» Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:50 pm
I agree with the person who said that Prophet's consciousness is like a second AI in the suit. The story seems to be about getting us to wonder what about Alcatraz is human and what isn't. If Prophet now resembles another AI (and therefore represents Alcatraz's new mind), the mind, body and technology components of Alcatraz are effectively separate entities. Alcatraz has a body that can occupy the suit, but he has no idea what he's supposed to do with it. Prophet has those answers, but he no longer has a body with which he can occupy his suit. And, as has been made abundantly clear by the game proper, the technology (nanosuit) makes the Alcatraz/Prophet, body/mind combo into a viable tool. It links the two and empowers them both as a single unit. But, of course, the suit would just be a fancy coat rack decoration without a body and mind to occupy it.
In Crysis 3, then, the writer would be able to explore the boundaries separating a man's body, his mind, and the machine that augments his humanity. They'd be able to take the transhumanist messages of Crysis 2 a step forward, examining body/mind/technology symbiosis rather than the simpler man/machine symbiosis examined in Crysis 2.