Crysis 2 Is Better Than You Think (Story Explained)

well all right then I had a blast playing this again as despite it being at least a decade since I last went through it it didn't take long to get familiarized the suit has evolved from the last game's lean Sleek design to a beefier more imposing look and it continues to be objectively the coolest thing like go watch this trailer from 2011 and tell me it doesn't get you hyped I know that some people were not happy with the changes made to how the suit Works in this game anytime things are streamlined in games There is almost always someone out there yelling that the devs dumbed things down and I usually find that a very tiresome complaint I will however cut the capital G Gamers a little slack in that being able to manually increase your Baseline movement speed was a much better option over just turning the speed setting into a Sprint bar that drains suit energy I can also appreciate people who preferred the more open gameplay of the first game where you can pick and choose how you engage the enemy it does play differently the flow has become much more linear and action oriented this does not however mean you can't be stealthy in crisis 2 or that it isn't Fun quite the opposite but as with almost all my videos the gameplay isn't what we're here for so let's get into it shall we if you enjoy this video don't forget to like subscribe and hit hit that Bell icon to stay up to dat on all future uploads We Begin our journey with a news broadcast out of Manhattan because this densely populated island is a very convenient location for Riders to inflict containable chaos upon and that isn't a criticism that's a godsend riding is hard enough without having to think too much about logistics there's been an outbreak of some extraterrestrial sickness that gives people a nasty case of not being alive anymore after an extended period of slowly turning into a block of fleshy cheese someone left on the grill this has caused a little bit of unrest a little bit of rioting and a lot of private military company brutality taking over the streets of Manhattan to enforce order we cut to a submarine approaching the island and are introduced to team Omega 1 Marines who have been tasked with extracting Dr Nathan ghoul so much like the first game we're being sent to rescue a nerd and much like the first game I'm sure the will go very smoothly with no hitches bumps or horrifying symbiotic suits growing into our fatal wounds so anyway the only people who actually matter here are Chino sitting next to us and alcatra the protagonist and while he's the silent type I appreciate the game offering not one but two explanations as to why he almost never talks in the beginning this is because he's massively hung over on tequila the drink of masochists and later on is because of extensive lung damage how does that happen well just when the team is told to get ready the sub is attacked and we're forced to flee through flooding corridors swimming from a sinking metal tomb out into the Open Grave of the Hudson where the Marines are massacred by a massive alien gunship emerging from the water beneath them everyone is shot to pieces and that includes us floating in the water slipping in and out of Consciousness we see a black suited Soldier fending off the Airship with a massive gun it's Prophet he's still alive and apparently we were meant to be supporting for to help him help Gould cryptically reading off his name Prophet tells Alcatraz it'll be up to him now he drags the Marine away to an abandoned building skins himself out of the Nano suit puts the mostly dead soldier inside asks Alcatraz to remember him and promptly ventilates his brain case to sever his connection to the suit whatever happened to hi hello how are you he does this because he's sick with the Manhattan virus a deadly alien Spore proliferating throughout the island and he is too messed up to continue his mission so his only hope is that some poor half-dead Marine doing their best impression of meat stew in a thermos flask can drag his carcass around New York long enough for the suit to develop some kind of counter agent it's just the fate of all Humanity son no pressure or anything stumbling around like a fresh baby horse through dead victims of the virus and executed doctors alike alcatra emerges into the daylight to find that even though there are aliens currently decimating New York he is Enemy Number One for celling KET enforcement and local Logistics this is the private military company enforcing order through Manhattan and is controlled by KET the company responsible for creating the Nano suits the problem is that profit may have done a little [ __ ] Wy and gotten himself an express pass to the forever box courtesy of cell and it would have been really Cash Money of him to mention that since he just shoved alcatra inside his suit without mentioning he wasn't going to be around anymore to the people he's working with and it's not like Alcatraz can tell them because he literally can't talk thanks profit tasked with finding gold Alcatraz can either sneak his way through the area or fight The Mercenaries trying to kill him the choice of how to engage is still yours despite what detractors might say are the levels Less open yeah can you still decide how to proceed yes are you wrong for preferring the first game over this one not at all I just wish you didn't pretend the second half of the first game didn't exist when talking about the direction the series went because the alien [ __ ] has always been there gold gets contact and gives us directions to his location leading us on a lovely walk through the subway system so we can see all the infected folk slowly melting into miserable piles of wet fleshy suffering they're down here because cell are starting to purge anyone who shows signs of infection which is what left all those bodies back in the warehouse they've given up on evacuation and are shooting on site which goes double for us because we're apparently an active biohazard but commander lockart who is in charge of cell also lost a nephew to the Nano suit program and profit took out a bunch of cell members getting to this point and that made them mad so who's to say why they're really after us with this much venom unfortunately the Subways are a great place for flesh sucking alien mosquitoes to make their nest and I know the first game had just a tiny hint of body horror but crisis took that hint planted it and let it grow like uncontrolled Garden mint because this this wet sheet of bulging weeping flesh sloughing out of this guy's shirt this suck sucks we're sidetracked from linking up with G by an alien ship crashing nearby where he has us fight to get inside it and perform some science G believes he can find a solution to our alien Spore problem if we got our slightly dead hands on some alien tissue samples the thing is upon scanning the suspicious pink flesh oozing out of the very clearly alien ship it comes back as human in origin and shortly after we're attacked by exoit wearing squid inventory with bodies that look suspiciously similar to that flushy pink oo the robot mosquitoes were gathering from humans slowly melting thanks to the molecular breakdown caused by the Manhattan virus H one of the alien soldiers tries to give alcatra a cheeky wee injection but the suit rejects it for lacking the right Vibes thankfully we're able to acquire some alien tissue after dispatching these new enemies and the Nano suit absorbs it unlocking the ability to gather Nano Catalyst from dead aliens so we can upgrade the suit this also triggers a fail safe laying dormant in the suit's Deep layers that Gould is very eager to SC scan I don't think any of this is healthy but Alcatraz is pretty screwed either way so give me that delicious sparkling catalyst so I can muffle my goddamn footsteps genuine question how many people actually unlocked and used the air friction or ground stomp modules I never found them worth it personally but on the way to Gold's lab we overhear a conversation between commander lockart and Tara Strickland the latter of which is the daughter of late major Strickland who perished in the first game and she also works for cell Lockard is aggressive and belligerent about killing profet even though it would legitimately be better if they captured Propet alive because last time I checked corpses can't really divulge a lot of information after you have just put around through their moist memory banks he isn't here to be a complex character though he's here to be the unreasonable military antagonist and he fits that perfectly which I'd focus more on if they didn't end the conversation in the funniest possible way where lockart shrieks this conversation is over before they both have to sit next to each other on the helicopter and pretend they weren't just arguing anyway gold has to fall back from his lab to a nearby apartment for safety which would be fine if the dweebus hadn't left the address on his computer so we still swing through the lab to deal with that before finally meeting up with him in person he has an old suit Cradle to scan us with and it's here someone finally realizes we aren't profit which unfortunately does result in G having to see someone he knows ventilate their own brain pan nonetheless he bounces back from the shock fairly quick and devises a new plan to investigate what's going on on in the suit's Deep layers since it seems to be awfully familiar with the alien chemistry enough so that g figures its creating a vaccine against the seph's viral spores his suit cradle lacks the processing power to scan our deepest depths so after dealing with a squad of cell soldiers were sent scurrying to a command post on Wall Street where we can find a nice crisp up-to-date Cradle to see just what the hell is going on down there oh no way man ballistic trauma to hearten both lungs lookss like the right ventricle took most of the damage there lungs ruptured at multiple locations broken ribs at I'll take your pick third fourth fifth got a flail chest segment right there extensive pulmonary bruising more ballistic trauma to the sternum the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae he's a corpse walking Gould without the suit look at that it's like it's growing into the wounds the answer to which is what if we turned a life support system into symbiotic military hardware that grows into someone's open wounds to keep them alive and eats up their less critical organs to do so which isn't really an answer so much as another question with horrifying results now the other injuries listed are pretty straightforward the heart and lungs were ruptured by gunfire the ribs are broken bruising on the lungs as if the ruptures weren't enough shattered sternum and spinal cord damage but you might be wondering KH what's a flail chest segment this is when the ribs have broken in such a way that they've become completely detached from the rest of the rib cage and are just kind of sitting there in the flesh waiting to be sliced out like a readymade rack of ribs all this means that our boy Alcatraz is alive only so long as the suit remains powered and functional and the way this is used later in the game is kind of gut-wrenching because this guy was just a normal Marine before this happened he wasn't expecting to get shot to pieces on arrival he didn't ask to be saved like this and by the end of it all it doesn't even do that much but we'll get to that the Deep layer scan is interrupted by Commander lockart busting in slamming G's head into a wall and almost putting a round into Alcatraz before Tara stricklands talks him down taken into cell custody the suit is powered down and Alcatraz is forced to get up and walk under his own strength with all the physical damage we just went over and none of the report he gets from the suit as soon as it's taken away we hear him struggle to breathe taking panicked shallow wheezes and when he walks it's slow unsteady and his vision is blurring colors are bleeding into each other the edges are fading in and out of Darkness all the while lockart snarls at his back shoving and kicking the clearly unwell alcatra down the hall as we listen to Strickland and G snipe at each other ahead of us she's been calm the few times we've seen her so far but a jab about how disappointed her late father would be to see her working for cell get to grow shut your [ __ ] mouth out of her now we've been seeing severe seismic activity throughout the game and Quake strong enough to unsettle buildings and collapse Bridges which is very unusual for New York and the US East Coast in general and if you cast your mind back to the first game you'll remember that the aliens were initially hidden inside a mountain before busting out of there and causing many tons of rock to Tumble off like gravel boy I wonder where the aliens are coming from this time just as the helicopter carrying alcatra lifts off an alien Spire bursts out from the ground and cancels the life subscription of everyone still nearby with a burst of glittering black spores I hate it when that happens this does allow the suit to get a nice close scan of the Spore at least and and then the game gives you the prompt activate defibrillator as horrifying as these moments are I love them for bringing you down to this level of mortal fragility Al kraz is actively dying he should be dead he's a Walking Corpse only functional and upright because this hijacked alien Tech suit is growing into his body through open wounds for most of the game you are a powerful nigh Unstoppable force to be reckoned with and very little puts up enough challenge to risk ending this journey then and there but these scenes where you are actively trying to get his heart pumping again in spite of all the damage his body body has suffered brings you back down to earth you are not invulnerable nor Unstoppable and with a simple loss of power Alcatraz is sent right back to the beginning of the game breathless limp and watching the color fade from his world until his heart is kicked back to life and he can drag himself away from the danger one of prophet's memories surface and shows us flashes of the first game while harrie talks to him telling him to report back on what he saw and bring back samples if he can har grief knew the SEF were there and sent prophet's team in to recover data we finally wake up to see some wet and nasty robot mosquito on melted corpse action and find that Mr John Nanos suit himself has made contact with Alcatraz harrie directs us to City Hall where people are being evacuated by the American Military remarking along the way that the seph are exemplary for their efficient and environmentally sound method of extermination unfortunately for us the dod is going to flood Lower Manhattan by blowing a dam so we hurry on through an Alien Hive over the shattered streets of New York and under the ever increasing shadow of exposed alien architecture until we reach another Spore Spire where the seph airships are docking shoving our whole fist into three very spicy Spore slots allows us to enter the main shaft itself and it almost seems like the suit is going to interface properly with the alien glitter Cloud only for alcatra to get unceremoniously yeed with no more time for science experiments harrie said sends a helicopter to pick us up before the dam is blown but we get there just in time to be washed down the street like an empty soda can while Alcatraz is knocked out the suit continues working on the Spore data and we eventually come to hearing the voice of Chino from the beginning who somehow survived that mess without anywhere near as much damage fighting through an obscene amount of [ __ ] we end up at the hogri rash building to retrieve stabilizing agent so the suit can finish developing its countermeasure against the seph we blast our way into the garage fight through more belligerently vindictive cell soldiers matter that you won't just lie down and die when they attack you and make it to the security desk right in front of a very big glass wall that once upon a time must have led a lot of lovely sunlight into the building but right now is barely holding back the sea water that just flooded in lockart pops up to ruin our day with an ambush and the force of the fighting causes that glass to finally buckle and flush us out of the building harri leaves to have a slap fight with lockart and with no other options we link up again with Chino and the rest of the Marines at Grand Central Station Colonel Barkley is in charge of the Marine forces here and while he's trying to evacuate the remaining uninfected civilians this is somewhat hampered by the SEF sending adorable little love TAPS in the form of heavy artillery we helped bring down a building to block the line of fire and make our way down to the trains to speak with the colonel passing by all the civilians waiting for evacuation the virus remains an everpresent threat as one man demands to be led in to see his wife and is denied on the grounds that despite looking unmelted she she's in the early stages of infection and they can't risk it we also see some cell soldiers being held prisoner and we learn that at some point orders were handed down to disarm them on site one of them argues to be given a gun so he can help defend the station and that he should be trusted because he used to be part of the US military this doesn't work however and he's soundly rejected by the Marine standing nearby because working for a private military company is bad and how dare you as if serving in the nation's military is really all that morally superior but right at this specific moment in time we're evacuating innocent civilians so ride that high horse while you can buddy somehow G escaped from Tara Strickland which Barkley privately believes was done purposefully on Strickland's part because she used to be a Navy SEAL he also just airs her personal business out to Alcatraz explaining that she took her father's death badly enough to get a dishonorable discharge thanks to alcohol and drug abuse moving on from the character drama we head topside to defend the station from waves of enemies including an alien tripod called a pinger Which is my least favorite enemy in the game thanks to how much Firepower is needed to bring it down and I'm sure the comment section is about to be riddled with absolute [ __ ] nerds who can't wait to tell me that they never had a problem with the Walkers just like they never had a problem with the helicopters in the first game congratulations here's a sticker anyways the trains finally depart and we race out there to avoid being crushed under a falling building the driver briefly stops when the husband from before Flags us down trying to get his infected wife to safety the this scene sucks but in a good way because the driver stopped he didn't just keep going or run the guy over in a rush to escape they are so close to being safe but the wife's legs are pinned the husband is desperately trying to get her free the building is getting closer and closer to complete collapse there is there's just not enough time and we have to leave them behind to be crushed along with anyone else who was lucky enough to still be down there now seeing as this game is set in New York City it's pretty much legally obligated to have at least one level that takes place in a wrecked Time Square and we do just that fighting off waves of Seth to make sure secondary evacuations for the Marine forces can take place after fending off the squids harrie finally gets into contact again at the same time another Spore spear erupts from the ground we enter the glittering cloud of human dissolving nightmares allowing the suit to finally complete its analysis and turn the imminent four blast against the Seth making them burst like swollen fleshy water balloons however this does lead to another sequence where you need to actively Force Alcatraz his heart to keep going and you get to watch his arm Flinch and convulse against the ground with each pulse and dear Lord this man needs a rest while the smaller seph died immediately there was a walker that tanked the blast and is about to send Alcatraz to the Big Sleep only for Barkley to swoop in giving him the chance to fling himself into the veto were then promptly flung back back out of the VL into the East River so we can link up with har grief at the prism a secure facility on Rosevelt Island now the island is absolutely covered in cell soldiers but at this point I've snorted so much alien glitter that it's hardly an issue lockart plans to catch alcatra like a fly in a bug zapper but because his sneaky EMP blast is hooked up to the nearby power station for juice har helps us circumvent that trap with the highly Advanced technique known as have you tried turning it on and off again allowing us to slip past all the Commander's bullheaded plans and finally throw him through a bulletproof window to his death Rest In Pieces you hard-headed Dingus we finally head into the prism to meet with harri and and he's the one who hits us with an EMP trap son of a [ __ ] we see Tara Strickland March in to check that Alcatraz is down before blacking out whereupon the suit systems work frantically to get us out of this situation this leads to something in the Deep layers activating and we see a digit Recreation of prophet's face speaking to Alcatraz yelling at him to wake up in the same voice the suit has been using this entire time just computerized in the first game you could switch between a male and female suit voice but in crisis 2 that option was removed and this is why profet is still in there or at least a copy of him is still in there driving us forward with our mission against the Seth alcatra comes to being wheeled into an operating theater delightfully called a skinning lab where a nano suit can be removed you may be wondering why they need a dedicated lab for this when profet could just shuck himself like a high-tech oyster the main difference is that profet was wearing a special layer underneath the suit to keep it from physically bonding to him Alcatraz was put in there without that layer and with dozens of open wounds the suit is actively growing into so this is going to suck harrie plans to wear the suit himself so he can deal with the Seth because he's under the belief that he's the only competent person here even though the Practical option would be to just continue guiding this highly effective soldier with your knowledge and expertise from the safety of whatever bunker you occupy sir between flashes of surgical Agony we get flashes of profit talking to harri about the Seth in which he realizes that the old man knew exactly what he was sending prophet's team into on lingshang and used them like guinea pigs he wanted to see what would happen and two of prophet's men died he knew the suits were symbiotic and would render a normal life impossible he refutes Dead Men Walking in favor of post-human Warriors as if that overcomes the complete lack of empathy or morals in doing this without the informed consent of the people who would be subjected to it the Rage of this memory causes the suit to reject the procedure and we briefly hear it talk like profit again just as the cell soldiers are about to execute alcatra Tara Strickland comes in with a steel chair to rescue us revealing herself to be CIA and the one behind the order to support profit and Gould the reason Alcatraz was even on that sub at the beginning getting us on our feet she sends us after horor grief to bring him in for questioning as he has critical information on the Seth this turns out to not be so much difficult as impossible because har grieve is a really big fan of Mr house from Fallout New Vegas and had himself pickled the things we do for cosplay at this point he recognizes Alcatraz is the best shot he has it striking a blow against the seph and unlocks a syringe of science juice he calls the Tusa iteration the seph are this setting's explanation for the tunguska event and harrie has been around since then which is why he decided to put himself on ice so he would be here long enough to figure out a solution to this impending Invasion because it isn't just lingshan or tunguska the SEF have buried strongholds all over the planet including under New York City the owners are coming back to spring clean the old Family Residence he says and they don't much like what they found festering behind the fridge the seph bust in and we make ourselves scarce while harrie sets the facility to self-destruct and gives out a final order to all cell Personnel informing them that Lockard is a wet pancake and they have to help the guy who killed him or aliens will melt them into protein sludge what a day they're having escaping the explosion we link up with Gould and Strickland and the suit finishes installing the tunguska iteration meaning we have everything we need to finish this we head to Central Park where the main SP Spore regulator is and on the way learn that the Pentagon are planning to drop a tactical nuke on Manhattan yes because that went so well last time regardless Barkley manages to scramble some air support and we're going to need it because Central Park is how would a just put it no longer attached to the ground thanks to the gigantic seph structure underneath deciding it needs some fresh air with only 20 minutes before the nuke is set to launch we fight through the crumbling remains of the park and an obscene of [ __ ] up to an including a squad of invisible stab HBY little shits before Alcatraz is finally able to enter the regulator inside the suit surface degrades Burns and peels fighting to stay functional against the overwhelming force of the spores here Alcatraz slowly works his way forward activating the suit's armor again and again only to have it eaten away each time until he's forced to his hands and knees he keeps going his hands bursting into flames and black smoke crawling forward one agonizing step at a time until he finally enters the eye of the storm it fades to Black and we're suddenly face to face with profit who remarks he's surprised he's still here too but the suit changes everything he shows us the map of the world again with points of red where the seph have left behind massive litho ships and we hear the suit say assimilation complete the Spore regulator explodes in a wave of glittering white instantly wiping out all Seth forces in Manhattan both above ground and Below ending The Invasion several days pass and we see people beginning to reclaim the city with military forces flying into help and profet narrates that winning today doesn't mean the war is over and that he and Alcatraz don't get to die before it's done Alcatraz wakes up in the remains of Central Park to the voice of KL Ernst rash the man who founded the Nanos suit company with harri all those years ago asking for his name and for the first time in the game he speaks They Call Me Prophet so what the hickey heck just happened there exactly what it looks like prophet's personality took over and is now piloting alcatra as Corpse inside the suit which is growing into his meat like so many roots from a tree [ __ ] horrifying I love it now the point of these videos is to look at the story as presented in a given game without having to rely on outside material like books or comics and in certain cases that LE Lees me in a bind because important context or events are thrown into auxiliary media I.E why a hero in the first game is a villain in the second game is only explained in a comic rather than the main form of media players are going to engage with this series through however the novelization of this game written by Peter Watts crisis Legion goes into more detail about what happened and I highly recommend it if you're a fan of these games there isn't actually a lot that I would change about this game story because I was okay with it turning in this direction I understand why people preferred crisis when it was Hightech stealth Action in the jungle so they don't really care for the second half of the game but I also don't think that crisis would be nearly as distinct without the overwhelming Cosmic horror of being invaded by aliens who are to us what we are to ant I've seen people lament the direction the series took with crisis 2 but again in my opinion this usually seems to come from people who only enjoyed the first crisis until aliens got involved and and I'm sorry but that's that's what crisis is we [ __ ] around with Hyper Advanced alien technology and now we're finding out because the aliens who made it have us in their sights oh [ __ ] oh no the only other series that I think captured this specific flavor of cosmic horror was Mass Effect at least before the curtain was unceremoniously ripped away at the end of three but let's ignore that for a moment the reapers are unknowable colossal sensient machines and the very first time you speak to one in the series all of your ability to charm convince or control a conversation just Falls completely flat for once this thing is immune to even the possibility of considering what you want as a living breathing creature it barely registers you as something worth taking note of and it refuses to explain its motives it's that feeling of coming up against something that is so far above us on the cardish of scale that what we struggle to fight in crisis 2 is essentially automated garden tools that sudden L had to adapt and learn how to fight because they found a really aggressive nest of termites that's why they had humanoid units all of a sudden compared to the Flying Scout drones in the first game why they were firing projectiles and had humanlike tactics these weren't military machines with soldiers in them these were [ __ ] lawnmowers with wetwear CPUs mirroring us because they didn't know how to fight otherwise they weren't programmed for that like imagine realizing that you just barely survived an alien an invasion you pulled through by the skin of your teeth because one poor Undead [ __ ] in a super suit flung himself into the bioweapon that was about to kill you all and you find out that what nearly wiped you out was the alien equivalent of a Roomba so I can't wait to see what happens to us in Crisis 3 with that we are done with crisis 2 and since I don't really have a lot to add or change about what happened in this game there isn't going to be a storyboard video we're going to cover another small game sent to me through steam's curator connect instead May is also just around the corner and I intend to share some mildly spicy Star Wars thoughts so look forward to that if you enjoyed this don't forget to like subscribe and drop a comment if you have a game you'd like to inflict on me special shout outs to my supporters on patreon 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Channel: Khanlusa

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Keywords: story, plot, summary, explained, video game, writing, video game storytelling, plot analysis, gaming narratives, story-driven games, video game analysis, storytelling in gaming, video game plots, video game critique, game story breakdown, storytelling analysis, video game lore, crysis 2, crysis legion, Crytek, Peter Watts, crysis 2 story explained, crysis prophet, crysis alcatraz, crysis 2 plot, crysis 2 ending, crysis lore

Id: PrrYNA0Y5Ik

Length: 30min 42sec (1842 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 23 2024