Crysis 2 Plot - Best Game for 2011

A United States Marine Corps Force Recon unit is deployed into New York City through the submarine USS Nautilus to extract former Crynet employee Doctor Nathan Gould, who may have vital information on combating the alien race. However, insertion goes awry - the Ceph destroy the sub, and Force Recon Marine "Alcatraz" is left because the only apparent survivor. Delta Force Major Laurence "Prophet" Barnes saves Alcatraz and is instructed to kill himself to ensure that his Nanosuit to assimilate Alcatraz. A recording left within the suit reveals that Prophet had been infected through the Manhattan virus, which Alcatraz is to finish Prophet's mission in the stead. Believing Alcatraz is Prophet, Gould soon gets in contact with him and asks him to satisfy up at his lab. However, CELL forces, led by Commander Dominic Lockhart, target Alcatraz and label him like a major biohazard, believing him to become the infected Prophet. 

This forces Alcatraz to combat CELL troops throughout Manhattan as he makes his way to Gould's lab. The order to target Alcatraz also stems from personal reasons, since Lockhart is morally biased against the superhuman nature of Nanosuit wearers generally. While on his method to Gould's laboratory, Alcatraz collects alien tissue samples from a crashed Ceph dropship along with a Ceph soldier, which cause strange reactions within his Nanosuit. Alcatraz eventually meets with Gould, who's initially hostile after learning that he is not Prophet. Nevertheless the last suit recording of Prophet's message causes Gould to relent, prompting Gould to explain that the suit has been busy rewriting its own code after absorbing the Ceph's tissue, speculating that the suit was creating an antibody for that Manhattan virus. Gould and Alcatraz commit to further scans in a Crynet base on Wall Street. They discover that Alcatraz was mortally wounded when Prophet rescued him, which the Nanosuit may be the only thing keeping Alcatraz alive. The scans are cut short when CELL forces led by Commander Lockhart and Lieutenant Tara Strickland, daughter of U.S. Marine Corps Major Strickland in the first game, ambush Alcatraz and Gould.

Throughout the middle of the prisoner transfer outside the building, the Ceph attack the CELL personnel like a massive alien spire rises from beneath the Crynet building, releasing a spore-based bioweapon that kills the majority of the CELL troops in the immediate area. Alcatraz remains stranded and isolated for a period of time while handling a Nanosuit malfunction brought on by the spore bio-weapon. The suit gets rebooted remotely by Crynet director and Hargreave-Rasch Biotechnologies co-founder Jacob Hargreave, a centenarian who apparently had foreknowledge of the Ceph and had spent most of the previous century using stolen Ceph technology to design the Nanosuit to be used as a defense against the aliens. Hargreave directs Alcatraz to another Ceph spire to do an important experiment for him.

On the way to the spire, Hargreave reveals to Alcatraz that the Manhattan virus had been spread by the Ceph as a approach to clear out the entire population from Earth, comparing it towards the previous century's BSE outbreak. The Manhattan virus would cause all infected humans to eventually melt down into a liquidated mass of biological tissue, which could then easily be stored and disposed of. Upon reaching the alien spire, Alcatraz enters it to test whether the Nanosuit's systems can interface using the aliens' technology. The experiment fails, because of the Nanosuit not powerful enough to ensure the insertion. In the meantime, the US Department of Defense rescinds the authority of CELL over Manhattan and deploys US Marines within their place underneath the command of Marine Colonel Sherman Barclay. They then attempt to drown the aliens out of lower Manhattan by ordering an air strike around the city's flood barrier. Washed away by the resulting wave of water, Alcatraz is later found in Madison Square Park with a squad of Marines led by Alcatraz's squadmate Chino, who survived the submarine's destruction. The Marines enlist his help with evacuating civilians to Grand Central Terminal, the city's primary evacuation point.

Hargreave contacts Alcatraz and reveals that the Nanosuit is busy analyzing the alien tissue samples that Alcatraz had previously recovered and it is currently rewriting its very own code to interface with alien technology. He tells Alcatraz and his marine allies to consider a detour towards the Hargreave-Rasch building. There, Alcatraz is told to find a stabilizing agent in the bio-lab to facilitate the Nanosuit's analyzing process. However, rogue sections of CELL security in the building still slow down Alcatraz's progress. The Hargreave-Rasch complex is attacked with a Ceph "pinger" robot and is completely flooded, washing Alcatraz from the building and leaving him not able to go into the bio-lab. Simply because the reason is lost, Hargreave tells Alcatraz to regroup using the marines at Grand Central to assist evacuate civilians. At the terminal, Alcatraz is reunited with Gould, who had apparently "escaped" Strickland, resulting in the skepticism of Colonel Barclay. Knowing that Strickland is an ex-Navy SEAL, Barclay concludes that Strickland released Gould from captivity. Grand Central Terminal is overrun by Ceph forces, but Alcatraz manages to hold them off of sufficient length for the evacuation trains to go away, and escapes the building's destruction.

Due to the hasty and incomplete evacuation from Grand Central, Alcatraz is then tasked with defending another evacuation point sometimes Square, when another alien spire rises in the ground. By now, the Nanosuit had finished processing the alien spores, and Alcatraz seems to go into the spire, allowing his Nanosuit to interface with it and re-purpose the spores to become lethal towards the Ceph. This causes a cataclysmic self-destruction of the Ceph in the region, and apparently removes all traces from the biological warfare agent. Using the evacuation from Times Square complete, Hargreave instructs Alcatraz to make his way to Roosevelt Island. There, Alcatraz is told to infiltrate a Crynet complex named "The Prism", where Hargreave resides. Alcatraz foils Commander Lockhart's attempts to ambush him, and kills the commander along the way. As Alcatraz makes his way through the island, he's suddenly captured by Hargreave, who desires the Nanosuit for himself to ensure that he can complete the Ceph personally. Hargreave then tries to remove the Nanosuit from Alcatraz's body. However, the Nanosuit rejects its removal from Alcatraz since it had already completely assimilated with its wearer, revealing memories of Prophet's fallout with Hargreave along the way. Alcatraz is saved by Strickland, who reveals herself to become an undercover CIA operative, and was accountable for ordering Alcatraz's original pursuit to extract Gould. Strickland tells Alcatraz to capture Hargreave, but upon entering Hargreave's private office, Alcatraz instead sees Hargreave's body in a vegetative state. Hargreave reveals to Alcatraz the entire time, his consciousness had been communicating with an advanced computer system, and that this had been the only method for him to speak since he was injured in an encounter using the Ceph at Tunguska. Hargreave gives Alcatraz a final Nanosuit upgrade, the "Tunguska Iteration", before the Ceph attack the island. Hargreave triggers a countdown timer for that self-destruct system from the complex, and orders the rest of the CELL forces guarding the Crynet Prism complex to aid Alcatraz's exfiltration. Alcatraz barely escapes the huge explosion of the complex, which destroys a lot of Roosevelt Island and also the Queensboro Bridge. On the shores of Manhattan, Alcatraz reunites with Gould, Strickland and Chino.

Alcatraz is notified by Colonel Barclay that he includes a 20 minute window to end the conflict with the Ceph prior to the US Department of Defense launches a STRATCOM Tactical Nuclear Strike on Manhattan Island with little regard to collateral damage and nuclear fallout. Alcatraz and the comrades get through the town toward the center of the alien infestation, and spot a massive alien "litho-ship" rising from the ground beneath Central Park, lifting a sizable portion of the park into the air. Using the peripheral aid of Gould, Strickland, and Barclay, Alcatraz assaults the floating portion of Central Park and succeeds in making his way to the alien spire at its center, which serves as a massive dispersal point for the alien spore bio-weapon. He enters the spire, and the Nanosuit has the capacity to repurpose the spire's bio-weapon to turn from the Ceph. The Ceph within the entire city becomes completely eradicated by self-destruction. After a few days, the town begins to recover with the help of Gould, Strickland, and also the US Military. Alcatraz, while unconscious, communicates with Prophet, whose memories, experiences, and personality have been stored in the suit. Prophet tells Alcatraz that, while the mission in New York is a success, their jobs are not over since the Ceph, who was simply present on Earth since the prehistoric era, had built constructs globally which were not only limited to New York and the Lingshan Islands. The Nanosuit then assimilates Prophet's memories into Alcatraz. Upon waking up in Central Park, Alcatraz receives a broadcast from Karl Ernst Rasch, another founder of Hargreave-Rasch Biotechnologies, asking for his name. Climbing out of the crater, Alcatraz, speaking for the first time in game, responds, repeating exactly the same phrase as Prophet, at first of the game: "They call me Prophet."


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