Black_Stormy wrote:OP is the pure reason crysis is so good. The Crysis 1 beta videos showed the nano suit having awesome powers and on release everything had been nerfed to the point that there was barely any point having the strength and speed versions of the suit. Maybe it doesn't translate well to MP but I hope that the SP campaign has a ridiculously OP nano suit. It would also make gameplay very different since there would have to be different ways to make the gameplay challenging, since you're essentially a super soldier.
Crysis 2 actually did a decent job of making you feel powerful. But I seriously missed having free strength and speed mode. They were limited to sprinting for speed (and it wasn't that much faster to be honest) and holding the jump/melee button to do power maneuvers. I found Crysis to be such a blast because you could holster your weapon, pull your fists out, and bash a fucking building in to pieces by punching the living shit out of it in strength mode. Or you could just chuck a grenade in it and watch the fireworks. On top of all that, you would melee and reload faster in speed mode, and in strength mode you reduced your recoil to almost nothing and you could throw grenades way further. They completely abandoned all of this in Crysis 2, which made me very disappointed. And yes, Crysis 2 was not nearly as open-ended as the original. I still enjoyed the campaign, but it was a lot different from Crysis 1. I guess they didn't want to reinvent the wheel, but it felt like Crytek departed from the original a bit too much.
I'm more interested in seeing how the campaign will turn out. But what the
Hell happened to Nomad and Psycho? They returned to the island at the end of the first game to find Prophet after the island was nuked. My Crysis lore is a bit rusty, but the scientist lady that was with them was the same chick that was in Crysis 2, right? Prophet hints at the other nanosuit operatives being "dead men walking" or something along those lines, so I wonder if they all just died. Then again, Alcatraz in Crysis 2 is basically a walking corpse being kept alive by the suit. I would seriously find it disappointing if Crytek were to just write Nomad and Psycho off like that. Nomad was my favorite of Raptor Team. I don't want him to just die behind the scenes.