Well, the game certainly does need a patch. I've managed to make the game run on my SLI setup without flickers now but I'm running post processing at low, erh, I mean high, to avoid flicker.
That says it all actually does'nt it? Can't be calling them 3 settings low, med and high, that'd sort of indicate that you'd potentially be running the game at the lowest setting. Real Life, Drugs without Negative Effects and PERMANENT ECSTACY! sounds more like it....
glitches aside let's talk graphics because like it or not, we're deaing with Crysis here folks! Consolites wanted Crysis 2 because Crysis 1 is the best looking game to date and as such, it's been a thorn in the side of the average high tech console owner, aware of the competetive nature of gaming graphics between systems.
Well? It's a pretty game sure, glad that's cleared up. On the other hand it does look and feel (not gameplay but you know what I'm talking about if you've played any PC game that renders most of it's assets rather than baking them into enviroment textures) more like playing the PC version of Bulletstorm than Crysis?
So I can handle some bad textures, Crysis 1 had some too, but I see a little too much of this:

I think an adequate description would be "gorgeous game, just don't pay too much attention to detail".
As mentioned, it's not that I have ever seen a game with perfect attention to consistency and detail but that image is above is a very common occurance in a variety of ways, the impression of which is only enhanced because one of the predecessor's defining achievements was that it attempted to be as consistent as possible. Go back to 07 and compare it to the competition, what Crytek did was no small feat.
Also, while you
can break things and the enviroment
does react to your physical presence to a certain degree, I can't escape the feeling that this time around, it matters a lot more when, if and how they wanted me to interact/destroy.
At least to me, it's imediately obvious why the game runs better and where the extra computational power was found: By aking sure that there is less to computate.