It seems u guys did not notice that in the new "be strong" trailer the man who is taking about the nanosuit says:"only you can finish what i started OVER A CENTURY AGO"

one century, 100 years?

possibilities:
1) the guy lived an extra ordinarily long life (living to 100 is nothing new but he started something 100 years ago. so he must be even older)
2) there is a mistake and he should have said half a century or something
3) technology allowed him to live longer (nano machines improve body or what ever, similar to nano machines in crysis 1 that helped in speed mode (see old crysis 1 trailers if you don't know about these))
4) i have bad ears

It is obvious of course Crysis 2 takes place a century later after the the Original Crysis. SO there for the narrator in the trailer is more than likely Nomad.

The Nanosuit must have had some sort of aging affect on the human body / DNA

But the main character is Alcatraz. Gah when is Crytech going to tell us about Alcatraz!!!!!!!!!!

Many of you are taking the person talking is a recording left behind....you are making conjecture. Infact the Video seems to be a live broadcast in real time at the event of it being seen and listend to by Alcatraz who is being introdcued to the new Nanosuit

It seems u guys did not notice that in the new "be strong" trailer the man who is taking about the nanosuit says:"only you can finish what i started OVER A CENTURY AGO"

one century, 100 years?

possibilities:
1) the guy lived an extra ordinarily long life (living to 100 is nothing new but he started something 100 years ago. so he must be even older)
2) there is a mistake and he should have said half a century or something
3) technology allowed him to live longer (nano machines improve body or what ever, similar to nano machines in crysis 1 that helped in speed mode (see old crysis 1 trailers if you don't know about these))
4) i have bad ears

It is obvious of course Crysis 2 takes place a century later after the the Original Crysis. SO there for the narrator in the trailer is more than likely Nomad.

The Nanosuit must have had some sort of aging affect on the human body / DNA

But they told us, Crysis 2 was set in 2023... 3 Years after the first invasion.

Think about the original game. Why would the US develop special suits just for regular combat? They most likely knew ahead of time about the aliens. Perhaps they were testing the suit against the initial wave. Also remember that the Koreans also had the suit. Who gave them the design? Perhaps they were given a cheaper version that would be about as powerful tech as what the aliens would have.

Essentially, the guy knew a long time before and started crynet in order to help preserve humanity. It is likely none of the governments listened to him about the alien threat when he discovered it (who would?), so he went about starting the design process of the nanosuit as a last resort to help ensure humanities survival when the aliens attacked. He knew that even if governments won't listen, they sure as hell like buying the latest version of the 'ZOMG 1337 killing machine', which would hopefully be good enough.

Crysis 2 is set ~10 years after crysis 1, we already know that.

It probly went something like this:
As he developed the nanosuit, he applied his own technology to himself to make himself live longer, like the nanites. (Ya know, tiny machines that heal his body from the inside) Anyway, no one lasts forever and he's at the end of his life. He then assigns you to keep upgrading the nanosuit. (something I've heard in a preview)

The "over a century ago" part definitely needs to have some backstory, 'cause it's looking a bit corny to me.

He could have made the video for the future you know. He could have known that his video would be seen around that time and talked as if it was the future before he died at a normal/reasonable age.

Future Crynet Boffin

time travelled back to start early dev of nano tech, couldnt take anyfin solid wiv him so had to work with what was availble, and then moved on to early Nano suit dev, armed wiv all the info about what was come, he also made the vid to give a bit o insight n stuff, he had to go so far back way b4 the koreans started to find that islands secret, to get a head start on it all.

i watched the be strong trailer again and heard the old dude talking say, help finish what he started over a century ago? im totally confused....how far into the future is this lol

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