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Prepare to Weep: EA Announces Crysis 2

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Fans of first-person shooters, foliage, and physics, get pumped. Fans of North Korea... maybe not so much.

Probably like this, only more so.
EA and German developer Crytek officially announced this morning that Crysis 2 is in development. Other than the fact that Crytek's developing and EA's publishing, there's not a ton of specific information about the game itself at this time. We do know that it will be the first game developed on CryENGINE 3, the latest revision of Crytek's proprietary engine, and arguably the source of much of its dark, video-card punishing power. More interesting, though not exactly surprising, is the fact that Crysis 2 is being developed for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in addition to its predecessor's native PC platform. No release date has been given. Check out the full press release below.

Redwood City, Calif. – June 1, 2009 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that it has agreed to a deal extension with Crytek GmbH, the award-winning developers of the Crysis® universe, to publish Crysis 2. Renowned for their technical excellence, artistic craftsmanship and commitment to quality, Crytek is building Crysis 2 on their new state-of-the-art multiplatform game development solution CryENGINE®3 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and the PC.

“The development of Crysis 2 marks a major stepping stone for our studio,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. “This is not only the next game in the Crysis franchise, it’s the first title we are developing for consoles and the first title being built on CryENGINE 3. We are excited to have the support of EA Partners again as we work together to make the launch of Crysis 2 a huge event.”

“Nothing speaks more to the success of the EA Partners program than when a studio the caliber of Crytek continues to work with us,” said David DeMartini, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA Partners. “Crytek is already one of the elite PC development studios in the world and we are excited to have the opportunity to partner with them in bringing their award-winning technology and gameplay to more platforms and a wider audience with Crysis 2.”
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Posted by Ryan
Probably like this, only more so.
EA and German developer Crytek officially announced this morning that Crysis 2 is in development. Other than the fact that Crytek's developing and EA's publishing, there's not a ton of specific information about the game itself at this time. We do know that it will be the first game developed on CryENGINE 3, the latest revision of Crytek's proprietary engine, and arguably the source of much of its dark, video-card punishing power. More interesting, though not exactly surprising, is the fact that Crysis 2 is being developed for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in addition to its predecessor's native PC platform. No release date has been given. Check out the full press release below.

Redwood City, Calif. – June 1, 2009 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that it has agreed to a deal extension with Crytek GmbH, the award-winning developers of the Crysis® universe, to publish Crysis 2. Renowned for their technical excellence, artistic craftsmanship and commitment to quality, Crytek is building Crysis 2 on their new state-of-the-art multiplatform game development solution CryENGINE®3 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, and the PC.

“The development of Crysis 2 marks a major stepping stone for our studio,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. “This is not only the next game in the Crysis franchise, it’s the first title we are developing for consoles and the first title being built on CryENGINE 3. We are excited to have the support of EA Partners again as we work together to make the launch of Crysis 2 a huge event.”

“Nothing speaks more to the success of the EA Partners program than when a studio the caliber of Crytek continues to work with us,” said David DeMartini, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA Partners. “Crytek is already one of the elite PC development studios in the world and we are excited to have the opportunity to partner with them in bringing their award-winning technology and gameplay to more platforms and a wider audience with Crysis 2.”
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designed for pc's in 2020

With the amount of copies of the game pirated its no surprise its multi platform, looking forward to it

Posted by Meltbrain

Shweet. I'm pretty stoked.

Posted by Jensonb

Multiplatform Crysis? Mind. Blown.

Posted by ElectricHaggis

Is this where we'll begin to see the PC blow current consoles out of the water?  I have a feeling this will look way better on the PC when it eventually comes out.

Posted by McPaper

Multiplatform. I doubt it will be as resource expensive as the previous crysis.

Posted by AvengerNinja

Now we're talking! Finally!!

Posted by gosukiller

Hope they continue the streak of Warhead, that game was way better than the original.

Posted by mordukai

Cool, I can't afford a pc gaming system but I will defiantly pick this one up for the ps3.

Posted by gingertastic_10

good to hear

Posted by nixium

Well I loved Crysis and will get Warhead as soon as I'm done with the original (Just got the GTX 260 to run the sucker).

I don't know why the title of this is "Prepare to Weep." Isn't it a good thing that PS3 and Xbox 360 owners get to play (hopefully) another great game?

Posted by MattyFTM

This was inevitable, but nice to see it officially announced.

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Posted by Steve_C

Seems neat. I really want to know what Crytek UK are doing though. I need a Timesplitters 4.

Posted by IncredibleBulk92

As badly optimized as Crysis was for the PC (and it was) I don' hold out much hope that it'll run very smoothly on a 360.  Still I hope it does work well.  I'd consider buying it for both if it comes out around the time I upgrade my PC

Posted by Burre

Bought and played through both Crysis and Warhead. Solid shooters within its genre. Will keep an eye on this one.

Posted by SenatorSpacer

Awesome :D I'll take some Crysis action on my 360 :D

Posted by Vendetta

Awe. Soooome.

Posted by Cerza

Well, I guess we know what they're going to be using to push DX11. Let's just hope this one isn't as buggy and busted as the first one was after the first level.

Posted by ZoRzEr
Steve_C said:
Seems neat. I really want to know what Crytek UK are doing though. I need a Timesplitters 4.
What he said
Posted by HeaveyMental

still waiting to buy my new laptop to try crysis, at least maybe this will remind steam to lower the bundle price to 30$ before i buy it

Posted by Lashe
nixium said:
Well I loved Crysis and will get Warhead as soon as I'm done with the original (Just got the GTX ... [more]
Prepare to Weep refers to the graphic quality, I reckon. So good it will make you weep.
Posted by Thunder

meh the first one was ok not to excited for this

Posted by DragoonKain1687

maybe this time it will reach a million before the first month, instead of having to wait almos half a year to reach that.

Posted by buckybit

So far as I know Crysis 2 will be a re-release of Crysis 1 - just 2 years later, our machines can run the full shebang - and the CryTek 3 engine is just another term for "you can play it now, it's safe"...no, wait. I was hallucinating...

let me try again: Crysis 2 on Crytek 3 Engine? - It plays on an island, ok? and there are lots of trees...right? And then, there are these aliens, but not the aliens that you already have seen, NEW, different (crytek3) aliens...etc, etc, etc...

Posted by The_A_Drain

See, thats the funny thing about optimising your code properly, it runs better. Wait... That's not funny...

Posted by Gizmo

I'm going to call it right now.

This game will not be as graphically impressive as Killzone 2.

Posted by nixium
@Lashe: Maybe...I thought they may have been talking about system requirements but your idea makes much more sense :)
Posted by TwoOneFive

hopefully the console versions don't hold back the pc version in terms of graphics quality. but after killzone 2, i see no excuse in this game looking insane on ps3 too. 

Posted by Agnogenic_delete

I think this is great news for Crytek.

Posted by Death_Unicorn

Yes.

Posted by Al3xand3r
Why would anyone weep? I mean, they put it on every platform they could. What's there to weep about? Or is this a jab at the game's quality? I can get behind that, but it's hardly weep worthy itself.
Posted by coonce
@McPaper: you never know -- they are always trying to push system limits.
Posted by Jimbo

I can't see this looking much / any better than Crysis (not that that's bad exactly).  I hope they don't continue the trend of introducing turd monsters / aliens / whatever, half way through and destroying the gameplay.

Posted by trav3ler

Only recently was I able to play Crysis 1, cause I just recently got a computer man enough to handle the task of running it on medium graphics settings (bear in mind, this thing is fairly cutting edge as far as gaming laptops go).  Still, Crysis 1 was a blast, hopefully Crysis 2 will be more so.  As long as it's not so incredibly resource-intensive it actually makes my computer melt, I'll check it out.

Posted by MrKlorox

Unless it's going fully open world, I'm gonna pass.

Posted by RHCPfan24

I am surprised this wasn't a big expectation, but it seems like a natural fit.

Posted by ROD5RIG

As long as they don't screw over us PC gamers with a dumb down Crysis that feels like it was designed for the consoles, then I'm cool with this.

Posted by Scratch

I guess this time, us PC gamers get screwed over? After all the fiasco about how they were not happy with the pirated copies of the game and shit, I believe they would end up fucking this up.

Posted by Mikemcn

Wow, my Graphics card is gonna liquify

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Posted by dsplayer1010

I wonder how the graphics will compare to the PC

Posted by Lind_L_Taylor

If they had done this to start with Crysis 1, I'd have been more impressed.

Posted by Media_Master

I've always wanted to play the first Crysis but I didn't have a powerful PC.

It's great to hear them bringing the Crysis 2 to PC, PS3, and 360

Posted by atlantabrave04

SO to someone who didn't play the first game, What do you guys think the results will be of the sequel being multiplatform? I know it was pretty acclaimed on the PC so I don't know what to expect as far as the 360 version. Predictions?
Posted by L4wz
@TwoOneFive said:
"hopefully the console versions don't hold back the pc version in terms of graphics quality. but after killzone 2, i see no excuse in this game looking insane on ps3 too.  "

Killzone 2 doesn't look anywhere near as good as Crysis.
Posted by fwylo

word?

Posted by ThatFrood
@L4wz said:
" @TwoOneFive said:
"hopefully the console versions don't hold back the pc version in terms of graphics quality. but after killzone 2, i see no excuse in this game looking insane on ps3 too.  "
Killzone 2 doesn't look anywhere near as good as Crysis. "
...yeah
It looks good, Killzone 2, but Crysis has got, fairly obviously, better graphics.
Posted by xyzygy

Lol, nice way to bump this old topic back Lawz. Crysis on the consoles will look vastly inferior to the PC version. Let's hope the PS3 version isn't shitty.. Crytek doesn't really have that much experience working with the system.

Posted by L4wz
@ThatFrood said:
" @L4wz said:
" @TwoOneFive said:
"hopefully the console versions don't hold back the pc version in terms of graphics quality. but after killzone 2, i see no excuse in this game looking insane on ps3 too.  "
Killzone 2 doesn't look anywhere near as good as Crysis. "
...yeah It looks good, Killzone 2, but Crysis has got, fairly obviously, better graphics. "

Yeah I mean $400-$300 Console vs $5,000 PC. Gee I wonder who is going to win.
Posted by Linkyshinks

 Crysis 2 will be unveiled in the issue of January / February issue of German magazine PC Gamer.  
 
 

Posted by AndrewB
@L4wz: As if you need a $5000 PC to run Crysis, these days. Even back when it was released, my $1400 computer could run it just fine on high. Now, that system wouldn't cost nearly as much. Also keep in mind that owning a good computer gives you more than just game-playing capability,
 
But whatever; not about to have an "is it worth it" argument, because I realize the answer to that totally depends on personal need. I just hate the misconception that Crysis absolutely requires a multi-thousand dollar machine to play.
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