April 16th, 2012
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As expected EA and Crytek have officially revealed Crysis 3 today. Crysis 3 will be a “sandbox shooter” set in 2047 and has gamers playing as Prophet as he returns to New York. When he gets there he discovers that the city has been encased in a giant Nanodome created by the Cell Corporation. This “Liberty Dome” is said to have “seven distinct and treacherous environments.”
Crysis 3 will once again be powered by CryEngine 3, and, ”advances the franchise with unparalleled visuals and dynamic shooter gameplay,” according to Crytek.
“The New York City Liberty Dome is a veritable urban rainforest teeming with overgrown trees, dense swamplands and raging rivers,” the game’s official description reads. “Within the Liberty Dome, seven distinct and treacherous environments become known as the Seven Wonders.”
“This dangerous new world demands advanced weapons and tactics. Prophet will utilize a lethal composite bow, an enhanced Nanosuit and devastating alien tech to become the deadliest hunter on the planet.”
Crysis 3 sees Prophet on a revenge mission after discovering the true reason behind the dome’s construction.
“The citizens were told that the giant citywide structures were resurrected to protect the population and to cleanse these metropolises of the remnants of Ceph forces,” says EA. ”In reality, the Nanodomes are CELL’s covert attempt at a land and technology grab in their quest for global domination. With Alien Ceph lurking around every corner and human enemies on the attack, nobody is safe in the path of vengeance. Everyone is a target in Prophet’s quest for retribution.”
“Crysis 3 is a thrilling mix of sandbox gameplay, advanced combat and hi-tech human and alien weaponry that shooter fans will love,” said Crytek CEO, Cevat Yerli. ”Leveraging the latest CryENGINE technology, we’re able to deliver seven unique themes that offer stunning and visually loaded gameplay experiences. We cannot wait until people get their hands on the game.”
Crysis 3 will be released Spring 2013 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. The Crysis 3 Hunter Edition is available to pre-order now, priced at $59.99, and grants players ”the tools to become the ultimate hunter in multiplayer,” by offering early access to the new bow weapon and a Hunter Nanosuit module which adds a new power to the suit.
Source: EGMNow
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Hmmm… This does sound slightly interesting, but I thought Crysis 2 was Prophet returning to NY, and in Crysis 3, Alcatraz was supposed to go back to the island. Whatever.
Alcatraz is the new Prophet, at the end of Crysis 2 he says “My name is Phrophet”, but yeah, he is supposed to be going around the world to destroy the alien central hub thingies.
I hope it won’t run at 20 fps on 360 like Crysis 2.
Cryengine 3 really is an incredible engine, I just hope we’ll see it’s full potential this time.
> “Advances the franchise with unparalleled visuals and dynamic shooter gameplay”
Great! That means that this time around, it’ll be native 720p with solid performance and obviously neither textures and geometry pop-in will be presented, right?
They will also be using highly efficient post-process AA like MLAA and FXAA and not the totally ineffective temporal AA they used in the previous game, right?
And trivial as it is, I’m sure someone as great as Crytek is also going to be taking the capacity of the PS3′s storage medium into consideration and render a separate set of footage with higher bitrate instead of pretending that the BD can only access one-fourth of its maximum storage capacity and pull the same one-size-fits-all move for all three versions (like last time), especially when they’re using a video codec with poor compressibility like Bink, right?
Yeah… remind me to stay away from Crytek if I’m planning to stick with console gaming.
I think they use Bink because it doesn’t require much CPU power to use (I’m assuming Crysis 2 loads while videos play, haven’t played it at all). Or it may be the fact that they use the extra capacity of the blu-ray disk for duplicate files, in order to reduce seek time. The Blu-ray drive on the PS3 is after all a bit slower than the DVD on the 360. Or maybe it’s simply the 3rd option: Crytek just wants to port the game quickly to the PS3 and doesn’t give a shit.
Please Crytek, can we have full 720p rendering on console this time? Thanks.
Dispite the hype of the 2nd crysis i axctualy enjoyed the single player much”but the online not so much lol”but yeah!looking forwards to this one.
it looks like the same atmosphere of “The Last One of US”, Doesn’t it?