Crysis 2 E3 2010 teaser trailer
The new E3 teaser Crysis 2 video features “The Pinger.” In this new series of Crysis, there is a return of aliens with a full invasion force. The location is of New York.
On December 7 the Crysis 2 is getting released by Electronic Arts on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
The game is built on CryEngine 3 multiplatform game development system.
Crysis 2 arriving this Autumn
The mega blockbuster game of Crytek and Electronic Arts, Crysis 2, was expected to be launched this holiday season, end of the year.
A new report comes that the game is arriving in Autumn this year. This was confirmed from the ad by EA. So, all the fans of Crysis 2 is now going to wait little less.
New CRYEngine 2 is being used by Crytek for developing the new game. The game will also hit the consoles this time, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2.
Richard Morgan, the award winning sci-fi novel writer, is busy writing the Crysis 2 stories, which is suppose to happen in the urban settings of New York.
We can hope the video of Crysis 2 at the E3 Expo 2010. It is going to start in couple of days.
Crysis 2 release date not confirmed
Is Crysis 2 releasing this year in the month of December? Don’t know exactly but the latest issue of PC Gamer UK claims that.
The latest bumper Crysis 2 preview page in the latest issue of PC Gamer mentions the release date of the game in a tiny boxout.
Thouth right now the date is not confirmed, but Cervet Yerli, CEO of Crytek, said recently that Crysis 2 PC version is graphically superior if it is compared with both the PS3 as well as the Xbox 360 editions.
He also mentioned that the PS3 version seems little better than the 360 version.
Well, in the latest update, EA said, “We’ve not actually confirmed the release date of Crysis 2 yet, so unfortunately cannot confirm this.”
New screens of Crysis 2
For a while Crytek is putting all the effort for hyping Crysis 2. It has released screens of the game and it shows that aliens are gunning people down in the street of New York. The screenshot also reflects that the player is blasting someone off his feet.
The HUD is also shown of and it is believed that this is to be the first time.
Crysis 2 will be available this holiday and it will be coming on all the three, for the PC, the Xbox 360 and also on PS3.
In the game unique and frightening alien species attacks the New York city with deadly weaponry, exceptional sensory abilities and also having intelligent collaboration to give most challenging opponents to players till date in a first person shooter.
Players have to assess the situations they encounter, which are surrounded by devastation in the urban jungle and they have to make use of weapons and powers that has been to them solely to save New York.
Amazing graphics of Crysis 2 on all platforms
Last year when the original Crysis hit the PC, then it was thought that such amazing and outstanding graphics weren’t touchable by PS3 or the Xbox 360. Yes, most of that is true still.
Crytek, the develper of Crysis, has tapped deeper into the the consoles of Sony and Microsoft than what it was realistically possible years before. The company promises now to deliver the best graphics that have ever been seen, regardless of platform. Well, it was not easy to achieve this for the developer.
Cevat Yerli, the CEO of Crytek sais: “The decision to enter the console market for engines was first driven by our desire to make console games. That’s what we always wanted to do.”
He also added further in the interview with Game Reactor, “The big challenge during the development of CryENGINE3 has been scaling the engine whilst maintaining the visual quality and performance. This is always challenging; problems occurred of course, but we’re really proud that our teams have managed to solve them as we proved in line with several engine presentations and will prove with Crysis 2.”
According to him, the console gamers will now be getting fresh new game paradigm with the release of Crysis 2. He mentioned, “I think for console gamers especially the freedom of Crysis 2 gameplay is very interesting. Crysis gameplay is not about ‘go anywhere’, it is about looking at a situation from a great vantage point and then formulating a plan which you proactively initiate and defeat your foes.”
CryEngine 3 powers three versions together
The Crysis 2 seems to become one hell of a game for the console owners. With the latest technology gone are the lush jungles. Instead now one will see New York. The PS3 as well as Xbox 360 owners will be proud of this new series because the CryEngine 3 is an amazing bit of tech.
In the recent edition of the Edge magazine Crytek had discussed some of the behind the engine features, mainly the Sandbox 3.
The magazine mentioned that Sandbox 3 can run a “fully featured, fully interactive editor” in even when the the console versions of the game runs.
It may be sounding something like the stuff of dreams for developers. The PlayStation 3 and also the Xbox 360 versions run in-sync alongside the PC version across all the three monitors. Moreover, it can be easily edited on the fly as it is needed with only a mouse and the keyboard.
According to the magazine, there is no downtime. Crysis 2 simply exists as multiformat. It has 2 testers play the console iterations and the third edits the game even when it is live. Apart from these, it is to be taken note that everything is shared. CryEngine 3 powers all the three versions together. Simply to say – “there is no port”.
Crytek says no compromise for PS3 for Crysis 2
The original Crysis had the PC gamers salivating at the graphics. It was thought how it would look in PS3 and Xbox 360. It won’t be a perfect match. But is it right henceforth?
The developer Crytek is on the way of developing Crysis 2 for even the Xobx 360 and the PS3 apart from the PC version.
There may be argument by the PC gamers. They argue that console versions will be just like a shoddy port and nothing more than that.
But… wait.
Cevat Yerli, the CEO of Crytek, recently told to the media that PS3 version of this new series is being developed alongside the PC version. He also said, “I don’t feel we’ve compromised anything.”
Earlier Yerli said, “We don’t need to dumb down the game; the technology provides all the horsepower we need to make a kick-ass 360 game and a kick-ass PS3 game, and push the PC gaming forward still.”
The Crysis 2 is being released by the end of this year.
Crysis2 and Free Radical
Crysis 2, The developer Free Radial will be working on it now though we don’t know how it’ll be working. But Indeed we don’t need to put up with the bad temper of irritated call from so called friend.
In spite of have corroded memory it won’t be problem for Crysis2 as Free Radical , the same British developer behind the outstanding Time splittersseries where it has been forced to quit doors after the debacle i.e. Haze.
Hopefully, Crysis 2 will be released for the for the PC, Xbox360 and PS3
As per Crytek boss Faruk Yerli , they are working on “a part of the game” by extending their collaboration on the project.
Piracy Hurts PC-Only Games
It is widely known that Crysis 2 will be made available for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The game has more potential sales but still there is another pressing reason that Crytek went this direction.
Recently in an interview the Director of Business Development and Engine Licensing for Crytek, Carl Jones, said some of the most important things about the process of delivering Crysis 2 to the console owners. When he was about the new CryEngine 2 and also about the licensing that went along with it, he said that licensing a PC-only engine was difficult in the last few years because of the changing nature of the market.
He also added further that piracy hurt PC-only games in terms of sales figures too much. For this reason the developers and publishers have moved away from making such titles.
Carl Jones mentioned more: “As a result, console middleware was more widespread than PC focused technology such as CryENGINE® 1 and 2, but we have had some great successes and developers are working on great looking games that will launch soon, that started out on earlier versions of CryENGINE®. We’re happy with the quality we achieved, but circumstances limited the quantity of licensees we signed up. That won’t be an issue with CryENGINE® 3!”
CryEngine 3 is now available for all developers
The latest all-in-one development solution CryENGINE 3, according to the announcements of Crytek, is now available for all developers. This engine is the first of its kind game development platform for the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3, the MMO, and DX9/DX10 that also is truly Next-Gen-Ready. It has scalable computation and graphics for all the big upcoming platforms.
CryEngine 3 provides complete gaming engine that will help in creating AAA quality next generation games. It also includes the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox™ level editor. Apart from this it also has a production-proven 3rd generation “What you see is what you play” (WYSIWYP) - tool that is designed by and for professional developers.
This newly launched engine even introduces CryENGINE 3 Live Create™. This will allow the developers to work with a single editor and at the same time to also see and play the results in real-time on the PC, the PS3 and also the Xbox360.
CryEngine 3 also takes care of the conversion and optimization of assets in real-time. It enables immediate cross-platform changeover to any part of game creation and hence it materially increases the speed, the quality and also it reduces significantly the risk of multiplatform development.
