After the adventures of the original Crysis and its sequel, Prophet is now less human than he is a crazy alien-human hybrid thanks to his nanosuit. Once again, you’re placed in the role of Laurence Barnes, also known as the super soldier Prophet. Image used with permission by copyright holder What Am I Doing Again? Doing the things you do in Crytek’s latest shooter is a good time, but the reason you’re doing them doesn’t matter at all. This is why Crysis 3 is such a difficult game to judge. It’s just that most games don’t have very good stories to tell. If we didn’t, every game would be Tetris, a bunch of abstract colors and shapes interacting. We give a damn about the set up for fighting aliens in XCOM: Enemy Unknown. It matters why we’re dressing up like a chef and assassinating people in Hitman: Absolution. People say they’re there to just play the game, to hell with the story, but that isn’t really the case. ![]() There are games like Civilization 5 that don’t really have an authored narrative in the campaign, but the most, from Borderlands 2 to Saints Row: The Third, are all about something. Estimates based on some recent games suggest that on average people only finish about 12 percent of the games they play. ![]() Story matters in video games, though statistics say otherwise. Share Image used with permission by copyright holder
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