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It's fairly rare to see a developer get a song for their game's trailer, but such is the case with Crysis 2. This launch trailer has an extremely catchy song and all the footage you would expect from a launch trailer: using the suit, cool cinematics, aliens, and the ruins of a devastated New York City. Perhaps the most-used element is smashing shit up. From air stomps to landings on glass canopies to kicking a guy into an air conditioner, there is a lot of smashing.

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Folks who have bought and installed Crysis 2 on their PC gaming rigs today have a couple of unexpected twists. The first is a day 1 patch for Crytek's first person shooter that automatically downloads when you first start the game. The MyCrysis.com community message boards has a patch list of what's fixed or changed including re-enabling the console and putting in cheat detection.

The other unexpected news is that at the moment Crysis 2 does not yet support DirectX 11 graphics. While the game still looks good even in its current DirectX 9 version, PC gamers who have high end hardware will likely be disappointed that all the promised bells and whistles are not in place. We have emailed the game's publisher Electronic Arts to find out when Crysis 2 will be updated with the promised DirectX 11 support.

Crysis 2 is due for release on Tuesday and fans of developer Crytek's previous first person shooters are anxious to install and play the full version of its latest game. We expected to shoot a lot of aliens and use the Nanosuit a lot ... but we never expected this.

And by "this" we mead this Easter Egg that shows up in the game ... somewhere ... that lets us encounter a couple of interesting characters doing ... something ... in the elevator. No, it's not quite as bad as you might be thinking but it's still sort of odd to see in a "M" rated shooter. Maybe this is a new direction for Crytek's next game.

It's only a few days from release, but we are still getting some delectable footage of Crysis 2's single-player. In this case, it's an unnamed sequence that starts off with a rather impressive stealth kill. Tons of suit abilities, such as armor mode, stealth mode, superhuman sprinting and jumping, and on-the-fly weapon customization are shown. it also gives us the first glance at how you change armor modules mid-game. Overall, if you are still skeptical about your Crysis 2 purchase, this is definitely a trailer to watch. Although we can't help but feel like the player was never in any real danger.

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With Crysis 2 due out next week, comic book publisher IDW has just announced that it will release a six issue mini-series based on Crytek's sci-fi shooter series. The first issue of the monthly series begins in June.

The story tells the story of what happened in between the events of Crysis 1 and 2 so we should finally know exactly what happened after the incident on the Pacific island. The comic is written by Richard Morgan who also wrote the script for Crysis 2 and will be drawn by Peter Bergting. IDW previously published a Dragon Age mini-series for publisher EA.

With the full version of Crysis 2 due out next week some PC gamers may be concerned that their gaming PC rig won't be able to run the sci-fi shooter very well. Now graphics chip maker Nvidia has decided to promote its newly announced budget graphics card, the $150 GeForce GTX 550 Ti, by using it as the graphics source to make a sub $600 gaming PC that can run Crysis 2.

The GeForce.com web site goes over all of the parts you will need to purchase to assemble the PC and shows Crysis 2 benchmarks for the finished system. The result was solid and playable frame rates for the system on high resolutions settings and "Advanced" graphics settings. The higher Hardcore graphics setting pushed the framerate down below 30 fps for the system but overclocking the graphics card pushed the framerate for Hardcore just above 30 fps at 1680x1050 resolution. Nvidia has listed a couple of sub-$600 gaming PCs that are already on sale that have similar hardware inside.

With Crysis 2's release planned for next week, developer Crytek will also show off the first game that will use its CryEngine 3 game development tools. Now Develop has posted word that small indie game developers will soon be able to gain access to a version of CryEngine 3 on the cheap and perhaps for nothing at all.

According to Crytek co-founder Anvi Yerli, "The barriers for entry will be very low, and perhaps [it will be distributed] for free." Details and a release date for this CryEngine 3 Lite SDK have yet to be announced. It seems resonable to speculate that such a release could be similar to what Epic Games did when it released its UDK tools in 2009. The UDK tools, offered for free, allow game developers to make stand alone titles using most of the features of Epic's Unreal Engine 3 with the exception of direct access to the engine's source code.

Crysis 2's release is close at hand and this week a new trailer was released that showed off even more in-game footage from developer Crytek's upcoming sci-fi shooter sequel. This particular trailer, while also showing off shooting a bunch of aliens, also puts the spotlight on the player's NanoSuit and its enhanced speed features.

There's also a rocking soundtrack and a mysterious narrator. We have no idea what role he will have in the final game but he's particularly apocayptic in his tone. We will all find out his role when Crysis 2 is released on March 22.

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Crysis 2 is due out in stores on March 22 but players who have been checking out the multiplayer PC demo of the upcoming first person shooter have been encountering various hackers and cheaters while playing the demo. Developer Crytek has posted up word that while the demo lacks cheat protection that won't be the case for the final and full version of Crysis 2.

In a post on the game's official web site, Crytek states, "Rest assured that although the demo does not have these features installed, our team has been working for some time on various anti-cheat measures that have been introduced for the retail release of Crysis 2." Details of those anti-cheat features haven't been revealed yet, for obvious reasons. However Crytek added that it is the developer's goal to "continue to strive for a cheat-free community ... "

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Download Crysis 2 v1.2 Multiplayer Demo Patch (38 MB)
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This patch updates multiplayer demo for Crysis 2 to v1.2, addressing a number of gameplay issues. A full list of changes can be found after the jump, and the full demo can be downloaded here.

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