Most of you who are on here have most likely played the Crysis 2 Demo ( Not the beta the demo ) and mostly, like me, was sold on its amazingly addicting multiplayer gameplay and visual astonishements. But, what we got through the mail box, on the disc, is a completely different story..
What I will be going through here is a brief go-over of what I think went wrong the demo and the final game and just in general what was wrong.
Lets start off with, connections.
In the Demo the connections were fantastic, comparable to that of MW2. they were prestine. Bullet hits, enemys went down, it was fair. Also, the host migrations worked 99% of the time, I don't ever remember having problems with failing host migrations during the demo.
Secondly the aim assist.
During the demo the aim assist levels were alot lower during the demo, comparable to that of Battlefield BC2, in BC2 you really had to focus to get rounds on target, but in the final game it seems they cranked it right up to a Halo/CoD level ( Massive ) which was one of the unique things I liked about Crysis 2 which was its high skill in basically aiming your weapon. But now almost any old joe can pick up an assault rifle and spray a cone and get kills.
Thirdly, The simplicity.
The demo the weapon pallet was balanced, Heck there were only 5 weapons, but thats all you needed there was only one weapon for each role and each role had its uses. But in the final game, there are so many weapons filling the same role the balance was thrown off and to me I liked The demo for that simplicity. I mean for example we have the Scar, Grendel, scarab and feline and they all pretty much are filling the same intermediate range roll.
And lastly, I feel asif the demo, even though it had its fair share of bugs, had less bugs than the actual final game lol also , playing skyline I do not recall the same amount of framerate issues as the demo although I could be wrong there.
It's a real shame because I honestly thought, from the demo they were just going to do a bug clean up then ship the "demo" with less bugs, but they changed too much, they ruined it and I feel asif they missed a real oppurtunity with this game, Its a really good game but they didn;t finish it off.
But, oh well theres always gears of war 3
