Inside the Dome, New York has become a literal urban jungle, overgrown with foliage and populated by wild animals. New York is ground zero for CELL’s strike for world domination, and Prophet wakes to find it encased within the Liberty Dome, a huge energy bubble created by CELL that keeps the city separated from the rest of the world. Psycho explains that, while Prophet was sleeping, shady global organisation CELL took credit for stopping the invasion by the alien Ceph, and have seized control of all the alien technology to become the largest superpower in the world. Following the chronology of the series is surprisingly headache-inducing, but suffice to say that Prophet means serious business when it comes to warfare. Although it’s not blatantly explained, it becomes clear that Alcatraz from the last game is now completely gone, absorbed by the suit at a genetic level to become Lawrence “Prophet” Barnes once again. STORY: Crysis 3 picks up roughly 20 years after the last game ended, and begins with “skinned” former Nanosuit soldier Michael “Psycho” Sykes rescuing a comatose Prophet from a similar fate (that is, being cut out of the Nanosuit whilst fully conscious). But have they succeeded in correcting the perceived mistakes of Crysis 2? Or is Crysis 3 simply more of the same but with shinier graphics? It’s now been almost three years, and developers Crytek have taken the core concepts of the Crysis series back to the drawing board, hoping to keep the positive elements intact and weed out the bad, essentially polishing the experience to its ultimate shine. You were presented with potential sandboxes and a set of tools with which to assault them, but the Nanosuit made Alcatraz so overpowered against puny humans that by the latter half of the game you were almost hoping something would put a kibosh on your carefully orchestrated plans just to make you work that little bit harder. The combat capabilities of the iconic Nanosuit rendered the game just that little bit too easy, as you strode through the alien-infested streets of New York as suited-up super-soldier, Alcatraz. Graphically, it was one of the most beautiful titles released in the current console generation, boasting a highly detailed world that did a great job of convincing the player that it was massive and open when, in fact, each area was relatively small compared to other sci-fi shooters at the time. Available on: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows PCĢ011’s Crysis 2 was the perfect example of a game that had all the right ingredients but didn’t quite manage to mix them together into the perfect soup.
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