im about an hour into crysis 2 so far and my impression is that its just optimized very well, because on max settings it pushes my gpu almost as hard as witcher 2 and graphics are great, i really dont know what people mean by "the second not as demanding as the first was" what its a bad thing that the game runs at 60flps on max settings on mid-high range cards and doesn't require GTX580 to run full speeds? its not like graphics quality was reduced to provide better performance, the game looks gorgeous i think its just optimized very well, and game like DA2 on the other hand looks a lot worse graphically but still runs like crap so, great job by crytek, and bioware needs to step up their games graphic wise, as good as mass effect series has been the weakest part are the graphics although second was much better than first, and dragon age isnt visual marvel either im especially upset with the second from performance vs visuals standpoint. i get about the same performance (around 55flps average) in witcher2 but it looks just unreal compared to DA2, in fact in my opinion second was only better then the first one in one category: combat, thats it, everything else i didnt like.
