Hey veloz why are you even on this forum? Your clearly a crysis hater. I didnt expect anything from crysis 2 and i thought it was pretty good. I'm pissed about the lack of graphic options, **** vehicles, no dx11, and countless other things that are wrong with the game. However if your're going to strictly compare the graphics between the two.. well.. you cant, crysis 1 is far superior in that aspect. crysis 1 won many awards in visual engineering for a reason, whereas crysis 2 won nothing of the sort. crysis 2s graphics are "different" yes, but they lack detail and resolution. I do like use of armor, power, and stealth modes, although the suit feels much more sluggish than the first. all im sayin is you might want to try crysis 1 on max settings, then tell me crysis 2 looks better.

This is a Crysis 2 forums the last time I recall........not some place to whine about a 4 year old game and how palm trees look superior to brick and mortar buildings. And you summed it up, you are ticked at lack of tweaking options and **** vehicles as you call them, I didn't know this was a racing game and vehicles were priority. Also My GTX 580 has no problem running Crysis or Crysis Warhead at Very High DX10 or Enthusiast with 16x Antistrophic Filtering and 8x Super Sampling Anti Aliasing. I get a constant 40-75Fps. The problem seems that people are ticked more at change of locale than the actual textures being bad, even though they want to blame it on textures. Compare urban areas of Crysis and Crysis Warhead to Crysis 2 and then tell me that Crysis 2 in inferior.

Oh and a Crysis hater...its one of my favorite games actually and the first PC game I ever bought 2 years ago when I decided to build a gaming computer. But change in venue does not mean that Crysis 2 looks bad...I do prefer the palm trees and jungle but in no way is Crysis 2 inferior to Crysis. Crysis 2 has less objects rendered on the screen at any one time to Crysis due to its setting, that does not mean that each object has lower quality than the first game.

Truth is, yes, Crysis 1 had better graphics - but this game still looks better than 90% of the games out there! Although the textures are not Crysis standards they are still well above most standards. On top of that, the game runs great because of some of the cut backs so now it boils down to gameplay which is still very good.

Heaven would be this game + DX11 + procedural destruction + bigger levels.

Hopefully Crytek will do the right thing and open this baby up to the modders.

Thanks for the insight guys, hope you enjoy the game.

Well at least you guys are getting you wish, confirmed DX11 and Graphical tweaks tomorrow
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/crysis_2_directx_11_support_and_%E2%80%9Cadvanced_graphics_settings%E2%80%9D_being_patched_tomorrow