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Crysis: Legion (2011)

by Peter Watts(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0345526783 (ISBN13: 9780345526786)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Del Rey

review 1: More good stuff from Watts who fleshes out the game's narrative, provides some psychological depth to the characters and has a few sly digs at the gaming tropes such as boss-fights, placements of ammo caches etc. Like all of Watts' work it's tough, tech-heavy, and would be considered a decent, fairly straight-forward sci-fi novel if it wasnt for the VG link which has probably led to it being overlooked/dismissed.
review 2: You know, for a videogame tie-in novel, for a videogame that didn't really have that compelling a story, it wasn't bad. It felt a little bit tied to the game's narrative, which did drag it down a little bit. The combat was probably the low point for me, but it worked well enough -- the world-building and the semi-Lovecraftian theorizing was w... morehat drew me in. Watts used the ability of books to flesh out inner thoughts and ideas to make the most of Crysis 2's plotholes, and actually created a nice, coherent, and at times gripping story. I had pretty low expectations coming into this, and was pleasantly surprised. less

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