

Speed and Jump are still optional skills, but they activate automatically when the player dashes or holds down the jump button. The suit can be further customized with various modules that provide specialized powers. A cloak grants invisibility and silences sound, while Armor increases protection. Aside from the usual Weapon mode, the two main modes available to players are Cloak and Armor.

The original game’s four modes for the case have been reduced to two. The suit has a limited amount of energy and must be recharged regularly. In addition to melee attacks (stomping, kicking, punching) and many weapons and explosives, the game’s commercial phrase “Be the Weapon” strongly emphasizes the nano suit’s skills. Most of the game is spent fighting through the city, but there are also tiny sections where you can drive a car. Crynet pursues Barnes since he is an active biohazard due to the infection and has expressed dissatisfaction with the adverse effects of wearing the suit. soldiers, who mistake him for Barnes due to the costume. He gives it to Alcatraz, who then has to deal with the Ceph and C.E.L.L. During an early mission, Alcatraz finds himself alone and encounters the infected central, Laurence Barnes, who owns an updated 2.0 version of the case. Alcatraz was sent initially as a regular marine as part of C.E.L.L., Crynet’s private military outfit that developed the nano suit. Simultaneously, the city is infested with the extraterrestrial race Ceph, also present in the previous game. After an outbreak of the Manhattan virus, which causes cellular breakdown, New York City has been devastated and is mainly under martial law. The player takes on the role of Alcatraz, a force recon marine not the same as the protagonist from the first game.

Many essential elements from its predecessor are reused, with one notable exception: the game shifts away from the jungle environment on a tropical island, which was also featured in Crytek’s previous title Far Cry, to a darker urban warfare setting set in the destroyed cityscape of a future New York City in 2023, three years after the events of the first game. It is a first-person shooter in which the standard weapons are upgraded with a nano suit that grants new skills, similar to the original game. Crysis 2 is the sequel to Crysis and the series’ second main title, following the original title and the stand-alone expansion Crysis: Warhead.
