{"id":13807,"date":"2011-06-29T17:54:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T07:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=13807"},"modified":"2011-06-29T17:54:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T07:54:47","slug":"ea-and-crytek-dial-it-up-to-directx%c2%ae11-with-the-crysis-2-ultra-upgrade-available-today-for-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=13807","title":{"rendered":"EA AND CRYTEK DIAL IT UP TO DIRECTX\u00ae11 WITH THE CRYSIS 2 ULTRA UPGRADE AVAILABLE TODAY FOR PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most highly-acclaimed first person shooters of 2011 is getting a facelift. Today, EA and Crytek will be releasing the <strong><em>Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade<\/em><\/strong>, giving PC gamers full DirectX\u00ae11 support. Enhancing the <em>Crysis 2<\/em> gaming experience on PC, the <em>Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade<\/em> delivers higher quality visuals and features including tessellation, water rendering improvements, high quality HDR motion blur, and many other special effects and higher quality texture formats with the optional high res texture pack. The <em>Crysis 2<\/em> <em>Ultra Upgrade <\/em>is available via an auto installation once gamers go online* with <em>Crysis 2<\/em> on PC.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/news\/cryc01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, PC gamers can design their own maps and create their own epic battleground with the Map Editor Pack which can be downloaded at <a href=\"http:\/\/mycrysis.com\/\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/mycrysis.com<\/a> for no cost starting *Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Crysis 2<\/em> catapults players into Crytek\u2019s stunning recreation of New York City in 2023. With the city on the brink of annihilation from a terrifying alien threat, players will use the powers of the Nanosuit 2 to be fast, be strong and be invisible, in an attempt to save humanity. <em>Crysis 2<\/em> has won over 25 awards from critics around the world and received 50 review scores rated 90 percent and above, including \u201c4 stars out of 4 stars\u201d from the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/news\/cryc02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>For more information on <em>Crysis 2<\/em> and additional details regarding the <em>Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade<\/em>, please visit the official game website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ea.com\/au\/crysis-2\" target=\"_new\">www.ea.com\/au\/crysis-2<\/a>\u00a0the official <em>Crysis<\/em> community web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/mycrysis.com\/\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/mycrysis.com<\/a>.Follow the development team on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/crysis\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/crysis<\/a> or on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/crysis\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/facebook.com\/crysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/news\/cryc03.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most highly-acclaimed first person shooters of 2011 is getting a facelift. Today, EA and Crytek will be releasing the Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade, giving PC gamers full DirectX\u00ae11 support. Enhancing the Crysis 2 gaming experience on PC, the Crysis 2 Ultra Upgrade delivers higher quality visuals and features including tessellation, water rendering<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=13807\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13812,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807\/revisions\/13812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}