By Jim Rossignol on July 27th, 2012 at 8:00 am.
Woo! It’s almost like playing the game! Ah, sorry, yes: the possibilities for mockery when a scripted shooter chooses to promote itself via a trailer in which you just have a couple of choices and then you let the rest of it play out are basically pretty mean. So I won’t go there, and instead point out how pretty the ruined jungled New York of Crysis 3 is. Yep, it’s super pretty! It’s not the first game to feature a future-New York taken over by jungle, of course, but this time you get a bow and arrow! The trailer shows off some neat features aside from prettiness, of course, including weapon modification and shooting people in the head. That always goes down well.
Twenty-four years on from Crysis 2, Crysis 3 tells the ongoing story of Prophet, who returns to New York to find it encased in a dome for some reason. He’s not an old man, either, so that must be the nano-magic. Inside the dome it is a jungle, some aliens, and a corrupt future-corporation. All the ingredients required for action!
The game is set to hit in February 2013.
27/07/2012 at 08:17 freetup says:
Is it just me or do the guys at Crytek not know what stealth means.
27/07/2012 at 09:04 phelix says:
That’s also what bugged me. I clicked ‘stealth’ and thought I’d clicked ‘armor’ because apart from the cloaking the two sequences are both mindless shooty-shooty.
27/07/2012 at 14:24 Ultra Superior says:
They know they’re hunting invisible predator, so all it takes is one kill to trigger them all off. Seems legit.
28/07/2012 at 10:08 Jason Moyer says:
Looks exactly like how stealth worked in the first 3 Crytek games. i.e. not really at all unless you were invisible.
28/07/2012 at 10:59 LionsPhil says:
Quite.
Also Jesus Christ that dialogue.
27/07/2012 at 08:18 Eophasmus says:
This does look pretty and I hope it’s more Crysis 1 than 2, but I have a question.
Don’t get me wrong, bows are great and all, but in this future-day and future-age, why use a bow over a gun?
27/07/2012 at 08:23 freetup says:
It allows you to be stealthy while shooting exploding arrows.
27/07/2012 at 10:23 theallmightybob says:
i hope that exploding arrow has a really big charge on it, or its just gonna make that bad ass robot suit mad.
27/07/2012 at 08:28 CaspianRoach says:
Say thanks he isn’t running around with a claymore.
27/07/2012 at 09:39 Geger says:
<3 claymore<3
27/07/2012 at 11:22 Moni says:
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27/07/2012 at 09:45 f1x says:
Remember Rambo III? that should answer the question
27/07/2012 at 14:47 Ultra Superior says:
We need to talk about Kevin.
27/07/2012 at 11:46 kzrkp says:
have a nanosuit that can punch-out cars, a bow strung with steel bridge cable sounds like an awesome idea. hope the strength mode with the bow out gives you a power-shot :]
27/07/2012 at 14:29 Ultra Superior says:
Because you dont get the gunpowder residue all over your hands and clothing and there’s no barrel mark left on the arrow to prevent forensic ballistics match with your bow.
So you can just walk away and pretend you didn’t kill anyone, it was that indian that ran the other way.
27/07/2012 at 08:21 nasenbluten says:
Hmm I think I’ll pass, didn’t liked what they did with 2 and looks a lot like it.
27/07/2012 at 08:26 IshtarGate says:
Wait, I’m sorry, does the game actually gives you a two-way choice asking you explicitly if you want to go action or stealth? That is the most retarded design decision I’ve ever seen.
27/07/2012 at 08:34 libdab says:
Isn’t it just asking which video you want to see? … still a bit lame.
27/07/2012 at 09:49 Squirly says:
The VIDEO gives you the option you …. “special” person.
27/07/2012 at 10:37 IshtarGate says:
How the hell does the video give me an option? It was just there on the screen and the player picked one. Clicking on the ‘options’ just paused the video, as it should.
27/07/2012 at 11:19 jimbonbon says:
Not sure what’s going on with your video there, but it definitely allows you to pick one or the other (essentially they are links to other videos but smoothly combined). First time I have seen that in youtube actually, seems to work well.
27/07/2012 at 12:42 elevown says:
Realy? ive seen it loads of times! What about like in a review video theres a box to click to jump to gameplay, or there might be a link on the screen at some point when they mention some other video.
As long as you dont always have annotations off.
As for being a smooth transition- only 2 of the 4 arnt part of just 1 playthrough- and those 2 alternates are triggered in empty corridors- its pretty easy to go back there are make sure you are stood in exactly the same spot before they start.
30/07/2012 at 04:25 simonh says:
What makes it smooth is that all the options are actually baked into the same video. Instead of having to load a new page with another video it just skips you forward to specific point in the same video. Pretty clever.
27/07/2012 at 12:42 jikavak says:
You probably got yer captions disabled.
27/07/2012 at 12:38 elevown says:
Are you trolling or just never used youtube before?
As long as your annotations are on (the red box) you will be able to see defined click areas that link to certain videos/places in videos. If you dont click tho the video will keep playing and go to which ever route is the one he played first.
Ofcourse you dont have to pick one mode or another in the game! you can select armour or camo modes whenever you feel like! They’ve just made a choose your own path video with 4 differant clips.
27/07/2012 at 08:28 Bharg says:
Kind of weird that they’re already calling it Crysis 3. Looks more like an update like Warhead.
27/07/2012 at 09:13 dsi1 says:
It comes with their new territory.
27/07/2012 at 11:36 Moni says:
I think they could have called Warhead, ‘Crysis 2′. It was full featured enough and made some interesting changes.
27/07/2012 at 13:25 lokimotive says:
WARHEAD!
27/07/2012 at 08:31 Spengbab says:
Is this duder playing on a consolebox? He’s staring at the ground half the time, like he’s fumbling with an analog stick.
27/07/2012 at 11:42 BobbyDylan says:
My money would be a PC (to make it look puurty) played with a controller. Which to me seems a bit like buying a sports car and driving in the slow lane.
27/07/2012 at 08:35 sunkillmoon says:
at the end it says “preorder now for the composite bow” so i won’t be getting the bow then?
not that i mind. i have an awesome daedric one.
27/07/2012 at 08:36 libdab says:
Good to see that Psycho’s making a welcome return …
27/07/2012 at 11:58 KingCathcart says:
Yes, I too am pleased by this. However that doesn’t sound like Sean Chapman.
27/07/2012 at 08:54 BobbleHat says:
Looks like they haven’t fixed the problem of MASSIVE GUNS that 2 had.
I reckon this’ll be the first Crysis that I don’t buy within the first week of release. Crytek have taken the series in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
27/07/2012 at 10:07 theallmightybob says:
why is that man firing a bow at someone in a crazy robot suit? thats just….. silly.
27/07/2012 at 10:34 yourgrandma says:
You still move like a snail and using cover every 5 seconds… this isn’t crysis.
27/07/2012 at 10:41 elliott says:
I used to be a great Cell Recon soldier,
Then I took an arrow in the knee…
27/07/2012 at 11:22 jimbonbon says:
I’m actually really looking forward to it – I seem to be one of the minority who enjoyed Crysis 2 more than the original (and Warhead for that matter). Although that was NOT stealth :P
27/07/2012 at 11:41 Stevostin says:
Well it really is a beautiful game. I am surprised by the amount of bitching there about the “pick your vid” gimmick as it was all coll yesterday with Dishonoured. Or about the stealth being as relative as in… dishonoured, again. BTW the cloak seems high enough to avoid most of the fights, actually.
The thing that did bug me was the bow in the air vent. We’re really ask for a lot of indulgence with those bloody air vents already, but now a bow… Tsss….
27/07/2012 at 13:29 Monkeh says:
That was stealth? Almost thought I clicked the wrong option..
27/07/2012 at 14:22 Ultra Superior says:
Manhattan Jewry of the future. Going after the prophet: AGAIN !
27/07/2012 at 15:18 PitfireX says:
Looks like Crysis has become Call of Duty with an armor button…. it’s sad what consoles do to gaming.
27/07/2012 at 16:08 zaik says:
Whoever was playing that is damned horrible at stealth.
Also, who else heard them mention a dam and thought “That went REALLY well last time, let’s destroy it again and drown some more, excellent plan”
28/07/2012 at 10:01 Grargh says:
They’re damned horrible in the action part, too. It was basically activate armor, run into the middle of the fighting ground and shoot in random directions until another enemy has finally come close enough to hit them with your gamepad “precision”.
28/07/2012 at 11:02 LionsPhil says:
Indeed.
29/07/2012 at 16:32 RPSRSVP says:
After they are done with Crysis 3, I hope they sit down and do a remake of Far Cry with less monsters, more human enemies, with enemy AI being a mixture of original Crysis and F.E.A.R.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved Crysis but after 3 games, I want Crytek lose the nanosuit fetish.