2011 was a very special game year. With Dark Souls it experienced the birth of a new genre, with Minecraft one of the greatest phenomena in game history, with Portal 2 the final triumph of the Indiegames and with Skyrim an evergreen that is still being reissued on various platforms even today. It was the birth of World of Tanks, The Binding of Isaac and the Nintendo 3DS. It was the year the Dead Island trailer brought us to tears and we actually saw the return of Elvis, uh, Duke Nukem Forever. Ladies and gentlemen, here it is: the year 2011 …
10th place: Crysis 2
No, even if many remember it as such: Crysis was anything but a graphic blender. The versatile sandbox gameplay with its numerous tactical possibilities and the clever opponent AI was only packed into a rather dull story that we had forgotten after five minutes and of which we only know today that it still existed. Instead of playing on a Pacific island, the second part was played in New York, and to make it absolutely clear that Germany had finally arrived in the video game Champions League, Crytek got none other than Hans Zimmer on board for the soundtrack. It looked outrageously good at the time, too. But was still not a graphic blender …
The noble shooter from Germany is finally on the market. We went through the game and tell you in our video test why Crysis 2 is one of the shooter highlights of recent years.
