Crysis 3 Welcomes Players Back to the (Urban) Jungle

[dyre]

Hmm, looks cool. Just as long as they put more "jungle" and less "urban." I want that city to be seriously overgrown!

So that's a guy in a nano suit firing a bow and arrow at a space alien robot... Am I really the only one who face palms rather than goes HELL YEAH when I see that?

If you're facepalming at the bow and arrow part (not the guy in a nano suit part or the alien space robot part), then yeah, I'm with you.

 

[DonTsetsi]

Oh hey. They increased the price by $10 for no reason.

That's cute, EA.

Ummm dude, that's in DOLLARS! EA have actually decreased the price by 10 dollars, from 60 to 50 dollars. Please stop trying to find things to bash EA on and just enjoy the announcement of a new crysis.

Yes, that is in dollars.

$49.99 (original revealed price and normal PC game price) + $10 (increase) = $59.99 (current price)

I'm going to assume this is a simple mistake on your part and your perception of time is backwards.

Additionally, I'll stop stumbling upon reasons EA deserves bashing when EA stops doing things like this.

Oh damn, that was a mistake on my part. Move along people.
Well here in the UK it will probably be 35 pounds at launch, which is the same for Skyrim on PC.

So lucky, here it will be 60 Euro... the average wage is 250 Euro/month

 

[Ticonderoga117]

Ugh, curse you Origin!
However, still totally looking forward to this game. Me want!

 

[Weaver]

Shame they're still using EA as their publisher.

 

[OManoghue]

How is it 27 years after the first one and still star the dude from the second? Is he like, nearly fifty, and you need to manage your hip bones and health?

 

[Agayek]

How is it 27 years after the first one and still star the dude from the second? Is he like, nearly fifty, and you need to manage your hip bones and health?

Well, in Crysis 2, Alcatraz was basically chunky salsa already. The only reason he could move and even continue to live was because of the suit.

If the suit can keep a guy alive and moving like a pro through ~70% of his bones fractured/broken and most of his organs pulped, it can keep him alive and moving through the onset of old age.

 

[Saulkar]

Urban Jungle?! Count me disinterested.

Yeah, where are the REAL jungles?
I mean, what was the point of making a beautiful game on a tropical island, bright, lush, if you were just going to throw it to a completely grey enviornment in the second game, and Then basically repeating the same experiment with some dark green thrown in?

Something that would be far more interesting would be a largish European village near a massive concentration of aliens with variable environments surrounding it (sorta like Just Cause 2). You get the best of both worlds and variety so that you are not constantly "Grey building, Grey sewer, Grey office, Grey building. Christ, throw in some variety. Just check out this new update to the engine!


Do that many people really want to see all this visual splendor and enhanced A.I and Physics. wasted on one environment?!

 

[Absolutionis]

So, I wonder if there will be Kinect functionality with this new 'bow' that they seem to be pushing.

Microsoft loves pushing the Kinect into games that don't need it like Mass Effect or Skyrim.

 

[Darkcerb]

Oh you US people complaining about the price of pc games, I get a $30~ mark up on games just for the privilege of living where I do, Yahtzee has the right of it though we do have the nicest beaches.

 

[endtherapture]

Ah, I see the aliens are still pink jellyfish in silvery exoskeletons. Lovely, the one thing I really, really hated about Crysis 2.

Bring back Crysis 1 aliens! They were so much cooler. If I have to fight even more Pingers in Crysis 3 I'll be upset.

Also it better not be a trilogy. I want more Nomad and Psycho please. What even happened to them?

Also why go back to New York? We defeated ALL THE ALIENS THERE. Also give us a better story this time not about corporations and a random suit.

Also I hope it's more like Crysis 1. In every way. Loved that game. Crysis 2 was a step down.

 

[TephlonPrice]

Huh. New York City still?

Color me bad, but at the end of Crysis 2, it showed that the Ceph had begun to take over the world. So I thought the idea was that Crysis 3 would've taken place around the world as Prophet scrambles to eliminate the Ceph threat while dealing with the CELL ops units.

But I'm interested for this one. The whole "NYC reclaimed by nature" look sounds awesome & I hope it's as colorful as it sounds.

But can we get back some of the sandbox appeal, with some better control issues fixed (attaching sprint functionality to the same power source as my stealth & armor system) & a MP that takes advantage of Nanosuits & vehicle warfare? And maybe a map editor, challenge mode or something just for fun?

BTW, bow with explosive arrows is something I've wanted to see in games since Rambo II, so I hope it's really awesome here.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Ok, I'm slightly confused here.
If I understand this correctly, Crysis 2 took place during 2020 in NYC or somewhere around that time and Crysis 3 is taking place in 2047, in NYC, after the events of Crysis 2 with Alcatraz.
How can NYC be a "urban jungle/rainforest" in just 27 years time? Several of those screenshots show it might as well be the jungle island from the first game.

 

[Akisa]

Ok, I'm slightly confused here.
If I understand this correctly, Crysis 2 took place during 2020 in NYC or somewhere around that time and Crysis 3 is taking place in 2047, in NYC, after the events of Crysis 2 with Alcatraz.
How can NYC be a "urban jungle/rainforest" in just 27 years time? Several of those screenshots show it might as well be the jungle island from the first game.

Actually in 27 years it's very possible to develop lots of plant life. Just look what happens to the plants in an empty lot in New York. Now do that for all the buildings if New York remains uninhabited. However I don't believe the plant life should be jungle in nature, instead it should be more forest like. And buildings should start crumbling, and the plant life should be mostly in the outside portion not indoors.

 

[Akisa]

So that's a guy in a nano suit firing a bow and arrow at a space alien robot... Am I really the only one who face palms rather than goes HELL YEAH when I see that?

Imagine the power of a good bow when drawn in strength mode. If it hits, it's both silent and extremely powerful. More effective than a bullet, actually.

Nah I imagine he'll break the string or the bow in strength mode before it became more destructive then bullet.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Ok, I'm slightly confused here.
If I understand this correctly, Crysis 2 took place during 2020 in NYC or somewhere around that time and Crysis 3 is taking place in 2047, in NYC, after the events of Crysis 2 with Alcatraz.
How can NYC be a "urban jungle/rainforest" in just 27 years time? Several of those screenshots show it might as well be the jungle island from the first game.

Actually in 27 years it's very possible to develop with lots of plant life. Just look what happens to the plants in an empty lot in New York. Now do that for all the buildings if New York remains uninhabited. However I don't believe the plant life should be jungle in nature, instead it should be more forest like. And buildings should start crumbling, and the plant life should be mostly in the outside portion not indoors.

Yes, I am aware that plant life can grow in unihabited areas rather quickly and your explaination makes sense but what I'm having a problem with is that the level of growth looks indicitive of at least 40-50 years of growth not just 27.