Gamers and hardware vendors rejoice, as EA announces Crysis is shipping, and
Crytek's highly anticipated nano-powered first-person shooter should now be
available in North America and Europe:
Redwood City, Calif. – November
13, 2007 – The wait is finally over! Today, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS)
and Crytek announced that Crysis® is now shipping to stores in North America and
Europe. Featuring jaw-dropping visuals, industry leading technology and
open-ended gameplay, Crysis is set to break new ground in the FPS genre and has
already received a 98% from PC Gamer, the highest score ever awarded in the
magazine’s 14-year history. Crysis is also setting the bar internationally, with
a 94% from Gamestar in Germany – in its 10-year history no other game has earned
a rating over 94%.
“Crysis is the culmination of the dedication and tenacity of everyone here at
Crytek who shared the goal of creating a true next-generation FPS,” said Cevat
Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. “Our vision from the beginning was to
deliver an immersive, open-ended single-player campaign, to innovate in
multiplayer and to give our community a powerful, easy-to-use editor and we’re
extremely proud of the end result.”
“Crysis is nothing short of amazing. It is an innovative, technical achievement
that has blown us all away,” said David DeMartini, Vice President and Global
General Manager, EA Partners. “EA Partners has a long history of working with
the most talented independent studios in the world and helping them deliver
their creative vision to a mass, global audience and our experience with Crytek
is adding to that legacy.”
The complete Crysis package is composed of three primary components:
• An Epic Single Player Campaign – Players are
thrust into the middle of a global conflict between the US and North Korea over
a mysterious artifact that turns out to be extraterrestrial in nature.
Fortunately, players are outfitted with a high tech Nanosuit that allows them to
alter their strength, speed, armor and cloaking abilities and an arsenal of
fully customizable weapons, helping to even the playing ground against a highly
mysterious and intelligent enemy threat.
• Multiplayer Reinvented – Crytek has also focused
much of their development efforts in creating two unique multiplayer
experiences. PowerStruggle is a new, team-based multiplayer mode where players
need to work together strategically to capture resource points throughout the
map to win the ultimate arms race for nuclear technology. And for those who are
looking for a more action-packed experience Crysis also features Instant Action,
traditional deathmatch made even more frenetic as every player is outfitted with
the revolutionary Nanosuit.
• CryENGINE 2TM Sandbox Editor – Also included with
Crysis is the complete version of Crytek’s Sandbox Editor. Extremely powerful
with a simple user interface, the editor will give the community full access to
one of the most powerful design tools in the industry.
Crysis has been rated ‘M’ for Mature by the ESRB (Blood and Gore, Language,
Violence) and 16+ by PEGI in Europe. Visit
www.esrb.org and www.pegi.info for
updated rating information. For more information about the game, log onto
http://info.ea.com or the game’s official
website at www.nanosuit.com.