Players take on the role of Prophet as he returns to New
York in 2047, 24 years after the events of Crysis 2.
He discovers the city has been encased in a giant Nanodome created by the
corrupt CELL corporation. The New York City Liberty Dome is a veritable urban
rainforest teeming with overgrown trees, dense swamplands and raging rivers.
Within the Liberty Dome, seven distinct and treacherous environments become
known as the Seven Wonders. Prophet is said to be on a "revenge
mission" after uncovering the truth behind CELL's motives for building the
quarantined Nanodomes. The citizens were told that the giant citywide
structures were erected to protect the population and to clean these
metropolises of the remains of the Ceph forces. In reality, the Nanodomes are
CELL's covert attempt at land and technology grab in their quest for global
domination by means of debt enslavement.
24 years after the events of Crysis 2, Prophet's
personality and memories stored in Nanosuit assimilates with Alcatraz's body
along with Alcatraz's memories, replacing Alcatraz's consciousness 'like a
spare part' in the process. Prophet now knows that he died by shooting himself
and is now back from the memories stored in the Nanosuit. Joining with Psycho,
his teammate from the first Crysis and
a team of elite Nanosuit soldiers, he travels around the world looking for the
Alpha Ceph, the ultimate Ceph leader, from the knowledge he gained about Ceph.
One by one his teammates lose interest in the hunt believing that all Ceph are
destroyed, until Prophet and Psycho finally trace the Alpha Ceph in Russia and
imprison it. But, shortly afterwards, CELL, now in search for global domination
of land and technology, disable Prophet using powerful EMP weapons in Siberia,
captures all the remaining Nanosuit soldiers, and start skinning them of their
suits so as to learn or recover the Ceph genetics stored in them. Everyone
involved in the Nanosuit program were either recruited or detained by CELL,
including Scientists Nathan Gould from Crysis 2 and Claire
Fontanelli. However, CELL runs out of Nanosuit soldiers to skin for alien material
that integrated with their suits, so they transfer Prophet to the facility as
requested, to skin him. Locked in a storage device with powerful EMP shocks to
keep him dormant, Prophet is transported to New York, now encased within a
giant "Nanodome" by CELL.
However, Karl Ernst Rasch, using Ceph technology had
extended his lifespan and comes to know about the corrupt intention of CELL. He
resigns as the head of Hargreave-Rasch Biotechnologies, removes all the
research done by him and Hargreave on Ceph technology to stop CELL from
acquiring it and secretly releases a brief video of Prophet's where-abouts,
describing the post scenario conditions after invasion of New York and the
evolution of Ceph, thus requesting the local resistance (led by Claire) to free
Prophet as he is the only Nanosuit holder left who can stop CELL and put an end
to their corrupt motives. He then himself joins the resistance. Members of the
resistance, including former Nanosuit soldiers Psycho, Lazy Dane and Bandit,
infiltrate the dock area and are able to free Prophet from the transport ship,
which has now docked at the New York nanodome.
Psycho explains to Prophet that during his 20 year absence,
CELL used Ceph technology to generate unlimited free energy. Eventually, CELL
became a mega corporation and gained a monopoly over the world's power supply,
and so used it to drive everyone into debt. Those who could not pay for the
energy were sent to "volunteer camps" (slavery). A resistance
movement formed in response to this. The resistance eventually freed Psycho
from the skinning labs, and he joined their ranks. Tara Strickland from Crysis
2 also helps the resistance politically as a senator, but is unable to
do much due to CELL's political dominance. The source of CELL's power generation
for the entire world, called System X, is also located in the abandoned and
encased New York. Since the Nanodome was to keep the city empty and
non-functional, NY has now grown into a jungle populated by wildlife and feral
Ceph Stalkers, due to a lack of urbanization. Psycho wants System X destroyed
to free the world from CELL. Prophet, though worried about his visions of the
Alpha Ceph showing him the end of the world, agrees.
Psycho and Prophet enter the dome, fighting through CELL
forces and some feral Ceph Stalkers living in the fields.They reach the
resistance headquarters, where they meet Karl Ernst Rasch and Claire. Rasch
tries to convince Claire that Prophet is what the resistance needs to finally
overthrow CELL. Despite affirmations from Psycho, with whom she seems to have a
special relationship, Claire is skeptical of Prophet because of the extensive
modifications in his suit, the integration of Ceph genetic material, and the
deep integration with his suit. Eventually, Claire agrees.
Psycho and Prophet's first target is the outer defenses of
System X, a device with infinite power production capacity, but for some
reason, CELL chose to generate power through a hydroelectric dam. Prophet
hypothesizes that CELL does this because it fears something about System X.
Prophet continues to have visions, but successfully destroys the dam and then
disables System X 's power production core, Nexus facility. As it turns out,
System X is the Alpha Ceph. A system protocol designed to contain the Alpha
Ceph when required activates but fails, leading to the initiation of a
secondary defense protocol, causing the whole power facility to self-destruct.
The Alpha Ceph, free from containment, now enables a hidden Ceph structure
inside the Nanodome to fire a beam into the atmosphere to open a wormhole to
the Ceph home world in the M33 Galaxy. Through this wormhole, they plan to send
an invasion force to invade Earth, revealing that invasion was their true
motive for arriving on Earth millions of years ago. With the Alpha Ceph no
longer dormant, the Ceph coordinator, or Hivemind, reactivates, and a
coordinated Ceph attack ensues. Prophet decides to kill the Alpha Ceph and end
the alien threat once and for all.
Prophet learns that he must unlock his suit to its full
potential by removing some neural blocks in his head to defeat the Ceph.
Prophet and Psycho head to the skinning laboratory to use the cradle to do
this. At the facility, they see firsthand the atrocities visited upon the
Nanosuit soldiers by CELL. Psycho uses the cradle to remove the neural blocks,
and also the limitations of the nanites in the suit. Now, the nanites will be
able to transform into anything as it has no limitations. Psycho does more
digging into his past, despite orders from Claire. He discovers that it was
Claire who had skinned him and the others at the behest of CELL, also
explaining why she was skeptical of Prophet's suit. Upset, Psycho rebuffs
efforts from Claire and Prophet to console him. Claire pleads that he was the
reason she joined the resistance, and that she had no other choice. Prophet
also claims that he had no other choice, and that he told him what he needed to
know at the time of the Lingshan Incident. Psycho finds this unacceptable, as
everyone has a choice. He hands Prophet the dogtags of the men that died under
his command, Aztec and Jester during the original Crysis and
"Cupcake" during the Alpha Ceph hunting mission between Crysis
2 and 3, and leaves.
Prophet learns that because the Alpha Ceph is controlling
the Ceph structure for creating a wormhole, CELL plans to use Archangel, a
satellite-based energy distribution device that can draw power from the entire
world's power grid, as a directed energy weapon to destroy all of New York and
hopefully the Alpha Ceph. Unfortunately, firing it at the Alpha Ceph and New
York would cause a chain reaction that would destroy Earth. To make matters
worse, the Ceph attack Claire and the resistance. Prophet races to rescue them,
but the situation is so dire that Claire tells him to leave them, as they are
only holding him back. Psycho shows up with a VTOL and rescues the resistance.
They proceed to the Archangel control facility where they shut off the weapon
before it unleashes enough energy to fire. Rasch is recovered in the facility,
but he is now under control of the Alpha Ceph since he used Ceph technology to
expand his life. He disables Prophet and tries the same on Psycho, but Claire
blocks his attack and Psycho shoots Rasch. No longer under control, Rasch
implores the group to leave as the Alpha Ceph renews its attack. Prophet,
Psycho, and the injured Claire board the VTOL and engage in a massive air
battle with Ceph ships, eventually crashing. Claire, succumbing to her injuries,
is forgiven by Psycho and dies. Psycho laments to Prophet that he is powerless
because he does not possess a Nanosuit. Prophet fights with Psycho, revealing
that Rasch was only able to incapacitate Prophet because as he was wearing the
nanosuit, and that they only survived because of Psycho as he was not wearing a
nanosuit. Psycho, now going by his human name Michael, resolves to do the
slaughtering and finds another VTOL to take the battle and Prophet to the Ceph.
After taking down the Air Defense Battery Turret, Michael
and Prophet head towards the Alpha Ceph, but are bogged down by the Ceph Master
Mind. Shortly after killing the Ceph Master Mind, the Ceph Wormhole structure
gets stronger sucking everything around it while Prophet gets stuck underground
due to debris. From there Prophet finds his way through hordes of Ceph Army and
kills the Alpha Ceph with the help of Michael. Since Alpha Ceph controls every
single Ceph, its death kills all other Ceph troopers in the area. As they only
destroyed the Alpha Ceph and didn't have enough time to destroy the Ceph
wormhole structure which is now fully functional, the beam powering the
wormhole pulls Prophet into space. Now in orbit around Earth, Prophet sees a
massive Ceph warship, similar to the one in the first Crysis,
coming through the wormhole. His suit heavily damaged, Prophet almost gives up,
but pushes on. Recalling Archangel's immense power, Prophet hacks into the
satellite and uses it to destroy the Ceph warship. This collapses the wormhole
and ends the threat of invasion. In the explosion, Prophet is knocked off by
the debris and is pushed back into the earth's atmosphere. He impacts the
waters near the Lingshan Islands where 27 years ago, the events of Crysis took
place, and the Ceph were first discovered by Prophet and his former team.
When Prophet wakes up the next morning, he is in an
abandoned hut in Lingshan. In the background, there is a news broadcast of
Senator Tara Strickland who announces that the remaining assets of the CELL
corporation have been frozen and seized as part of the global recovery effort.
As the neural blocks are removed from the Nanosuit to destroy the Alpha Ceph,
the nanites in the suit can now rearrange to anything imaginable, thus making
the Nanosuit more symbiotic than ever. It changes its outer layer to reform
Prophet's former physical body, technically resurrecting him. Prophet then
grabs the dog-tags of his deceased squad members thinking how much he
sacrificed his humanity and his own body in the quest for victory . He walks
out to the beach and throws the tags into the water, and decides to use his
actual name "Laurence Barnes" from now onwards. Barnes then walks
back towards the hut, cloaks and says "My name is Laurence Barnes. They
called me Prophet. Remember me." The camera zooms out, revealing the hut and
surrounding area to be identical to that initially encountered by Nomad during
the first Crysis.
In a post credits scene, two frightened CELL troopers and
three frazzled men hurriedly retreat down a corridor. They are being attacked
and pursued by an unknown enemy accompanied by strange sounds. It is revealed
that the three men comprise the CELL board of directors. The CELL troopers turn
around and are shot. The three nervous men turn to find Michael (Psycho)
sitting at the desk. He claims to have had spent some time at one of their
hospitals, and he wants to 'file a complaint'.
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