OXM Preview: Crysis 3 gameplay: Tarzan meets the Terminator

With Crysis 2, the series developed a dual personality. It veered from an open-world jungle playground to a tunnel of skyscrapers. The sandbox had shrunk from the whole world to a long chain of arenas. Could Crysis 3 be a satisfying compromise of spectacle and freedom?

[dirigiblebill]

In theory, the Crysis games are among this generation's best shooters. All the ingredients are there - great technology, great guns, choice-driven gameplay. And yet I always feel like there's something missing.

[Zha1tan]

I get what you mean,

I think it could be that the character that you play in the games has no sense of personality at all an you just feel like a blank faceless accessory to the games larger plot even though you are the instigator of most of the plot.

Its hard to grasp but it has the ability to have incredibly inventive gameplay and coupled with a character you can indentify with it would be one of the top FPS games.

[dirigiblebill]

"I think it could be that the character that you play in the games has no sense of personality at all an you just feel like a blank faceless accessory"

Nail on head. I guess they're aiming for a Master Chief style blank tablet.

[Zha1tan]

I dislike Master Chief as a character for that reason aswell which is kinda why I like the ending to Crysis 2 when he stood up and said...

***SPOILERS***

"They Call me Prophet"

which was exciting as the character you played as gained an indentity of sorts, we will wait and see.

[blackstrr411]

Master chief talks!!! Alcatraz sez nothing thru out the game(except they call me...prophet at the end). The only time he responded was at the beginning. *move the right analogue stick* part. Alcatraz is an errand boy again.

[ninjahunter]

I would like to see Psycho make a comback, Personally prophet is the lamest character in the series. I mean aztec was better and he died 3 minutes into the game.
Ugh you know what, i just want crysis back, i want the physics sandbox that locked me into the series. not the shooter that has nothing more to offer once you run out of bullets.