Rampant speculation imminent. Also spoilers.

Jester and Aztek are killed quickly after their encounters with the aliens, but Prophet is captured and held for a long portion of the game. Is this insignificant, or was there a greater reason for taking him captive? This event has no real impact on the mission (find the researchers) so to me, this lack of importance at the time might be indicative of some later importance. And considering that everyone else that comes into contact with the aliens are killed quickly, it again implies some significance that Prophet isn't killed instantly.
He manages to escape and rig an alien weapon onto a minigun, and at the end of the game the scientists/engineers on board the carrier seem to be unable to figure out how he did it, and Prophet doesn't provide an answer. Is he just so awesome that during his time captive he managed to gain some killer insight into their tech, or did something else happen to him? His professionalism at the beginning of the game is quite a contrast to his departure from the carrier at the end, which to me implies a more personal investment in the mission than the other characters.

Helena speculates that the structure inside in the moutain is biological and alive. Is this a biomechanical object or an actual sentient creature (mechanical or otherwise)? The major says they've come from a star system four million light years away and the samples Helena retrived from inside the mine were a million years old. Nomad says, when he first enters the core, that it appears grown, and Helena says at out point that it's been lying dormant inside the rock. Did they grow the core inside the rock millions of years ago, as some sort of War of the Worlds plot? Or was it more recent? Maybe they were here millions of years ago and have returned to reclaim their planet. While in the core, Nomad discovers what appears to be an invasion army.

Inside the core there were two openings side by side, one with light streaming into it and the other the light streaming out of. Going into it whizzes you through a long tunnel and takes you to another spaceship/planet/something some distance away (presumably across space). I wonder how these might factor in to how the aliens - and the core - got inside the moutain. There are more of these openings throughout the core, only quite a bit larger and with light only streaming inwards. (At one point, Helena speculates they might have been stranded there - but how could they be stranded when they've got mini stargate things going on?)

I wonder about the origin of the aliens. The core is a zero-gravity environment, and considering their technology - and probably themselves - feed off energy, it would make sense that they have evolved in a low gravity environment, probably without an atmosphere. Maybe a moon or asteroid? Maybe they even started to evolve terrestrially and moved into space.

The game ends with Nomad, Psycho and Helena returning to the island with Prophet having survived the nuclear blast and the ice-field that now envelopes almost the entire island. So, what might be in store for Crysis 2? A return to the island, now completely frozen, could be pretty cool. Perhaps there might be a visit to the alien homeworld? I'd just like some closure on the aliens, their origins/intentions, and to find out what happened to Prophet.

Thats about all I can think of now. Discuss?

I got it, played it until the first jungle to see if it ran well on my comp and never touched it again.

Timey McGoodtimes.

You never cross space, It's just all inside that mountain. The Zoom-Zoom moments were some sort of transit system.
If they had the tech to travel across space that fast, Why screw around with the mountain in the first place.
Also- I love how throughout the game you could see it start peeking through the mountain then BAM!
What about the ice, Does it signify that they came from an ice planet? Or perhaps.. Europa?

The reason the sphere freezes everything is because it absorbs energy. Take the energy out of a system and it becomes cold. It's just basic physics, not specifically related to ice. And it is said during one of the cinematics in the last level that they're from a system four million light years away.

As for the transport system, it seemed a little extraneous to me that they would have that kind of system for just moving about the core. When the speed inside the warp tunnel pick up the walls look like they dissapear and when Nomad comes out of it briefly he remarks "Where the hell am I?" I thought this might've been to suggest Nomad had traveled to somewhere outside the core.

crysis is a fun game

Also the alien ships appeared to come from the sea at the end.

Could there be a bigger base in the ocean?.

Thats a suprisingly good question.
Atlantis anyone?

I dunno, it was an awesome game.

I read an interview on IGN that they made the game with a trilogy in mind.

My guess is we either go into new/different parts of the alien mothership hive thingy, and/or we go to the alien homeworld.

Yes, please, thank you.

I thought that was the same one that flew overhead in Paradise Lost. I don't know why it came up out of the water at the end though.



Duh.

Those turtles had it coming

Why must you cock up my thread, TE? Why?

if only he had gotten to play the demo the first time he downloaded it

lawl

I'm more interested in Far Cry 2

Whoaaa OK, awesome, Far Cry 2... wasn't aware of its existence. So, it doesn't use CryEngine 2? That seems a bit... odd. Unless this Dunia Engine has been designed with African Environments in mind :P.

I don't Crytek is actually developing Far Cry 2, hence the engine change.

Yeah it's some Ubi office in Mawntreawl