Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 86%Very Positive · 86%2011

$29.99

US Steam price, checked 5 h ago

The verdict

A good-looking, cinematic linear sci-fi shooter with a great soundtrack and fun nanosuit combat, but far less open than Crysis 1. Skip it if you want sandbox freedom, multiplayer or a trouble-free PC port.

Great for

Players who want a short, polished story-driven sci-fi FPS with stealth or run-and-gun nanosuit play

Main risk

Expecting Crysis 1's open sandbox and getting a linear corridor shooter with bugs and dead multiplayer

What players love

Visuals still hold up

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“Visually and gameplay-wise this game still holds up very well today.”
Steam review · 7.2 h played ↗

“You could release this game today ... and people would think its next gen”
Steam review · 9.4 h played ↗

“the graphics, thanks to CryEngine, are still cool”
Steam review · translated · 11.3 h played ↗

Engaging story and short campaign

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“it's nice to go back and play a rather short campaign.”
Steam review · 38.5 h played ↗

Flexible nanosuit stealth or action combat

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“The Nanosuit is still the main reason the gameplay is fun.”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

“2 different play style, Stealth and Loud”
Steam review · 9.9 h played ↗

Excellent soundtrack

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“And frankly the best sound track an fps has ever had.”
Steam review · 35.4 h played ↗

“I want to shake hands everyone who created Crysis 2, especially the composers, the music is incredible.”
Steam review · 7.5 h played ↗

Runs well on modern PCs

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews

“Runs really well on modern Linux. No problems.”
Steam review · 9.4 h played ↗

“this one is quite an optimised title. It ran like butter on my system.”
Steam review · 11.3 h played ↗

Atmospheric ruined New York setting

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews

“The destroyed New York City works sublimely as setting and the pace of the game is frenetic, never missing a beat.”
Steam review · 10.1 h played ↗

“Incredibly atmospheric.”
Steam review · translated · 21.7 h played ↗

What players complain about

Linear, scaled-down vs Crysis 1

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“It went from semi-open world in the first game to extremely linear in this one. The gameplay has been simplified as well.”
Steam review · 14.4 h played ↗

“Crysis 2 became a generic corridor shooter.”
Steam review · 6.5 h played ↗

“This game scrapped everything that crysis 1 built for series to be a mediocre console game.”
Steam review · 0.7 h played ↗

Generic, boring shooter and story

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“The setting is "meh", the gameplay is "meh", the story is "blah"”
Steam review · 7.1 h played ↗

“The game is a very boring and monotonous shooter”
Steam review · translated · 7.7 h played ↗

Crashes, corrupt saves, fps cap and stutter

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“Halfway through the story my save went corrupt and crashes the game on resume.”
Steam review · 6.7 h played ↗

“24hz/fps bug is still present.”
Steam review · 10.3 h played ↗

“My computer should be run this old game with a full performance with a high frame rate but even I lowered to the medium settings, still this game lags, A LOT.”
Steam review · 37.2 h played ↗

Multiplayer servers shut down

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews

“Multiplayer has shut down because EA couldn't be bothered to find a new host after gamespy shut down.”
Steam review · 58.6 h played ↗

“The servers were shut down 5 years after release, but the price didn't change.”
Steam review · translated · 0.2 h played ↗

Weak enemy AI and bullet-sponge enemies

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“Every gun at your disposal is a total peashooter and even regular grunts can tank half your clip before going down.”
Steam review · 9.5 h played ↗

“The enemies are incredibly dumb, even on high difficulty they stand with their backs turned mid-fight”
Steam review · translated · 6.2 h played ↗

Checkpoint-only saving

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 negative reviews

“Lacks manual saves and quick saves, why was this removed compared to original crysis?”
Steam review · 7 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows XP, Vista or Windows 7, with the latest Service Pack

ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz, or AMD Athlon 64 x2 2Ghz, or better

Memory2GB

GraphicsNVidia 8800GT with 512Mb RAM or better, ATI 3850HD with 512Mb RAM or better

Storage9Gb

OSWindows XP, Vista or Windows 7, with the latest Service Pack

ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz, or AMD Athlon 64 x2 2Ghz, or better

Memory2GB

GraphicsNVidia 8800GT with 512Mb RAM or better, ATI 3850HD with 512Mb RAM or better

Storage9Gb

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