Crysis 2 is an example of how a game should not be made.
The full release MP was nothing like the online demo they had going right up until release.
The game was broken beyond belief, xbox has crap customer support from Crytek.
They release a couple of title updates that well, fixed nothing and one actually made the game more broken.
Network code is shocking with usually the person with the worst connection being made host 9 times out of 10.
e.g you have 16 players, 15 aussies and one American, the 1 American will be made host despite it not being in the interest of the other players.
Even been times where players who had a 256kb connection were made host despite most other players having ADSL2+ internet with speeds 8mbps and greater.
Within a month and a half of release, it wasn;t even in the top 20 list of games played on LIVE, even HALO3 was being played more.
You can wait 20-30 minutes to join a game. Then it might freeze your xbox as it loads. (heck freezing can occur at any moment)
It boots you out of your squads.
Hell I logged in after reinstalling the game and many of my online abilites I'd earned had been reset.
You could have a grenade land at a team mates feet explode and he'd live yet you standing 15 meters away will die.
Rockets hit the ground and richochet straight up like they're made of rubber.
No skill required, thanks to an over the top aim assist you can kill people across the map just from spray and pray firing.
You get killed because instead of the gun shooting a players target, the auto aim locks onto you instead 1000meters away.
Same for single player, bugs bugs bugs. AI that ran into walls until it died, would walk of cliffs, spawn up to it's waist in the road, they patched it, which just made the AI stupid and almost unresponsive to player interaction. Pick up weapons would vanish, achievments are glitched meaning sometimes you can't get them despite earning them. It can't keep track of unlocks, as you reload the game, it tells you, you have new unlocks when it's ones you've already unlocked and viewed.
You could shoot enemies with rockets and the rocket would fly through them with no impact and just dissapear, grenades vanish when thrown.
Seriously it could of been an epic game, the online demo MP was rock solid, the Single player is visually very nice, but it has to be the most **** buggy and broken game ever released on any format. And when it worked it was a great game.
And all apparently because of EA and Cryteks paranoia about their games unfinished beta being leaked. They decided to rush it out the door unfinished.
A very stupid move.
In the first 2 weeks my entire friends list was full of people playing it, then everybody stopped.
Save your cash, it's a joke of a game, not even the single player is worth paying for. (so much fin when the game goes to a black screen when you load a save, forcing you to restart the level with default weapons)
Get Crysis 1 off the market place instead, it's a good game, pretty much Far Cry with a Cyber suit, and Crysis 2 is nothing like it.
Only saving grace for Crysis 2 is it does look pretty.
Shame really it could of been a Halo and CoD killer, and I tried my best to love it, but Trading it for Battlefield 3 was the best decision I ever made.
Buy it if you must, but you'll have a hard time finding matches and when you do it'll just frustrate you to hell.
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