» Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:53 am
I played through it again to gather more details on the story line.
One thing that still has me confused is Jacob Hargreave's origin. WTF is he? My first thought is something similar to the alien on Stargate where he is just trying to survive. It's difficult to see what the character is that's inside that green tube, but it doesn't look exactly "human". As best as I could figure, he/it is over 100 years old and somehow knew the Ceph existed for many years and were lying dormant on Earth. It seems he knew that at some point, the Ceph would rise again and wipe out the human race and to combat this, he had "stolen" the Ceph nano-technology and used it to create the Nanosuits that are seen in the games. Hargreave said he "woke up" the Ceph in during the events of Crysis 1 in order to test the effectiveness of the Nanosuits in combat. During Crysis 2, Prophet has become infected with the nanovirus and can no longer finish his mission and therefore entrusts Alcatraz (who is found near death from a Ceph attack) with the suit to carry out the mission. During the events of Crysis 2, Hargreave learns that Prophet is no longer his puppet and guides Alcatraz to finishing the assimilation of the suit with the Ceph spore to complete it's contruction and cause it to reach it's full potential. I think my synopsis of the story is around 90% acurate, but I am sketchy on the details. Though I still stand by my conclusion that the end character ("Prophet") is the result of combined Prophet, Alcatraz and Ceph spore, constructed by (and integrated with) the suit who will go on to level the playing field and battle the Ceph to save humanity. (Actually a pretty cool story line).
The main point is that ONE suit has collected the DNA of Prophet and Alcatraz as well as absorbed and modified the Ceph nano virus in order to create a super fighting "machine" to combat the Ceph. This was all the master plan of Hargreave.
Now, it's blatently obvious that this will (or at least is intended to) be a continuing series. I want to know what happened to Nomad and Psycho. I certainly hope they return in future releases.