Crysis 2 was hoped to be the first major step up of graphics in the second decade of the 21st century. However, as we can see it has obviously not achieved a major step-up, if any at all.

But there is another title that seems to be in place to make this step-up, and it is called Dirt 3. From the screenshots and gameplay videos, the game seems to have amazingly detailed textures even on the consoles, with photorealistic smoke/dust animations and shadows. The recommended system requirements is the jaw-dropping part.

http://mygaming.co.za/news/pc/11596-Dirt-system-requirements.html

I am very interested to see if this game will do what Crysis did in 2007, trash everyone's rigs and break our jaws onto the floor with breath-taking graphics.

I do not see this as any direct sales competition to Crysis 2, however, due to the fact that it is in a completely different gaming category. But it seems to be a very formidable candidate for the graphics crown of 2011. Depending on how BF3 and Skyrim turn out, as Mass Effect 3 is pushed back into 2012 and was not a graphics contender in the first place.

Too bad DIRT is **** game. Well 1 and 2 svcked. IMO Codemaster's only decent game was GRID.

And either way...unless you have a wheel, racing games svck on PC. Playing a simulator with a keybaord is asking yourself to break your fingers and snap your setup out of frustration.

If you want racing games...console all the way. With split screen and nice games like Gran Turismo 5, PC just doesn't hold up in that arena.

If you want PC games buy 1st/3rd person shooters and RPGs. Racing games...UGH.

Those requirements aren't that bad? i mean if i can run metro 2033 at 60+ fps at 1080p all dx11 options and 4xaa (max aa the game allows) then i owuld have no problem playing dirt 3 *sarcasm*

But really i can play metro 2033 at 60+ fps at those settings

Crysis 2 was hoped to be the first major step up of graphics in the second decade of the 21st century. However, as we can see it has obviously not achieved a major step-up, if any at all.

They said that graphic will be great and it is, you obviously made up this assumption just for sake of bashing C2 as much as you can. And once again you are talking some nonsenses since C2 graphic at many level surpass C1 graphic, maybe not at all aspects but at most of them, and thats a fact.

And this thread should be posted in "Off-topic" section.

Too bad DIRT is **** game. Well 1 and 2 svcked. IMO Codemaster's only decent game was GRID.

And either way...unless you have a wheel, racing games svck on PC. Playing a simulator with a keybaord is asking yourself to break your fingers and snap your setup out of frustration.

If you want racing games...console all the way. With split screen and nice games like Gran Turismo 5, PC just doesn't hold up in that arena.

If you want PC games buy 1st/3rd person shooters and RPGs. Racing games...UGH.

Dirt2 is fun, raids in Malesia and few more locations are epic, and playing sim. on PC is bad? K/B is quite nice for control and honestly i wouldn't change it for pad + console since on PC game looks way better, and if someone really like car sim's then he can always buy good driving wheel = best experience regarding car simulators.

Dirt2 is fun, raids in Malesia and few more locations are epic, and playing sim. on PC is bad? K/B is quite nice for control and honestly i wouldn't change it for pad + console since on PC game looks way better, and if someone really like car sim's then he can always buy good driving wheel = best experience regarding car simulators.

actually there is no racing game on PC that is as real (in terms of visuals and visual accuracy) that GT5 on PS3. I have played Dirt 2 and it looks pretty but the cars in GT5 have it beat.

Too bad DIRT is **** game. Well 1 and 2 svcked. IMO Codemaster's only decent game was GRID.

And either way...unless you have a wheel, racing games svck on PC. Playing a simulator with a keybaord is asking yourself to break your fingers and snap your setup out of frustration.

If you want racing games...console all the way. With split screen and nice games like Gran Turismo 5, PC just doesn't hold up in that arena.

If you want PC games buy 1st/3rd person shooters and RPGs. Racing games...UGH.

Were we talking about racing games or graphics?

Crysis 2 was hoped to be the first major step up of graphics in the second decade of the 21st century. However, as we can see it has obviously not achieved a major step-up, if any at all.

They said that graphic will be great and it is, you obviously made up this assumption just for sake of bashing C2 as much as you can. And once again you are talking some nonsenses since C2 graphic at many level surpass C1 graphic, maybe not at all aspects but at most of them, and thats a fact.



You missed the point of that sentence. It's not how Crysis 2 compares to Crysis, it's how it compares to the modern competition, the other games in the market right now. Crysis was a huge shock and major leap forward in graphics when it was released in 2007. Crysis 2 did not have near as much of that effect.

Crysis 2 did not have near as much of that effect.
And was it meant to? No.

Too bad DIRT is **** game. Well 1 and 2 svcked. IMO Codemaster's only decent game was GRID.

And either way...unless you have a wheel, racing games svck on PC. Playing a simulator with a keybaord is asking yourself to break your fingers and snap your setup out of frustration.

If you want racing games...console all the way. With split screen and nice games like Gran Turismo 5, PC just doesn't hold up in that arena.

If you want PC games buy 1st/3rd person shooters and RPGs. Racing games...UGH.

Were we talking about racing games or graphics?

Considering how the first two games are basic console ports with hardly noticiable DX11 character models and water physics...i'm guessing this game will be similar.

And you'e gonna buy a racing game just to look at the graphics? Racing games are for racing...not looking at graphics. Did it ever occur to you that racing games are basically "cheating" in the graphics arena? There isn't anything to code for except the car. The actual track...well most developers can simply cheat their way out of that and still make it look great. Considering that you don't really STOP to look at if the dirt and track bounaries are high res and tesselated while RACING in a pre-defined loop, there's is nothing to do there either. anything outisde the track you never see up close, so if hacked your way outsaide the map, the outside scenery would look like ****, and the track itself is basically just a set of repeating textures with puddles.

In an FPS game, you can't get away with hideously low res 64 x 64 textures every 5 feet and you have a much more explorable world to code for...even CoD has more textures than most racing games.

An example? Gran Tusimo 5 renders at native 1920 x 1080 on the PS3 (while most PS3 games run at 1024 x 720) and is by far the best looking racing game I have ever seen. When I first played it I couldn't beleiev my eyes. For sure I thought it was a PC title. I was wrong. Racing games stress neither VRAM nor processing power, besides physics. A console game that looked THAT GOOD at NATIVE 1080P? Only way to do that is with a racing game.

And either way...unless you have a wheel, racing games svck on PC. Playing a simula
You never were into PC racing gaming, were you?

And you'e gonna buy a racing game just to look at the graphics? Racing games are for racing...not looking at graphics.
Looking this way there are no games for the graphics. Racing is for racing, manshooters are for manshooting, RPGs are for role playing, strategies are from strategiting, or whatever you do there, so... erm... what we are left with? Oh yea, flash games... well... they are -f-l-a-s-h- so the topic is closed. LOL

An example? Gran Tusimo 5 renders at native 1920 x 1080 on the PS3 (while most PS3 games run at 1024 x 720) and is by far the best looking racing game I have ever seen
Play Shift 2 on PC (on a PC cause it got higher-res textures and effects as well as higher poly-count than on consoles)
It knocks down GT5 easily. In matter of graphics, fun factor and realism actually, not just graphics. I'd also add cars choice but that's the matter of taste.

You missed the point of that sentence. It's not how Crysis 2 compares to Crysis, it's how it compares to the modern competition, the other games in the market right now. Crysis was a huge shock and major leap forward in graphics when it was released in 2007. Crysis 2 did not have near as much of that effect.
Well, it actually did not have any effect at all. C2 may be as much as consoles can handle but on a PC market it's "just another manshooter with COD multiplayer". ~_~

Add tons of bugs to this ("Crysis 2 redefines a definition of bugged game!" as someone somewhere told) and you have me wishing I could go back in time and cancel my pre-order.

Crysis 2 did not have near as much of that effect.
And was it meant to? No.

No? Well then that just answered why so many people are unimpressed with Crysis 2. If it's nothing special, just another FPS, then there's plenty of those out there already.