Crysis 2 PS3, 360, PC-bound

E3 2009: Hours before its press event, Electronic Arts announces that German developer Crytek is finally bringing its cutting-edge graphics shooter series to consoles.

LOS ANGELES--After years of hints and tech-demo teases, the Crysis series is finally headed to consoles. This morning, Electronic Arts and German developer Crytek announced the development of Crysis 2 for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. The game will be the first console title that the notoriously PC-centric studio will develop directly for consoles, having let Ubisoft develop the console spin-offs for its groundbreaking 2004 first-person shooter Far Cry. Ubisoft bought the Far Cry IP outright in 2006. No release date was given.

All good things come to those who wait, ja?

"The development of Crysis 2 marks a major stepping stone for our studio," said Crytek CEO and President Cevat Yerli in a statement. "This is not only the next game in the Crysis franchise, it's the first title we are developing for consoles and the first title being built on CryEngine 3." In March, the CryEngine3 was shown off on the 360 and PS3 to Game Developers Conference attendees.

As part of today's announcement, EA and Crytek also announced that they were extending their strategic partnership forged in 2004. The deal came shortly after Far Cry became both a critical and commercial hit on the PC for Ubisoft, which EA still owns one fifth of. The deal is part of the EA Partners program, which lets developers pick and choose marketing, sales, and development-support services from the megapublisher. Current EA Partners and games include Harmonix (Rock Band), Valve (The Orange Box and Left 4 Dead), Grasshopper Manufacture (Unnamed PC/PS3/360/Wii project), and Epic Games (Untitled People Can Fly Project).

For more on Crysis 2, check out GameSpot's video stream and live blog of EA's E3 2009 Press Conference at 2 p.m. PDT/10 p.m. BST this afternoon, straight from the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.

456 Comments

  • Wisely321

    Posted Sep 13, 2009 3:54 am PT

    Will it support Windows 7?

  • KingSam15

    Posted Aug 20, 2009 12:11 pm PT

    With DX11 Coming Out And This Game For Consoles we will see a very bad game (not bad but not as good as the older ones)

  • frogfromarz

    Posted Aug 2, 2009 10:27 pm PT

    I have this on PC and man let me tell u it is a real master piece consle gamer will get a kick out of this game...if they can get crysis 2 to look as good as crysis on the PC.

  • Dandelion_0

    Posted Jul 23, 2009 10:35 am PT

    No, the game is supposed to be the best on each plataform. I just hope CE3 looks as good as CE2.

  • soupa_mario

    Posted Jul 23, 2009 2:30 am PT

    So long as they don't pull back the PC graphics just so it can run on consoles i'm happy.

  • Dandelion_0

    Posted Jul 22, 2009 1:09 pm PT

    Hey I have always been a pc gamer but I'm happy that people will get to play Crysis on consoles. I just hope they don't rush the game.

    It's pretty obvious that the PC version will look way better than the console versions, but you will need a good PC to run it on max.

    I hope they go back to the shaders on Crysis because the ones on Warhead were over saturated.

  • BattleforAzerot

    Posted Jul 22, 2009 6:06 am PT

    Redemption80 : It doesnt look better on consoles.There is a comprasion video that shows how Crysis 1 is far better at highest settings than the console version of Crysis 2.

  • Redemption80

    Posted Jul 21, 2009 5:04 pm PT

    Wow, yet again totally ashamed to call myself a PC gamer.

    So many of you acting like spoiled kids, cause your neighbour got the same toy that you had been rubbin his face in, come on get a grip.
    As for Crysis being dumbed down, it was already dumb, as was the original Fear, and just about every other video game out there, cause well thats what they are supposed to be.

    ErazemZ, system ram has alot to do with graphics, when the video card runs out, the system ram takes over, as it has to, yes its slower, but it still uses it
    Crysis uses about 1.5gb of my system ram when i checked it there.
    Try to do a bit of research before calling people retards, and making yourself look silly.

    And the 360/PS3 footage of CryEngine3 looks as good if not better than the original Crysis, but we will wait to see if this ends up true in reality.

  • Dynamo11

    Posted Jul 19, 2009 7:50 am PT

    Ah well, all good things end up on consoles!

  • ErazemZ

    Posted Jul 17, 2009 3:02 am PT

    @all the retards like mouthforbathory!!!

    RAM has nothing WHATSOEVER to do with graphics!!! The graphics cards utilize their own GRAM, because the RAM you have on your mobo is WAY to slow. (just for example: the pci-e has 16gb/s bandwith, while your average ram only has 125mb/s r/w (reed/write) speed)

    So 4gb's of ram won't help you up your graphics performance. It affects other things, but not graphics!!!

    (All that assuming you don't have internal graphics accelration :d )

  • marcopolo4212

    Posted Jul 8, 2009 11:14 pm PT

    Gorfix ......the only console i have is PS3...but, i also have a pc...(like 90% of the population) and have played and beaten crysis and know the story....why does it even matter that gamers get to play crysis? don't you want to share the greatness of this game?

  • Gorfix

    Posted Jun 28, 2009 8:18 am PT

    WHy make it for Consle??? this is a killer PC game theese ppl wont even know the story of the game it should stick to PC. {I am sooooo buying it} graphics are sweet with PC

  • aaronobst

    Posted Jun 11, 2009 1:18 am PT

    You don't know that! hell maybe it'll be mind blowing across the board

  • coulthard_sc

    Posted Jun 10, 2009 12:34 pm PT

    haha i knew it ,what a sell out.instead of improving everything for the pc version they are gonna take advantage of the first crysis and make a dozen of millions from the console where all the money is. its all about money falks

  • macedonia_sucks

    Posted Jun 9, 2009 1:39 pm PT

    backstabbing bastards

  • SQUALL20XX

    Posted Jun 9, 2009 11:54 am PT

    The game that bush your PC to the limits, can't wait

  • aaronobst

    Posted Jun 7, 2009 12:53 am PT

    SSBFan12 LOL! disappointed that it's not coming to Wii?

  • SSBFan12

    Posted Jun 6, 2009 7:59 pm PT

    I can't believe that the consoles are going to get Crysis.

  • msudude211

    Posted Jun 5, 2009 2:25 pm PT

    Good to hear that the consoles will get the opportunity to experience the Crysis series.

  • jmaccini

    Posted Jun 5, 2009 8:52 am PT

    @athenian29

    Can't pirate console games? ha thats a good joke. Half my friends have their Xbox's modded for just that purpose and 90% of PS3 owners I know have theirs modded as well... Pirating is everywhere... Sucks, but its true.

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