The Crysis Remastered Trilogy was recently released on PC and consoles. The collection costs $50 and includes three single-player campaigns from three different games ( Warhead not included). In comparison to the originals, all three remasters featured significant improvements.

Two Crytek developers discussed the improvements in Crysis 2 Remastered during a Twitch stream. Some upgrades are available on both PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, while others are only available on PC.

Ray tracing was used in both hardware and software in Crysis 2 Remastered. However, both are PC-only, so even if you have the most recent consoles, you won’t be able to use RT. This is strange because Crysis 1 Remastered for consoles did support RT. NVIDIA DLSS support and shadows on Water were also included in the PC version.

The game could run at 60 frames per second on the latest consoles, with up to 4K resolution support. Weapon animation at 60 frames per second and water ripple animation at 60 frames per second are among the new features. HDR support would be added to all platforms via a Day Zero Patch, according to the stream.

These are the improvements:

  • TAA (Temporal Anti-Aliasing)

  • Improved Post Processing

  • POM (Parallax Occlusion Mapping improvements)

  • Improved Vegetation Shading

  • SSS (Screen Space Shadows)

  • SSDO (Screen Space Directional Occlusion)

  • SSGI (Screen Space Global Illumination)

  • SVOGI (Voxel-based Global Illumination)

  • SSR (Screen Space Reflections – Improved from Crysis 1 Remastered Improved Shadow Technology

  • SSR (Screen Space Reflections – Improved from Crysis 1 Remastered )

  • Improved Shadow Technology

  • Shadows On Glass

  • Shadows On Particles

  • Around 150 Unique CPU and GPU Performance Improvements

  • Improved Lighting

  • Improved Cubemap Reflections and Image-Based Lighting

  • Improved Selected Materials and Textures (500 out of 2,000)

  • Improved Selected Assets (38 of the most instanced props)

  • Improved Selected Vehicles (31 vehicles)

  • Improved Selected Weapons (18 Weapons, 3 Explosives, and 9 Weapon Attachments)

  • Improved Selected Characters (12 Characters with 20 variations and 13 attachments)