'Crysis 3' return to New York wasn't to cut corners, says Crytek

Crysis 3's return to New York City, the same setting as the previous game, has been explained by developer Crytek.

Creative director Rasmus Hoejengaard said it wasn't to "cut corners or reuse assets", but to create a stronger emotional impact for both returning players and Americans.

"Actually the reason we wanted to do this was because when you know an area and feel at home in it, and you come back and see that it's completely not what you know it for, it's actually emotionally more powerful than if you come back to a location that you haven't seen before and see that it's overgrown," he said.

[hennessey86]

I really enjoyed
Crysis 2

[Hellsvacancy]

I didnt, bored the life out of me, wasnt as bad as Resistance 2

[ATi_Elite]

They returned to New York so they could cut corners and pump this game out as fast as possible!!

Crysis has lost all the great sandbox game play quality of the original game!

[GamingPerson]

I hope they have lots of new enemies.

[krazykombatant]

It was to not trouble the brain dead fans? Seriously there are more places in the world than just nee york.

[DigitalAnalog]

"'Crysis 3' return to New York wasn't to cut corners"

Surrreee... because we totally understand you will rebuild the city from scratch as opposed to copy/paste Crysis jungles on top of NYC. I also remember distinctively that Crysis 2 was supposed to have the "Best AI in a video game".... I wonder?

[JOHN_DOH]

lol yeah best ai ever

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Zha1tan]

Crytek,

Just shutup with your statements, they dont make you look good after Crysis 2.

[ninjahunter]

Hey crytek, could you please bring back the ability to mess around. In crysis 1 thats what kept me coming back, leveling entire maps, duking it out with sharks, creating chain reactions with explosions, messing with the ai. You know, bring back the fun in crysis.

[Aeon]

Crysis 2 Ending spoilers:

But didn't we kill all of the Ceph in NYC at the end of C2?... So why are they still there? :\

[closnyc]

sure, thats why its coming out a year after crysis 2 right? i mean, it took 4 years to get crysis 2 after crysis 1 and now look at this, the pattern repeats with EA, first bioware and now crytek. Way to have balls crytek.