Crysis 2 Is Better Than You Think (Story Explained)

[@thespiffingbrit]

Ahhh splendid memories. I also completely forgot about the suits Brazilian butt lift between games

[@rickwitt7373]

Ayyyyye spiff! Amazed to see you here!

[@zachblount8281]

Yooo great to see you here spiff !!

[@vladandnobody]

good that you support small creators

[@khanlusa]

Glad you enjoyed it :D (and it's the least the suit could do for Alcatraz after the day he was having)

[@FinallyAlone]

"General I'm trying to sneak in the cell base but I'm to dummy thicc and the clap of my ass cheeks keeps alerting the guards"

[@SoaringLettuce]

1. Give suit to dying marine 2. Die 3. ??? 4. PROPHET

[@ifoxtrot171gg]

bro... why is that funny.

[@NebLleb]

Step 3: Mentally merge

[@triadwarfare]

@@NebLleb it's more of Prophet reformatted Alcatraz's brain and assumed control.

[@councilofcringe5520]

@@triadwarfare unintentionally of course, ain't his fault that the suit copied his mind turned him into the suit AI, then put him in his body when Alcatraz died again.

[@masterzoroark6664]

@@NebLleb 4-5. Fuck up alien's invasion plan and retire on tropical island

[@AllanTurner13]

Apparently for the crysis 2 suit design, they painted it on an actor and used that to help create the model. That dude must have been caked up fr.

[@raptorjesus5870]

Oh yeah. Whole bakery there fr.

[@FarSeeker8]

Is there any video of that on YT? Sounds like it would be funny to see.

[@AllanTurner13]

@@FarSeeker8 not that I can find.

[@FarSeeker8]

@@AllanTurner13 Side note: A couple years ago I saw a guy that had made a Crysis Suit costume. I think he lived in Europe. Looked good, bu the torso and pants separation was visible.

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

I wonder how much mucle the suit had to replace for a rather normal built Alcatraz to fit inside

[@Neon9th]

Half dead marine using the worlds most advanced wheelchair stops ET Super Covid

[@JacopoSkydweller]

"Lieutenant Dan... You got new legs! Magic Legs!"

[@FarSeeker8]

@@JacopoSkydweller He was a standup kind of guy.

[@NoBody-qs7op]

The doctor explaining how Alcatraz is a dead man walking was haunting. Awe and dread at the fearsome power of the suit.

[@NightBeWheat]

Even more in the book, Crysis Legion. Alcatraz stopped feeling his heartbeat and breath after the explanation and wanted them to finish him off, but couldn't do anything.

[@NoBody-qs7op]

@@NightBeWheat I might read the book cause that sounds interesting.

[@NightBeWheat]

​@@NoBody-qs7op I downloaded a PDF since it wasn't availible where i live. Good re-telling of Crysis 2, had enough new things to keep it fresh.

[@jetex1911]

@@NightBeWheat The best kinds of novelizations do that. I remember liking the one for Revenge of the Sith.

[@collecter343]

@@jetex1911 Revenge of the Sith Novelization goes into the scenes they couldn't include in the movie, also highlights just how unstable Anakin was.

[@versebuchanan512]

I feel pretty bad for ol' Alka-seltzer. Imagine getting killed, then getting essentially revived as a super soldier- and then losing your personality and mind anyway.

[@kinagrill]

Yeah I never really liked that... it'd have been cool if the suit retained 'prophet' as a personality but you as Alcatraz remained 'there' as well. could have a bit of fun with suit insulting player, and snarky come-backs. etc. :P

[@moneyxbags123]

@@kinagrill a bit moon knight ish

[@Shin-e2w]

@@kinagrill iirc it’s a lot worse. If memory serves, it’s kinda implied that the suit also slowly rewrites Alcatraz body physiologically into Prophets. It’s a process that starts when the suit gets put on, and that temporarily quickens with every critical injury Alcatraz receives lore wise

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

​@@Shin-e2w it only does so because Alcatraz's personality is damaged and the suit is rewriting it. Basically, Prophet is freeriding the suit while Alcatraz is being fixed

[@Whatthewhat122]

I Like imagined Alcatraz let prophet take “control” while he made sure the suit wouldn’t go haywire or something

[@dodes2698]

Honestly the best part of Crysis 2 for me? Hans Zimmer being the composer. Great soundtrack for the game, I still remember it fondly.

[@whitewolf2265]

Still get goosebumps whenever I listen to it

[@limecupcakes]

Hans Zimmer was amazing, but I just now found out that Borislav Slavov was the Music Director and co-composer. Having loved his work on BG3 and D:OS2, it's yet another cause for why the Crysis OST has so much of a place in my heart.

[@gordito11ful]

So thats why i stil Remember the music

[@FatalFist]

Still doesn't beat Strickland's March but yeah, all around good soundtrack.

[@MazzaAzi]

You your telling me, this whole time, Crysis is just: Humanity VS Stabby the roomba.

[@sidewalks29]

Yes, because they own the Earth before human and Dino, but somehow those seed alien they leave and leaving a roomba to keep house clean and Terraforming. but those roomba just stop working long time ago until human era waking them up, So roomba will whatsapp the house owner a telling their house has a big problem.

[@fix0the0spade]

The Roomba accidentally landed too hard and ended up upside down. Stupid humanity dug it up, flipped it back over and accidentally hit the reset button.

[@levkranchevko1432]

@@sidewalks29 what da fak

[@jetex1911]

@@sidewalks29 Hate it when I leave my house for a few years and an entire alien civilization grows in my greenhouse.

[@masterzoroark6664]

Yep Pick your poison with these- you are either getting Roombad or ALien Miners whoop your ass

[@JoshSweetvale]

I always heard that the Crysis 2 A.I. was still coded for 'humans open areas' and not 'squidbillies in (wide) linear corridors.' Thus making the aliens look _really_ dumb because none of their flanking code works.

[@emberthecatgirl8796]

Emergent… storytelling? The roomba cannot into flank?

[@thomasjoychild4962]

Yeah, they still think they're in the jungle, both the ceph and cell troops.

[@Loyalguardian6000]

@JoshSweetvale LOL! Squidbillies, I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one who watched that show.

[@denithwijesinghe4128]

"Alien equivalent of a roomba" That got me. Yeah thank you for clearly explaining that the aliens soldiers were actually just improvised robot exoskeletons with repurposed melted human bio-matter. I'm sure no one is gonna have horrifying thoughts about alien life with that comment. But damn these were the hay day of gaming and no one can tell me otherwise. Humanity first!

[@Salamandra40k]

Having horrifying thoughts about alien life is for people without super armor. Get back in the fight, soldier

[@BoisegangGaming]

That's something I never made the connection about until watching this video. And it's terrifying. It really sucks that we'll never get another entry into the Crysis series *and* Crytek has been shoved into the Russian gaming mines (look up Warface if you want to be sad)

[@denithwijesinghe4128]

@@BoisegangGaming I already know about Warface and I've already been sad about it. Even as it is I'd like to play it but can't afford it which makes me even more sad since I can't have a bitter sweet memory of Crytek. But yeah it makes sense that most people wouldn't pick up that these are just robots with melted human bio-matter for fuel. Like some kind alien attack car. After all we're all thinking under human norms and capabilities not alien. At the end of the day it honestly makes you wonder what an actual Ceph footsoldier looks like and what kind of weapon it would wield. Regardless we gotta put humanity first, humans have always been a tribal species, we protect our own, hell that's why we still have 195 countries in the world all arguing over who gets the most attention and who gets aid first and gets it last. So between humans and aliens I'm on team humanity and peace with no cost to our humanity.

[@Fanrose2475]

"Central Park is no longer attached to the ground" Nature is healing ❤️

[@seara038]

One of my favorite things about this game is the portrayal of the marines. you get the sense that they all know that they are in over their heads, but they all have a job to do, and they are going to do it come hell or high water. My favorite example is after the fight with the first pinger. This platoon as just fought off some insane alien walker tank, and then they hear some strange alien noise in the distance. Every one is quiet for a beat, contemplating whatever new horror is about to be thrown at them. Then the CO gets everyone’s attention with the best line in video game history: “Alright everyone, quit standing around with your dicks in your hands. We’re gonna go find out what’s making that noise, and kick its ass!”

[@xentiment6581]

One of the best moments and even better in the book

[@billyboleson2830]

I think it does it better then Halo ever did

[@seara038]

@@billyboleson2830 Halo is definitely more geared towards action movie one liners, but it has its little moments too. But you have to remember that the human-covenant war lasted 27 years, and everything from Reach to the end of 3 took place in the final year. The soldiers in Halo know what the deal is. The marines in crysis 2 were not expecting aliens when they woke up that morning. My favorite smaller bit is during Halo 2, when the scarab takes out the tank, there’s an exchange between a marine and his sergeant The sergeant start off by calling attention to the Chief, “when I asked for reinforcements, I didn’t think they’d send a Spartan” Then the scarab destroys the tank. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, one lone tank isn’t a match for a scarab, but one of the marines looses his cool “You see this look? It’s terror!” The sergeant responds, “Marine, did I give you permission to bitch?” The sergeant saw one of his men start to loose his nerve, even though a SPARTAN just showed up to reinforce them, so he told him to shut it before it could spread and start affecting unit cohesion. He tells everyone to hunker down while the scarab crawls over their position, then says “That thing is really starting to PISS ME OFF. Marines, time to kill us all scarab.” He immediately and visibly directed his anger away from the marine and back at the enemy, refocusing his unit to the task at hand.

[@no-iv1hf]

Big Avery Johnson energy We've all run the simulations. They're tough, but they ain't invincible.

[@ryeuwu]

im not about military bravado at all, often i dislike it, but there was a real sense of comraderie in crysis 2 with the marines, it gave an air of hopefulness to a very bleak story.

[@117johnpar]

Alcatraz and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

[@someidiotnamedtricks6397]

And the even worse, bad, unfun, not very good, maybe even a little maddening week

[@masterzoroark6664]

(even thousand tequilla shots won't ease that pain)

[@denithwijesinghe4128]

Starting with a hangover followed by several alien bullets to all over the body.

[@AlOstosman]

Man, before this, i had never truly understood The True Magnitude of how much of a Dead Man Walking Alcatraz was and of the defibrillator segments

[@thomasjoychild4962]

You'll be glad to hear that the nanogear eventually consumed what was left of his heart and took over circulatory functions, performing them far better than the original organ could have :D Hence there were no defib segments in C3 :P

[@qvcybe]

basically the nano suit is a living armor that will keep its host alive regardless of the damage also i always figured the fact you were basically a deadman when you got put in the suit means your brain most likely was damaged and the parts were you lost power and had to restart your heart most likely didn't help so the suit was slowly fixing the damage using the old brain data from its past user

[@AnonEMus-cp2mn]

A suit so complex and adaptive that even the host's mind could be repaired with damage. According to the Crysis 3 suit logs, Alcatraz's encoded brain scan was corrupted and placed in permanent storage, with Prophet's AI being the current operating system.

[@qvcybe]

@@AnonEMus-cp2mn so if it was just a bit sooner alcatraz's wouldn't still be there and not prophet?

[@raptorjesus5870]

@@qvcybe from where I see it yes. Alcatraz is still in their its just on the back burner.

[@qvcybe]

@@raptorjesus5870 makes sense i always figured alcatraz's brain was just to far gone do to how damaged his body was figured the suit decided to replace the brain with a copy of prophet basically deleting alcatraz's from his own body

[@thomasjoychild4962]

It's also meant to make its wearer as effective in combat as possible, and its nanogear happens to be able to do nearly every bodily function better than the wearer's own tissues, so it eats and replaces them. The important bit of the host as far as the functioning of a nanosuit entity goes is the central nervous system, makes an excellent wetware CPU. Alcatraz/Prophet theorises in the novel as well that the suit got freaked out/traumatised when Prophet forcibly severed himself from it by dying, so it decided to integrate more completely with its next host so that couldn't happen again.

[@daysand123]

We should mention the character names. Prophet can be deduced to the guy that gave a bit of a revelation on events while being a figure head looked up to both for inspiration and with malice. Alkatraz is literally the name of an island prison that next to nobody could escape from and would die trying. The fact the MCs name is Alkatraz and he is imprisoned in the suit as the inly thing capable of keeping him alive paints a grimm picture of the body horror reality that the chance of survival and getting out of this flesh suit prison is slim to none.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

All of Alcatraz's team are codenamed after prisons, just as an interesting aside.

[@KatieAngelWitch]

Oh lovely, the Nanosuit is almost like the Berserk suit from Berserk. Because unlike the Berserk suit, it doesn't make you go feral. the Berserk Suit twists your bones and pierces them with metal spikes to keep you upright and fighting, the Nanosuit just cannibalizes you to do that but you keep your faculties.

[@KatieAngelWitch]

I'm not sure if it is a proper overwriting or "Alcatraz is Braindead and the Suit with a copy of Prophet is using his bones and meat for internal structure", ya know?

[@raptorjesus5870]

Yeah at this point you are just a brain piloting the suit like a scare crow with meat instead of hay

[@raptorjesus5870]

Its like a brain piloting a scare crow. Instead of sack its suit on the outside. Instead of straw its meat on the inside.

[@arieldreemurr6284]

That's actually an excellent way to put it. It does remind me of the Berserker Armour.

[@planetdrull1701]

Sci-fi and fantasy parallels. My favorite trope

[@misterduch7904]

"The problem is that Prophet did a fucky wucky" this and the next line are gold

[@matthewhiatt5738]

Having had flail chest, when I got to that part I had to assume the nanosuit comes equipped with a pain pump loaded with Opana.

[@JoshSweetvale]

It flat-out replaces the nerves with carbon ones that don't snitch.

[@TheNorthHawk]

@@JoshSweetvale Christ, so it doesn't reinforce your ribs which would actually be helpful, it replaces your goddamn pain receptors.

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@TheNorthHawk Replaces them with "They call me... Prophet."

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

@@TheNorthHawk yes, the suit literally grows into the wounds, replacing the piece missing of the body with more of itself. So the suit has pretty much directly merged with his chest cavity.

[@davispeterson1876]

According to the novelization, the suit is explicitly pumping Alcatraz full of shitloads of drugs, both to keep him functional, but also to make sure he does what IT wants instead of what he wants

[@mugrichabaxem8494]

Never thought that Alcatraz lost his mind and personnality to prophet. I actuelly thought he said "they call me prophet" to wear the legacy of his previous owner. Well, that's grim

[@thomasjoychild4962]

His "neural file" got damaged during the interface with the last spire, C3 explains, and the suit preserved what it could in a dormant state.

[@starkille10r72]

Double tap Lockhart after throwing him out the window, it gives you an achievement on Xbox. Also, canonnically, he survived that faceplant and got his own nanosuit, his own codename: Silverback, and started hunting Crysis 1's protagonist, Nomad. Guessing he might be the antagonist in the next game if they follow through with that plotline.

[@RussianAssassin100]

Didn't Nomad die on the island?

[@starkille10r72]

@@RussianAssassin100 Nope. Check out the teaser for Crysis 4, don't wanna spoil it, even if there isn't much to it. Also, to get the datalog in 3 saying he's being hunted by Lockhart, you have to find all the other datalogs first before it reveals it as a hidden one.

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

what? Nomad is dead, they killed him in that obscure comic (he took a missile to the chest)

[@starkille10r72]

​@@4T3hM4kr0n I know the one, the tie in taking place after the original game. The same one where the Ceph were displayed to have access to time travel. Either way, same thing that happened to Prophet could have happened to the next guy that put on Nomad's suit if it was recovered, even if granted Nomad only ever wore the N1 and not the N2. Also, again, the datalog very explicitly names Nomad being chased by Lockhart, which granted might be a different member of the Lockhart family, Crysis 2 Lockhart, or even Crysis 2 Lockhart's younger brother that was part of the N1 program and the reason he hated the N2 program. So either we're dealing with the same Nomad, someone else using his callsign and wearing his suit like with Alcatraz, or Nomad became a post-human like Prophet did.

[@xentiment6581]

Im pretty sure thats his nephew and not him. He sure as hell is dead, not that it matters to the suit, but there really isnt a plausible way for his body to was recovered, transported and put inside of a suit before prism went kaboom.

[@BlackSun404]

The alien roomba. Same with C&C Tiberian Sun! The big bad aliens there were just miners sent to collect the seeded Tiberium, using entire planets like farmers use fields. With humanity's "victory" in the end causing the mining personnel to retreat and actually call in the military for the first time. That type of twist is just something special.

[@BoisegangGaming]

Tbh yeah it's one of my favorite ways to show just how outclassed a planetary, pre-interstellar civilization is compared to an actual starfaring species.

[@MrZlocktar]

The game is really genius at what it does. The fact that we are not actually controlling character of Alcatraz, but the suit itself, is scary shit. In every sequence when you had to use defibrillator, game implies that Alcatraz is already dead. The suit is trying to return him to function in order to continue the mission by symbiosis with his body. I always loved that part in second game and how subtle and scary these details are.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The nanogear can do all bodily functions better than the original tissue, it just needs time to eat and replace the flesh! One of its functions is to maximise its host's effectiveness and efficiency in combat, after all! :P

[@lewistreadwell7006]

Gotta be honest, i disliked Crysis 2 not because of the story or the gameplay or anything, but because the aliens just weren't as cool (puns) in 2, they were totally inhuman in the first game and the whole energy siphon, dome of absolute zero, weapons that fire frozen air thing was such a cool gimmick, and i was sad to see it traded in for generic humanoids with energy weapons. it just felt like they took a badass original design and discarded it.

[@cluckbent6466]

2 was my favorite. great multiplayer too.

[@khanlusa]

That is very fair, I do prefer their designs in the first game even if I appreciate there's a reason they appear the way they do in the second.

[@gregoryfrechou]

for a good 6 months after the first one came out me and my friends would yell at each other "Nomad, I'm Hungry" at lunch time XD

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

it's about adaptation. They were like that in crysis 1 because these were "unadapted" Ceph that had amoken from cryo and their equipment was designed for energy harvesting from things like asteroids (they were essentially "colonial Ceph"). Crysis 2's ceph took note and adapted themselves for combat in an urban territory by mimicking human tactics. Crysis 3's ceph are the newest generation optimized to fight humanity (they went into stasis due to the Alpha Ceph going dormant but then reawakened once again once the Alpha Ceph gets released, which ends up in CELL getting steamrolled)

[@Yawyna124]

For me, it's actually a little bit of the opposite. The enemies in Crysis 1 being squiddies and squid walkers makes them a little bit less neat imo than the tentacle-y, hyper-mobile robotic, humanoids. The whole "they absorb energy and they have weaponized the absence of it" is neat, I guess, but visually "flying/swimming/ground-walking tentacle monster" was played out even by 2007 with both War of the Worlds and The Matrix being precursors to the visual appearance.

[@Xombium]

aside from the frankly violently cringe outdated meme references in it, the novelization of crysis 2 is so fucking good and gave me an even greater appreciation of the game. Also cranks up the body horror to like 50

[@MegaGothrocker]

Agreed. The book was great.

[@AnonEMus-cp2mn]

_"he's a _*_corpse walking_*_ Gould!"_ _"Just _*_another grunt_*_ I'm afraid" . . . "A _*_simple soldier_*_ will not suffice here."_ _"You knew the suits were symbiotic, you knew what they'd do to my men! ...You turned them into _*_dead men walking!"_* _"I turned them into _*_post-human warriors"_*_ . . . "You think we'll defeat them with _*_ordinary human_*_ soldiers? This isn't a war _*_ordinary humans_*_ can win. This is the future. _*_death is an inconvenience_*_ now, nothing more. we are all _*_dead men walking"_*

[@thecommentguy9380]

It's even more haunting to know that Hargreave was right, had we fought the ceph with a nanosuit that did not adapt itself to the ceph's weaponry and biology we wouldn't even have a chance. Hijacking the primary spore regulator wouldn't be possible without exposing our bodies to it, but thanks to Hargreave not only we adapted to ceph's biology their DNA was assimilated into our own and later allowed us to use their weapons, the only thing that had the necessary firepower to destroy the alpha ceph

[@AnonEMus-cp2mn]

@@thecommentguy9380 The only thing he nor Rasch accounted for was the 'man' beneath the suit. Just as the nanosuit was capable of learning the ceph's nano-systems, it too was capable of learning from its hosts, and thus overcame the task with not just the right tools, but the willpower to drive it. Hargreave was misguided by believing only himself to be capable, whereas Rasch's reliance on nanotech (and eventual indoctrination from it) also underestimated the human element.

[@thecommentguy9380]

@@AnonEMus-cp2mn true. Throughout the events of Crysis 3, the suit did not fight with its cold calculated super computer it was created with, but rather with the determination of its former bearer. It dreamed of the humanity it never had, and whenever Psycho whined about his weakness, the suit lashed put, scolding him for thinking he is weak because he is human because it was Prophet's humanity that drove it to continue the fight for 23 years. It wanted to be a man more than anything. "We fought. You, me, Jester, Nomad. WE fought, not the god damned nanosuit" There's also the funny part when Claire insisted on calling a machine, it just immediately shotback with an ultimatum by reminding her that her resistance only going anywhere because of it and it will stop working with her if she doesnt call it by its human name

[@thomasjoychild4962]

Hargreave gets the absolute best lines in the series. Gotta love the magnificent bastard.

[@FatalFist]

The sad part is when in Warhead we get to know Eagle Team who I am sure all survive given the information Nomad was probably sending during his trip through the structure. So how many more Nanosuit warriors squads there could be.

[@channelcatfish7862]

My favorite line from the game is when the crisis man says... "it looks like there is a another crisis.. a crisis 2"

[@xentiment6581]

Only story from the franchise that could stand on its own if it wasnt a game. Masterpiece.

[@markss367]

On the plus side-if you can call it that-I’m not dead. And according to the medical diagnostics racing across my field of view, I should be. My back is broken in three places. My larynx is crushed. My femoral artery is torn. There’s more blood in my lungs than air. The list goes on. Nanosuit 2.0’s rattling off diagnostic and wet-repair capabilities like I’ve never seen outside a full-blown VA hospital- and while it’s got me rooted in place like a garden gnome, it’s also pumping me full of antibodies and autocatalytic fibrinogen and a dozen kinds of engineered osteoblasts to knit my bones back together. All things considered,immobilized in a custom-fitted body cast is not a bad place to be right now. Alcatraz does have a sick sense of humor talking about his condition in the novel

[@raptorjesus5870]

The only problem with alcatraz once the suit is helping him is the fact that prophet is a dick and made alcatraz brain take a back seat so he could come back as an AI piloting whats left of alcatraz

[@JRaney]

The Legacy of Kain games have some of the best written stories ever put to screen, let alone put to controller. My favorites being Soul Reaver 1 and 2.

[@trinityknight982]

Crysis 2 had some changes that may have been a bit of an adjustment for players familiar with the open ended gameplay of its predecessor, but what it did narratively is a huge improvement. The acting has aged all that well, but for the time, this was probably (imo) the closest games got to being a straight-up action movie at the time. The plot has a lot more twists and turns and secrets, and it is overall far more interesting and engaging than the predecessor.

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

the only issue that peeved me (and still does to some extent) is how the open level and freedom to tackle the objectives that comes with it was pretty much axed in crysis 2. Instead you have the game marking things for you in a crowded arena. I understand in that sense that they attempted to scale down the options to fit within the level design but cramming stuff like that into such a small arena comes off as half assed.

[@trinityknight982]

@@4T3hM4kr0n I agree 100%. Crytek tried to give the game a semblance of the gameplay 1 had, but its hard to do that in a linear game. While you are able to tackle the majority of encounters how you wish, relying on the nanosuit's capabilities, it is still a linear sequence of shootouts. Setting it in NYC had its advantages and its my uninformed opinion that Crytek chose NYC because it gave them ample opportunity to flex on the graphical fidelity of the new iteration of the Cry Engine.

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

@@trinityknight982 the NYC setting was also for thematic purposes.

[@PurpleIsALetter]

Ah yes, the huge narrative improvements such as: painfully one-dimensional copy-paste sci-fi/military tropes instead of characters with nothing memorable about them, a completely predictable "plot" that feels like it was written by chatGPT because of how much it plagiarized every alien/disaster movie from the 90s-early 2000s, plot "twists" that are so telegraphed, they make M. Night Shyamalan films look surprising, taking itself way too seriously in a futile effort to compete with the deluge of modern military shooters (cough Call of Duty cough) that were extremely popular at the time and that's without even mentioning how much less interesting the gameplay is. But yeah, it's a massive improvement in the narrative department!

[@fix0the0spade]

I hated (HATED) the plot of 2. I'd spent nearly 4 years waiting to go back to the island and find out what happened to Prophet. Instead it's suddenly a completely different story, it left me cold. To a lesser extent they repeated that with 3, but 2 really annoyed me. I also was under the impression that the urban setting was chosen to limit the size of spaces to better fit into the Xbox 360/Playstation 3's VRAM limitations.

[@makerpunk_mkiii]

Ok, never played any of the crysis games but, isn't the tunguska event as an alien encounter, alien structures buried across the planet and the aliens "coming home" the plot of "Resistance: Fall of Men" series too? Anywat, maybe it is time to play these games now that they won't melt my PC.

[@justoandres4951]

Correct, thought the chimera feel a Little cartoonish in their looks considering the resistance Lore tries to go full horror

[@hoopchristine5202]

The fact that the GOAT Hans Zimmer and his protégé Lorne Balfe composed the soundtrack for this game only enhances this epic story

[@adhyperdad3027]

Came for the crysis shenningans. Stayed for the absolute divine levels of sass

[@PelinalWhitestrake36]

I HIGHLY recommend anyone who likes the game to read the Novelization; not just does it give a LOT of background information on the setting like the fact that the Amazon is gone, that the world has been wartorn for the past two decades and that massive corporations took over, with PMCs like CELL being paid for normal Law enforcement over Police Forces as they are 'cheaper'. But it also gives you the insights of Alcratraz and his feelings through the events; I LOVE Alcatraz, not just does he feel like a actual USMC trooper but he's genuinely also entertaining. Not to mention he has some fun quirks like being scared of water despite being a marine or him basically insulting everyone around him. Genuinly one of my favorite books.

[@nicholas2153]

Does it have an Audiobook?

[@PelinalWhitestrake36]

@@nicholas2153 Nope. I mean its a game-tie in book for a series that's not super big. Not to mention that it was written back in 2013 and again; pretty obscure...so you know. You CAN however read it for free online...just the formatting's kinda crappy on the PDF; my suggestion is to buy a paper-back copy. Its called Crysis legion btw.

[@MegaGothrocker]

The Crysis novels are fucking great. I read them after playing Crysis 3 and I loved the setting and the characters. Sad that they didn't take off like the Halo novels or even the Gears of War novels (another good videogame tie-in series imo).

[@Zurvan1947]

Hearing your description of what the suit did to Alcatraz was the most beautiful thing ive heard all week

[@Timjer92]

Ah, this brings back memories. When Crysis 2 came out I played this game to death, pretty sure I even used up my birthday gifts back then for a better GPU just so I could play it better. Not just the gameplay, or the level designs, or the music where what captivated me. Even the surprisingly deep story and Alcatraz/Prophet's struggles just felt so impactful being all in first person. Hell, what MJOLNIR armor or Samus' armor was to most gamers of a generation was what the Nanosuit 2 was to me, if you get my meaning. You know, I really should play Crysis 2 again. Your video made me feel nostalgic again.

[@ad_astra5]

If CELL is based on real PMCs, then that Marine is practically an angel

[@SnakeHoundMachine]

"what is your name soldier?" "they call me... John Crysis"

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

"they call me Chris Sis"

[@AnonEMus-cp2mn]

I'll never forget seeing the gameplay trailer featuring the Grand Central Station Pinger fight and the cutscene at 18:00. Really established the tone of the game. Like you *are* a super soldier but you're in the middle of a _War of the Worlds_ scenario.

[@ParagonFangXen]

To answer your question regarding if we used the air friction or ground stomp, yes, specifically grpund stomp. Survive any fall zero damage and kill any normal enemy within 5 meters of your landing. If you wanna have fun you can just hop around power jumping then slamming. Does less damage, bit its funny as all heck

[@iainbaker6916]

The novelisation Crysis Legion by Peter Watts is highly recommended.

[@izzistein8332]

Wow. I am an absolutely HUGE fan of Crysis 2, I bought it X many years ago for the Xbox 360 and fell in love with it's, admittedly light, vent-crawling mechanics to the point that I want to find games that have this game's play, but a level design more like the original Deus Ex or Arcane's Prey and Dishonored. I'm so happy I found someone who loves this game as much as I do (more even, I didn't even pick up on any of the Roomba stuff nor did I realize just how borked Alcatraz was, I just thought the suit didn't want him to live without it or something.) and having it be literally one of my favorite writers and KZbinrs is just, brings tear to my heart. Man now I gotta see if I can get Crysis 2 for PC, I suddenly have an itch. Also, as a haver of many kinda spicy Star Wars takes, I cannot wait for May... You're Awesome and keep up the good work! -Izzi

[@kevingame3198]

But don’t you think the graphics are a bit head of its time prior to PS4 titles like driveclub and the order 1886 and especially uncharted 4

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The suit ALSO doesn't want to ever be separated from him, you're right. He theorizes in the novel that prophet taking it off and dying traumatized its... animal intelligence and caused it to be particularly determined to prevent that happening again.

[@ThePhantom9495]

I get the vibe that Khanlusa would like Humanity Lost, assuming they haven't already read it

[@khanlusa]

I have not, and just so it's the right one is it by Meghan Douglass?

[@SeamusCameron]

@@khanlusa - Honestly have not read that yet, kind of confused by the direct title similarity between Meghan Douglass' novel and CS Diggle's graphic novel series. I'm pretty sure Diggle is the sci-fi body horror artist and writer and IIRC I heard about that work first with pretty high reviews. Douglass' work looks like it may be good as well though. Paraphrasing from a review it's "Donnor Party in spaaaaace" which seems like a fun premise.

[@specialagent1868]

The Pingers were actually pretty hard, but not as bad as the Helicopters. At least the multiple rocket launchers needed make sense against an alien ground vehicle.

[@teminternetemmordor7178]

Ah yes...not being alive vírus is a thing to worry about.

[@GenericProtagonist118]

If your asking to be inflicted with suggestions here's my personal list: •The Darksiders series •Vanquish •Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver •Destroy All Humans

[@khanlusa]

Lordy it's been a while since I played Destroy All Humans

[@animeturnMMD]

I think Crysis was victim of its first success, neither of the games have a specially super creative story but is good enough specially Crysis 2 has a pretty decent story even if people doesn't want to acknowledge it (while Crysis 3's story is as wacky and inconsistent as it gets to be fair), but the gameplay was extremely fun, while I appreciate the freedom of the first Crysis and Warhead, I think that Crysis 2 and specially Crysis 3 have a much more polished gameplay. However people kept complaining that Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 weren't like the original Crysis but with better graphics, making Crysis 2 pretty unpopular and Crysis 3 even more unpopular, to this day there are lots of people who have never play Crysis 2 and 3 just because a bunch of haters on internet say so. For me it was one of the first modern examples of how a toxic fandom can doom a franchise, Crysis isn't in a position as bad as Halo's franchise nowadays, mainly because all the hating have been cool down over the years so much that apparently they are planing to launch another Crysis game, but it is sad to see how the own fans can strangle to death their beloved franchises (like Halo cough cough).

[@markss367]

People hated c2 because it was optimised to run better But these same people ignore c1s second half in the disscusion

[@jackmesrel4933]

With Halo, it is justified tho. Besides 4, which was okay and had some good story moments, everything else 343 has done has been an absolute mess, with the games only having redeeming qualities inherited from previous titles. Hell, the only good thing they introduced was the grappling hook in Infinite, and that's cheating cus every action game can be improved with either grappling hooks or jetpacks. Don't get me started on the story, even they recognized they blew it on 5, shame they were too incompetent to save themselves in Infinite, AKA "let's just press the reset button on our story"

[@animeturnMMD]

​@@jackmesrel4933 yeah but the downfall started because a lot of people started to Hate Halo 4, aparently Halo 5 had a campaing ready to continue from where Halo 4 ended, but due to all the negative opinions about Halo 4's campaing and everything else (multiplayer, aesthetics, everything...) which for me was not deserved, they rebooted the story hence the mess that Halo 5's campaing is and at the same time Halo infite has another reboot caused by the hated generated by Halo 5, the funny part is that Halo 5 multiplayer is still better than Halo Infinite multiplayer, but Halo infinite campaing is much more decent compared to Halo 5's, however as it is another reboot is still another lore mess, which is terrible for a story driven franchise like Halo, Halo is Halo because the story is interesting and epic, but if that fails everything else goes to shit, and for me Halo fans specially the bungie livers are at least 50% responsable for halo's doom, 25% is 343 fault for being cowards and the last 25% is for the microsoft's ties, who also pressed 343 to reboot everything.

[@enocescalona]

THANKS for the Crysis Legion love! Dude, that is one of my favorite cosmic horror stuff alongside Half-Life 2 which does something similar. I love that the horror comes from the fact that the Ceph we fight are just goddamn roombas. Just like the Combine Soldiers and Synths, they are just the tip of the iceberg. We do not want to MEET the "real" Ceph and the rest of the Combine at large.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

I did like that we eventually do see a little hint of the "real" ceph, while also having a properly set up plausible reason for that to not be the instant lose situation it should be.

[@crabbystabby4080]

The ending notes at the end about how the Ceph who are just motes compared to the greater Alien lurking behind them remind me of one of my favorite sci-fi games ever, Freelancer 2003. The main threat in that game is an alien species that absolutely dominates the pre-established power houses only to be revealed at the end of the game that are just the caretakers of their creators Creations, Absolutely love it when games create such powerful opponents only to reveal that they aren't the true predator in an organic and natural way. Tangent aside, great video and superb review of one of my favorite FPS games that I grew up with.

[@Stru-bacon]

Crysis 2 felt even more badass than the 1st (well better say you feel badass). While 3 seems to be more flexible with upgrades in 2 while you evolve you can literally become as affective as shown in the trailer mowing down enemies. Absolutely loved it

[@yuyaplays9311]

I almost choked on my drink at "The things we do for cosplay." line. That was gold.

[@nicholas2153]

I don't know about the leaving the Husband and Wife behind scene, since Alcatraz is strong enough and fast enough to nab them well before the building fell. The scene goes on a little too long for me to believe there was nothing your character could do to save them.

[@AfroChef]

Lucky me, I just saw part 1 yesterday and was looking for part 2

[@foolishsparky]

I'm gonna be honest, even though Alcatraz was a voiceless character, I really liked *him* in the story. The line "They call me Prophet" is really cool, sure. I used to think it was Alcatraz taking on Prophet's name and legacy, only to find out that, no, Alcatraz is basically dead-dead. His body is just a puppet for Prophet's mind, and in the novelization the man barely even remembered who Alcatraz was. And it chokes me up every-time. Alcatraz had a family, he desperately tried to fight for control to get back to them, and he was taken away from it at the last moment.

[@rohesilmnelohe]

Ah yes... the Pinger. The helicopter in the first game was at least an easy enemy.. This thing could de-cloack you with its EMP. And it is always met in a small arena. C4 explosives and rocket launcher to the back worked amazingly against it though.

[@loui_in_a_box]

10:35 Aww, don't be such a baby... Ribs grow back!

[@loui_in_a_box]

Honestly the big butt makes sense. Person with all that muscle isn't gonna have pancake ass. And then the suit is an extra layer of muscle and stuff on top

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

​@@loui_in_a_box But isn't Al skinny?

[@sugarking12]

"THAT'S RIGHT NATHAN, THE OWNERS ARE BACK! WAKING THE SYSTEMS, FIRING UP THE BOILER, AND NOT MUCH LIKING WHAT THEY FOUND, FESTERING BEHIND THE FRIDGE. CAN YOU BLAME THEM? REEEEALLLLY? 2 was my favorite game in the series, followed by 1. I never finished 3 as I felt it jumped the shark a little... too far.

[@jjconsi2]

I had no clue the Ceph embedded on the planet where the equivalent of the species' gardening tools. That's actually a really really cool way of explaining how we were able to be somewhat on par with them when fighting them.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

Yeah, they're semi-autonomous probes meant to build a colony and terraform, then phone home so the owners can open a white hole (wormhole/hypergate thing) and come live in the new colony. The actual Ceph are so advanced that they're effectively incomprehensible Lovecraftian entities. We very briefly glimpse something of them in C3.

[@iwuvu5940]

I like crysis 2 better than 1, it does a lot of things better than crysis 1 and people don’t give it enough credit

[@Konashu]

3:50 hot damn 🥵 the way she delivered those lines. This channel is criminally underrated

[@normanmerrick9493]

9:19 To answer a question you posed a 7:30. This this right here is the only time I bothered using air stomp the whole game because for whatever reason, air stomp completely negates fall damage.

[@ВікторГаврилюк-х2ч]

The point I keep missing even after watching some lore wideos on Crysis from time to time, is why did alien terraforming switched from ice hellscape to jungle hellscape?

[@thomasjoychild4962]

The ice wasn't actually terraforming, or wasn't only terraforming. The Ceph units that were send to earth and slept until the games DO function best in low temperatures, but the ice sphere was mainly the result of the ship and tech sucking up energy in every form as they woke up and fully activated. The low temperature was just also fortunately comfortable for the "flying squid" type units. That's "stage one" of how they colonise new planets In C2, they've gone to stage two and started producing units that are actually adapted to the environment they're occupying. Often, they do that by mimicking the most successful local organisms/the organisms that have been giving them the most trouble in their colonisation efforts. Remember that the units on earth aren't the actual Ceph, just semi-autonomous probes/caretakers/builders. We're not quite sure what living conditions are ideal for the beings from the Triangulum galaxy that sent them. There's a stage three as well, where if the local organisms prove too much trouble then the probes phone home to have the "True Ceph" come in from Triangulum ahead of schedule and take over the pest control themselves. We see one very briefly at the end of C3, and it's existentially horrifying. :P

[@G0ldmoon]

your crysis 1 video got my interest, never did play 2 or 3, so this will be exactly what i wanted to see if it was worth going back to.

[@brd2716]

Ngl, this has thrown some new light at crysis 2 story for me to look at. I was convinced that my good experience was due to being young when playing it and thus having lower expectations, especially after hearing all these bad opinions years later but now I want to make a new playthrough. Actually if the story was as good, it makes me even more sad that 3 was the last instalment and all the "leaks" regarding new entries were about some battle royal or other >insert currently more-less popular game concept

[@Voslotus]

Can I just say I LOVE your content warning style before videos, I literally wish every channel out there did something similar, its so sleek and informative and takes like no time to let folks know what to expect

[@JacobRodriguez-hn1jz]

When I first played this game as a teenager I didn’t realize how the suit was actually affecting Alcatraz. I thought that he was simply given the suit and left with the mission of a fallen hero. I didn’t realize until this video that a man already out of time is saving the world as a ghost.

[@polishfriend]

Crysis 3 was my favourite in the series, still is would love another one but the story wrapped up pretty well in my opinion in three and the dlc

[@Nycoorias]

DLC?

[@sharkastic2633]

Surprised the Marine and CELL trooper weren't talking about their differences in pay and benefits.

[@davidostos506]

26:24 Darkwood OST LETS GO! You should do a dark wood story explained!

[@MadtheManiac]

Might there be a plot hole betwen Crysis 2 and 3? Prophet could remove the suit quite easy because of the protective layer he´s wearing, but Alcatraz would need to be skinned out of it. In Part 3 we met Psycho, the sniper from the first game again, and he is complaining how terrible it was for him to be skinned out of his suit 1.0.? Didn´t they also have protective layers, he, Nomad, Prophet and the others? Or did Prophet get his because the first suit already tried to merge with its wearer and this was how they figured it out? Now i´m quite hyped for what you tell us in your Crysis 3 video, exzellent content, gave me a new view on a game i thought to be much simpler.

[@leafbranch1872]

Yeah that's what occurred to me later.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

I don't know that Psycho had a 2.0 suit, like Prophet does.

[@Zer0-Fr0st]

I'm the one, who bought every upgrade in campaign and I can say that Phantom aug was awesome

[@thomasjoychild4962]

I mean yeah you eventually buy all of them, but some aren't worth the slot to equip. Though the cloak-tracker suddenly becomes a godsend in that last fight after being worthless the whole game.

[@basedeltazero714]

I actually really like the sort of 'arena based' combat in Crysis 2. It's not 'open world' but it gives you options. I will say, definitely liked the alien designs more in Crysis 1. Would have been nice to stick with the more squid-like design, even as you add more infantry-type threats. 15:25 Also this is really cool. 17:40 One enemy or another is gonna suck for pretty much everyone. The pingers were pretty bad. 24:05 Oh yeah, another thing: The Ceph have lost their cold theme/ability. Be nice to see more of that. Another nice bit of gameplay: The Ceph are described as having a hive mind... and they actually *do* share information, unlike CELL. You can kill a CELL soldier and if no one sees they won't notice, kill a Ceph and they all immediately react (they don't immediately see you, but they know one died and where they last were)

[@NightBeWheat]

The Pinger is easy to beat with underbarrel gauss rounds. Figured that out on my first supersoldier playthrough, almost 20 hours in.

[@SiIIster]

The only major problem I had with this game was all the sounds going mute except the music, it was really weird

[@Avidire]

I honestly liked the 2nd more than the 1st. And the battle in the cities was just great.

[@Katfish1216]

Played crysis 2 as a teenager during 2012-2013 i was on the multiplayer heavy, i sucked at first then i got better once i looked up tips and tricks....good times.

[@rod99ttett90]

God this nostalgia. I played crysis 2 so much as a kid. The game music is carved into my brain lol

[@gilbert5092]

I loved this game, being the 1st one I played in the series. I also loved the multiplayer, underrated does begin to describe.

[@transfo9985]

Amazing video, Crysis was the first ever game i remember playing, and i played that on my uncle's PC at the age of 8, needless to say i practically shat myself on more than one occasion. I have replayed all of the games cince then on a regular basis because i simply can't get enough of it. Seeing someone talk about the game and it's story so in depth andd with so much detail and passion makes me unimaginably happy, and i have lerned new things, i knew the suit was bonding with Alcatraz throught his wounds over the course of the game, but the way you describedd and explainedd it made me feel absolutly horrified, i love it. Thank you so much for this.

[@Dewkeeper]

Thank you! I always thought Crysis 2 was insanely cool, the novel was really good, an easy read, and I'm salty people always gloss over both the game and particularly the novel.

[@davispeterson1876]

I do wish more people would read it, but I'm not surprised that they don't. With video game MOVIES you can at least count on them being entertainingly bad. Most people probably go their entire lives without even thinking about the fact that video game novelizations even exist

[@williamlydon2554]

I love it when games make the player character human, the scene with Alcatraz having to move under his own power reminds me of the classic Modern Warfare twist, where you control a wounded Sgt Jackson (oddly enough, a fellow Recon Marine) after the Nuclear detonation.

[@TheFeri]

Just finished the video, and about your alien segment and comparing them to the reapers in mass effect, I have a similar one. In Muv-Luv Alternative people also fight aliens and up until the end they are described as carbon based life forms with no digestive or reproductive organs but we(somehow) know they don't consider us as living beings for some reason. Right at the end we encounter one that can actually speak and that conversation was amazing. The MC asked why they aren't consider us to be "alive", because we are carbon based life forms, "but you are carbon based too and you are alive too", no we are not, the thing said ,carbon is too unstable and combines with too many things way too easily so it's impossible that an intelligent life from can evolve from it naturally, "So what do you consider as an alive intelligent life form?", The silicon based "creators" To me that was amazing, we never get to see the creators but just thinking about how there's an alien race somewhere in the universe based on something we couldn't even thought possible bio engineer multiple races of carbon based life form and use them as "machines" and those creatures don't even question it or think they are alive is incredible to me.

[@TheOldest]

New to the channel, nice to see Crysis 2 getting more love. Appreciate you outlying the details of Alcatraz and what he's physically going through, never seen anyone give credit to how good that aspect of Crysis 2 storytelling. Pingers are annoying, most of the time I get close the gap from behind, toss 2 C-4 charges to the underbelly and boom. They're usually provided for many encounters.

[@pippy6677]

Watching the Crysis 2 trailer, I found myself immediately appreciating that the building repair and maintenance scaffolding that is almost ubiquitous throughout Manhattan is actually shown! It's a physical aspect of the old and too often dilapidated city of NYC that is completely absent from being represented in most past and current mediums. Such scaffolding is seen and walked under most everywhere when one moves through the city in daily life. It's erected for reasons of financial liability, even when a building owner is refusing to do necessary repairs or has left them 'eternally delayed'. The city government will seemingly pounce to require the protection of pedestrians but is radically underpowered to compel the actual vital structural building repairs themselves, in many cases. Even with scaffolding more common than trees in parts of Manhattan, there are sadly news reports of injuries and deaths caused by falling debris from dilapidated buildings on a pretty regular basis. It's almost like such harms could have been expected and prevented. A desensitized public has come to view such incidents without much surprise and they rarely are reported on beyond the local NYC news. A simple intro to the situation: "As you make your way down major streets in New York City, there’s one thing you’ll almost never escape - scaffolding, or what the city of NY calls “sidewalk sheds.” Call it an eyesore, a massive inconvenience, or a way to stay dry during a major downpour, scaffolding is part of the NYC streetscape, and that’s not changing anytime soon. It has many purposes, but the main one is protecting pedestrians from falling construction debris." streeteasy.com/blog/scaffolding-nyc-why-so-much-scaffolding-new-york-city/

[@pineappleonpizza9005]

I think that the scene with the defibrillator is even more horrifying when you consider that not only is Alcatraz mutilated and in agony, but that the suit WILL NOT LET HIM DIE

[@stuglife5514]

Man as a kid I loved this game. I was cracked on its multiplayer too. This game will always have my favorite fictional firearm’s because they all LOOK REAL and like they can function. (Granted the SCAR and SCARAB in the game were just slightly adjusted HK XM8 rifles)

[@kinagrill]

My core moment I recall from this game is in the early game-firstmission area after going underground and the returning up through the hole and in-game cutscene runs and first-alien is seen and it jumps you and tries to inject something into you. The whole - Nano-Shell Intrusion Detected. Insufficient Common Code- Rejecting. Yup that scene you show right here in the video as well :) That moment was very cool to me, as if the suit was protecting me from, whatever the hell the alien had tried to pierce into me and expose me to.

[@danburycollins]

Tbh, the issue i have with the second game isn't the aliens (i loved the aliens in the first game) but rather the way they've gone from genuinely interesting flying squid creatures in various floating mechs to generic alien footsoldiers. The sequels were definitely hoping to get more of the call of duty crowd onboard - understandably given how well those games do - but something was lost in the process - the thing that made the first game (and warhead) feel really unique.

[@billyboleson2830]

The lore explanation is the ceph going from stage to stage and the ones in Crysis 1 being basically in cryo stasis. The gameplay reason is cause people hated fighting the floating squids

[@dreamerwav698]

man prophet was akinda sussy character in the first game with confusing motives who ended up being a good guy and a competent ally who is now SO COOL because of this game. i love that he gets the spotlight in crysis 2

[@JandreLom]

I just stumble on your channel with the Crysis 1 video and finished this one having really enjoyed it and looking forward to the Crysis 3 vide. Only to realize this was upload 7 days ago and it's not out yet. I'm going to subscribe and look forward to it releasing while I binge all your other videos.

[@95DarkFire]

27:20 I think the first half of Cysis 1 was so special to many people, because it was where the Nanosuit really shined. Using cloak, super strength and body armour against human enemies made for a very different experience from other shooters. In contrast, fighting the aliens fells more...generic? Might as well be playing Halo. While I am ok with the overall plot of the series, I wish there were more games like the first part of Crysis one.

[@helikopterbojowyka-5234]

21:06 holy shit man I can’t even count how many times and how much time I spend playing this game and analyzing its lore and I never think about that! Man this game is so cool I love it so much. Also it might be just me but personally Jacob Hargreave is very underrated and good written character. His dialogues are absolute brilliant, hearing them I feel like I could spend hours discussing with him about aliens

[@thomasjoychild4962]

He gets all the best lines.

[@2z575]

I love these videos so much. It doesn’t feel as bloated as the other videos nowadays and gets to the point.

[@thiefvanblu1501]

17:51 yeah this scene is haunting. Though I kinda wish there was an option or an alternate version where Alcatraz dismounts the vehicle and pulls the couple on board. It's been a long day and everyone is stressed but the strength and speed of the suit should have been enough to save them. Maybe that's cheesy and that's why the scene plays out as is, but still

[@7249xxl]

i remember playing the demo on playstation 3 it was multiplayer demo or something? such a gem this game was

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

My interpretation of the ending "assimilation" was the suit completing its integration physically. I thought we were going forward as Alcatraz with Prophet as the co-pilot, which really pissed me off when in 3, it just devolved into: "Yeah, it's just Prophet now, literally nothing of the previous character is left." (I thought the final line was Alcatraz accepting that he is humanity's best shot at survival and taking on the role and name of Prophet.) It would be one thing if Prophet had some measure of existential moral discomfort at the idea of piloting another person's corpse, appreciation for his sacrifice, lamenting that the suit had a mind of it's own and he had no choice, etc. ...But no, Prophet just takes over every single aspect of the character and it's like Alcatraz didn't even fucking *EXIST.* Again, you *can* have unsatisfying but logical things befall characters and factions like Alcatraz not getting a say in what happens to his mind and body as the suit consumes him despite all he did to help save humanity. ...But you've gotta have the guy who fucking *THUST* that fate *UPON* him at *LEAST* give a "that was a good guy, really sucks what happened, didn't think the suit would do that..." line!

[@Chetverikov]

As I understand it, Peter Watts (the author of the novelization) was also a story consultant. So if you enjoyed the more...existentially nightmarish aspects of the story I heartily recommend his novels, especially the first contact novel Blindsight.

[@LuiszDiaz]

When I played Crysis 2 some years ago I was worried nobody else shared with me the perspective you just showed here about the human fragility and the pain that Alcatraz suffered. Thanks a lot for this gem of video. Yes yes, Crysis 1 have a longer open map but at the end is also linear; and Crysis 2 have a more heartbreaking story. I hope you enjoy Crysis 3 quite fun and interesting too like me, cheers from a new follower!

[@explosaoradiotiva7901]

This game was one of the first games that i got for my xbox 360 and my kid eyes brighted the whole time i played it. It's indescribable how this game made me feel at the time, it felt like a dream. It was an mix of everything that my child's brain thought was cool. I will love this franchise forever