Crysis · Volume 2 of 3Crysis 2 Remastered - The Complete 100% Walkthrough
All 19 missions of Crysis 2 Remastered, all 35 Steam achievements, and all 28 collectibles that count toward one: 18 New York Souvenirs and 10 speed cameras, each placed in route order. Written for the Steam release (17 November 2022, AppID 2096600) as it stands in October 2026. No Steam-specific patch notes were found, so the reported achievement bugs are covered here with the workarounds and precautions available. The 17 Dog Tags, 11 Vehicle Keys and 10 E-mails earn nothing and get a count table only.
1. What "100%" Means in Crysis 2 Remastered
Crysis 2 Remastered is Crytek and Saber Interactive's remaster of Crysis 2 (Crytek and Electronic Arts, 2011). In a Nano-Suit you fight CELL soldiers and the alien Ceph through an evacuating New York, 19 missions in all. The remaster first came out on other platforms in October 2021 and reached Steam on 17 November 2022. It drops the original's multiplayer entirely, so every achievement is single-player.
The Steam list has 35 achievements, 8 of them hidden:
- Story (13): one per story milestone, from the first mission to Central Park. All automatic.
- Campaign and difficulty (7): finish the campaign on any difficulty, on Veteran and on Post-Human Warrior, plus 6-level and 12-level milestones on Veteran and Post-Human Warrior. They stack: one Post-Human Warrior run unlocks all seven.
- Combat (8): a headshot streak, a grenade multi-kill, a one-bullet double kill, and five cumulative counters (stealth kills, grab-and-throw kills, Microwave cannon kills, slide kills, thrown-object kills).
- Mission challenges (5, all hidden): the giant donut in Mission 2, the sinkhole in Mission 9, the marines in Mission 10, the library book in Mission 12 and the undetected substation in Mission 16.
- Collectibles (2, both hidden): The Tourist for all 18 New York Souvenirs and Speeding Ticket for all 10 speed cameras.
- Not on the list: 17 Dog Tags, 11 Vehicle Keys and 10 E-mails. They earn nothing; §18 counts them per mission for anyone who wants them anyway.
Tip. Nothing is permanently missable. Replay Mission lets you replay any mission at any point without resetting collectible or achievement progress, and every souvenir and camera pass is saved the moment it registers. A missed item is one replay away (see §20 for one Speeding Ticket report).
Spoiler policy
Each mission gets one line of setup, not a retelling. The 13 story achievements are visible on Steam; their descriptions name places and characters, not twists. §6 lists them last, and the walkthrough names each one with where it unlocks.
2. How to Use This Guide
Mission numbering. Missions are numbered 1-19 in the game's own order, starting with In at the Deep End. GamesRadar's 2011 souvenir guide starts counting at Second Chance, so its numbers run one lower than these.
Every mission below has:
- A count strip: souvenirs and speed cameras in that mission, the achievements this guide places there, and the mission number.
- A line of setup.
- A collectibles table in route order. Each item carries a running number: (5/18) is the fifth souvenir of 18, (3/10) the third camera of 10.
- Achievement callouts where each achievement is earned, with backup spots for the combat ones.
Tick a row's box as you go. Progress is saved in your browser, per guide.
Tip. The souvenir names in the tables come from a Russian-language collectible list, translated. Their English in-game names are unconfirmed, so go by the location, not the name.
3. The Road to 100%
flowchart TD
A["New campaign on Post-Human Warrior<br/>Open from the start, play Missions 1-19 in one go"] --> B["Missions 1-6<br/>Heart of Darkness and City That Never Sleeps"]
B --> C["Missions 7-12<br/>Medal of Honor and Evolution"]
C --> D["Missions 13-19 and the credits<br/>Post-Human Warrior, Men of Destiny,<br/>Start Spreading the News"]
A -.-> G["Along the way<br/>18 souvenirs, 10 speed cameras,<br/>mission achievements in place"]
D --> E["Replay Mission cleanup, any difficulty<br/>Band of Brothers if needed, missed items,<br/>cumulative combat counters"]
E --> F(["All 35 achievements"])
One Post-Human Warrior run from Mission 1 covers all seven campaign and difficulty achievements. Replay Mission mops up whatever is left.
Why this order?
- Post-Human Warrior stacks. It is open from the start, and every difficulty achievement is retroactive: finishing on Post-Human Warrior also unlocks the Veteran and any-difficulty ones. That is seven achievements from one run instead of two runs.
- Keep it one continuous run. Two players reported in 2025 that the 6-level and 12-level achievements did not unlock, and nobody has found the cause (§20). A fresh Post-Human Warrior campaign played straight through from Mission 1 is the safest course, though it is an untested precaution, not a confirmed fix. Mission 1 counts as a level.
- Collect on the way. Replay Mission keeps your progress, but every missed item costs a reload and a walk. One player's Speeding Ticket failed to unlock after replaying a mission for a missed camera, so taking all 10 cameras in the main run is the safer path.
- Do the mission challenges in place. Food for thought, Hole in One and Stealth Assassin can be retried from a checkpoint. Literary Agent is in Mission 12's library; if you miss it, replay the mission. Band of Brothers is the hard one on Post-Human Warrior: if the marines keep dying, move on and replay Mission 10 on Recruit later.
- Leave the easy-difficulty replays for last. This is this guide's ordering choice, not a rule: it keeps the Post-Human Warrior run uninterrupted. The cumulative combat counters fill up as you play; top up any that fall short in cleanup. Fastball is easier on low difficulty.
4. Mechanics Worth Knowing Before You Start
- Difficulty. Four settings. Steam guides list Recruit, Soldier, Veteran and Post-Human Warrior; the Crysis Wiki's list for the original game calls the second one Regular, so its exact name on Steam is unconfirmed. Post-Human Warrior is the top setting and needs no unlock. The Steam API and the console versions call it Supersoldier.
- Replay Mission. Cynic's name for the mission-select option; the exact label on Steam is unconfirmed. Pick any mission and any difficulty. Replays do not reset collectible or achievement progress.
- Saving. Souvenirs and speed camera passes save the instant they register, whether or not you reach a checkpoint. Collectible progress (along with attachments and suit upgrades) lives in the profile folder,
%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Crysis2Remastered\Profiles\default, not in the save games in...\SaveGames\. - Suit modules. Buy Mobility Enhance first, then Stealth Enhance, as early as you can. Both help with Stealth Assassin in Mission 16.
- Suit abilities you will use. Cloak for stealth kills from behind (Close Encounters). Armor for walking through fire (the Literary Agent book). The visor to scan (the same book). Power melee to break a door (Mission 3 souvenir). Super jump to reach high windows and floors (Missions 16 and 18). Sprint for the speed cameras. Slide for Death Slide. Grab and throw for Death Grip and Hole in One: you cannot grab while cloaked.
- Speed cameras. Sprint past each one at full speed with nothing in the way. The screen flashes when it counts. Mission 4's camera is passed while driving the CELL ICV.
- The X-43 MIKE. The Microwave cannon for Popcorn. It does not refill its ammo: when it runs dry, swap it for a fresh one. It does not carry over from Mission 9; later missions hand you new ones.
- Single-shot weapons. For Two Heads Are Better Than One, Cynic's guide recommends the M12 Nova, Hammer, AY-69 or Majestic.
- Cumulative counters. Close Encounters (25), Death Grip (10), Popcorn (20), Death Slide (5) and Fastball (10) add up across missions. Sources disagree on whether Close Encounters progress survives a death: PSNProfiles says stealth kills only save when you reach a checkpoint, Cynic's guide says they count across death reloads. Reach a checkpoint after a batch of stealth kills before you take risks.
- Fastball. The thrown object has to land the killing blow; fall or crush damage does not count. Heavy objects such as yellow highway barrels kill CELL soldiers in one or two throws, trash cans in eight to ten. A Steam forum thread suggests throwing objects at Ceph Ticks.
Warning. Seven achievements have reports of not unlocking: the four 6-level and 12-level difficulty achievements, Speeding Ticket after a replay, Band of Brothers with a stuck marine, and Literary Agent without a scan prompt, plus minor Headhunter and Death Slide reports. §20 covers each one.
5. The Master Checklist
Mission order. Achievements here counts the achievements this guide places in that mission; they sum to 35. Running total counts the 28 achievement collectibles.
| # | Mission | Souvenirs | Speed cameras | Achievements here | Running total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In at the Deep End | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Second Chance | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| 3 | Sudden Impact | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Road Rage | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 5 | Lab Rat | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | Gate Keepers | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| 7 | Dead Man Walking | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 8 | Seat of Power | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| 9 | Dark Heart | 1 | 0 | 3 | 13 |
| 10 | Semper Fi or Die | 1 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
| 11 | Corporate Collapse | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| 12 | Train to Catch | 1 | 1 | 4 | 18 |
| 13 | Unsafe Haven | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20 |
| 14 | Terminus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21 |
| 15 | Power Out | 1 | 1 | 1 | 23 |
| 16 | Eye of the Storm | 1 | 0 | 1 | 24 |
| 17 | Masks Off | 1 | 1 | 2 | 26 |
| 18 | Out of the Ashes | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 19 | A Walk in the Park | 1 | 0 | 5 | 28 |
| Total | 18 | 10 | 35 | 28 |
Every mission from 2 to 19 has exactly one souvenir. The cameras are in Missions 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15 and 17.
6. The Achievement List - All 35
35 achievements, 8 hidden on Steam. The remaster has no multiplayer, so none needs a connection. The rarest by Steam global percentage (October 2026) are Speeding Ticket (6.7%), The Tourist (7.2%), Hole in One (7.6%) and Fastball (7.8%).
Campaign and difficulty (7)
| Achievement | Requirement | Where / when | Missable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start Spreading the News | Finish the single player campaign on any difficulty | End of Mission 19. Any harder completion unlocks it too | No |
| City That Never Sleeps | Complete 6 levels on Veteran difficulty | After Mission 6, on Veteran or higher. A Post-Human Warrior run unlocks it | No |
| Evolution | Complete 12 levels on Veteran difficulty | After Mission 12, on Veteran or higher | No |
| Men of Destiny | Complete the single player campaign on Veteran difficulty | End of Mission 19, on Veteran or higher | No |
| Heart of Darkness | Complete 6 levels on Post-Human Warrior difficulty | After Mission 6 on Post-Human Warrior; Mission 1 counts. Reported bug, see §20 | No |
| Medal of Honor | Complete 12 levels on Post-Human Warrior difficulty | After Mission 12 on Post-Human Warrior. Reported bug, see §20 | No |
| Post-Human Warrior | Complete the single player campaign on Post-Human Warrior | End of Mission 19 on Post-Human Warrior | No |
Combat (8)
| Achievement | Requirement | Where / when | Missable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headhunter | Kill 4 enemies in a row with headshots | Mission 3's street fight with a silenced SCARAB, or Mission 5's Lab Rat building with a silencer and cloak. Any body hit resets the streak | No |
| Blast Radius | Kill at least 3 enemies with a single grenade | Mission 2, the grenade box on Fred's Diner roof. Ceph Ticks also work | No |
| Two Heads Are Better Than One | Kill two enemies with a single bullet | Mission 2's decontamination zone, or the start of Mission 5. Hidden on Steam | No |
| Close Encounters | Stealth kill 25 enemies | Cumulative from Mission 2: cloak, then melee from behind | No |
| Death Grip | Kill 10 enemies with grab and throw | Cumulative. Mission 2's CELL soldiers are ideal | No |
| Popcorn | Kill 20 enemies with the Microwave cannon | The X-43 MIKE in Mission 9's subway, with top-ups in Missions 17 and 18 | No |
| Death Slide | Kill 5 enemies while sliding | Cumulative. Ceph Ticks in Missions 2, 8 and 9 die to a slide | No |
| Fastball | Kill 10 enemies by throwing an object at them | Cumulative. Ceph Ticks in Mission 8 or 9. Easier on low difficulty | No |
Mission challenges (5)
| Achievement | Requirement | Where / when | Missable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food for thought | Kill a CELL operator with a giant donut in Lower Manhattan | Mission 2, the roof of Fred's Diner. Hidden on Steam | No |
| Hole in One | Throw an alien down the sinkhole in Dark Heart | Mission 9, at the third spore conduit. Hidden on Steam | No |
| Band of Brothers | Keep all marines alive during the rescue in Semper Fi or Die | Mission 10, first section. Reported bug, see §20. Hidden on Steam | No |
| Literary Agent | Scan all of Richard Morgan's books in the NY public library | Mission 12. Only one book needs scanning. Hidden on Steam | No |
| Stealth Assassin | Re-route the power in Eye of the Storm without being detected | Mission 16, the substation. Hidden on Steam | No |
Collectibles (2)
| Achievement | Requirement | Where / when | Missable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tourist | Find all New York Souvenirs | 18 souvenirs, one in each of Missions 2-19. Hidden on Steam | No |
| Speeding Ticket | Break the speed limit in front of 10 speed cameras | 10 cameras in Missions 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15 and 17. Hidden on Steam | No |
Story (13)
All 13 unlock automatically as the story plays out; none can be missed.
| Achievement | Requirement | Where / when | Missable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can it run Crysis? | Complete In at the Deep End | End of Mission 1 | No |
| Foreign Contaminant | Escape the Battery Park evacuation center | Mission 2, as you tear open the evacuation centre's exit doors | No |
| More than Human | Assimilate alien tissue at the crash site | Mission 3: kill the first Ceph and collect its tissue | No |
| False Prophet | Find Nathan Gould | Mission 5, on reaching Gould's apartment | No |
| Internal Affairs | Infiltrate the CELL facility at Wall Street | Mission 7, taking the elevator into the facility | No |
| Into the Abyss | Infiltrate the alien hive | Mission 9: destroy the three spore conduits and enter the structure | No |
| Once a Marine, Always a Marine | Assist the Marines in Madison Square | Mission 10 | No |
| Hung Out to Dry | Reach the Hargreave-Rasch building | Mission 11, entering the building | No |
| Fire Walker | Assist the evacuation at Bryant Park | Mission 12, after you clear the Ceph at Bryant Park | No |
| Dark Night of the Soul | Defend Central Station | Mission 14, after you defeat the Pinger | No |
| Crossroads of the World | Complete the evacuation at Times Square | End of Mission 15, when the Pinger dies | No |
| Theseus at Last | Locate Jacob Hargreave | Mission 17, entering the room with the large screen | No |
| Home Stretch | Reach Central Park | Start of Mission 19, after the drop from the helicopter | No |
7. Missions 1-2 - In at the Deep End & Second Chance
Mission 1 - In at the Deep End
The opening mission, and the first of your Post-Human Warrior levels. There is nothing to collect.
Achievement - Can it run Crysis? Unlocks at the end of the mission. On Post-Human Warrior this also counts as level 1 of 6 for Heart of Darkness.
Mission 2 - Second Chance
You break out of the Battery Park evacuation centre and into Lower Manhattan. The Armor ability unlocks before the final section. The busiest achievement mission in the game.
Achievement - Two Heads Are Better Than One / Death Grip / Death Slide / Close Encounters. Four combat achievements to start on here. Two Heads (hidden): PSNProfiles and PowerPyx both use this mission's decontamination zone. Line up two enemies and fire one round from a single-shot weapon; Cynic's spot is the start of Mission 5. Death Grip: the CELL soldiers here are ideal for grab-and-throw kills. Uncloak first, since you cannot grab while cloaked. Death Slide: Ceph Ticks here die to a slide. Close Encounters: start banking stealth kills now. Cloak, get behind, melee.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lady Liberty (1/18) | Souvenir | After you tear open the evacuation centre's exit doors, head down the street toward the objective and go through The Drug Store on the east side. On the front counter. |
| 2 | Speed camera (1/10) | Speed camera | Drop from the roof of Fred's Diner (the one with the giant donut sign) to the street below. Near the fortification marked C2 Evacuation Post, on a light post with a 25 mph sign. GamePro's 2011 guide puts it at the intersection with the giant donut. |
Achievement - Foreign Contaminant. Unlocks as you tear open the evacuation centre's exit doors, just before the Drug Store souvenir.
Fred's Diner comes in the final section. Two achievements are on its roof, and the mission's speed camera is in the street below.
Achievement - Food for thought / Blast Radius. Final section, right after the Armor ability unlocks: get onto the roof of Fred's Diner, which has a box of grenades. Four CELL soldiers patrol below and two of them walk under the giant donut sign. Push the sign onto one as he passes (Rarity's guide shot it down with a silenced pistol instead). Then use the grenade box for three kills with one grenade. If either goes wrong, reload the checkpoint. Backup spots for Blast Radius: the rooftop over the LTV in Mission 3, or the outer warehouse in Mission 5.
8. Missions 3-4 - Sudden Impact & Road Rage
Mission 3 - Sudden Impact
A Ceph dropship crashes, and the first Ceph you fight is at the crash site.
Achievement - More than Human. Kill the first Ceph at the crash site and collect its tissue. The souvenir is down the ruined road from here.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yellow Taxi (2/18) | Souvenir | From the crashed Ceph dropship, follow the ruined road down into the HGR Finance underground parking garage (it also has an entrance at the top). By the two toll gates, power-melee open the door of the attendant booth. Get it before the checkpoint where the garage door closes. |
| 2 | Speed camera (2/10) | Speed camera | After the CELL street fight, take the road to the right and stay on the upper side, not the underpass. Just before you pass between two CELL containers, on a light post on the right. GamePro: shortly before the entrance to the underground on the way to Gould. |
Achievement - Headhunter. Four headshot kills in a row. Cynic's spot is this mission's street fight, near the stairs, with a silenced SCARAB. Any body hit resets the streak, so take your time. PSNProfiles' spot is the Lab Rat building in Mission 5 (§9). A CELL soldier with a shotgun here is also a Death Slide target.
Mission 4 - Road Rage
A CELL checkpoint, then a drive up the FDR in a CELL ICV.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Police Car (3/18) | Souvenir | Right at the start, take the stairs up by the orange scaffolding and turn around. In the ramshackle living space with "God help us" graffiti, on the ground in the far-right corner. |
| 2 | Speed camera (3/10) | Speed camera | While driving the CELL ICV on the FDR: in the tunnel after the checkpoint, where the right-hand wall opens onto an ocean view, beside the hanging FDR North sign. Drive past at full speed (super sprint if you are on foot). |
9. Missions 5-6 - Lab Rat & Gate Keepers
Mission 5 - Lab Rat
The search for Nathan Gould, through a set of warehouses to his apartment.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York Skyscrapers (4/18) | Souvenir | After the AH-50 is destroyed, drop through the hole it leaves in the floor. On cardboard boxes in the far-left corner (GamesRadar: the south corner). Cynic's guide calls this the first floor; the Russian list says the second floor, by the window, under Gould's lab. Both place it after the drop through the hole. |
Achievement - False Prophet. Unlocks when you reach Gould's apartment.
Backup spots in this mission: Two Heads Are Better Than One at the very start (two CELL soldiers beside the LTV on the upper road; Cynic uses the DSG-1), Headhunter in the Lab Rat building (PSNProfiles: groups of two and three, with a silencer and cloak), and Blast Radius at the outer warehouse.
Mission 6 - Gate Keepers
CELL have a command post at Trinity Church, and one of your objectives is a diversion.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trinity Church (5/18) | Souvenir | During the diversion objective, in the church's outer area with the missing-person pictures. At the church entrance doors, behind the tables, on the Instant Food / aid boxes. |
| 2 | Speed camera (4/10) | Speed camera | On the road behind the church near the CELL Ammo Dump. GamePro: above the speed-limit sign by the church. Rarity: the leftmost corner, near the warehouse with a sniper on its roof. |
Both items sit around the church, and the sources do not fix which you reach first. Take whichever comes up.
Achievement - City That Never Sleeps / Heart of Darkness. Finishing this mission completes your sixth level. On Post-Human Warrior both should unlock together, since Post-Human Warrior counts for the Veteran one. If they do not, see §20.
10. Missions 7-8 - Dead Man Walking & Seat of Power
Mission 7 - Dead Man Walking
In through a roof, then on to the CELL facility at Wall Street.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot Dog Cart (6/18) | Souvenir | After you blast in from the roof, the security office with the Security Terminal that unlocks the elevator. On a counter or table at the back. |
Achievement - Internal Affairs. Unlocks as you take the elevator into the CELL facility. Grab the souvenir from the security office before you ride it.
Mission 8 - Seat of Power
Through a quarantine zone and past City Hall, toward the Ceph excavation.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NY City Hall (7/18) | Souvenir | Past the quarantine zone, enter the next building and take the stairs up. Go through the first office, then into the second room through a broken doorway. On the table in the left corner. |
| 2 | Speed camera (5/10) | Speed camera | Past City Hall, among the huge excavation tentacles, near the base of the broken road that climbs to the bridge toward the Hive. GamePro's 2011 guide says "on the way to City Hall", by an alien tentacle. |
Achievement - Fastball. PSNProfiles' spot: right before the large building there are five Ceph Ticks with throwable objects nearby. The object has to land the killing blow. Ticks die to a slide too, so this is a good Death Slide top-up. On Post-Human Warrior this may go slowly; Fastball is easier on low difficulty, so finish it in cleanup if needed (§19).
11. Mission 9 - Dark Heart
Down through the subway toward the alien hive. The best Popcorn farm in the game is here.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subway Car (8/18) | Souvenir | Through the subway to a fire escape, then up the metal stairs to Hargreave's dead men. Before you go back into the tunnel, turn back into the room: on the ground by the back wall, next to a dead survivor. GamesRadar: past the green door, through the doorway on the left by the big Tick shadow. |
Achievement - Popcorn. The X-43 MIKE is in the subway next to Hargreave's dead soldiers, with about 8-10 Ticks around. Cynic's guide says Microwave cannon kills count across saves and checkpoints, so reload the checkpoint and repeat until you have 20. The MIKE does not refill: swap it for a fresh one when it runs dry (Rarity found the one from Hargreave's area would not take more ammo). It does not carry past this mission. If you leave short, Mission 17 has two more MIKEs and Mission 18 one. The same Ticks are good for Fastball.
Further on, the mission's objective is three spore conduits. Do not rush the last one.
Achievement - Hole in One / Into the Abyss. Hole in One is hidden: at the third spore conduit, grab a Ceph and throw it into the sinkhole by the waterfall. Uncloak before you grab, and reload the checkpoint if you miss. Into the Abyss follows when all three conduits are destroyed and you enter the structure.
12. Mission 10 - Semper Fi or Die
Delta Company marines need rescuing, and then help in Madison Square.
Achievement - Band of Brothers. Hidden, and the first thing in the mission. Keep the first four Delta Company marines alive until they reach the building; the two marines who join later do not count. On Post-Human Warrior this is hard. If a marine dies, reload the checkpoint, or let it go and replay the mission on Recruit in cleanup (§19). PSNProfiles marks it buggy: a marine can get stuck in the ground. The achievement may still unlock at the extraction point; if it does not, restart the checkpoint or the mission.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ship in a Bottle (9/18) | Souvenir | After the second Ceph wave, do not follow the marines. Turn around and climb up into the ruined $uper $avin' store. On the front counter. |
| 2 | Speed camera (6/10) | Speed camera | After the flooded bridgeway, drop to the road and climb the tipped-over trailer to a ledge with ammo and C4. The camera is on a slanted, torn-up road slab ahead: sprint straight at it before you fall off. |
The sources do not fix which of these two comes first. If you reach the flooded bridgeway before the second Ceph wave, take the camera first.
Achievement - Once a Marine, Always a Marine. Story, during this mission.
13. Missions 11-12 - Corporate Collapse & Train to Catch
Mission 11 - Corporate Collapse
Flooded streets on the way to the Hargreave-Rasch building.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Life Ring on a stand (10/18) | Souvenir | The flooded area where the Statue of Liberty's head lies half-submerged. Swim inside the head: it is next to an ammo crate. Easy to swim past. |
Achievement - Hung Out to Dry. Unlocks as you enter the Hargreave-Rasch building.
Mission 12 - Train to Catch
The New York Public Library and the evacuation at Bryant Park.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Speed camera (7/10) | Speed camera | Cynic: after sliding through a building, go through the Evacuation Post C1 archway; on a light post beyond the checkpoint, before the missile batteries. GamePro: on the main road to the library, by a broken bus. Rarity places it after the library cutscene instead. Every source puts it in this mission: if the screen does not flash where Cynic says, look again after the cutscene. |
| 2 | Scientist bas-relief (11/18) | Souvenir | When you fall back into the New York Public Library, on the reception desk, right-hand side as you enter. GamePro: next to the postcard rack. |
Achievement - Literary Agent. Hidden. In the library, go up the stairs on the left and through a burning doorway with Armor on, then scan the Richard Morgan book with the visor. Only one book needs scanning, whatever the description says. Rarity: of the two hexagon markers, scan the blue one. If the scan prompt never appears, restart the game (§20).
This guide's own precaution, not a sourced fix: on Post-Human Warrior, play this mission through without replaying it or changing difficulty, since its end is your twelfth level. (Cynic's two-run route does use Replay Mission for its Post-Human Warrior run.)
Achievement - Fire Walker / Evolution / Medal of Honor. Fire Walker unlocks after you clear the Ceph at Bryant Park. Finishing the mission completes your twelfth level, and on Post-Human Warrior Evolution and Medal of Honor should unlock together. If they do not, see §20.
14. Missions 13-14 - Unsafe Haven & Terminus
Mission 13 - Unsafe Haven
Priming detonators around the Onyx Fibertech building.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clock with Spartan figures (12/18) | Souvenir | While priming the detonators, the small control office whose button opens the underground car lot (Onyx Fibertech building). On the desk beside the button. |
| 2 | Speed camera (8/10) | Speed camera | Leave that control office and, before you go into the underground car park, run down the road to the left under the railway. Before the intersection. GamePro: next to the "Suburban Chronicle" coffee shop. |
Mission 14 - Terminus
Holding Central Station while civilians board the trains.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Station clock (13/18) | Souvenir | Walk with Barclay to the overlook where civilians board the trains, then enter the station control room. On the map table that two marines are studying. |
Achievement - Dark Night of the Soul. Unlocks after you defeat the Pinger.
15. Missions 15-16 - Power Out & Eye of the Storm
Mission 15 - Power Out
The evacuation at Times Square.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JVC Globe (14/18) | Souvenir | From the start, go down to the road and pass under the blue "Evac Center" archway. Turn back to the archway's right-hand side, past the fortifications, into Amim's Sandwich Bar. On the front counter. |
| 2 | Speed camera (9/10) | Speed camera | Past the same blue "Evac Center" archway, on a light post on the right near the base of the hill. |
Achievement - Crossroads of the World. Unlocks at the end of the mission, when the Pinger dies.
Mission 16 - Eye of the Storm
A quiet approach to an electricity substation, where you re-route the power. Stealth first, souvenir second.
Achievement - Stealth Assassin. Hidden. Reach the substation and re-route the power without being detected. The detection bar may turn yellow or partly red; only a full red bar fails it (PSNProfiles). Rarity says avoid killing anyone; Cynic notes that most sources think a kill can alert others, though nothing is definitive. If you are spotted, reload the last checkpoint; there is no need to restart the mission. Stealth Enhance and Mobility Enhance help.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garner Lighthouse (15/18) | Souvenir | The substation's watchtower, in the far-left corner of the substation front. Jump onto the generator box, then super-jump or climb into the window. GamesRadar and GamePro say it can be taken early, but mind the sparks and the guard: get Stealth Assassin first, as Cynic does, or come back for it on a replay. |
16. Missions 17-18 - Masks Off & Out of the Ashes
Mission 17 - Masks Off
Inside the Prism, then out across the Queensboro Bridge.
Achievement - Theseus at Last. Unlocks as you walk into the room with the large screen. The souvenir is in the same room.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queensboro Bridge (16/18) | Souvenir | The museum-like room with glass cases where Theseus at Last unlocks. On the large table under the speaking screen and world map. |
| 2 | Speed camera (10/10) | Speed camera | On the Queensboro Bridge's upper level, after the missing-person checkpoint. Sprint under the next traffic arch, near a destroyed ambulance. GamePro: keep to the left side of the bridge. |
Achievement - Speeding Ticket. Hidden. On this route, this is camera 10 of 10 and the achievement unlocks with it. If it does not, count back through the camera rows in §7-§16 for the one you missed, and read §20 before you replay for it.
Popcorn top-ups: a MIKE in a box on the roof after you escape the facility, and another after the second elevator at the Queensboro Bridge.
Mission 18 - Out of the Ashes
Tagging targets for an airstrike, and a drive toward Central Park.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bus (17/18) | Souvenir | Take the elevator up to tag targets for the airstrike. In the next ruined room, full of Ceph, look left for a wrecked upper floor (a bedroom) and super-jump up to it. Beside the bed. |
Popcorn top-up: a MIKE at the start of the mission, before the vehicle.
17. Mission 19 - A Walk in the Park
Central Park, and the end of the campaign.
Achievement - Home Stretch. Unlocks at the very start, after the drop from the helicopter.
| # | Item | Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pram (18/18) | Souvenir | Past the stone dome, up the stairs and the hill. Near the cliff, on the right, are two containers, one yellow and one grey. Shoot the explosive barrel inside the grey one to blow its doors open, then go in. |
Achievement - The Tourist. Hidden. Unlocks with your eighteenth souvenir. If it does not, a souvenir is missing: check every Souvenir row in §7-§17 and replay that mission.
Nothing else here counts toward 100%. Play it through to the credits.
Achievement - Start Spreading the News / Men of Destiny / Post-Human Warrior. The credits on Post-Human Warrior unlock all three.
18. Optional - Dog Tags, Vehicle Keys & E-mails
The remaster keeps the original's three other collectible types: 17 Dog Tags, 11 Vehicle Keys and 10 E-mails. None of them counts toward an achievement, so they are not needed for 100% on Steam. Dog tags unlock character images (per a 2011 guide). They get counts only here, not item rows (§22 explains why).
| # | Mission | Dog tag count | Vehicle key count | E-mail count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In at the Deep End | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Second Chance | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Sudden Impact | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Road Rage | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Lab Rat | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | Gate Keepers | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | Dead Man Walking | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Seat of Power | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Dark Heart | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Semper Fi or Die | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Corporate Collapse | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Train to Catch | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | Unsafe Haven | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Terminus | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Power Out | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | Eye of the Storm | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 17 | Masks Off | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Out of the Ashes | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | A Walk in the Park | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 17 | 11 | 10 |
- One easy pickup on the souvenir route: Mission 7's e-mail is in the same security office as the Hot Dog Cart souvenir.
- Mission 16 holds three of the ten e-mails.
- For full locations, the Russian-language "all collectibles" Steam guide for the remaster lists every one by mission.
19. Cleanup - Replay Mission
This guide leaves Replay Mission until after the credits, as an ordering choice rather than a requirement: replays can happen at any point. Replay Mission keeps all collectible and achievement progress, and you can pick any difficulty for each replay.
- Missed souvenir or camera? Replay its mission on the lowest difficulty, grab it, quit. Souvenirs and camera passes save the moment they register. Cynic's guide confirms camera passes add up across replays on the same save; see §20 for the one report of Speeding Ticket not unlocking after a replay.
- Band of Brothers. Replay Mission 10 on Recruit, as Cynic and PowerPyx suggest if you are struggling. Keep the first four marines alive to the building (§12).
- Stealth Assassin. Replay Mission 16 at any difficulty (the lowest is optional); reload the last checkpoint whenever you are spotted.
- Food for thought, Hole in One, Literary Agent. Replay Missions 2, 9 and 12 respectively and reload the checkpoint on a miss.
- Popcorn. Mission 9's subway MIKE and its Ticks, reloading the checkpoint to repeat. Missions 17 (two MIKEs) and 18 (one) for top-ups.
- Fastball. Ceph Ticks in Mission 8, before the large building, or in Mission 9's subway near the MIKE. Use heavy objects; low difficulty helps.
- Death Slide. Ceph Ticks in Missions 2, 8 and 9, or the shotgun CELL soldier in Mission 3.
- Death Grip. Mission 2's CELL soldiers. Uncloak before you grab.
- Close Encounters. Any mission with CELL soldiers; Mission 2 works. Reach a checkpoint after each batch.
- Headhunter / Two Heads Are Better Than One / Blast Radius. Missions 3 and 5 (Headhunter), Missions 2 and 5 (Two Heads), Missions 2, 3 and 5 (Blast Radius).
- Suit modules on a replay. Sources disagree on whether Replay Mission or a New Game keeps your Nano-Suit modules (§22). No achievement depends on them, though Stealth Enhance helps with Stealth Assassin.
20. Difficulty Achievements & Reported Bugs
How the difficulty achievements stack. Every difficulty achievement is retroactive. A Post-Human Warrior completion counts for Veteran and for any difficulty, so one Post-Human Warrior campaign unlocks Start Spreading the News, City That Never Sleeps, Evolution, Men of Destiny, Heart of Darkness, Medal of Honor and Post-Human Warrior. TrueSteamAchievements flags seven achievements as stackable.
Reported bugs, workarounds and precautions. These come from player reports and one guide flag (PSNProfiles marks Band of Brothers buggy). None is confirmed by Crytek, and no Steam patch notes for the remaster were found.
- Heart of Darkness, Medal of Honor and the Veteran 6/12-level pair. A Steam discussion thread (August 2025, no replies) reports Heart of Darkness not unlocking after six Post-Human Warrior levels. A Steam guide comment (January 2025) reports the 6-level and 12-level achievements for both Veteran and Post-Human Warrior failing after several playthroughs, while the Post-Human Warrior campaign achievement did unlock; deleting saves did not help. The cause is unknown. No fix reported. Precaution (untested): start a new campaign on Post-Human Warrior and play Missions 1-19 as one continuous run. On consoles, patch 1.02 (January 2022) fixed Supersoldier (Post-Human Warrior) completions showing as Recruit, which shows that difficulty tracking had bugs at launch.
- Speeding Ticket after a replay. One player (Steam guide comment, September 2025) had nine cameras, replayed a mission for the missed first one, and the achievement did not unlock. Unresolved, and only one report. No fix reported. Prevention: take all ten cameras in the main run.
- Band of Brothers with a stuck marine. PSNProfiles marks it buggy: one marine can get stuck in the ground. Workaround: the achievement may still unlock at the extraction point; if it does not, restart the checkpoint or the mission.
- Literary Agent with no scan prompt. A Steam thread reports that the scan prompt on the Richard Morgan book did not appear until the game was restarted. Workaround: quit to desktop, relaunch, and go back to the book. Make sure you are scanning the right marker: Rarity's guide says scan the blue hexagon of the two.
- Headhunter stuck at 3 of 4. A Steam thread from April 2025 reports the counter stalling at three; later posts in July and August 2025 say it works. Any body hit resets the streak, so keep every hit on the head.
- Death Slide. One Russian-language comment says slide kills did not count. A single anecdotal report.
21. Appendix - Quick Reference
A. Achievement spots by mission
- Mission 1: Can it run Crysis?
- Mission 2: Foreign Contaminant, Food for thought, Blast Radius, Two Heads Are Better Than One, Death Grip, Death Slide, Close Encounters (start)
- Mission 3: More than Human, Headhunter
- Mission 5: False Prophet (backups for Headhunter, Two Heads, Blast Radius)
- Mission 6: City That Never Sleeps, Heart of Darkness
- Mission 7: Internal Affairs
- Mission 8: Fastball
- Mission 9: Popcorn, Hole in One, Into the Abyss
- Mission 10: Band of Brothers, Once a Marine, Always a Marine
- Mission 11: Hung Out to Dry
- Mission 12: Literary Agent, Fire Walker, Evolution, Medal of Honor
- Mission 14: Dark Night of the Soul
- Mission 15: Crossroads of the World
- Mission 16: Stealth Assassin
- Mission 17: Theseus at Last, Speeding Ticket (tenth camera)
- Mission 19: Home Stretch, The Tourist (eighteenth souvenir), Start Spreading the News, Men of Destiny, Post-Human Warrior
B. Speed cameras at a glance
- Mission 2: below Fred's Diner, by the C2 Evacuation Post
- Mission 3: upper road after the CELL street fight, before two CELL containers
- Mission 4: FDR tunnel, by the FDR North sign, in the ICV
- Mission 6: road behind the church, near the Ammo Dump
- Mission 8: among the excavation tentacles past City Hall
- Mission 10: torn-up road slab beyond the tipped-over trailer
- Mission 12: beyond the Evacuation Post C1 archway (or after the library cutscene)
- Mission 13: under the railway, left of the control office
- Mission 15: past the blue "Evac Center" archway, base of the hill
- Mission 17: Queensboro Bridge upper level, by the destroyed ambulance
C. Rarest achievements on Steam (global, October 2026)
- Speeding Ticket 6.7%, The Tourist 7.2%, Hole in One 7.6%, Fastball 7.8%, Food for thought 9.2%, Literary Agent 9.4%, Stealth Assassin 11.1%, Death Slide 11.7%, Post-Human Warrior 12.2%
D. Files
- Profile (collectibles, attachments, suit upgrades):
%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Crysis2Remastered\Profiles\default - Save games:
%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Crysis2Remastered\SaveGames\
22. Accuracy & Sources
This walkthrough was written fresh for this site in October 2026, then cross-checked against the Steam store page and Steam's global achievement statistics (AppID 2096600, also read through the Steam Web API), Exophase, TrueSteamAchievements, the PSNProfiles trophy guide for the PS4 remaster (an archived 2026 copy), Steam Community guides by Cynic 0055 (2026), CoNnEcT (2022, with comments into 2026), Rarity (2024) and Parkhis (Russian, 2023-2024), a Russian all-collectibles Steam guide (March 2025), four Steam discussion threads, the Crysis Wiki, PCGamingWiki and MP1st. The 2011 Crysis 2 guides from PowerPyx, GamesRadar, GamePro and Supercheats were used to cross-check locations.
What is solid. All 35 names, descriptions and hidden flags matched across Steam, Exophase and TrueSteamAchievements; the 8 hidden descriptions came from Exophase and TrueSteamAchievements, which agree word for word. The per-mission counts of souvenirs (18) and speed cameras (10) agree across the remaster guides and the 2011 guides. Every location in §7-§17 comes from Cynic's 2026 remaster guide, cross-checked against GamesRadar, GamePro and Rarity.
Where sources disagreed, and what this guide did:
- Achievement names. Cynic's guide and its checklist write "Foreign Containment" and use the console name Supersoldier for the three top-difficulty achievements. This guide uses Steam's names, including "Food for thought" with a lower-case t. PowerPyx's 2011 guide calls Speeding Ticket the only hidden one; on Steam, 8 are hidden.
- Difficulty names. Post-Human Warrior on Steam; Supersoldier in the Steam API's internal names and on PS4. The second tier is "Soldier" in a Steam guide and "Regular" in the Crysis Wiki's list for the original game: unconfirmed for the Steam build.
- Souvenir names. The names in the tables are translated from the remaster's Russian localisation; the English in-game names are unconfirmed. GamesRadar's 2011 descriptions ("small Statue of Liberty", "hotdog cart statue", "little boat") point the same way.
- Dog Tags, Vehicle Keys and E-mails. They earn no achievement, and the only per-item list for the remaster is in Russian, so their item names here would be unconfirmed translations. The 2011 GamePro lists also contain errors (a camera entry copied from a dog tag, and a twelfth key in Dark Heart that duplicates the Mission 7 location). So §18 gives per-mission counts only, which agree across sources and sum to 17, 11 and 10, and they carry no checkboxes.
- Lab Rat souvenir. First floor (Cynic) against second floor by the window (the Russian list). Both put it below the hole the AH-50 leaves.
- Train to Catch camera. Before the library (Cynic, GamePro) against after the library cutscene (Rarity). All agree on the mission.
- Seat of Power camera. Past City Hall (Cynic) against "on the way to City Hall" (GamePro).
- Order within a mission. In Gate Keepers and Semper Fi or Die the sources place both items but do not say which comes first. The tables list them in the sources' order and say so.
- Headhunter, Two Heads and Blast Radius spots. PSNProfiles, PowerPyx and Cynic suggest different spots (PSNProfiles and PowerPyx agree on Mission 2 for Two Heads). This guide gives one primary spot and the others as backups.
- Close Encounters progress. PSNProfiles says stealth kills save only at checkpoints; Cynic says they survive death reloads. This guide assumes the stricter rule.
- Suit modules. Cynic says use Replay Mission, not New Game, to keep Nano-Suit modules. Parkhis's guide says upgrades carry over from the first playthrough, but its author later replied that they are saved only if you start a new game. A third guide says suit upgrades live in the profile folder. Unconfirmed; no achievement depends on it.
- Menu label. Cynic's guide calls the mission-select option Replay Mission, and this guide uses that name throughout; PSNProfiles' PS4 guide calls it Chapter Select. The exact label in the Steam build is unconfirmed.
- Reported bugs. Every bug in §20 comes from player reports and one guide flag (PSNProfiles on Band of Brothers). None is confirmed, and no Steam patch notes for the remaster were found. The console patch 1.02 note (January 2022) is the only official mention of a difficulty-tracking fix.
- Global percentages were read from Steam on 14 October 2026 and will drift.
- Not confirmed anywhere: the second difficulty tier's Steam name, which path keeps suit modules, whether Close Encounters progress survives a death, and the English names of the souvenirs.
Crysis 2 Remastered © Crytek. Developed by Crytek and Saber Interactive. This is an unofficial fan-made guide.