Thread: Crysis: Warhead Annouced!

1. Crysis: Warhead Announcement


[size=12px]EA AND CRYTEK ANNOUNCE DEVELOPMENT OF CRYSIS WARHEAD[/size]

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.


[size=12px]2. Community Note[/size]
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!

Welcome to today's Crymod news, in which we're featuring a recent preview from IGN regarding the upcoming title from Crytek, Crysis: Warhead!In the article everything is discussed from game content to piracy issues, plus new screenshots and a teaser video that Crytek have released.

Article Content
The article was very informative for the community in a number of areas; shown below are some of the more notable excerpts from the article. The full preview article plus the screenshots and video can now be found at IGN here.

Originally Posted by Cevat Yerli (CEO of Crytek):

Some people had some concerns about the ending of the game and the linearity of some sections, or could it be a bit more scripted with the environment? We tried to make with Warhead something that is a bit more accessible and mainstream in that regards.

Originally Posted by Bernd Diemer (Senior Game Designer):

He [Psycho, the protagonist in Warhead] is kind of a rough diamond, an unpolished diamond. He's the guy who likes to blow up stuff, he's the guy who likes to the cut to the point very, very fast. He doesn't have time for chit-chat or doubts

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Originally Posted by IGN

Warhead will introduce a new particle system as well as a new global ambient lighting system that boosts the image quality "at almost no performance cost" according to Yerli... some before-and-after shots show off the new level of detail now achievable, right down to being able to see the grain in a wood plank or pores in human skin. "This is being done in DirectX 9," Yerli noted, which is good news for those who haven't or are unwilling to upgrade to Windows Vista and DirectX 10.

Originally Posted by Cevat Yerli:

If you want to have an anti-piracy mechanic, you have to spend a lot of time at the risk of incapability here and there. So you will annoy some people, but you will delay the amount of piracy. You will make 10 people angry for 1,000 more people who cannot copy? It's a dangerous walk to walk because the 10 people who are upset, they will get loud about it. And this is where we have to be good about it, and it's difficult.

New Screenshots:
As well as the article the IGN team have also managed obtain some new screenshots from Crytek showing off the aforementioned fantastic new particle effect system that will be introduced in the new version of CryENGINE2.





Teaser Video:
Finally, Crytek have released a short teaser video of Crysis: Warhead which IGN have featured in the article. However, as Crytek are keeping the lid on all of the new features of the game, expect a lot more content from the final product.

http://www.crytekfiles.com/files/crysis ... teaser.flv

I died a little inside - EA has done it again.

It's basically implementing everything that Crysis got wrong.... this at least shows that Crytek listens to it's community.

EDIT: Just found more info. This time more detail about the improved performance.

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/stream/PC ... d_Mono.flv

Originally Posted by General Naga

It's basically implementing everything that Crysis got wrong.... this at least shows that Crytek listens to it's community.

I'm pretty sure actually it shows that EA aren't listening to the community; the community want the game they bought and payed for to be properly supported; ie. for patches to be released fixing the problems, rather than for a whole new game to be released, priced at ?34.99, features including "the game you already payed for, but with some problems fixed".

I say "EA" aren't listening to the community because this smacks of the BF series.

Originally Posted by EA

Oh, there are problems with our game, so instead of patching it, or even delivering on a patch we already announced, we'll instead release a whole new game. Then we'll claim that, because this game doesn't have the problems the last one did, we've "listened to the community". The community which is saying "please, please fix the game we've already bought."

Note I said Crytek not EA. This all comes down to the EA business attitude.

It doesn't really tell us anything about Crytek. It's just wreaks of EA I'm afraid.

Release Date is set for the 16th of September. I wonder what new gamemode is included - my bet is on team deathmatch.

EDIT: Oh and according to IGN the game will retail for around £15