Is the story of Crysis 2 connected to Crysis 1?

I'm planning on buying Crysis 2, and I need to know if it will make any sense if i've never played Crysis 1. My PC can't handle Crysis 1 so I'd basically have to watch through the game on Youtube, but i'd do it if it makes the story more solid.Is the story of Crysis 2 connected to Crysis 1?
the story in crysis 2 is more urban and the graphics are turned up a slight bit



there's nothing that is going to push graphics too hard since its been optimized for consoles running five year old hardware.Is the story of Crysis 2 connected to Crysis 1?
Kind of, but not really.

I started playing the game today, and there's a single character so far that's mentioned (Prophet), and the aliens are more of a persistent enemy instead of it being completely Koreans until the end like the first game.

I gotta say that so far, the game has story that makes no sense. They added several random key elements to the story that didn't exist what so ever in the original game, and after a few hours of playing none of it has been elaborated on or described in the least.

They randomly added a military group called CELL (No idea really, they're basically the Human bad guys is all I can tell), and for no known reason that I can tell a virus is spreading throughout New York so civilians are also bad, and for, once again, no known reason, the guys in the Nanosuits(aka you) are being hunted and considered bad. Weren't they in the military and the good guys in the first game?



So yeah....dunno, so far it's barely linked, the only major key elements from the first game are Prophet and the aliens, which are now red instead of frozen and blue...so another "no idea" there. They did a great job getting a player into the story /sarcasm.Is the story of Crysis 2 connected to Crysis 1?
yes it is connected... still fighting the alien didn't it? but the check point of story is still in the blank check..
No from what I understand Crysis 2 is a "Reboot" of the series or so said IGN.



Didn't think much of Crysis 2.