Crysis 2 Is Better Than You Think (Story Explained) 

Ahhh splendid memories. I also completely forgot about the suits Brazilian butt lift between games

1. Give suit to dying marine 2. Die 3. ??? 4. PROPHET

Half dead marine using the worlds most advanced wheelchair stops ET Super Covid

Apparently for the crysis 2 suit design, they painted it on an actor and used that to help create the model. That dude must have been caked up fr.

Alcatraz and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

You your telling me, this whole time, Crysis is just: Humanity VS Stabby the roomba.

The doctor explaining how Alcatraz is a dead man walking was haunting. Awe and dread at the fearsome power of the suit.

basically the nano suit is a living armor that will keep its host alive regardless of the damage also i always figured the fact you were basically a deadman when you got put in the suit means your brain most likely was damaged and the parts were you lost power and had to restart your heart most likely didn't help so the suit was slowly fixing the damage using the old brain data from its past user

Honestly the best part of Crysis 2 for me? Hans Zimmer being the composer. Great soundtrack for the game, I still remember it fondly.

One of my favorite things about this game is the portrayal of the marines. you get the sense that they all know that they are in over their heads, but they all have a job to do, and they are going to do it come hell or high water. My favorite example is after the fight with the first pinger. This platoon as just fought off some insane alien walker tank, and then they hear some strange alien noise in the distance. Every one is quiet for a beat, contemplating whatever new horror is about to be thrown at them. Then the CO gets everyone’s attention with the best line in video game history: “Alright everyone, quit standing around with your dicks in your hands. We’re gonna go find out what’s making that noise, and kick its ass!”

I always heard that the Crysis 2 A.I. was still coded for 'humans open areas' and not 'squidbillies in (wide) linear corridors.' Thus making the aliens look _really_ dumb because none of their flanking code works.

"Central Park is no longer attached to the ground" Nature is healing ❤️

Oh lovely, the Nanosuit is almost like the Berserk suit from Berserk. Because unlike the Berserk suit, it doesn't make you go feral. the Berserk Suit twists your bones and pierces them with metal spikes to keep you upright and fighting, the Nanosuit just cannibalizes you to do that but you keep your faculties.

I feel pretty bad for ol' Alka-seltzer. Imagine getting killed, then getting essentially revived as a super soldier- and then losing your personality and mind anyway.

Man, before this, i had never truly understood The True Magnitude of how much of a Dead Man Walking Alcatraz was and of the defibrillator segments

"The problem is that Prophet did a fucky wucky" this and the next line are gold

Having had flail chest, when I got to that part I had to assume the nanosuit comes equipped with a pain pump loaded with Opana.

"Alien equivalent of a roomba" That got me. Yeah thank you for clearly explaining that the aliens soldiers were actually just improvised robot exoskeletons with repurposed melted human bio-matter. I'm sure no one is gonna have horrifying thoughts about alien life with that comment. But damn these were the hay day of gaming and no one can tell me otherwise. Humanity first!

The alien roomba. Same with C&C Tiberian Sun! The big bad aliens there were just miners sent to collect the seeded Tiberium, using entire planets like farmers use fields. With humanity's "victory" in the end causing the mining personnel to retreat and actually call in the military for the first time. That type of twist is just something special.

We should mention the character names. Prophet can be deduced to the guy that gave a bit of a revelation on events while being a figure head looked up to both for inspiration and with malice. Alkatraz is literally the name of an island prison that next to nobody could escape from and would die trying. The fact the MCs name is Alkatraz and he is imprisoned in the suit as the inly thing capable of keeping him alive paints a grimm picture of the body horror reality that the chance of survival and getting out of this flesh suit prison is slim to none.

On the plus side-if you can call it that-I’m not dead. And according to the medical diagnostics racing across my field of view, I should be. My back is broken in three places. My larynx is crushed. My femoral artery is torn. There’s more blood in my lungs than air. The list goes on. Nanosuit 2.0’s rattling off diagnostic and wet-repair capabilities like I’ve never seen outside a full-blown VA hospital- and while it’s got me rooted in place like a garden gnome, it’s also pumping me full of antibodies and autocatalytic fibrinogen and a dozen kinds of engineered osteoblasts to knit my bones back together. All things considered,immobilized in a custom-fitted body cast is not a bad place to be right now. Alcatraz does have a sick sense of humor talking about his condition in the novel

Double tap Lockhart after throwing him out the window, it gives you an achievement on Xbox. Also, canonnically, he survived that faceplant and got his own nanosuit, his own codename: Silverback, and started hunting Crysis 1's protagonist, Nomad. Guessing he might be the antagonist in the next game if they follow through with that plotline.

Gotta be honest, i disliked Crysis 2 not because of the story or the gameplay or anything, but because the aliens just weren't as cool (puns) in 2, they were totally inhuman in the first game and the whole energy siphon, dome of absolute zero, weapons that fire frozen air thing was such a cool gimmick, and i was sad to see it traded in for generic humanoids with energy weapons. it just felt like they took a badass original design and discarded it.

_"he's a _*_corpse walking_*_ Gould!"_ _"Just _*_another grunt_*_ I'm afraid" . . . "A _*_simple soldier_*_ will not suffice here."_ _"You knew the suits were symbiotic, you knew what they'd do to my men! ...You turned them into _*_dead men walking!"_* _"I turned them into _*_post-human warriors"_*_ . . . "You think we'll defeat them with _*_ordinary human_*_ soldiers? This isn't a war _*_ordinary humans_*_ can win. This is the future. _*_death is an inconvenience_*_ now, nothing more. we are all _*_dead men walking"_*

aside from the frankly violently cringe outdated meme references in it, the novelization of crysis 2 is so fucking good and gave me an even greater appreciation of the game. Also cranks up the body horror to like 50

Came for the crysis shenningans. Stayed for the absolute divine levels of sass

My favorite line from the game is when the crisis man says... "it looks like there is a another crisis.. a crisis 2"

Ok, never played any of the crysis games but, isn't the tunguska event as an alien encounter, alien structures buried across the planet and the aliens "coming home" the plot of "Resistance: Fall of Men" series too? Anywat, maybe it is time to play these games now that they won't melt my PC.

The Legacy of Kain games have some of the best written stories ever put to screen, let alone put to controller. My favorites being Soul Reaver 1 and 2.

Only story from the franchise that could stand on its own if it wasnt a game. Masterpiece.

Crysis 2 had some changes that may have been a bit of an adjustment for players familiar with the open ended gameplay of its predecessor, but what it did narratively is a huge improvement. The acting has aged all that well, but for the time, this was probably (imo) the closest games got to being a straight-up action movie at the time. The plot has a lot more twists and turns and secrets, and it is overall far more interesting and engaging than the predecessor.

Ah yes...not being alive vírus is a thing to worry about.

If CELL is based on real PMCs, then that Marine is practically an angel

Hearing your description of what the suit did to Alcatraz was the most beautiful thing ive heard all week

Ah, this brings back memories. When Crysis 2 came out I played this game to death, pretty sure I even used up my birthday gifts back then for a better GPU just so I could play it better. Not just the gameplay, or the level designs, or the music where what captivated me. Even the surprisingly deep story and Alcatraz/Prophet's struggles just felt so impactful being all in first person. Hell, what MJOLNIR armor or Samus' armor was to most gamers of a generation was what the Nanosuit 2 was to me, if you get my meaning. You know, I really should play Crysis 2 again. Your video made me feel nostalgic again.

I get the vibe that Khanlusa would like Humanity Lost, assuming they haven't already read it

The novelisation Crysis Legion by Peter Watts is highly recommended.

I'll never forget seeing the gameplay trailer featuring the Grand Central Station Pinger fight and the cutscene at 18:00. Really established the tone of the game. Like you *are* a super soldier but you're in the middle of a _War of the Worlds_ scenario.

I think Crysis was victim of its first success, neither of the games have a specially super creative story but is good enough specially Crysis 2 has a pretty decent story even if people doesn't want to acknowledge it (while Crysis 3's story is a wacky and inconsistent as it gets), but the gameplay was extremely fun, while I appreciate the freedom of the first Crysis and Warhead, I think that Crysis 2 and specially Crysis 3 have a much more polished gameplay. However people kept complaining that Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 weren't like the original Crysis but with better graphics, making Crysis 2 pretty unpopular and Crysis 3 even more unpopular, to this day there are lots of people who have never play Crysis 2 and 3 just because a bunch of haters in internet say so. For me it was one of the first modern examples of how a toxic fandom can doom a franchise, Crysis isn't in a position as bad as Halo's franchise nowadays, mainly because all the hating have been cool down over the years so much that apparently they are planing to launch another Crysis game, but it is sad to see how the own fans can strangle to death their beloved franchises (like halo cough cough).

The fact that the GOAT Hans Zimmer and his protégé Lorne Balfe composed the soundtrack for this game only enhances this epic story

I HIGHLY recommend anyone who likes the game to read the Novelization; not just does it give a LOT of background information on the setting like the fact that the Amazon is gone, that the world has been wartorn for the past two decades and that massive corporations took over, with PMCs like CELL being paid for normal Law enforcement over Police Forces as they are 'cheaper'. But it also gives you the insights of Alcratraz and his feelings through the events; I LOVE Alcatraz, not just does he feel like a actual USMC trooper but he's genuinely also entertaining. Not to mention he has some fun quirks like being scared of water despite being a marine or him basically insulting everyone around him. Genuinly one of my favorite books.

To answer your question regarding if we used the air friction or ground stomp, yes, specifically grpund stomp. Survive any fall zero damage and kill any normal enemy within 5 meters of your landing. If you wanna have fun you can just hop around power jumping then slamming. Does less damage, bit its funny as all heck

Never thought that Alcatraz lost his mind and personnality to prophet. I actuelly thought he said "they call me prophet" to wear the legacy of his previous owner. Well, that's grim

The Pingers were actually pretty hard, but not as bad as the Helicopters. At least the multiple rocket launchers needed make sense against an alien ground vehicle.

I don't know about the leaving the Husband and Wife behind scene, since Alcatraz is strong enough and fast enough to nab them well before the building fell. The scene goes on a little too long for me to believe there was nothing your character could do to save them.

Wow. I am an absolutely HUGE fan of Crysis 2, I bought it X many years ago for the Xbox 360 and fell in love with it's, admittedly light, vent-crawling mechanics to the point that I want to find games that have this game's play, but a level design more like the original Deus Ex or Arcane's Prey and Dishonored. I'm so happy I found someone who loves this game as much as I do (more even, I didn't even pick up on any of the Roomba stuff nor did I realize just how borked Alcatraz was, I just thought the suit didn't want him to live without it or something.) and having it be literally one of my favorite writers and RU-vidrs is just, brings tear to my heart. Man now I gotta see if I can get Crysis 2 for PC, I suddenly have an itch. Also, as a haver of many kinda spicy Star Wars takes, I cannot wait for May... You're Awesome and keep up the good work! -Izzi

Lucky me, I just saw part 1 yesterday and was looking for part 2

I like crysis 2 better than 1, it does a lot of things better than crysis 1 and people don’t give it enough credit

The ending notes at the end about how the Ceph who are just motes compared to the greater Alien lurking behind them remind me of one of my favorite sci-fi games ever, Freelancer 2003. The main threat in that game is an alien species that absolutely dominates the pre-established power houses only to be revealed at the end of the game that are just the caretakers of their creators Creations, Absolutely love it when games create such powerful opponents only to reveal that they aren't the true predator in an organic and natural way. Tangent aside, great video and superb review of one of my favorite FPS games that I grew up with.

THANKS for the Crysis Legion love! Dude, that is one of my favorite cosmic horror stuff alongside Half-Life 2 which does something similar. I love that the horror comes from the fact that the Ceph we fight are just goddamn roombas. Just like the Combine Soldiers and Synths, they are just the tip of the iceberg. We do not want to MEET the "real" Ceph and the rest of the Combine at large.

I'm the one, who bought every upgrade in campaign and I can say that Phantom aug was awesome

If your asking to be inflicted with suggestions here's my personal list: •The Darksiders series •Vanquish •Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver •Destroy All Humans

The point I keep missing even after watching some lore wideos on Crysis from time to time, is why did alien terraforming switched from ice hellscape to jungle hellscape?

The game is really genius at what it does. The fact that we are not actually controlling character of Alcatraz, but the suit itself, is scary shit. In every sequence when you had to use defibrillator, game implies that Alcatraz is already dead. The suit is trying to return him to function in order to continue the mission by symbiosis with his body. I always loved that part in second game and how subtle and scary these details are.

"what is your name soldier?" "they call me... John Crysis"

Crysis 2 felt even more badass than the 1st (well better say you feel badass). While 3 seems to be more flexible with upgrades in 2 while you evolve you can literally become as affective as shown in the trailer mowing down enemies. Absolutely loved it

Crysis 3 was my favourite in the series, still is would love another one but the story wrapped up pretty well in my opinion in three and the dlc

your crysis 1 video got my interest, never did play 2 or 3, so this will be exactly what i wanted to see if it was worth going back to.

Ngl, this has thrown some new light at crysis 2 story for me to look at. I was convinced that my good experience was due to being young when playing it and thus having lower expectations, especially after hearing all these bad opinions years later but now I want to make a new playthrough. Actually if the story was as good, it makes me even more sad that 3 was the last instalment and all the "leaks" regarding new entries were about some battle royal or other >insert currently more-less popular game concept

I almost choked on my drink at "The things we do for cosplay." line. That was gold.

Can I just say I LOVE your content warning style before videos, I literally wish every channel out there did something similar, its so sleek and informative and takes like no time to let folks know what to expect

Ah yes... the Pinger. The helicopter in the first game was at least an easy enemy.. This thing could de-cloack you with its EMP. And it is always met in a small arena. C4 explosives and rocket launcher to the back worked amazingly against it though.

I just stumble on your channel with the Crysis 1 video and finished this one having really enjoyed it and looking forward to the Crysis 3 vide. Only to realize this was upload 7 days ago and it's not out yet. I'm going to subscribe and look forward to it releasing while I binge all your other videos.

I had no clue the Ceph embedded on the planet where the equivalent of the species' gardening tools. That's actually a really really cool way of explaining how we were able to be somewhat on par with them when fighting them.

WoW. So Your crysis one video was randomly recomended to me after watching some borderlands videos. I really like the style and how the story was recaped with gameplay. Remembering how much fun it was playing crysis. I was instantly drawn towards a recap of crysis II. Now after another great video I cant wait to see cysis 3 being recaped this way. Please continue that great work even though I can, at this point in time, just speak for two of your videos but well done.

I honestly liked the 2nd more than the 1st. And the battle in the cities was just great.

God this nostalgia. I played crysis 2 so much as a kid. The game music is carved into my brain lol

Stumbled in your chanel by a miracle. Love the humor, love the dedication to bring more information about these series. After this video will go through all your videos!

I love these videos so much. It doesn’t feel as bloated as the other videos nowadays and gets to the point.

9:19 To answer a question you posed a 7:30. This this right here is the only time I bothered using air stomp the whole game because for whatever reason, air stomp completely negates fall damage.

Tbh, the issue i have with the second game isn't the aliens (i loved the aliens in the first game) but rather the way they've gone from genuinely interesting flying squid creatures in various floating mechs to generic alien footsoldiers. The sequels were definitely hoping to get more of the call of duty crowd onboard - understandably given how well those games do - but something was lost in the process - the thing that made the first game (and warhead) feel really unique.

So i had a hard time too with the pingers until i learned on normal you can cloak, run up to its back with a jackal you can just pick up, and unload all your ammo into its weak point. Thanks to the fire rate it barely has time to react before it's dead lool

man, as soon as i saw you put in music from infamous 2, i got unreasonably thrilled

New to the channel, nice to see Crysis 2 getting more love. Appreciate you outlying the details of Alcatraz and what he's physically going through, never seen anyone give credit to how good that aspect of Crysis 2 storytelling. Pingers are annoying, most of the time I get close the gap from behind, toss 2 C-4 charges to the underbelly and boom. They're usually provided for many encounters.

And now I patiently wait for Crysis 3

Thanks lass! Appreciate this video, can't wait for more.

"THAT'S RIGHT NATHAN, THE OWNERS ARE BACK! WAKING THE SYSTEMS, FIRING UP THE BOILER, AND NOT MUCH LIKING WHAT THEY FOUND, FESTERING BEHIND THE FRIDGE. CAN YOU BLAME THEM? REEEEALLLLY? 2 was my favorite game in the series, followed by 1. I never finished 3 as I felt it jumped the shark a little... too far.

I don't need you to tell me that, I already know all of this. I based my personality on the Crysis 2/3.

21:06 holy shit man I can’t even count how many times and how much time I spend playing this game and analyzing its lore and I never think about that! Man this game is so cool I love it so much. Also it might be just me but personally Jacob Hargreave is very underrated and good written character. His dialogues are absolute brilliant, hearing them I feel like I could spend hours discussing with him about aliens

ah nostalgia I remember spamming all my upgrades to Armor and going crazy only to realize that I am not in fact fucking invincible

Please do one of these for Crysis 3 too! This is amazing!

Amazing video! Crysis has such an underrated story aspect to it. Please do the video on the 3rd installment would love to watch it!

Watching the Crysis 2 trailer, I found myself immediately appreciating that the building repair and maintenance scaffolding that is almost ubiquitous throughout Manhattan is actually shown! It's a physical aspect of the old and too often dilapidated city of NYC that is completely absent from being represented in most past and current mediums. Such scaffolding is seen and walked under most everywhere when one moves through the city in daily life. It's erected for reasons of financial liability, even when a building owner is refusing to do necessary repairs or has left them 'eternally delayed'. The city government will seemingly pounce to require the protection of pedestrians but is radically underpowered to compel the actual vital structural building repairs themselves, in many cases. Even with scaffolding more common than trees in parts of Manhattan, there are sadly news reports of injuries and deaths caused by falling debris from dilapidated buildings on a pretty regular basis. It's almost like such harms could have been expected and prevented. A desensitized public has come to view such incidents without much surprise and they rarely are reported on beyond the local NYC news. A simple intro to the situation: "As you make your way down major streets in New York City, there’s one thing you’ll almost never escape - scaffolding, or what the city of NY calls “sidewalk sheds.” Call it an eyesore, a massive inconvenience, or a way to stay dry during a major downpour, scaffolding is part of the NYC streetscape, and that’s not changing anytime soon. It has many purposes, but the main one is protecting pedestrians from falling construction debris." streeteasy.com/blog/scaffolding-nyc-why-so-much-scaffolding-new-york-city/

A small correction, its not prophet's personality that takes over , it's the suit itself. Prophet did die at the beginning of the game. In the third game its actually said , i think in a lore entry, and by the characters in the story, that only the suit remains, a machine dreaming that they are a man, prophet. And i find that equally fascinating amd horrifying.

Ngl you saying remember to take your meds actually just reminded me to take my medication for which I actually need to function! Thank you so much I wish you the best of success!

Might there be a plot hole betwen Crysis 2 and 3? Prophet could remove the suit quite easy because of the protective layer he´s wearing, but Alcatraz would need to be skinned out of it. In Part 3 we met Psycho, the sniper from the first game again, and he is complaining how terrible it was for him to be skinned out of his suit 1.0.? Didn´t they also have protective layers, he, Nomad, Prophet and the others? Or did Prophet get his because the first suit already tried to merge with its wearer and this was how they figured it out? Now i´m quite hyped for what you tell us in your Crysis 3 video, exzellent content, gave me a new view on a game i thought to be much simpler.

i do like that in the next game Psycho even brings up the fact of what body, the nano suit, has owner ownership over.

This game was unquestionably my favorite of the three. Genuinely the highlight of the series, hot damn this game was good

Absolute banger of a video, looking forward to the next one!

Love your voice. Good work!

This is one of the few times watching a video about a game I like made me want to play that game again. Brilliant work!

I still think it's bullshit how they killed Nomad off-screen in a short comic nobody read.

Man as a kid I loved this game. I was cracked on its multiplayer too. This game will always have my favorite fictional firearm’s because they all LOOK REAL and like they can function. (Granted the SCAR and SCARAB in the game were just slightly adjusted HK XM8 rifles)

I remember playing Crysis 2 when it released but my young-self never understood what was actually happening. This video opened my eyes AND IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW! Also... i was one of the amazing people who used Air Friction!

The Pinger is easy to beat with underbarrel gauss rounds. Figured that out on my first supersoldier playthrough, almost 20 hours in.

After watching your review of 1, and now 2, you’ve completely changed my perspective on the Crysis series. I already loved them, but you really pointed out MANY things I never thought about at all. A fantastic analysis along with a soothing voice, and I give this a 10/10. That’s a sub from me, chief.

Thank you! I always thought Crysis 2 was insanely cool, the novel was really good, an easy read, and I'm salty people always gloss over both the game and particularly the novel.

Hope Crysis 3 video is coming in a timely manner after this.

Damn, now I want to but the Crisis remastered trilogy. Great video btw!

This is the first Crysis game I played when it's first came out on the Xbox 360 i played it alot because you will be able to put attachments on you gun in the middle of combat and the graphics makes it looks & feels like you are in New York City.