Crysis

Player characters

• Nomad, real name Jake Dunn, is the protagonist of the first game, a member of Raptor Team. His backstory is alluded to in Crysis Warhead, where it is revealed he replaced O'Neill as a member of Raptor Team. Nomad survives the events of the first game and is, as of its ending, returning to the island with the intent to find Prophet and stop the alien threat at its source.
• Psycho, real name Michael Sykes, is the protagonist of the spinoff Crysis Warhead and another member of Raptor Team. He appears throughout the first half of Crysis and then returns in the last level, and Warhead fills in the intermediary time as Psycho attempts to stop the North Koreans led by Colonel Lee from extracting a captured alien and reverse-engineering its technology. As of the end of the first game, Psycho is returning to the island with Nomad with the intent to find Prophet. Psycho returns in Crysis 3, as a member of the resistance against CELL. He no longer wears his Nanosuit, as CELL has skinned it from him.
• Alcatraz, the silent protagonist of Crysis 2, a Force Reconnaissance Marine deployed to New York City to rescue the scientist Nathan Gould. Found near death by Prophet, he is equipped with the nanosuit, still and continues searching for Gould. As he battles his way through hostile CELL mercenaries, he eventually finds Gould, only to be ambushed by CELL operatives and become separated. Gould and Alcatraz eventually meet up again at Grand Central Station, where they plan to evacuate the remaining people left in New York City. After leaving Central Station, Alcatraz makes his way to the Prism, the island where the nanosuit's creator, Jacob Hargreave, resides, planning to find deep layer protocols stored by Prophet. After doing so, he evacuates the island after it self-destructs, making his way to Central Park. There, he completes the "Assimilation" and wipes out all alien forces in New York City. While presumed dead, he meets Prophet in the deep layers of the suit. Karl Rasch, joint creator of the Hargreave-Rasch biomedical company which developed the nanosuit, contacts Alcatraz as he rises out of the rubble of Central Park, and asks who is the wearer of "Jacob Hargreave's Nanoshell." Alcatraz then responds "They call me... Prophet." By the events of Crysis 3, Alcatraz's consciousness has been completely overridden by Prophet's.
• Prophet, real name Laurence Barnes, is the leader of Raptor Team and appears in Crysis, Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 (though he can be heard in Warhead). Prophet guides Nomad throughout the first part of his mission, but is captured by an alien and presumed dead until Nomad finds him in the ice sphere. After being rescued, Prophet begins acting oddly, having unexplained knowledge of alien technologies and a drive to return to the island. He returns to the island during the final battle and is presumed dead again when the military nukes the island, but somehow sends a message to Nomad and Psycho and they head back to find him. He also appears in Crysis 2 as the Nanosuit 2's first wearer, and gives the suit to Alcatraz before killing himself to break his symbiosis with the Nanosuit 2. However, the Nanosuit stored Prophet's consciousness inside itself, and eventually lets it take full control over itself and Alcatraz. After the events of Crysis 3, the Nanosuit's inhibitors have been removed, allowing it to fully bond with Prophet and take on Barnes' appearance, essentially resurrecting him.

Other protagonists

• Helena Rosenthal is a scientist on the island who is captured by the North Korean army. She is rescued by Nomad and returned to the US carrier fleet. She, Nomad, and Psycho survive the alien attack and intend to return to the island to find Prophet.
• Sean O'Neill is a major character in Warhead who is an old friend of Psycho's. He was originally supposed to be a member of Raptor Team, but was replaced by Nomad after failing an evaluation test. He assists Psycho several times despite being told not to by the military, and eventually escapes the island with Psycho. It is not known what happened to him during the alien attack on the carrier fleet.

Antagonists

• General Kyong is the leader of the KPA military detachment to the island; he intends to use the aliens' technology to turn North Korea into a world-dominating superpower.
• Colonel Lee is one of the leaders of the North Korean army on the island and the primary antagonist of Warhead. He captures an alien and intends to bring it to Korea for reverse-engineering, but is stopped several times by Psycho. At the end of the game, Lee is finally defeated and presumably killed by the alien warship.
• The Ceph are an initially-unnamed extraterrestrial race that has been dormant on the island in a large mountain. Their units range from small, robotic creatures and powered exoskeletons to enormous warships. In the first game they use ice-based technologies and can grow in strength when they absorb energy. The purpose of the aliens on Earth is unclear, but they are antagonistic towards both the American and Korean armies. They remained unnamed until the 'Prophets Journey' trailer and the multiplayer demo. In the second game it is revealed that they possess multiple buried structures around the planet, like the ones in the Lingshan islands and beneath New York City.
• Commander Dominic Lockhart is the primary antagonist of the first half of Crysis 2 and the leader of C.E.L.L. (Crynet Enforcement & Local Logistics), he is attempting to kill Alcatraz, whom he thinks is Prophet. Lockhart is a sociopath who will do anything to achieve his goals, including betraying his employer and going against orders given to him by his superior officer. He is killed when Alcatraz throws him out of a second story window.
  • C.E.L.L. Agents are members of Crynet, the Company behind the quarantining of New York City. They, along with the Ceph, are the main enemies that Alcatraz faces in Crysis 2. They are human and use armor along with a wide variety of guns. Though they are generally weak foes, they have more powers in numbers. They can use vehicles, such as trucks, tanks, and helicopters.
• Jacob Hargreave is the main antagonist of the second half of Crysis 2. he is one of the co-founders of Hargreave-Rasch and at first guides Alcatraz through many of the levels following Gould's capture until Alcatraz kills Lockhart, then it is revealed Hargreave is attempting to take Alcatraz's suit so he can fight the Ceph himself. He is betrayed by one of his subordinates, Tara Strickland, who was in truth an undercover CIA operative; she reveals to Alcatraz that Hargreave was the one behind the events of the original Crysis, orchestrating the encounter between the US military and the Ceph, and that he came in contact with the Ceph in Tunguska over a century ago. Alcatraz confronts him in his office, where it is revealed that he is actually in a vegetative state and floating in a green fluid filled chamber. He is presumed dead when the Hargreave-Rasch building collapses after an attack by the Ceph.

Crysis (2007)

After Helena Rosenthal sends a distress signal saying the North Koreans are invading the seemingly unimportant island on which her team is working, the US government dispatches Raptor Team, a group of nanosuit-clad soldiers. After arriving on the island, however, Raptor Team's ranks are thinned by mysterious flying creatures, eventually leaving only Nomad, Psycho, and Prophet, who is subsequently kidnapped by the organisms later called the Ceph. Nomad rescues Helena but is eventually trapped in the alien ship after it unleashes an "ice sphere" on the island, freezing a great deal of the island. Nomad escapes the island with Helena and an oddly-behaving Prophet, and returns to the US carrier fleet, where he finds Psycho. Prophet returns to the island, which is subsequently nuked in the attempt to kill the aliens. However, they only grow stronger from the energy. The aliens launch a massive attack on the carrier fleet, successfully destroying it. Nomad, Psycho, and Helena escape and receive a distress signal from the still-alive Prophet, and decide to return to the island.

Crysis Warhead (2008)

During Psycho's own mission, he was sent to retrieve a captured alien from Colonel Lee and the Koreans. After numerous setbacks and the assistance of his friend O'Neill, Psycho successfully defeats Lee, obtains the alien, and brings it back to the carrier fleet. At this point, the story continues in the original title.

Crysis 2 (2011)

A sequel set 3 years after the original game, Crysis 2 takes place in New York City in 2023, which is infected by an unknown virus. The player controls Alcatraz, a US Marine who is found almost dead by Prophet, and given the upgraded Nanosuit 2 before Prophet commits suicide. He is then tasked by Prophet to rescue a scientist named Nathan Gould. At first, Alcatraz has to face Crynet's CELL agents, a mercenary force who is hired by the US Department of Defense to police the chaotic Manhattan, still thinking that Alcatraz is Prophet who is infected by the virus. After discovering Ceph capsules and Catalyst, the Ceph take over as the main antagonists for the rest of the game. Alcatraz and Gould team up with Tara Strickland, an undercover CIA lieutenant, and Jacob Hargreave, the original creator of the nanosuit. Alcatraz eventually enters the Ceph core spire and wipes out all the Ceph in New York. Now facing death again, he meets a memory pattern of Prophet, whose DNA is merged into Alcatraz's. The game closes with Alcatraz being contacted by Karl Rasch, a nanosuit scientist, and vowing to continue the war against the Ceph.

Crysis 3 (2013)

As with its predecessor, Crysis 3 again takes place in New York. Set in 2047, the game sees Prophet return to the now nanodome-encased New York City, on a mission of revenge against CELL, having uncovered the truth behind their motives for building the quarantined nanodomes.^[1]