Posts Tagged ‘Cryengine 3’

This engine may be powering games for the next generation of consoles. Amazing!

Finally Crysis for the PS3 and the Xbox360 home consoles.  Enough of Crytek building great shooters for high-end PC’s with $500.00 graphics cards.  I can’t afford to buy the hardware to play such a great game and Crytek can’t afford not to make Crysis 2 for the home console market.

Beginning this month the German based company will begin development on Crysis 2 for home console use as well as the PC.  This is the sequel to the highly acclaimed game Crysis which was exclusive to the PC.  For over a decade now Crytek has developed firstly for the PC and are best known for their work with the Far Cry games.  Now after debuting the new Cryengine 3 game engine at this years Game Developers Conference the developers of the series are assured that Crysis can be brought to consoles “properly”.

I’ve been wondering why Crytek took so long to get this gorgeous game to the console realm along with many, many fans.  Here’s a quote from Crytek boss Cevat Yerli given to gamespot reporters, “At the end of the day we’re paying salaries and we all have to live, but that’s one side of this job.  But most importantly and a bit more tangible to us are the families, the nephews, and sons who ask, ‘Why aren’t you going to consoles?’  It’s kind of like bothering people.  We’ve been asked a lot in the last three or four years now, ‘When consoles?  When consoles?  When consoles?’  It was literally inevitable that we would bring it.”  “There was two to three years of technical research and development into consoles before development on Crysis 2 started,” he continued. “We had to make a technological breakthrough before we could commit to those quality bars… We had to make a technical base before we could get into great game play, story, settings, etc.”

There is a video on the net about the console release of Crysis 2, but if your looking for some insight about the new game, there isn’t any.

-dude