Crysis 2 in Crysis [PC]

ALIENS! CITY IN RUINS! INTRIGUE! Crysis 2 offers all these and a nano-suit to boot. This sweet ass nano-suit makes you a super soldier; increasing strength, speed, endurance and all sorts of stuff, the suit even has a stealth mode. This time around instead of a remote jungle island, you’re smack dab in the middle of a ruined New York City. Aliens have come to fuck shit up, and fuck shit up they have.

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Being a FPS and all, I found the gun selection lacking, although the customization available helped a little. From tiny pistols to giant microwave cannons you get your sci-fi feel to it, but you couldn’t use any alien firepower. Luckily my interest in guns waned in favor for my fuck-awesome nano-suit that let me run and jump and kill like a crazed golden age Superman with invisibility. Often times I found myself armored up and charging enemies instead of hiding behind cover like most shooters. The stealth was a really fun aspect; some of my favorite kills were the stealthy kind. The suit has all kinds of upgrades; it can be customized to anyone’s play style very easily.


The story is barely enough to keep me interested in between moments of carnage and reconnoitering, but I often forgot where exactly I was going and why. At first I’m trying to reach this scientist dude because the guy who gave me the nano-suit shot himself. On my way to this guy I’m killing a bunch of CELL operatives, humans…while there’s FUCKING ALIENS running around, just can’t see the bigger picture huh? After a while I get to this scientist dude and find out the nano-suit is the only thing keeping my measly pile of meat alive, and it’s slowly merging with me. Any second I expected the suit to take over completely and yell, “We are the nano-suit!” like the Venom symbiote.

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Luckily the suit is also the key to repelling the aliens, but at the end of the game you find out they have carried this scale of attack all throughout the world, so expect Crysis 3 to take place in Singapore or something.



Unfortunately the game has its bugs and crashing issues on multiple platforms, it seems Crytek should have worked on it in house a little bit longer. The story is kind of cool, but you have to really work to follow it, so don’t get ultra-baked and play, you’ll die repeatedly and forget why you showed up to the slaughter. The game play is all around kick ass and engaging, the nano-suit makes your enemies your playthings at times, while others it gives just enough edge to survive the onslaught.

Gonna need a bigger gun.

Even though the combat is great, the other flaws can’t help but overshadow it a little bit, so I’ll have to give Crysis 2…

3.5 out of 5
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