14 DAY TRIAL // It's refreshing to see that writers who work in the videogames industry can recognize a bad narrative when they see it. Richard Morgan has been named by Crytek as the Lead Writer working on the upcoming Crysis 2 and it seems that one of his aims is to create a story better than that offered by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the first person shooter, also the bestseller of 2009, created by Infinity Ward and published by Activision.
Talking to CVG, Richard Morgan, said that “I thought Modern Warfare 2 was an immense disappointment,” adding that “It was a massive stepdown from CoD4. What I thought when I played it was, 'Jesus guys, what have you been doing? You've not ramped anything up. The story is worse and the game doesn't really hang together, it's just a bunch of mission levels'.”
Morgan then went on to talk about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the PlayStation 3 action adventure, which also arrived in 2009. According to him, the developers at Naughty Dog did good by actually looking at the first Uncharted and made something that kept the same concept but bettered it.
Richard Morgan is best known for his Altered Carbon novel, which got the Philip K. Dick Award in 2003. The film rights for it sold for about 1 million dollars and Morgan created two sequels, Broken Angels and Woken Furies. The author is best known for imagining dystopian worlds where a small elite rules in covert ways, through physical or psychological force, over a majority.
Crysis 2, a game Crytek plans to put out before the end of 2010, will move the action to New York and will feature a new and improved Nanosuit, enabling the player to try out more powers, some of them at the same time. The familiar aliens are sure to make an appearance.