flop, but definitely not a sales flop.

Crysis 2 is awful after playing the first one. C2 inspired me to grab warhead from steam, having not tried it yet.