the games looked great on 360, though Halo 4 turned out to be the console's flagship. the Crysis series on the other hand looked decent on consoles, but it's best on PC.
You didn't miss out. Trust me. The gameplay and physics system is broken on the console ports. The only way to experience these games as they were advertised is to play them on a beast PC
I definitely believe that. Used to watch a lot of the gameplay from the PC on YouTube and I always thought it was miles different than the console experience.
They had one hell of a game engine for the time of the 2nd games release. The things you could do with visuals was quite impressive for the time. Especially since Unreal kind of had a samey feel to a lot of the games, because it had some limits on it's shader abilities through much of the gen.
You're not alone. Crysis 1 was a masterpiece. Alot of elements were removed in favor of set pieces and console limitations. When Crysis 2 was released it was classic EA published title, unpolished, buggy and broken. I would know I played the beta and pre-ordered the game months in advance. I even wrote shill pieces for it when it was clearly not ready for release.
The console ports of Crysis 2 and 3 were some of the worst games I've played last generation. Do yourself a favor and don't bother with this. Get it on the PC, or don't get it at all
The Crysis games were so good.
Could never get into these games, but they sure did look nice
BC for the win
........ I'm just prefer my Crysis games on PC I guess.