Crysis 2 -c- Electronic Arts Type: Deep Dive / Retrospective Analysis Title: The Concrete Jungle’s Nanosuit: Why Crysis 2 Was More Than Just a Graphical Benchmark When we think of Crysis , the collective memory usually snaps to a lush, destructible tropical island melting our high-end GPUs. The sequel, Crysis 2 , made a controversial pivot: swapping palm trees for crumbling skyscrapers in a post-apocalyptic New York. But beneath the surface of that controversial shift lies one of the most mechanically confident and thematically prescient shooters of the PS3/Xbox 360 generation.