Crysis 3

Crysis 3 Preview (Preview)

Crysis 3: Stand up and take a bowIf you were the guy in charge of creating Crysis' signature Nanosuit, an ulta-expensive prototype mega-garment that allows its wearer to jump impossible heights, run as fast as a car and (for some reason) make bullets fire out of guns with more force, you might feel pretty insulted when the supersuit's owner decides to forsake the fanciness of the future for a simple bow. A bow? A bow? A bow is the most rustic of all the ranged weapons! Nobody ever wants to go back to bows after they're researched guns in Civilization, do they? Even if it is a really fancy modern composite bow that looks like it's made out of things I don't understand, like lightweight polymers and and aluminium, wouldn't Prophet just rather use a nice new-fashioned gun? Obviously not. The bow, then, is now so important to the game it's been promoted to Crysis 3's cover star. It's designed to give the game a sneakier feel: it takes out your standard everyday Ceph in a single hit and, for the first time in a Crysis game, can be fired when cloaked. The pitch, as delivered during EA's Spring Showcase in London, is that the hunted is now the hunter.