With the Crysis Remastered Trilogy due for release tomorrow on PC and consoles, Crytek's Steffen Halbig (Crysis Remastered Project Manager) and Rick Taylor (Community Manager) showcased some new Crysis 2 Remastered PC gameplay in a live stream that aired yesterday on Twitch.
In addition to that, the two Crytek employees also shared a detailed list of enhancements that PC and console users can expect to find in Crysis 2 Remastered. It consists mainly of technical features.
- HDR (In a Day Zero Patch)
- TAA (Temporal Anti-Aliasing)
- Improved Post Processing POM (Parallax Occlusion Mapping improvements)
- Improved Vegetation Shading
- SSS (Screen Space Shadows)
- SSDO (Screen Space Directional Occlusion)
- SSGI (Screen Space Global Illumination)
- SVOGI (Voxel-based Global Illumination)
- SSR (Screen Space Reflections - Improved from Crysis 1 Remastered)
- Improved Shadow Technology
- Shadows On Glass
- Shadows On Particles
- Shadows on Water (PC Only)
- 60 FPS Weapon Animation (Next Gen And PC Only)
- 60 FPS Water Ripples Animation (Next Gen And PC Only)
- 60 FPS and up to 4K Support for Next Gen Consoles
- Around 150 Unique CPU & GPU Performance Improvements
- Software RayTracing (PC Only)
- Hardware RayTracing (PC Only)
- NVIDIA DLSS (PC Only)
- Improved Lighting
- Improved Cubemap Reflections & Image Based Lighting
- Improved Selected Materials and Textures (500 out of 2000)
- Improved Selected Assets (38 of the most instanced props)
- Improved Selected Vehicles (31 vehicles)
- Improved Selected Weapons (18 Weapons, 3 Explosives, 9 Weapon Attachments)
- Improved Selected Characters (12 Characters with 20 variations and 13 attachments)
Crysis 2 Remastered launches tomorrow, alongside the remasters of the first and the third installment, on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S|X, and Nintendo Switch.
If you're looking to play on PC, the official system requirements can be found below.
Minimum
Windows 10 64-Bit
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3450 / AMD Ryzen 3 CPU
8 GB RAM
20 GB Storage
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 TI /AMD Radeon 470 GPU
Recommended
Windows 10 64-Bit latest update
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7600k or higher / AMD Ryzen 5 or higher CPU
12 GB RAM
20 GB Storage
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 TI / AMD Radeon Vega 56 GPU
