To be quite honest, I’m one of the rare few who preferred Crysis 2 over the original, so the more focused environments and organized combat arenas suit me down to the ground. This is not to say the results are necessarily bad. Those expecting a full-on return to Crysis‘ original glory days will be left disappointed, as Prophet’s latest adventure bears far more in common with Crysis 2 than first glances may indicate. For much of the campaign, Crytek’s richly designed concrete jungle is played mostly for aesthetics, with the occasional open environment serving more as a placebo than an actual attempt to break predetermined structure. Though maybe not quite in the ratio fans had hoped for.Ĭrysis 3 (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 ) The result is a game that looks like neither installment, yet plays a little like both.
New York is overgrown with lush vegetation and fields of grass, while the remnants of concrete structures poke out amongst the green. For many, the open jungle of Crysis was sorely missed.Ĭrysis 3 hopes to strike a compromise between the worlds of previous games, presenting a literal urban jungle. I personally loved it, but others were turned off by its comparatively linear environments and plain New York backdrop. If you want a console-based shooter for the multiplayer, then Black Ops 2 has that well and truly covered.Crysis 2 was seen as something of a black sheep by fans of the original Crysis. MultiplayerĬrysis 3 has multiplayer, but we aren’t hugely fussed about it. You will play through it just to see how it looks.
In this respect, the game is perfect for the PC gamer with a serious system who wants to show things off. So from a technical point of view Crysis 3 is outstanding, when it runs smoothly. Anyone who thinks that current-gen consoles are on their last legs, fire this up and prove yourself wrong. This is all forgivable when you think how old the Xbox 360 is. On the Xbox, Crysis 3 does understandably take quite a major hit in the appearance department.
Once again, a Crysis game is almost incapable of running on full resolution in even a high-end rig. Leave the whole lot on medium and everything chugs along nicely, but its irritating to see the potential the game has to run and for things to slow down rather inexplicably. Optimisation seems a touch off to us and without getting bogged down in geek terms, any form of particle effects or dramatic shifts in lighting seem to kick the frame rate right down, before it jumps back up again. Sadly though Crysis 3 gives you just five or six hours of this gameplay to enjoy, which is short at best. A combination of graphics, slick and balanced gunplay and varied environments that make you think about what plan of attack to take, all work together to make a great shooter. You can go the stealth route when you really need to, but this is a game best played with cut scenes skipped and the shooting ramped up to 11.
Crysis is about tearing things up, it is about feeling super-powered and smashing and shooting as much as possible. In all honesty, none of this really matters. The majority of the alien enemies from the second are now replaced by elite soldiers. New York, the city in which you fight during the second game, has now been transformed into an overgrown wilderness. In that game, you play as a character who you believe to be Prophet, but who turns out to be someone called Alcatraz and then eventually becomes Prophet in the end. It continues from the fairly convoluted madness of the end of Crysis 2. The story in Crysis 3 isn’t hugely gripping. Prophet is a lone ranger character, unleashed on the world to hunt out man and machine, wrecking everything in his path while stopping the crazies of this world from trying to put an end to things. You return to your role as Prophet, a nanosuit-wearing supersoldier who is capable of incredible strength, invisibility and even deflecting bullets.