Crysis 3 PC Gameplay & Review i7 970 SSD 5870
32he question of Crysis 3 protagonist Prophet's humanity comes up several times over the course of Crysis 3's single-player campaign. Pretty much everyone he meets on some level thinks of him as not quite as human as they are. Even his old war-buddy Psycho, a former nanosuit soldier himself, questions just how invested Prophet is in stopping the Cell Corporation from grinding the entire planet down under the boot of wireless energy, debt, and indentured severitude. Psycho doesn't quite buy it when Prophet claims he's just as committed to stopping Cell as the other rebels that have sprung up in the 20 years since Crysis 2. Cell parlayed that into global influence by taking the credit. Psycho believes that Cell is the threat and that the Ceph are just a footnote in human history - that one time way back in the day when aliens invaded and New York was destroyed. He doesn't believe in the hive mind Alpha Ceph that Prophet encountered became connected to in the original Crysis, but Prophet does, and every action he takes leaves those around him scratching their heads as to whether Prophet is really trying to find the mythic Alpha Ceph, or even that, thanks to the nanosuit's use of Ceph DNA, he is more Ceph than human. As I played Crysis 3, I couldn't help but wonder why I should care, however. The overarching story in the Crysis trilogy is spun with just the barest minimum of information. I've never played a story-driven game with such a skeletonized story. Huge gaps seem to exist in the information that the characters in the game know and the player knows, and the game is happy to never even give you a hint. Things happen, you don't know why, characters appear and you can't remember who they are, and references are made that leave you wondering whether you slept through the two previous games or that there is a whole bunch of licensed fiction that you didn't read.First person shooters have long been held up as test-cases for the hardware said shooter is running on. The question, "Can it run Crysis?" wasn't born in a vacuum, after all. Even on consoles, Crysis is a bit of a showpiece series and is a good indication of the power still present in even a technically obsolete console like the Xbox 360. Crysis 3 probably has the closest thing to "photorealistic" graphics possible on the system. Textures are spot on, foliage is lush and rich, the sunlight is a natural as possible, and the particle effects really sell all the explosions and exploding aliens. Despite all that, the single-player campaign is a lot of fun and when you get done with it (or before you even start it) you can tackle Crysis 3's fairly deep and complex multiplayer component. It's "deep and complex" in that there are a lot of modes. You have the standard deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture and hold (called Crash Site and Spears), Assault (your team must download data and everyone only gets one life), and Extraction (capture the flag). Beyond that, it gets more original. You have Hunter where a team of Cell operatives must work together to take down a nanosuit-wielding hunter. You can also choose to play "Cell versus Rebels" which takes all the basic multiplayer modes and forces you to play them without a nanosuit. You can also choose to play deathmatch and team deathmatch with minimal HUD information and maximum weapon damage. Finally there is the anything goes "Developer's Choice" where anything can happen because the developers set the rules. There really should be at least one mode in there for everyone. The games themselves take place in tight, multi-level, claustrophobic, and rubble-strewn maps. The nanosuit make things very chaotic where death can come from any angle and enemies are often invisible. It's not friendly to new players, however, or maybe I'm just terrible. It's probably a little of both.
So that's Crysis 3 in a whole bunch of nutshells. It's a lot of fun to play, despite the string of annoyances and disappointments that hold it back from being truly great. What Crysis 3 does right, however, it does extremely right and it's definitely better than Crysis 2; it just could have been so much more.
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