Single Player Review of Crysis 3
Crysis 3's Single player campaign takes place 20 years after the CEPH's defeat in Crysis 2 and the protagonist has been put into cold storage by CELL. CELL have taken over the power vacuum left by the CEPH in Crysis 2. The protagonist is Prophet, the last Nano suited soldier in the world. The story starts as you having to take down CELL from the inside of New York 2.0, which is where they are making power to control the world. As the story advances, you find out that the CEPH haven't been defeated and are preparing to take over the world. The story advances in this fashion.
Crysis 3 - The last nanosuit soldier on the planet.
To help you to save the world, You have multiple unique abilities and weapons you can use. The nanovision goggles allow you to see enemies and mark them on your HUD, they also have an infrared mode that allows to see through walls, but it uses up energy.
Crysis 3 - why need eyes when you have this
The customization mode is good for when you need a different type of weapon or mode to get through. The cloak mode the suit allows you to use, turns you completely invisible but the more energy you use depend on how fast you are moving.
Crysis 3 - Why choose at the start of the battle when you can do it in the middle of the battle.
This allows good stealth kills and gives you a chance to get out of a firefight. The Bow is another awesome weapon in Prophet's fight against CELL and the CEPH forces. It is completely silent and kills normal soldiers in one hit. You can also change the arrow type and the drawstring pull so you can have a really slow pull that can pin enemies to walls or fast pull so you fire arrows quick and fast. The Bow is set so you can use smart, thermite and shock arrows in it apart from the normal arrows. Smart arrows will auto track and fire small explosives which will follow the enemies, Thermite arrows are just explosive arrows and shock arrows allow for you to kill large groups of enemies that are all together.
Crysis 3 - WHAT? You can't see me
The armor mode allows you to take extra damage that doesn't go from your health. The premise is that the damage that you take gets taken away from your energy.
Crysis 3- What? You're not getting through me
Every level you play has a open worldly type environment with optional objectives if you want to do them, and these might give you a achievement and trophy or a upgrade module to level up prophet.
At the time of writing, On the Xbox 360, which is what I'm reviewing it on, The frame rate takes a massive dive into the ocean when checkpointing and it's extremely easy to see when you play. The AI is stupid and if you walk in front of them while cloaked, they just stumble back and run away in fear but that is what is expected from the basic First Person Shooter AI that are programmed into these games. The graphics are `Meh`. They are Ok but they are not a big improvement over Crysis 2 but the game is nicely textured and the
voice acting is matching the past game plus adding new characters' personality to make you get involved with the story. The story is set in New York 20 years after Crysis 2 so the environment and scenery makes it look ruined and broken compared to new York in Crysis 2.
Crysis 3 - This is new York 2.0, just take it in.
CELL have also have set up shop in new York 2.0 so you'll see guard towers and a hydro dam power station that you have to destroy in the campaign. It's only about a 4 mission campaign but that adds to over 10 hours of gameplay which isn't bad for a £60 game at release.
Overall: A nice campaign that works on it's success of the other game sequels but doesn't delve into any new themes and features.
Plus points : Updated Graphics, Customization mode on the fly, The story and 3D ready game.
Negative points: Bow, Reused setting, Frame rate drop when checkpointing and stupid AI.
Overall score 7/10
Game Reviewed: Crysis 3
Publisher: EA
Developer: Crytek
Price:£ 19.99
System: XBOX 360
Review by Kieran Parker
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