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Crysis 2 Multiplayer from the perspective of a n00b
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I have confessed countless times to friends that I am by no stretch of the word a “gamer”, nor do I ever wish to be. It is by sheer curiosity that I pre-order this game and try to beat that game that in the span of my 19 years on this earth, I have beaten only 2 video games — Halo: Combat Evolved and Crysis (all on easy difficulty of course) and you are sitting there, wondering why the hell a low-life like me is writing an article about Crysis 2. Read on and I’ll tell you why…
I don’t hate Video Games, I just don’t like challenge
I started playing Video Games (and using computers) at the age of 16, and by some miricle I now run a little blog called Okay Geek with it’s eleven editors and enjoy a good round of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 every now and again. My Steam library consists of every mainstream piece of crap to be released in the past 2 years, and I would still would prefer coding CSS than shooting up zombies any hour of the day.
I am the kind of guy who wanders around a game, looking at the textures on the ground, studying how the physics work, understanding the player’s movements, listening to every single gun burst, engine rumble, batterang throw and admiring the Heads Up Display. I don’t hate games, I see them as art, and that’s why I play on easy difficulty all the time.
I don’t play a game to be “challenged”, I’d much rather enjoy the game as a work of art without the bothersome thought of being killed, heaven forbid and I pay so much attention to detail, that very few games meet my high standards. I am a self admitted graphics whore and can’t stand cutscenes — you may also know me as a “n00b”.
First taste of Crysis
The day Crysis arrived on store shelves, I had to get a copy, but the deal was I had no money. I set sail and pirated the game, and started immediately after the 2 days of downloading. I had set the graphics settings, set the difficulty to “Easy” and was ready to expect nothing more than spectacular.
After skydiving off the plane, invading a beach and tearing apart the forest with hours of exploration and ruthless inspection along the way, I fell in love with gaming for the first time. It had only been a week and I had played through most levels twice, and beaten Crysis — but I had a feeling I had never felt before… I wanted more.
So many of these games that come out now a days are so repetitive and dim that I stop playing half way through. I just don’t enjoy them anymore, and the story never holds it together for me. Crysis was the first big budget, mainstream game to offer something more — easy development tools, quirky mods and a wide open directory of configuration files and goodies to play with.
It was 3 weeks later, and I was still playing Crysis with my modded maps, custom weapons and super awesome powers (like jumping 300 feet and running at 200Mph). This was a game to me, not running around killing people, but having a blast doing whatever the hell I wanted to.
Later on in life, I fell into multiplayer games like Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Call of Duty and Battlefield: BC2 (just to name a few). I had discovered a world where I can play my game, and not have to worry about beating it! I had avoided the online gaming world for so long, and now I was a badass — all thanks to Crysis, which I still play with to this day and have since bought 3 copies to make up for me pirating.
Crysis 2 is announced
The day I saw the first Crysis 2 trailer, I almost died. It was the first time in my life when I got excited about a videogame coming out. I kept hearing news about new trailers and gameplay footage, and every time I watched them the excitement built — but when I heard that a Multiplayer beta for Crysis 2 was coming to Xbox 360, I almost died — I don’t own a console.
I am a PC when it comes to playing games, and never have I felt the need to get a console, I’m just not a big fan (let’s not go into this okay?). Anyhoo, I heard how great it was, and I was dying, waiting for a taste of this golden fruit that was out of my reach — until the day Crysis 2 Alpha was leaked for PC via torrents.
At first I refused, remembering how bad I felt for pirating the original Crysis, but after a few weeks I caved, and I caved hard. I played it for a solid 4 hours before realizing what I was doing — I was ruining it for myself. Glitches, mistakes and bad audio riddled the game and I was only spoiling the real thing. A tap of the delete button and everything was cool — Until it heated up a few weeks later.
Crysis 2 multiplayer
As I ran home from school to download the awesomeness, I never stopped believing it would be awesome, and hoping it wouldn’t suck. I downloaded that sucker as hard as I could, and when I jumped into my first match, I got creamed. I had my ass handed to me on a platter of hot lead, and you know what? It was awesome.
After just a few days of shooting up foes online, I had made it to level 6 and unlocked some cool guns and racked up enough points to choke a horse. I was spewing bullets everywhere, sneaking around while invisible and bursting out of cover, armor at maximum with bullets flying like rain gone’ sideways. I was having a blast, without caring how horrible I was.
Crysis 2 is the first time I have had fun in a multiplayer game. So many times I get all stressed out about dying, how much our team sucks and when the next medkit is going to drop. Crysis 2 provides a world where getting killed is so easy to brush off, and killing an enemy is so rewarding. If I want to play on a team, I can — and if I want to run around, sending bullets flying in every direction, I can do that too.
It’s combat is simple (almost fool proof) and the game overall is a sinch to learn. In no time, I saw myself appearing at the #1 spot when the match was over, and seeing my rank sky rocket (I am level 10 now). I was loving every minute of it, and never once did I feel the need to “do better” — I only felt the need to try more things and be as badass as possible.
The bottom line of this 12 page article is this — if your looking for a multiplayer game that provides complex multiplayer gameplay, realistic combat (like camera on the helmet of a soldier realistic) and enough customizations and perks to fill a swimming pool, you’ll hate Crysis 2.
If your looking for a fun (in a serious way), rewarding and intense multiplayer experience, Crysis 2 is just the ticket. I couldn’t say enough good things about the Crysis 2 multiplayer, and if your a Crysis fan, you’d agree — but I do have something to say to all the hardcore gamers. If you want to try a game where its fun no matter how many times you die, pick up Crysis 2… it could be great target practice in-between rounds of Black Ops.
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