Btw this game was part of what I like to call "the 2012 bow and arrow phase" where every form of media had a character using a bow and arrow. The avengers, Hunger games, Arrow.

When I said that all the members of raptor team lived up to their name, I didn't realise that applies to Alcatraz too. Alcatraz IRL is a max security prison. Prophet uses Alcatraz's body after the final mission of Crysis 2. Alcatraz is a prisoner is his own body, controlled by Prophet. God damn.

"Crysis 1 was loved by PC fans and hated by those who only had one PC fan" Ha! That's good! I lol'd

“Crysis 3, 4 years later” 2 years later

i tried way too hard to stealth through every mission. I dont know, i just really like stealth

It just depressing af that we'll never get a Crysis 4 or something similar from Crytek.

These graphics are so good it looks like something outta 2019

The multiplayer of this game was actually really GOOD. Unfortunately it didn't have enough content or support from the developers. One of the weapons was completely broken and they never fixed it. SAD.

Brilliant analysis mate - you talk sense with a level of adoration and criticism that both informs and clarifies - you've got a sub.

"Island resembling Lingshan' 1) When you fall from space you fall in same place Nomad fell. 2) Ending scene is literally the bay from First Light cutscene. Like, most famous Crysis 1 scene?

Not to nitpick but the "fucking drills" on the Alpha Ceph actually make quite a bit of sense once you take into consideration that the Alpha Ceph is both a fuckoff massive snake and the ultimate high value target. Something *that* important *must* be hidden; something *that* large is *difficult* to hide; underground is pretty much the only option... one that lo and behold, the Alpha Ceph is very well suited to, with it's snake-style mobility for wriggling around through underground burrows, and drills to create said burrows in even the toughest of materials. It's actually a brilliant little glimpse into the total Ceph hive's tactical awareness, regarding strengths, weaknesses, and relevant tactical implications for their widely varied anatomies. The Alpha Ceph's role is telepathic upper management, and thus it's equipped to dig out a suitable lair then work from home like it's 2020. :P It's *our actions in-game* that necessitate it take personal action in combat, for which it's (clearly) not designed or well suited. Why you think Mastermind's Theme bops so much harder? THAT'S the real high-tier Ceph combat unit, Alpha Ceph is just a pencil pusher... XD

30:00 actually, this is where I found the draw weight to be useful. Set it to heavy, and the ceph soldiers are downed with one shot.

Just a quick note; Prophet's reaction to being given the bow changes based on whether or not you did the prior section in stealth.

Graphically it still looks really good.

Crysis 3: 4 Years Later, 6 Years Later

What went wrong with Crysis. EA was behind it.

Honestly I loved Crysis 3. Combat was variable, it made you feel powerful and skilled, the Ceph and Cell were put down, Prophet completed his ongoing control of the nanites and it was a beautiful world.

Shiit, I watched your Crysis 2 video last night and was playing through Crysis 3 just a few hours ago. This is going to be a treat. Your Dark souls one was brilliant too, I love people who go in depth about games, especially the long form videos. Keep up the amazing work!

"It was loved by PC fans and hated by those with only one PC fan" Took me a few seconds but that line was gold

I think Crysis 1 has the best gameplay Crysis 2 with the best music And Crysis 3 with the best character development

"he aliens come back. Wow, who could have seen that coming? If only there was someone around here whose name means someone who predicts things!" An exert from Zero Punctuation.

Whitelight: it's Crysis anniversary, and it's the last time we remember it. Crytek: crysis 4

16:21 Fun fact, you don't have to go through that noisy door. there's a separate door that is already opened further on in the tunnel

All 3 of these games are freaking amazing. These older entries even look better than Halo Infinite

As someone who loved the Crysis franchise I thank you for making this series. These videos are what got me into your channel and I am looking forward to checking out more of your content. Great stuff, man, you've earned a sub!

I was watching this 10 minutes before work ends. I stayed at work to finish watching. Not many videos can do that. 10/10

Crysis 3 11 years later.

"Graphics can't carry a game." Crysis 3: *HOLD MY BOURBON*

Whitelight: it's Crysis anniversary, and it's the last time we remember it. Crysis: Remastered

4:53 and at this point the tears rolled out. You described this perfectly man. There is so much feeling in this series and particular game. When the music kicked in I just ouldn't hold it back hahaha

Still when you compare with latest call of duty games, win by the mile

I enjoyed this one hour of humorus well written critique on a game i struggled to put into words either. Thank you! All the passion you put into this video... Must have been a ton of work. Everythink u say lines up perfectly woth the shown video footage. This is some high quality work here.

The thing with god mode in the last mission is it really upped the feeling of being a perfect killing machine, but thats its downside, it eliminates the Human factor, which the story relies on. You are only human, and the god mode makes you feel more, a machine.

I really want to play Crysis now

I was sure I was on Raycevick's channel for a few minutes. The video title, kinda same production quality, similar writing style and hell, even the voice and emphasis of words fooled me. I'll finish this later, will watch Crysis 2's video first. Do you know Raycevick?

It’s still insane to me how good this game looks for 2013

"Crysis is loved by PC fans and hated by everyone with 1 PC fan." I got a good laugh out of that. - Subscribed

Wow, i never realized how good the first half is

Honestly, the Crysis series really does prove some controversial points incontrovertibly: taking a title, no matter how great or successful, and placing the console market as the primary focus will kill the game or series if originally on PC, greed and lacking or waning passion can cripple a game more than a lack of resources, and that there are times where despite the actual quality and substance of a game being the best in the market, you will still be ravaged by the casual majority who will prefer a simpler gameplay palette regardless of the cost. When Crysis 3 came out, people vastly preferred the simpler titles like Battlefield and CoD to Crysis due to its complexity and alien feel.

Not sure what's worse. The worst level in Crysis 3 or that fucking zero-gravity mission in Crysis 1.

dont get me wrong i love prophet, first game is the one the greatest. But with alcatraz, the series got something bigger theme wise, the darker shift it took, i loved it. And without being over the top. Crysis 2's story gave me the assurance that the franchise buliding direction is awesome. The gameplay being restrictive reflected the new themes, i didnt mind.The stark contrast from the warhead and the first game seemed logical since alcatraz wasnt trained like prophet was. But Crysis 3 jumped the shark, instead of building up and owning what crysis 2 did they doubled back down. I know it wasnt the game mechanics, but when i play as prophet there are no stakes. The dude is crazy strong, oh there are new aliens, bring them on. You always feel OP . And that is the major problem for me, along with all the stuff you said about simplifying the mechanics of the game. I know this game has been talked about till death. But, hope you read +whitelight. As someone who is playing this series from a very young age. Im 20 years old. peace ✌

Ive only played this game a few weeks ago for the first time, so its still fresh for me. loved you video, very good work!

Love the description, I know this is an old video, but you did an amazing work. Great insight and thoughts!

i loved Crysis 3. played it in one sitting with a head full of class A's.

50:45 "Conculsion" But aside from that, you just got a new subscriber, keep up your great uploads, no one got deep analysis into Crysis games as your videos so far

you can say whatever you want about these series. I loved the games and will never stop playing them. Imo it is just unreal how Crytek made this story so fking good. And then the gameplay and world design. Simply amazing

I just watched all of your Crysis videos and I have to say thank you. I was an avid fan of the original Crysis & Warhead. When Crysis 2 came out I was very excited but ultimately disappointed to the point that I didn't even bother trying Crysis 3. Thanks to your video, I decided to buy Crysis 3... I'm looking forward to giving it a try soon.

Even on ps3 it looks so good. One of my fav crysis games ever

It's crazy how the graphics of this game holds its own all these years later! Still one of the best looking games to date!

He made a one hour review on Crysis 3 and DIDN'T talk about the ost...

Thank you for doing all this work, Whitelight! While your video is not "perfect" it is a definitive 9/10. Keep up the great work :)

I really enjoyed this recap. Thank you for putting the time and effort into this production. You have helped me make a decision about getting into 3. I still play the original regularly. But I am yet to finish it.

"Pleasing fans of the first game" narrated over the top of someone punching a tortoise :)

You prolly wont see this since the video is old but here goes. Your conclusion on this series as a whole was fucking phenomenal. I absolutely loved the crisis games and I think I am going to rerun through them all again! Also I think what draws attention to ur channel (at least for me) is u have a much more human approach when doing your retrospectives/critiques. When i say this I mean you often walk the line of being serious while humerous. A lot of the channels that do these sorts of videos are too often robotic or harsh. Your tone of voice elevates to the emotion of what ur speaking/feel about and its what makes me constantly watch ur channel (when I have time as work can be demanding). I hope you continue what u are doing for the years to come and I hope that all is well on your side of things! 😁

I really wish you had played on super soldier difficulty, one of the very few times where the hardest difficulty is the best in my opinion. You die super quick, but the enemies do too. It makes you feel like an absolute badass by making you fragile, which sounds dumb but it's true. Dying so fast means you have to utilize everything at your disposal, which is obviously not unique to Crysis 3, but the main difference is that you can actually fight the enemies. It isn't unfair. You can't sustain heavy fire, but you don't die instantly. You have time to react and take action. There are so many systems that you ignore in the easier difficulties that you use on Super soldier. For example, grenades. I never used them because it was both faster and easier to shoot the enemy, but on super soldier they're safe damage, making enemies run from cover or killing outright. They also fixed hacking by making it really risky. I refer specifically to Cell missions here, because the other missions.... Yeah.

Crysis isn't a 3A game. It's a 5A game.

I must say, I've watched every crysis video you made and I'm right out astonished by the grade of profession you put in every single one. not even one of all the points you made were unnessesary or out of place. I've enjoied the bloody shite out of your videos and I am looking forward to you making more damn right quality content like this. Keep critiqing like you do and most of all... Thank you Sir!

CONCULSION: when the conclusion of a game gives you a concussion.

Not going to lie, it was worth my time. This video made me appreciate Crysis 3 so much more, but also understand why I had a hard time enjoying playing it. Excellent job!

I went into this video blindly and not knowing a damn thing about the game or even that it was an hour long until about 34 minutes in, but every second of it was absolutely fascinating to listen to. It's obvious there's a lot of thought put into what you do, and I dig it. You may have just secured a subscriber, my good man.

So this is the far cry 3 of crysis? I love it already, too bad it isn't on current gen consoles

RIP Crytek

Coming back to watch this for a third or fourth time reminds me why I'm subscribed to Whitelight. I may not watch all his content, and may not even like all his content, but he puts a lot of passion and work into it and I fucking respect that. Keep it up man.

Longest review I have ever watched so far. Totaly worth to stay until the end! Love it !!!!!

Yea I no, its ridiculous. The Alpha cepth could might as well been having shovels or cement-mixers !

Grats on slogging through the rendering issues! Hope the next video is easier on you.

I'm playing this with a RTX 2080 on ultra and this game still takes my gpu to task 6 years, most of the time I get 100 fps but when I do get 144fps it's a treat too bad we will never get a crisis 4 I love to see DXR on that game. I think it would melt a 2080ti

This being the first video from this channel I've seen... I'll have to say it's a very well written and presented in depth analysis using valid points and explanations to back up your opinions and observations. Some truly premium grade content that seems to be hard to come by on KZfaq nowadays, definitely worthy of a new subscriber. Keep up the brilliant work 👍

"The first half of the game was incredible. The second half of the game was awful". Crysis franchise described.

Nice video dude!

Just played through the single player yesterday with such conflicting emotions, was very happy to see that you already made a video out of it. It's really unique for me to have such a cool and then such a dreadful experience playing a game. I was actually relieved when it was over. Such a shame because there was lots of potential shown.

My God I think I just found a hidden Gem on this website. Great Video, you also hit the style of Raycevicks format really well without sounding like a 1:1 copy of him, really good job there

I like to think of Warface as a multiplayer-based sequel/spin-off. I think this because: A) The music shares a very similar style, and hell, it’s possible they could’ve remastered some obscure Crysis songs. B) It uses some modern-future elements, like the uniforms and weapons for modern, and same for future elements. C) You can even get the nanosuit, and with some modifications, like the Rifleman having a vest, Medic and Engineer classes will get different shapes of the helmets and visors, and the Sniper class has a leafless ghillie suit. D) It uses similar mechanics, such as customizing your guns on the fly, and also being able to select things with the D-Pad. E) It seems a lot like a sequel to Crysis 3, because there are no more things about aliens, obviously because they were obliterated. F) It also feels like a spin-off because you only play as a regular soldier, not a super soldier. Nano soldier? I can’t remember what they’re called. In a similar way of Halo 3 ODST, y’know what I mean? I just like to think of it this way. I understand that they are pretty much entirely different universes and the Nanosuits are just a reference to the Crysis series, but I like it.

In case you are wondering, the reason why there is a bow and why it's in the box artwork is because it was a popular weapon in games in 2013, for some reason. Tomb raider(2013), The last of us, just some examples. Though in those two years it had a storytelling excuse as you were scarce with supplies and had to conserve your items if you wanted to survive.

Wait are you literally just going to ignore the multiplayer? That is one of the main reasons why I even like crysis. I love the multiplayer.

I want "HE'S GOT DRILLS" on a T-shirt

Great video and awesome to see your progression as a critic. This really might be your best video yet compared to Minecraft and Battlefield 1 (which offer invaluable information, but the style was still too rough). On the topic of this game - it is such an awkward franchise. If anything, at the end it's a good lesson on how to make a franchise. The ego of the devs concieved it and killed it at the end. And I don't mean that in a negative way. If you have the means and the chance comes - you have to have an ego and try your best. And that's what Crytek did.

Freedoms is what makes the original Crysis successful, From Driving Cars, tanks, swimming, cutting Trees, shooting people, fighting Sharks, fighting Aliens, interaction with the environment plus the game play itself was so smooth and AMAZING. so yea.

@54:34 "Crysis 1 was the game loved by PC fans, and hated by everyone with only one PC fan." Golden content. Literally why I subscribe. Also for the analysis.

One of my favorite fps of all time its amazing !!!!!!!!! I highly recommend everyone to play crysis 1 2 and 3 in quick succession , the story is miles ahead of any other fps story. It is truly on of the greatest fps ever

You're entirely wrong about the God Mode and the Overpowered Suit. That is the Ultimate Factor of theese games. The fact that you are a Perfect, Cold, Hard, Logical (Killing) Machine and wipe out and entire alien invasion almost by yourself. But all that power comes at a great cost. Your Humanity. You can feel those two conflicting throughout the whole Game and in the final mission it is the machine side that is in control. "No... I'm not like you... Not like you, at all. I'm Better than you! Heh!" Best line I've ever heard. It's as if he accepts that he's on the same scale as the Alpha Ceph (An Inhuman Sinister Being) but at the same time vastly superior, kindah like an Anti-hero moment. You can feel Prophet going mental kindah like Hargreave in Crysis 2 due to the final conflict between him and the Alpha Ceph. And then when the fight is over and he gets launched off to space he snaps out of it and uses more courage than fearless Logical Machine Decision making to get to the Satellite. And then in the Island (That is Actually Lingshan btw) he lets go of his "Prophet" machine identity by throwing his Squad's Dog Tags into the sea. Honestly he's pretty much in denial at that point, I'd just embrace my machine-like state of mind... But that's just me. Infact I could even say this is my favourite mission of the Trilogy, even though my favourite one is 2 (I consider it my favourite game actually)... What can I say I'm a sucker for overpowered conflicted dramatic characters. Which is why I also like the Hulk (Preferable the 2003 one, although 2008 wasn't terrible), Ghost Rider, Symbiote Spider-man (Yes I liked Spider-man 3 and infact I could say it's my favourite of the Trilogy), Kratos (The old one not the soycucked babysitter), The Dark Prince from PoPTTT, Devil Jin and Bryan Fury from Tekken (well Bryan's pretty much just fucking sadistic and Deranged honestly XD) and the Doom Slayer as well but it was cooler back when it was implied that he was the Betrayer, his self Hatred (along with the obvious Hatred for Demons) would give meaning to his endless undying rage. It made him feel less human and more like a force of Nature. Now he's just Angry Man... Showing his face and him without the armor was also bad, along with "humanizing" the armor (Transparent Visor, Sleeveless, etc), the new Glory Kill Blade is badass tho and the new Glory Kills are much more brutal and less comedic than the original. Wow that's a long comment.

What a beautify crafted review you have given us. Thank you for pouring your heat and soul into this. I'd love to see more from you. Again, well done.

it was great game,the bow, the cloak, the soundtrack ,made it amazing

Loved both crysis 2 and 3. The multiplayer in 2 is one of the best online experiences I've ever had.

"This is Scoobydoo now."

"Crysis 3, 4 years later" 6 years later. Fick, i forgot this game

very well done. a lot of time, effort and work has gone into this video and it speaks volumes. excellent job. subbed

Crysis was by far the best franchise game I have ever played the story, music graphics were incredible it was underated in my opinion

28:17 I almost heard low-res buildings, deception of the ears

The thing is I love every aspect of Crysis 3, especially the Apha Ceph. My only issue is the last mission suck but the boss battle saved it for me. The ending cutscene where Prophet was in space literally got me emotional and felt like I'd lost everything, especially the Raptor Team. I do appreciate you making this video for it straightened my love for the game and understand why don't like it. It's always good to know different points of view.

Keep doing what you are doing man, this is phenomenal work and I appreciate someone like you taking the effort to produce quality like this so much.

That one PC Fan joke made me giggle. Great videos, watched all of them in order of game release.

Im hyped for getting a crysis 1 remaster tho.

Loved the detailed analysis. I especially liked that you also highlighted positive aspects of the game, not just bash it.

I still play the crisis games today. The old OG childhood old games still slap today.

loved the crysis 1, warhead was amazing....amazing nostalgia feels...

5minutes in. Not taking about the multiplayer? What it had amazing multiplayer when you could find a match... Loved it so much. But that's just me I guess

For me I actually played the trilogy in reverse. I played 3 first, and even though I was missing some information I was able to understand the story through context and info present in the game. After that played 2 and from what I remember from that time, my thought on it was that I had more fun in the 3rd one.

I was just looking for Crysis 3 gameplay and stumbled upon this. Used to play Crysis 2 back in the day and never tried 3. Thanks for a super informative video. There are many channels that take the time to create long, thought out videos. This one is no exception. Well worth a sub.

I remember liking all the crysis games but I can't remember anything specific about them. apart from the menu music in cyrsis 3 that was dope