Crysis 3 offers most of what Crysis fans want, boasting fantastic graphics, solid story-line, and a likable protagonist.
Your nanosuit lets you scout out each map to spot enemies, loot, intel, and upgrades, as well as disabling security measures such as mines, turrets, and even enemies armour capabilities. I can guarantee you will be spending a lot of time using your nanosuit before approaching each map.
Which brings me to my next point, the maps in each level aren't extremely vast by any means, but they certainly open ended enough to let you do what you please. They do bring you to missions that require you go in guns blazing, especially towards the end, but that was fine with me, as too much stealth can wear on gamers like myself who aren't the biggest stealth fans.
There weren't very many big bosses, but there are many new kinds of bigger enemies that require you to use your nanosuit to figure out their weaknesses.
The story itself is entertaining as well and you do care about your character, Prophet, as well as the few allies you work with. I do feel like some scenes were a little melodramatic, but I'm not surprised of their inclusion. I felt that there was definitely a focus on Prophet not being human and questioning whether a machine like him could ever be considered human and make mistakes. It's a moral question that I'm not sure is going to hit everyone at the heart, considering we do not live in a world that sees robot/AI machines doing everyday jobs that humans do. With that said, I liked the story and it kept me hooked.
The multiplayer is entertaining enough, and I had some fun with it. However, the population is near-dead and that's my warning to anyone that wants to buy this game for the multiplayer. There should be a small community that sticks around but this is not the next Call of Duty by any means in terms of multiplayer. I'm also wondering if this game could have benefited from a co-op focused multiplayer in large sandbox like maps. I think the game should have taken advantage of its strengths in that regard.
I definitely felt like a badass in this game. The open-ended level design with multiple objectives and ways to go about each one definitely enticed me. The weapons are awesome, and each level entices you to try every single one. The introduction of the crossbow changes the rules in my opinion. It was definitely the most useful weapon in the game. I felt the game was much more difficult that some people have said, as I played on hard and felt the enemies were very aware of each and every move I made and were also good at helping each other out.
So with all of this said, I recommend this game as a rent. But it will definitely be a very enjoyable rent for sure. It's an underrated game in my opinion. The graphics are amazing, even on 360, and the campaign was quite an adventure.