CHERTSEY, UK - January 30, 2006 - Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS), the world's leading interactive entertainment software company and award-winning developer Crytek, today announced they will bring Crysis, an exciting new first person shooter, to gamers worldwide. Developed by Crytek, the makers of the award-winning Far CryTM, Crysis will be an original first person shooter game for PC based on new intellectual property.
"Our focus has always been on innovating gameplay and technology, and bringing new experiences to gamers through our original intellectual properties," says Cevat Yerli, CEO & President of Crytek. "Crysis will be a showcase for that commitment and will offer gamers from all over the world the next step in FPS gaming."
Shooter fans will face a new kind of gameplay challenge requiring adaptive tactics and customisation of weapons and armour in dynamic, hostile environments as mankind struggles to survive in the face of a horrific alien invasion.
Crysis will bring together the creative and technical talent of Crytek with the publishing expertise and unrivalled reach of Electronic Arts. Crysis is to be published by EA following the worldwide relationship announcement between the two companies and is being developed using the leading-edge technology of Crytek's proprietary engine CryENGINETM 2.
"We are delighted to reach the next level in our relationship with Crytek," says Tom Frisina, Vice-President and General Manager for EA Partners. "Nurturing creative talent and bringing original intellectual property to the world of interactive entertainment is a key focus for EA and EA Partners. Crysis will bring an entirely new FPS experience to gamers everywhere."
Didn't you get the memo? You still aren't as cool as you think you are.
Oh, and the 360 blows.
Didn't you get the memo? All games are now being made for the Xbox 360 since it's so bad ass.
Someone tell me why there are screens of a PC game on an xbox360 fansite... Or will this be multi-platform?
CoD, GTA:SA, NOLF, BF2, JO - each game has a memorable parachte jumping scene. However, Crysis will be different due to the very extreme (in all senses of the word) real-time plummet to earth. Modelled on the physics of gravity, wind and atmospheric pressure, you'll have to guide your character from the moment he leaves the aircraft, through the volumetric clouds, until he lands on the island archipelago. Your landing position will depend on your jump - so you might have to swim to shore if you splashdown in the sea, or be ready fo an instant firefight if you accidentally land in the middle of a North Korean army base.
Some shots are at http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/gallery/1396/Crysis/p1/
I could scan in the recent article in the UK PCZone
Actually you could also refer to it as "western Asia" or "north Africa" by that logic.
Pathetic Americans...