CEVAT YERLI TALKS CRYSIS 2

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Crysis 2 is a reality. We know this because EA and Crytek announced the game during EA's big E3 press conference today. Unfortunately, that's about all they did. The companies aren't talking much about the game itself, even during a face-to-face interview that we had with Crytek boss Cevat Yerli and EA Partners head David DeMartini shortly before the press conference. Right now, both companies are happy to stick with the announcement. According to both Yerli and DeMartini, the deal for EA to publish Crysis 2 for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 is an extension of their earlier deal for Crysis and Crysis Warhead. And, of course, there's the major bombshell that Crysis 2 is multiplatform and not a PC-exclusive title. Yerli explained that the very competitiveness of Crytek was at stake. He said that while Crysis was successful from a critical and commercial point of view, but it's breaking even to making some profit. "Going forward we need to be more profitable, and the only way to do that is logically to move our company toward the consoles," Yerli said. Crysis 2 is being built on the company's new CryEngine 3 technology, which it showcased at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco earlier this year. Yerli explained that the CryEngine 3 was a significant breakthrough for the company. He said that it's capable of scaling performance considerably, so he maintains that the PC version of Crysis 2 will look far better than the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions. At the same time, the console games will be as state-of-the-art as possible for those platforms.

 

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