Crysis 2 + Crysis 3 Remastered PC Deep Dive - Every Enhancement Detailed + Tested!

Alex Battaglia is your guide to all of the changes, enhancements and refinements made to the PC version of Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 Remastered. Real-time global illumination, ray tracing, remastered textures, improved effects - everything! Crytek and Saber Interactive deliver a comprehensive, modernised upgrade to a pair of excellent first-person shooters.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:01 Crysis 2 Remastered - New global Illumination
00:05:09 Crysis 2 Remastered - New ray traced reflections
00:08:36 Crysis 2 Remastered - New textures/comparison to Maldo 4.0
00:11:16 Crysis 2 Remastered - Weapons/animations
00:12:42 Crysis 2 Remastered - New post-processing/added lighting
00:14:13 Crysis 3 Remastered - Overview
00:15:41 Crysis 3 Remastered - New ray traced reflections
00:18:14 Crysis 3 Remastered - Other changes & upgrades
00:20:17 Performance and Recommendations
00:25:28 Conclusion

[HarryUK]

30fps on a 3090 in Crysis 3? The madlads did it. They made a game that modern PC's can't run again!

[Ziltoid_Knows]

I fully blame you Alex for the fact that I can no longer see the inside of event without noticing that it's glowing in the dark like the Moon.

[MetalJody]

Both of them look absolutely incredible. Can't wait to play them at 4K 120 fps in year 2031!

[mitchboland]

I forgot how gorgeous Crysis 3 is. Imagine how amazing a Crysis 4 could be.

[vintatsh]

I wish there was a new Crysis game. Would be interesting to see how much they can push graphics now with the current gen consoles and graphics cards.
Also wouldn’t hurt to have another linear FPS, which is basically a dead genre now.

[Beastwck]

30fps vegetation in Crysis 3 always really bothered me. Really glad they fixed that.

[TokeBoisen]

Reviewers:
"I don't really see much of a difference between Crysis 2 and the new remaster on PC"

Digital Foundry: Literally everything has been changed.

[Azerai]

Gotta hand it to Saber, while the "downgrades" in the original Crysis remastered were a let down to me, they seem to have done a nice job updating and modernizing the following two entries

[nodonn]

Could this actually be Alex’s last Crysis video?

No, don’t be silly.

[rumbazumba]

Props to you guys for including maldo's mod, it's an amazing piece of work and needs to be applauded.

[jacobsoper]

Because Saber prioritized frequently appearing textures to get best bang for their budget buck, I think that it's possible Maldo's more scattergun approach redid some props that weren't touched by Saber. So there is potential for modders to carefully touch up some of the infrequently appearing textures Saber placed out of scope -- like bags of chips in the vending machines, for example.

I'm really happy you showed Maldo's mod and put it in context against the remaster. Because people do often make glib remarks about how "mods look better" but that really isn't true in this case. Maldo did good work. But Maldo was one person. He touched a much smaller subset of textures. And he had to work within C2's tech limitations, and the somewhat garish artistic conventions of the time.

[kernspalt-kartoffel]

That visual performance of "auf wiedersehen" at the end was great alex, as was the whole video !

[nov]

that blue ambient lighting felt so surreal, like you could feel the terror but now its "fixed" it doesn't feel "right".

[johnsmith-ckqt]

This two turned out to be great. Great job with this vid, Alex. RT reflections are much more noticable in C2R, due to the city setting and its materials. SVOGI looks great like in the C1R and does so much for the image. Many games even nowdays doesn't have a lighting system this good and suffer from the same old light leaking/occlusion problems. Crytek outdid everyone with their tech once again.

[Xyos]

Great video, just wish you highlighted some of the brick textures in-game that use tessellation/POM. Some of the best brick textures in gaming!

[foulplay]

Been looking forward to this video, I thought I was going mad when I couldn't tell that much difference from Crysis 3 original and remastered on my PC. Also glad I can happily set RT on low or medium. Will be great to play through these games again.

[DMELZA]

Getting it just for the shotgun animation fix. I literally stopped using that weapon in the original because of it.

[trollhunter]

It's great that all of these old games are getting remastered like Dead Space. I would love to see the Quake trilogy get remastered too.

[GaMeON]

I’m gonna be honest, Crysis 2 2011 looks better to me. Better tech and more accurate lighting doesn’t always make games look better.

[SP]

Now I want Crysis 2 Remastered Maldo Remastered Edition