There are screenshots from the leaked version on NeoGAF too, or at least that's where i first saw them. Talking about the leaked version versus looking at a screenshot isn't much different as far as I can tell. I'm not sure why anyone would play a beta when the game comes out in a month anyway. If they were going to pirate it they're going to pirate that too--and that's where the real damage is. And that build says it's running on high (not very high), so I am assuming it's not medium.Yea.. it's not that bad if it doesn't dip too far below that though, and who knows what he's running.

Crysis was sorta only exciting if you made it exciting, and Warhead put you in scenarios that made that easier to achieve. Crysis combat made you feel like a lion or something.. a predator in the wings sorta thing.

I'm sorta doubtful that I'll feel the same w/ the new (noob) suit layout, but we'll see. I also lol'd when I saw that the PC demo was still twelve players.

I think streamlining the suit is a good thing. If one thing bothered me in Crysis it was how little powers flowed into one another even when you tried to make them do that. I think the closer it gets to feeling like Radiant Silvergun/Ikaruga with that stuff, the more beneficial it'll be to the experience.

Halo thought to let you throw a grenade without switching to grenades and meleeing without switching to a melee weapon. That philosophy echoed throughout Halo and made that into probably the finest playing FPS there is. Crysis always had a similar vibe to it, but the separation of elements made it ever so slightly clunkier than it could have been. I don't see this as noobification at all, I see it as a logical step. I see it as moving away from the Prototype school of fetching each power off a shelf, and moving towards the InFamous school of being part of a seamless arsenal.

There'll still be balance there, there'll still be a finite amount of energy you can spend, it just won't be this weird system where strength and toughness are arbitrarily two different things - just because - and then the game needs to chomp down on your energy bar to the point where stalls are impossible to avoid. It can all be done much more elegantly and play better because of it.


As for the "hunter" part, I think that'll be there in doses, but I also think you'll feel more like a super hero going up against worse odds. There'll still be that notion of only you being able to even remotely pull the shit off that you're doing. Ie, I think it'll still be empowering, just not as overpowering.

I have a E6600 (3.2Ghz) and I play PC games extensively :D

The first Crysis ran awesome on this rig, hoping Crysis 2 works fairly well too. I don't intend to upgrade until the fall.