Yea that GDC version looks bit rough,but that was not to show the world how Crysis 2 looks but rather to show what are features of engine and its implantation on console.Final version WILL look better,as a matter of fact,latest build(that press saw) looked miles better,at least according to this:
- "I'm not sure how this got confused, but we were not watching a video of gameplay. The Executive Producer of Crysis 2 played in a huge screen auditorium on an early Xbox 360 dev build. The game looked amazing. More importantly, it had the same C1 feel, but with some new features. While other sites report of some frame drops and screen tears, which there were, they were the same drops in C1 when you're in God Mode and the game wants to kill you, but then it has to override that and let you play on. At one point, Nathan died several times in a row in succession while doing his best Terminator impression. While cinematic and smile-inducing, the beat writers chalk the frame drops to C3 performance issues. There were no new ones that I could see."
- "So I said earlier that I think it's the best looking game I've ever seen. I'm sticking to that statement, but with some added considerations. First of all, I knew there wasn't going to be all the post-processing affects available (AA/AF, etc). So I don't hold it against CryTek or C3 that they're not there.
Second, a lot of you posted replied based on screenshots or videos released to the public thus far. Compared to this build, they look ancient. The build was so new that Cevat said in one of the interviews that he was just happy it ran."
http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=30411
I think people need to calm down a bit and wait for official videos...