Crysis to take full advantage of PS3’s power

When it comes to setting the standard in graphical superiority, few games can step up to that plate. Among the best that the PS3 has seen so far are Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2 – two games that, quite frankly, look better than your girlfriend. But hold up – another sequel from the PC realm is out to challenge both: Crysis 2 is coming to take full advantage of the PS3’s power.

When it comes to setting the standard in graphical superiority, few games can step up to that plate. Among the best that the PS3 has seen so far are Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2 – two games that, quite frankly, look better than your girlfriend. But hold up – another sequel from the PC realm is out to challenge both: Crysis 2 is coming to take full advantage of the PS3’s power.

 

Let’s see now. Killzone 2, as fantastic as it looks, isn’t even close to maxing the PS3 – that one checked in at 60%. Then there’s Uncharted 2, which sought to max out all of the PS3’s SPUs.

 

 

The first Crysis, already a very sharp game by any standard, had quite a heavy system requirement list for its time. Since the sequel is coming to the PS3, they won’t have that same problem. PlayStation Official Magazine editor-in-chief Gary Steinman shares a bit of what he knows:

 

Yes, it’s a PC franchise. But when it’s widely regarded as one of the greatest shooters to ever grace the big gray box, it matters.

But that’s not the only reason I put Crysis 2 on the cover. A few months back, an old friend at EA snuck in to PTOM towers and showed me top-secret footage of the game in action. It was stunning – better looking than almost anything I’ve ever seen on PS3. and here’s the best part: All the glorious wreckage, the metropolitan carnage, the dynamic lighting and the realtime destruction, was generated not on a PC, nor an Xbox, but PS3.

He goes on:

 

Yep this baby is being built to take advantage of the massive power the PS3 offers – which is nothing to scoff at, considering Crytek’s original Crysis was almost unplayable on anything but the highest-end PCs when it was released.

Five minutes after my pal left, I began the push to be the first magazine to reveal Crysis 2’s true glory. And here we are.

 

That must be a sight to behold – guess we’ll have to wait for its Fall release with anticipation.

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Peter Bauer

[via PlayStation Lifestyle]