Tag: Crysis 2
News American PlayStation Store Update: 17th January 2012
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Games: Zack Zero ($12.99) Amy ($9.99) Shadow of the Colossus ($19.99) ICO ($19.99) Crysis 2 ($39.99) Tom Clancys Rainbow Six: Vegas ($19.99) Tom Clancys Splinter Cell: Double Agent ($19.99) Cars 2: The Video Game ($39.99) Demos Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning Demo Castlevania: Harmony Of Despair Demo Add-on Game Content UNCHARTED 3:...
News ICO & Shadow Of The Colossus Bring A Touch Of Class To The PlayStation Network Next Week
ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus are two of the best games ever released on a PlayStation platform
The critical darlings both spawned a fervent fanbase on the PlayStation 2, and recently got upgraded for the PS3. Now the two arthouse adventures are preparing for even greater exposure, with the Official PlayStation Blogcast confirming both titles for a...
News The Original Crysis Tackles PlayStation Network Next Month
The PlayStation 3 may already play host to Crysis 2, but EA and Crytek has announced this week that that the original Crysis game will retroactively accompany it
The game is said to be 'remastered' on PS3, with new lighting effects and Nanosuit abilities. At the time of writing, no price has been announced.
News UK Sales Charts: DiRT 3 Unable To Overtake L.A. Noire
L
A. Noire</a> has held onto the UK sales charts top spot for a second week running, beating off Codemasters' semi-sim DiRT 3 which finished up in a respectable second. LEGO Pirates Of the Caribbean, Zumba Fitness and Brink all held onto their high positions to round out the top five, with familiar faces such as Crysis 2 and Call Of Duty:...
News Crysis 2: Retaliation DLC Dated, Detailed
As with every other big-budget first-person shooter, Crysis 2 will be getting its first slice of DLC this month
Crytek's gorgeous alien-invasion blockbuster will get a pack called "Retaliation" on May 17th. Obviously, any PlayStation DLC dates have a big question-mark looming over them while the PSN stays offline. The pack will include...
News March NPD Sales: Pokemon Tops, MLB 11: The Show Charts
With the NPD ceasing to provide hardware numbers, this month's report is restricted to software we're afraid
And it's a pretty uneventful month for PlayStation to be honest, with the interest surrounding the Nintendo 3DS. Interestingly, it was a Nintendo DS game that topped the charts for March, with Pokemon White taking the top-spot and Pokemon...
UK Charts Zumba Fitness Takes The Top Spot From Crysis 2, Dynasty Warriors 7 Charts
Zumba Fitness has toppled Crysis 2 to sit atop the British sales charts
We don't have a clue what Zumba Fitness is, but we do know a PS3 version is due within the next couple of weeks. We assume the game's going to be lingering around the sales charts for some time. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 saw a push up to fourth on the back of the Masters...
UK Charts Crysis 2 Sticks To The Top-Spot As EA Conquers The Full Line-Up
We imagine there are plenty of chuffed faces around EA UK this morning -- no less than four of the publisher's games occupy the top ten this week
Crysis 2 is still at the number one spot, with new release Shift 2: Unleashed a few spots behind in fourth. Elsewhere for EA, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 took the sixth spot, while FIFA 11 continues to do...
UK Charts Crysis 2 Scoops Top-Spot, Nintendo 3DS Pads Things Out
Crytek's semi-sandbox shooter, Crysis 2, has jumped to the top of the UK sales charts, scooping the accolade away from last week's winner, Homefront
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars finished up second, while the afore-mentioned Homefront settled for third. Last week saw the release of the Nintendo 3Ds, and naturally there was an abundance of...
News Crysis 2 Does New York, New York With A Modern Spin
"Start spreading the news
I'm leaving today. I want to be a part of it - New York, New York," are the lyrics that would be present in this Crysis 2 launch trailer if Crytek hadn't gone for some dodgy street remix majig. Don't get us wrong, we like some urban beats. Not keen on this tune though. But that doesn't matter because it's Crysis 2!...
News Ruh-Roh: EA Pulls PS3's Crysis 2 Demo From The PlayStation Store
Amidst a huge backlash from the gaming community, EA has pulled the PlayStation 3 version of the Crysis 2 demo from the PlayStation Store
The publisher's told gamers that it wants to resolve reported issues so that players can enjoy a "flawless" launch. "Though many gamers have had a great experience playing the demo, we are aware...
News Hans Zimmer Contributes To The Crysis 2 Soundtrack
EA's confirmed that legendary composer Hans Zimmer has contributed to Crysis 2's soundtrack
It'll be the second shooter Zimmer has scored, after he previously worked on Modern Warfare 2. Zimmer said he was drawn to the project because of Crytek's "passion", and eventually teamed up with current composers Borislav Slavov and Tilman Sillescu...
News Crytek Promises Crysis 2 Parity Between PlayStation 3 And XBOX 360
The net's been alight with criticism aimed at Crytek over the PlayStation 3 version of Crysis 2
While nobody seems to be all that satisfied with the XBOX 360 version, apparently the PlayStation 3 version is worse. But Crytek's Nathan Camarillo insisted that is not the case on the PlayStation Blog. "I've gone on the record saying that if you...
News European PlayStation Store Updates: 16th March 2011
Special Offers (available until March 30) MAG (Trial and Unlock Bundle) (was £19
99/29.99 now £11.99/14.99) MAG Interdiction Pack (was £6.29/7.99 now £4.79/5.99) MAG Escalation Pack (was £6.29/7.99 now £4.79/5.99) High Velocity Bowling Complete (was £11.99/14.99 now £8.99/11.25) Hustle Kings (was...
News American PlayStation Store Updates: 15th March 2011
Updates Resident Evil 3 PSone Classic 50% Sale (PS3/PSP) (now $2
99, original price $5.99) Hero Of Sparta Minis Sale (PS3/PSP) (now $1.99, original price $6.99) Boom Beats Minis Price Change (PS3/PSP) (now $2.99, original price $3.99)</ul>Games Slambolt Scrappers ($14.99) Hard Corps: Uprising ($14.99) Prince Of Persia...
News Crytek Releases PlayStation 3 Crysis 2 Footage, Confirms Multiplayer Demo
Crytek's finally broken the silence on the PlayStation 3 version of Crysis 2, releasing a new gameplay trailer running on Sony's platform
Technically the footage looks fine, but we're still a little concerned by how bland the action looks. Bad editing? We hope so. The trailer confirms that PlayStation 3 owners will get access to a multiplayer demo...
News PlayStation 3 Owners "Can Probably Hope For" A Crysis 2 Demo
Considering Crysis 2 is a multiplatform game, Crytek's been mighty silent about the shooter on PlayStation 3
While both PC and XBOX 360 gamers have had access to a demo of the sci-fi shooter for a while, PlayStation 3 hasn't gotten so much as a sniff. But executive producer, Nathan Camarillo, told PSU that we "can probably hope for a...
GamesCom 2010 Crytek Announce Limited & Nano Editions Of Crysis 2
Fans of special editions will be pleased with the news coming out of Crytek this morning -- Crysis 2's set to get two special editions upon its release next year
The Nano Edition, which will retail for £119.99 / $149.99 will include an 11" statue, a high quality art-book and a specially modelled backpack to house the goods. Obviously, you'll...
News Crytek Confirms Crysis 2 For March, 2011
After details regarding Crysis 2's delay emerged last week, Crytek's been tellingly hush about giving the first-person shooter an alternative launch window
Until now, at least. The studio's just confirmed on Twitter that Crysis 2 will launch in March 2011. More specifically, the game will hit the US on March 22nd and the UK on March 25th.
E3 2010 Crysis 2 Takes The Fight Into The Third-Dimension
Crytek's just revealed that Crysis 2 will be one of the first multiplatform titles to be playable in 3D
The game will join Killzone 3, amongst the ranks of the first FPS titles to support the television industry's latest push. "The success of 3-D movies like Avatar and the introduction of 3-D TVs from the hardware manufacturers tells us that...
E3 2010 First Crysis 2 Gameplay Jumps Out From Under The Bed
There are guns and fancy visual effects, therefore it must be Crysis 2, right? Here's your first look at Crytek's long-hyped first-person shooter which is looking
.. alright. Perhaps this is a bad selection of footage, but it all looks like rather average run-of-the-mill console shooter stuff to us, with the exception of a few standout moments...
News EA Move Crysis 2's Release Forward, Turns Out A Refreshing Change
When was the last time you saw a game get moved forward? Yeah, long time ago right
Games only ever get delayed, they never get pushed forward. Well, except for Crysis 2 that is. EA's just announced that they're moving the game forward into the Autumn, as opposed to the previously announced end-of-year date. Woohoo. The news comes via a trade press...
News Crysis 2's Debut Reveal Is Not Really Worth Bothering With
A teaser trailer they said
More than twelve-seconds we expected. This Crysis 2 trailer really takes the biscuit. If you're not going to show anything, why bother at all? "Enjoy".
News New Red Faction Title To Debut On GTTV Tomorrow
Geoff Keighley's doing it again - he's pulling the big exclusive reveals
And this week he's got THQ's anticipated Red Faction sequel to reveal. The show airs in the US tomorrow night, so expect the trailer sometime on Saturday. Interestingly, the next GTTV will also have debut gameplay footage of Crysis 2 and FEAR 3, aswell as some more from...
News Crysis 2 Screens Look As Pretty As Katy Perry In A Wet T-Shirt Competition
Crytek's been hyping Crysis 2 for a while now
They claim that they're going to set the graphical benchmark of all three consoles the game's due to release on. From the Playstation 3's perspective - it's some challenge to take on Sony's own in-house studios. But man - these screens do look pretty. We're assuming they're running on a super-powerful PC...
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News Crysis 2 Squeezing More Juice Out Of The Playstation 3, Performs Better Than On XBOX 360
Hats-off to Crytek
Rather than going for platform-parity (and essentially gimping everyone), they are trying to squeeze every inch of performance out of each of the three platforms their upcoming shooter Crysis 2 is to be released on. And that means the company has admitted that they are getting "slightly more performance" out of the...
News Crytek UK (That's Free Radical To Most Of You) Are Working Solely On Crysis 2's Multiplayer
There's a lot going into Crysis 2
Not only will the game be the showpiece for Crytek's new multiplatform engine, the CryEngine 3, but it's also got an entire team - the respected Crytek UK, formerly Free Radical (TimeSplitters, Haze) - working on its multiplayer. This goes against initial claims which suggested that Crytek UK were working on a new...
News Crytek Step Up To The Challenge, Aim To Set PS3's Graphical Benchmark With Crysis 2
The original Crysis is largely considered the best looking PC video game of all time
Those with a high-powered rig are able to squeeze unbelievable visuals out of the game. In fact - whisper it - if it weren't for Crysis' amazing visuals, no one would much care for the shooter. So in making the move to consoles with Crysis 2, developers Crytek want...
News Crysis 2 Gets Debuted At, Erm, Times Square In New York
Here's a new way of making your debut - put it on the big-screen at New York's Times Square
That's exactly what Crytek's done with their upcoming shooter Crysis 2. The footage doesn't really reveal much: people are missing, aliens have invaded, New York's ruined, there are people in big suits. Still. What did you expect? Gameplay? Pssht.
News Naughty Dog, Crytek Are Knocking; "Aiming To Set Graphical Benchmark" With Crysis 2
Naughty Dog set the benchmark with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Sony Santa Monica raised the benchmark with God Of War III. Now Crytek want to take the console visuals crown with Crysis 2. Were aiming to set the graphical benchmark, executive producer Nathan Camarillo told British Playstation magazine, PSM3. Why would anyone not want to play...
News GDC 10: Crytek Show Off CryEngine 3 For The First Time
Finally - we might be staring at the end of the Unreal Engine
Let it be known - here at PushSquare we hate the Unreal Engine. It's such a bummer when a new game drops in the office and that familiar "U" pops-up the moment we push the disc into our system. The problem is: all Unreal Engine games look the same. Shiny, fuzzy, no personality...
News Get The Lowdown On All This Year's Big EA Titles In One Place, Yo
EA dropped some big names at their financial call last night, detailing the planned release windows for a host of killer franchises over the next 12 months or so
Amongst the big Summer titles, EA's announced that their big, futuristic reboot Medal Of Honor is due between July and September 2010. That means you can expect a huge push at this year's...
News CryEngine 3 On Playstation 3 Is Equal To CryEngine 2 On "Medium" Settings
Were you ever curious how CryTek's new CryEngine 3 (running on Playstation 3) stacks up against the previous PC version, CryEngine 2? No, us neither, but those PC elitists - they just gotta remind us that their £1,500,000,000
01 rig is better than our lovely little Playstations. If you watch the embedded video you'll be able to read all the...
E3 2009 Here's Your First Trailer For Crysis 2...
.. If you can call this a Crysis 2 trailer at all. It just looked like shards of floating glass on a black background to us. But hey, different strokes for different folks - no doubt the Crysis fanboys are already screaming "game of the year".
E3 2009 Crytek Announce Crysis 2 For The Playstation 3
Only Killzone 2's graphics are talked about as much as those in Crysis
Simply put, on a high-end PC, Crysis is technically the best looking game ever built. And now it's coming to the Playstation 3, via the creatively titled Crysis 2. Nothing else is known about the game, aside from the fact it will be built with the new CryENGINE3. Fact: this will...
