Crysis 2 played on the Joojoo and Iconia tablets welcome to the age of the il33t3rati!

Cryteks Crysis 2  played by thegameveda on an Atom powered nVidia Ion GPU'd  Windows 7 Ultimate Fusion Garage Joojoo Tablet , running on Steam of course! 

A year ago all the blogs were telling you this could not even run Flash , now we all know which tablet cannot run Flash even into it's second generation... even with a 9 times faster gpu ...! Seriously I am constantly impressed by what the Ion and Atom pairing in the joojoo can do , I was expecting the game to be a total frame by frame slide show , but take a look see. Now if only some manufacturer could wake up to the idea that we want an i7 Windows 7 tablet with discrete ( or equivalent ) graphics. Ironically 1 year after the "blogs" declared joojoo dead , it is currently the most powerful gaming tablet in the world ,with more compatibility and choice of real games than any rival , from DOS to Unreal Engine to Cryengine 3 , all are possible on the humble Atom powered Fusion Garage Joojoo. If any one can help with tweaking the settings for Crysis 2 further please let me know  and I will post a follow up . So forget l33t gaming and welcome the dawn of the il33t3rati !


How far are we away from a true Windows 7 gaming tablet ? That is what I need to know , this  is the second Windows  7 tablet I have running Crysis 2 ( see the video below for the i5 dual screen Acer Iconia playing Crysis 2 with Intel HD GPU), it is the 3rd ( counting Libretto , Iconia and Joojoo) that I have running full games  , developers and hardware designers can no longer ignore the vast hunger for tablets , tablets that run FULL PC games , on FULL OS like Windows 7 , this time next year or in fact maybe later this month thegameveda WILL be playing Crysis 2 at 30fps + on a fourth Windows 7 tablet , the tech is getting better every day , the joojoo with Windows 7 is 1 year  old technology but still outdoes any other tablet for straight up PC gaming .

We used to spend 1000s upgrading l33t pcs to play major releases , I could show you the same game running at 100fps at 5120 by 1600 , but that is so.. boring! I want a game optimized so  I can run it from a Windows 7 tablet , or at least stream it through onlive or Gaikai  as well as being able to play on a gaming rig.


Why? well I am from the Crysis generation  and Crysis still barely runs on today's hardware , only recently beginning to achieve the fps  that every other game engine managed almost a decade ago ( and that is on today`s hardware). 


Cryengine 3 and Crytek will survive on how they optimize Cryengine 3 , and not on pushing sales of l33t gaming rigs . Console game sales will not be enough , you need to tap into the vast PC gaming and now PC tablet gaming fan base . 


In 2007  thegameveda felt it cool to build a 3k rig to get a few more fps from the chugfest that still is Crysis ( whilst every other game ran at 200 fps!)  in 2011 thegameveda finds it uber cool to call for the formation of the il33t3rati ( no hoody or Animus required), a gaming brother/sisterhood that strives to run the most high spec games on the lowliest of hardware thereby forcing lazy coders who depend on the endless hardware upgrade cycle to wake up to the future , optimize their code , or if too lazy then at least stream their games using services like  onlive and Gaikai that make hardware irrelevant 








    


































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CRYSIS 2 running on the Lenovo X220 Tablet

Ok Angry Birds time ... no ...  Crysis 2 first , this is the game running with vsync on , and no external optimizations, not bad ,not bad at all as you can see from the video

 

 

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Lenovo X220T Tablet Test No.9 : Crysis 2 played and or conducted with Pen

So I had to try this playing Crysis 2 with pen , and as you can see any kind of attempt at playing games with a pen that does not touch a touch screen , takes a bit of practice .. but perservere and you will get there in the end ... plus the best thing of all ....is the PEN NEVER RUNS OUT OF JUICE .. there are no batteries ...it will keep going as long as your Lenovo X220T ...



 

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Lenovo X220 T Tablet test No. 11 : Big screen 50 inch Plasma gaming Crysis 2 , Diablo 2 . Team Fortress 2 and Onlive and more errh tests ...

Test 1 : Crysis 2 on Steam running on an LG 50 inch Plasma and the Lenovo X220T !


What we see here is mine Lenovo X220T linked with a VGA lead ( Industrial !) to one of the few Plasma screens still  attached to a wall after last weeks UK Riots .... any way this will serve as thegamevedas next great test paradigm for the 12.5 inch screened Intel HD 3000 powered Lenovo X220T that you see in the bottom right corner of the picture .. this is an old Plasma ( 13 if I am correct)  but a bold Plasma ... and the res is 1366 by 768 , the screen refresh is 60 hz so you will see flickering my ageing vga camera ( circa 1999) , but rest assured when you actually play there is no ghosting or flickering the game play is as razor sharp as the picture above .. and I was certainly surprised how fast the game moves  


I am playing  Cryisis 2 from Steam  with a wireless Xbox 360 pad ( well it never gets any console use ) and just think the X220T is actually running 2 screens at 1366 by 768 as you can see 


The reason I test Crysis 2 so much is because it is really a Sandbox game hidden in an FPS , there are so many ways to take down the bad guys it deserves to be played again and again and again.... hhhmmh OK back to the serious work of testing the X220 T : 

Test 2 : Diablo 2  demo played with Pen and touch and mirrored on a 50 inch Plasma ... you know ...for budding Blizzcon demonstrators ..... 


In this test for those trying to impress Blizzard at one of their cons ... we use pen and touch to control Diablo 2  which is being mirrored onto the big 50 inch Plasma ...  and as the pen only needs to hover over the screen and never touch it no more mouse clicking .... although there is a lot of pen clicking .....

Test 3 : Team Fortress 2 : because someone requested it and we need to challenge the Lenovo X220Ts wifi , Intel HD3000 , and have some fun whilst where at it ... 

Test 4 : Onlive gaming on a 50 inch Plasma screen using the Lenovo X220 T 


Onlive is  a very good test of the broadband stability of the X220T and during the almost 20 minute test the machine NEVER drops a connection once , even though it is powering 2 screens ! including a 50 inch Plasma ....   I am playing with my trusty 360 pad ...  may be I will try using Kinect next time around ... And so you do not even need the onlive console if you have a nifty tablet PC like the Lenovo X220T as you can see from the video....

NB there is no actual flickering or ghosting on the plasma , this is due to the feeble vga camera I have at my disposal ....






   

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Gaikai used to play Crysis 2 on the Lenovo X220 T tablet PC

Hey I just clicked on Crysis 2 on Gaikai , and what do you know it fired up and suddenly I am playing Crysis 2 through java streamed by Gaikai  , the game is running in what looks like ultra high settings and the speed .. whoa . I downloaded litecam 3.0 to film the game play as I am too tired to fire up my old vga cam .. Thegameveda cannot wait until someone lets Dave Perry stream full games this way , it is interersting to note that whilst EA seem to be at odds with Steam , they are quite happy to allow streaming demos through Gaikai .  

I experienced a lot of server queuing yesterday on Gaikai , asked Dave to do something about that , and it looks like he listened , although I may just be suffering from a delusion that he did .. any way what are you waiting for get on over to Gaikai and you too can play Crysis 2 maxed out from a humble netbook:  like this
 

check out litecam3.0 , also consider that the video shows 16 minutes of constant gameplay without a drop in the stream , no network problems and zero lag , most impressive ... and this is on wifi !

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Crysis for your console CLOAK DISENGAGED

Well almost 5 years on from it`s release and us PC owners can at least run the menu for Crysis on today`s latest hardware , I am joking of course , even an Atom Ion powered Joojoo can run Crysis from hardware and without having to resort to the magic of streaming.

And  EA and Crytek have a very nice  gift for ageing next gen consoles now in their twilight months , Crysis with added sfx will be released through PSN and Xbox Live . If anything the games online component will find a new younger audience , a game of Crysis can be much deeper than your average FPS , and it maybe be heresy to say this but playing with a PS3 controller or  a 360 one adds greatly to a game in which your nano abilities are so important , all my Crysis 2 play throughs and Crysis videos were made using a 360 pad  , far easier to use than a laptop or mouse keyboard set up , especially when switching powers and messing with augmentations ...

Crysis on the consoles will also introduce a new generation to the sandbox FPS genre that Crytek pioneered , Crysis 2 has an open nature  too as you can see from my many repeat playthroughs , although the sandbox is hidden in a more linear game structure , but Crysis is closer to the original Crytek Farcry  openworld FPS  and you can play the same level over and over always with a different outcome and emulating a different one of your Hollywood ,Bollywood or Jon Woo action heroes each time , there is no other FPS that can make you feel like Chuck Norris , Arnie , Stallone , Bachan or Chow Yun Fat (sans baby in arm) all in the space of one opening level ... I missed out Statham of course because he is IN the game !

check the official press release here and a trailer below 

Get More: GameTrailers.com, Crysis - Exclusive Debut PS3/Xbox 360 Trailer HD, PC Games, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

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Windows 8 playing Crysis 2 on Steam whilst using Onlive to play Assassin`s Creed Brotherhood and more!

Thegameveda has calculated that there is not sufficient lifetime available to play through all the games that have been and will be , therefore a cunning plan has been hatched to play through games 2 at a time . This plan has been put into action thanks to Windows 8 , Steam and Onlive . And also allows me to test how the Windows 8 developer preview handles gaming . Note we now have a touch based OS that allows us to flick through games and Apps , you have for the first time the power of an i7 powered tablet PC with more RAM and GPU power than IOS and Android Tablets could hope to dream of . So you can do things like run 2 games at once , whilst running Windows 8 and desktop Apps in the background and flick through them as easy as a Build demonstrator on happy juice ... 


check out video , this is my first games test using Windows 8 , but if anything it already feels faster than Windows 7 , perhaps because we have a raw os devoid of all the bloatware that may slow it down in later builds . 

Test machine Lenovo X220 T 4gb RAM i7 CPU Intel HD3000 GPU running Windows 8 off a 64gb Runcore msata ssd .. 


Crysis 2 is running in Steam natively using the i7 and HD3000 , I let the game choose settings (High) , Assassin`s Creed Brotherhood , Saints Row 2 , Mafia 2 all run instantly streamed using Onlive over wifi N .  


All in all this test shows that even in the developer stage Windows 8 not only  leverages maximum power as they say in Crytek speak from full PC components like  the  CPU , GPU , pen and touch tablet options , ssd storage , Steam , and wifi N dependent streaming services like Onlive but allows a level of multitasking no other OS or device without Windows 8 is capable of .... and this is just the developer build !

If you are in the market for a tablet hold on ditch Android and IOS before their stores own you , and hold out for a Windows 8 tablet , or just grab one that can run Windows 7 and install the Windows 8 preview ... 

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Crysis 2 for £14.99 on PC and £17.85 on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3

Get Crysis 2 from Zavvi now just £14.95 for PC and  £17.85 for consoles.

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CRYSIS 2 for £14.95 on PS3

This is an awesome price for one of the games of the year. Get Crysis 2 for £14.95 at Zavvi

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CRYSIS 2 FOR £8.99!

The effortlessly impressive Crysis 2 is just £8.99. Crysis 2 , is where Battlefield 3 will be in 5 months , i.e. the developers will have finally completed the PC code! Crysis 2 today is a very different game on PC than it was at launch , with ultra high res textures , optimizations and ticking the basic box of actually running on our expensive gaming PCS. Oh and if you need to feel the gameplay why not play Crysis 2 in your browser courtesy of the Cloud and Gaikai...


Crysis 2 runs amazingly well on everything from Intel HD3000 powered laptops to your gaming rig , why am I reminding myself of this? Because I have great faith that DICE will sort Battlefield 3 out the same way Crytek have , given a few months of us beta testing or should that be gamma testing the game after release....


Crytek like DICE are game coding gods, and missing out on Crysis 2 is a crime against gaming ,there is no other FPS with it`s patented blend of sandbox  and skill based gameplay , thegameveda has played the same levels hundreds of times finding different ways and techniques to complete them. And it was nice of Crytek not hammer us with DLC !

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Crysis 2 Maximum Edition 70% off on Steam oh and Skyrim is 50% off too

Man or woman cannot live without playing a game of Crysis ..2 .. Maximum Edition. All things Crysis are on sale , Crysis 2 Maximum Edition and Crysis collection have had 70% d-i-s-e-n-g-a-g-e-d off their price here on Steam, oh and if you have yet to learn what all the  Fus Ro Dah  is about Bethesda's Skyrim that too is massively reduced in price at 50% off 

Be quick though the Steam sale cloak will re engage in around 3 hours and prices will return to normal... if only my Nano suit had that much stamina!

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