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4* The reality of wearing a Nanosuit. While on paper, it seems like a regular powered armor suit, the truth is that it's a symbiote-like device that ''fuses'' with its user (unless you wear a protective suit that prevents its fusion like with Prophet), turning the person into a HumanoidAbomination.
5** In fact, it can get to the point where ''[[LivingOnBorrowedTime the suit is the one thing keeping you alive.]]'' At one point, Gould threatens a doctor at a CELL base to scan you for data. Doing so reveals that not only [[BodyHorror have you taken massive amounts of bullet-related trauma to the chest, puncturing your lungs and breaking most of your ribs, but your spine is also basically kaput.]] The doctor even specifically says that you're "a corpse walking."
6** In the original game, wearing the Nanosuit doesn't make you invincible - as Aztec and Jester of Raptor Team found out the hard way. Both are killed in the first two missions by unknown threats; ''the results of the attacks are not pretty.'' The perished Nanosuit operators are disposed of by disintegrating: teammates have barely any time to pay respects before the body vanishes.
7** The main reason (after the death of his nephew) why Dominic Lockhart tries to shut Nanosuit program down is that the human inside it is basically reduced to wetware. Emotions can be suppressed and replaced, actual orders and movements of soldier can be ignored and the system can run itself even if the body inside it is dead.
8* The giant Hunter Exosuit from the page image. A spider-like ''thing'' that's intimidating in size and quite powerful. And it shoots freezing beams. It takes quite a lot of firepower to put this monstrosity down in the original game (around 30-40 Gauss Rifle blasts). In ''Warhead'', however, Psycho gets backup.
9** Speaking of ''Warhead'', the game has an encounter with Red Hunter as the final boss. It's even more aggressive than its blue-colored cousin from earlier mission; being armed with PAX Plasma Accumulator Cannon certainly helps.
10** The mechanical roars these things unleash - nightmare-inducing with headphones on.
11* The Manhattan Virus: Infectees in their late start getting growths on their lower abdomen and pelvis, and those who die by the disease [[BodyHorror ''melt'']] [[BodyHorror into a reddish-pink goo]]. Luckily, it is not contagious.
12** However, It is commented that, given its lack of contagiousness, as well as the relatively short range of the dispersal spears, the virus might be a sort of "beta" version, undergoing a controlled trial-run in New York in preparation for a worldwide dispersion of the [[FridgeHorror perfected, fully contagious product]] (which could be what the Central Park tower was meant to do).
13*** At the end of ''Crysis: Legion'' Alcatraz says that lesser spires were just test runs and beta-releases, while the main spire that he hijacked in final chapter was 'mass-production' model that would shoot replicators and affect entire planet.
14** It's even worse in ''Crysis: Legion'', where the virus not only dissolves your body, it affects your mind as well, compelling you to find the nearest Ceph spire and literally bow down in worship and let yourself absorb more of the spore so you'll die and dissolve that much faster, and you won't even realize what's happening.
15** The woman you come across in ''Seat of Power''. She's alone in an abandoned evac center, surrounded by rotting corpses who may have been her friends or family. Blood (or something worse) is dripping from her mouth, and she's holding her own dissolving internal organs in her hands and speaking in a soft, raspy voice;
16--->'''Woman''': It's nothing. I'm not that sick...I'm feeling much better now...
17* One of CELL's interview subjects in ''Crysis: Legion'' is a quarantined woman who ran into Alcatraz on the streets of New York with her daughter. The writer of the interview notes, in medical terminology, that the woman's [[EyeScream eyes have rotted away]], replaced by fleshy alien tissue that's spreading over her face and will probably kill her in a matter of hours. Even worse, because of the MindScrew effects of the virus, she can't even recognize [[spoiler:the sound of her own daughter screaming and dying down the hall, only remarking 'Oh, the screaming stopped.' with relief.]]
18* In ''Legion'', Alcatraz casually brushes over killing CELL forces by the dozen. He barely even seems to think of them as human. What's the suit doing to his moral compass?
19** His execution of Lockhart in ''2'' proper is also a highlight. Usually when you grab live soldiers, they choke and gag but they're effectively still alive until they get tossed and often get back up. In this case, after taking a Gauss shot head-on, Alcatraz grabs Lockhart by the throat so hard ''he crunches the man's throat in'' with a massive splatter of blood, before [[DestinationDefenestration throwing him through a tech-reinforced window]] to become a bloodstain on the pavement below. And ''he's still alive briefly after this.'' Alcatraz and Hargreave shrug off the entire event as a necessity because he was just that much of an asshole, but the Nanosuit can straight up pulp people with no effort if its users were really trying to.
20* Near the end of ''Crysis 3'', the Alpha Ceph successfully opens the wormhole to Triangulum, and a massive Mothership (A full-blown [[LivingShip homeworld Ceph]]) starts passing through it. Only the [[KillSat Archangel]] can destroy it, and if Prophet fails to kill it before it can fully enter orbit, the Ceph Mothership will burn the Earth to cinders with its WaveMotionGun. This was just a glimpse of how powerful the main Ceph are. If there more games in the series, what the hell will humanity do if the Ceph return? What if it isn't just one Mothership, but thousands?
21* In general, the series is less of an AlienInvasion and more of a CosmicHorrorStory. The only difference is that, instead of an EldritchAbomination from beyond space and time, you're fighting someone much, ''much'' higher up than you on the Kardashev Scale. Crysis 3 establishes that the Ceph humanity's been fighting this entire time, initially compared to a lost tribe of cavemen with clubs, are more like the equivalent of non-intelligent ''gardening tools'', pre-programmed to prune any weeds- i.e. threats to biodiversity- such as human civilization. The ''real'' Ceph are an intergalactic civilization with over ''half a billion'' years of history, with millions upon millions of colonies across multiple spiral arms of the Milky Way alone, including ancient ones here on Earth.
22** In the novelization, Alcatraz wonders why the Ceph, even with their advanced technology, are apparently utilizing similar weapons and tactics to humanity. Being SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, they should be using things we can't hope to match, like how ants have no defenses against the tools a gardener has. That's when he comes up with his theory: the Ceph on Earth ''are'' advanced by our standards, but they're on an InsignificantLittleBluePlanet in the middle of nowhere, running on the most basic software their civilization has, and so they had to learn from and base their tactics on the only other species around who has any. Humanity is fighting a losing war not against the Ceph themselves, but against a simple learning algorithm built to protect a distant nature preserve.

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