05.06.2008 15:00
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Stand-Alone "Crysis: Warhead" Announcement & Community Note!
1. Crysis: Warhead Announcement
EA AND CRYTEK ANNOUNCE DEVELOPMENT OF CRYSIS WARHEAD
The Next Installment of One of the Highest Rated Games of 2007
Blasts its way onto PCs this Fall
Redwood City, Calif. – June 5, 2008 – Maximum freedom, maximum explosions and maximum Psycho! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and award-winning independent studio Crytek today announced Crysis Warhead® – the parallel story to Crysis, one of the most critically-acclaimed first person shooters and PC games of 2007. Shipping exclusively for the PC this fall, Crysis Warhead is the first title to be developed at Crytek´s Budapest studio, and is built on a new, enhanced and optimized version of Crytek’s CryENGINE® 2 technology.
“We were very pleased with the reception of Crysis from both gamers and media after our launch last year,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO and President of Crytek. “That being said, one of the key principles of our studio is to always raise the bar. With Warhead, we are focusing on refining our storytelling and game performance, while also delivering more of the visually stunning graphics and immersive, free-roaming gameplay everyone loved in Crysis.”
“The best result of a partnership that we can ask for in the EA Partners program is when a world class independent studio like Crytek chooses to continue to work with us,” said David DeMartini, Vice President and Global General Manager, EA Partners. “Crysis was an amazing game and is going to be a blockbuster franchise. We could not be more excited to be working with Crytek to launch another hit with Crysis Warhead this year.”
In Crysis Warhead, players will don the Nanosuit of Sergeant Sykes, also known as ‘Psycho’, one of the most memorable characters from Crysis. More brash and aggressive than his Delta Force squadmate Nomad, players will experience Psycho’s parallel story during the events of the original game, finding that life on the other side of the island is even more intense and explosive than they ever could have imagined. Luckily, Psycho’s Nanosuit is just as capable and he’s equipped with an even bigger arsenal of fully customizable weapons and new vehicles, giving players access to the tools they need to dominate any situation. Aside from this new, exciting single player campaign, Crysis Warhead will also feature new multiplayer content. Stay tuned for more details this summer.
Crysis Warhead has not yet been rated by the ESRB or PEGI. For more information about the game, please visit www.crysisthegame.com.
2. Community Note
Alongside today’s super-exciting announcement of Crysis: Warhead we wanted to take the chance to bring some clarity to some misunderstandings we have seen in the community after last week’s Crysis Monthly Update.
As you know, it was a very hard decision for us to cancel Patch 1.3, but in the end it was important we shift our focus to some of the new and exciting things we are doing with Crysis Warhead. We have a lot of great content planned for the community and as we get closer to launch, we’ll be sharing a lot of details of what we are working on behind the scenes. This was the main reason behind the cancellation of the patch and while piracy was and continues to be an issue with Crysis, it did not have any role in our decision to cancel this patch.
We also want to make sure you all know that we are not ending our support of Crysis. We still have www.crymod.com, our official modding portal, up and running – a great meeting place not only for modders, but also for all who are interested in playing new, custom content. In addition we have plans to continue updating the CryENGINE2 documentation and video tutorials frequently.
And of course, your dedicated community management teams are still here and active in our official forums and fansite forums.
The important point is that we are not giving up on our current community and we hope that the announcement today pleased you. Stay tuned for more information on Crysis: Warhead... there is a lot more to come!
The pack shot below is not the final version and just a teaser how it might look like.
Do not pay too much attention to the logos such as the "LIVE" logo, since they have been placed for a placeholder purpose and nothing else.
Related Links:
- Crysis: Warhead Web Site
-Crymod Staff Team
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This post has been edited 5 time(s), it was last edited by Cry-Alex: 27.06.2008 11:06.
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05.06.2008 15:01
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So those who are still interested have to BUY autodownloader. Is this a stand-alone application anyway?
This post has been edited 2 time(s), it was last edited by Slater: 05.06.2008 15:02.
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05.06.2008 15:01
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05.06.2008 15:02
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Cool idea with the parrallel story! 
I want to play it, now! 
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05.06.2008 15:03
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RE: Crysis: Warhead Announcement & Community Note!
holy ****! good stuff thank you alex i am glad to finally know what is going on i hope the multi player is as good as or better than original crysis! so is it being released as a tottally new game or an expansion??? and how much will it cost?
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This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by R4ND13H4ND13: 05.06.2008 15:09.
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05.06.2008 15:06
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Beginner
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YEZZZZ!!!! A NEW CRYSIS! with maybe even better graphics? with the new cryengine 2!
WOOHOO i cant wait!
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05.06.2008 15:11
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This is fantastic news, especially (IMO) the news that MP is to be expanded, can I assume we will see some of the new SP weapons turn up in MP?
Oh and thanks as usual Alex, I expect you'll all be celebrating in the Jade club tonight 
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05.06.2008 15:14
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omg - I'm super stoked!!
You guys have just made my day 
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05.06.2008 15:14
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Sounds really good
Looking forward to play with psycho
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05.06.2008 15:14
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this is awesome news!!
a more action filld side story, with psycho!!
should be great fun, i only hope i can get a good pc by that time
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05.06.2008 15:16
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24/7 Modder
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Wow, "sooner than you might think", indeed.
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Originally posted by Sonic-Safais
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In harbor map Strickland tells psycho that he's got a new assignment from JSOC, maybe we get to know what was that "assignment". |
Huge success 
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05.06.2008 15:16
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Trained Modder
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05.06.2008 15:19
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Beginner
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Woo, this looks good. And now the hardware is starting to come out that can run crysis almost on full (GTX 280), this should be good,
What would be interesting is if they enabled support for the physics software that supposed to be built into the 8, and 9 series, now nvidia has bought ageia. Also, Psycho was my favourite character so yeh!
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05.06.2008 15:21
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05.06.2008 15:24
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Have to agree that the parallel story line is a really nice idea and im glad to see you're still focusing on your main strength - Singleplayer. I look forward to hearing more about the improvements to MP as well.
Just to clarify as you never quite said it, but as good as. Will there be any more patches for Crysis? I note that you mentioned crymod, SB2 docs etc, but noticably didnt mention patches. Thinking about BF2 and the Special Forces expansion (which seems a fairly reasonable comparison) some of the core improvements in that expansion were provided in a bf2 patch - indeed later patches patched both bf2 and special forces at the same time - and all functionalty was available to bf2 modders. Will something similar be the case with crysis:warhead? Or will we just have to wait for more details?
Anyway, good luck with development and thankyou for your clarification regarding this and piracy - it is nice to see you addressing some of the concerns. Looking forward to autumn!
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05.06.2008 15:26
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:o) I've said that canceling of patch 1.3 have some GOOOOOOOOOOD REAAASSOOOON! THANK YOU CRYTEK
YEAAAAH!
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This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by Jakub48: 05.06.2008 15:45.
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05.06.2008 15:27
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woot so sick!!!! I cant wait for the updated cryengine2 with superb graphics and amazing explosive gameplay plus new weapons
I cant wait to lua the AI to. I wish though that this would be out in the summer, when there is no school 
Can we expect a demo or a little something over the summer such as an engine update or something on the line of that?
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05.06.2008 15:28
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this is not a surprise to me at all !
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05.06.2008 15:31
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Beginner
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I had a feeling this is what it would be
Anyway im still a bit worried with the whole patch cancel thing. Will there be other patches ? Who knows. Anyway cant wait for this, more Crysis is a good thing
Just hope they dont cancel patches for this after it comes out...........
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