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Crysis 3 taking the series "back to its roots"
Posted: 31.05.2012 09:41 by Nick Akerman Comments: 2
While Crysis 2 was by no means a bad game, it highlighted the difficulty of making a sequel. Crytek wanted to push the series away from its tropical roots, but ultimately, this was the second iteration's biggest mistake. With Crysis 3 in the pipeline, the team are returning to what they know works.

"The changes we brought with Crysis 2 are something that organically developed. They posed a problem, in fact, during development," said Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli.

"We’d had enough of tropical islands, and we wanted to move on to a different kind of jungle. The urban jungle was thrown on the table, and the art staff won because they were tired of making trees and wanted to make buildings. When we had the first prototypes, we quickly realised our gameplay DNA was changing, though. Our kind of sandbox-y, expressive gameplay implanted into skyscrapers and crossroads? It’s just very different."

Cevat continued, acknowledging the series is returning to what made it stand out in the first place.

"Crysis 3 will be a mix of limited, very vertical sandboxes, and much more open locations. Definitely, though, we’re going back to our roots and making you feel part of a larger environment."
Source: Edge Online

Comments

By SiyaenSokol (SI Elite) on Jun 01, 2012
SiyaenSokol
Good... I didn't like the whole city thing in Crysis. I don't mind cities, but jungles are just much better.
By FoolWolf (SI Elite) on Jun 01, 2012
FoolWolf
Crysis was in my opinion a rather mediocre FPS game to begin with. It was fun in the beginning and OK and went from ok/good to real crap once the aliens turned up. The game has always felt sluggish in controls and aiming.
Crysis 2 had a pretty fun MP but the promise that it should also be polished before release didn't really happen. The SP game was extremely booring and the "nice" graphics only deterred from gameplay IMO.

Crysis for me - is simple not interesting any-more. They have to do something more then add some palm leaves to the plot for my interest to increase...