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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, <i>ja</i>?

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.

460 Comments

  • halvedlife

    Posted Apr 11, 2011 3:21 pm GMT

    Crysis 2 is amazing on the consoles. Well worth thewait. Best shooter I've played since Half Life 2.

  • ThatAwesomeMan

    Posted Mar 3, 2011 8:16 pm GMT

    CRYSIS 2 FTW!

  • deathtrooper31

    Posted Sep 13, 2010 8:12 am GMT

    will my PC be able to run that........... LMAO

  • krazy-blazer

    Posted Jun 18, 2010 3:21 am GMT

    @Nobri
    Is it a bad idea because more gamers will get to experience Crysis 2?

  • darkcomedian

    Posted Apr 2, 2010 4:32 pm GMT

    Finally I can experience Crysis. Woot!

  • burnhehehburn

    Posted Mar 10, 2010 10:13 am GMT

    hopefully they don't f**k the PC version by just giving us a crappy port from the consoles with no real optimizations. seen that happen quite a few times

  • myungish

    Posted Feb 23, 2010 7:18 am GMT

    i can understand that they want to maximise sales and im all for them making a healthy profit. it means they get to make more awesome games in the future and thats great. i just hope that if the console sales figures do dominate the PC numbers, they dont neglect the PC gamers in future projects. undoubtably, most doomsayers are overeacting on the issue of PC gaming decline, but there is enough of a trend to suggest developers are forsaking PC games in favour of consoles.

  • analgrin

    Posted Feb 2, 2010 4:06 pm GMT

    given that crysis still brings top pc's to their knees They have got some serious optimizations to do. Of course it simply cant be as good looking as the pc version on highest settings but even at a notch or 2 down it will still look great!! Let hope the pc version doesnt suffer for it tho,

  • Nobri

    Posted Feb 1, 2010 4:44 am GMT

    I love my PS3, but bringing the best looking game ever to consoles is just a bad idea...

  • Sergeevich13

    Posted Dec 5, 2009 8:15 pm GMT

    Wtf so Crysis 2 is for the ps3 but not crysis 1???

  • Wisely321

    Posted Sep 13, 2009 3:54 am GMT

    Will it support Windows 7?

  • KingSam15

    Posted Aug 20, 2009 12:11 pm GMT

    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 GMT

    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 GMT

    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 GMT

    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 GMT

    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 GMT

    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 GMT

    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 GMT

    Ah well, all good things end up on consoles!

  • ErazemZ

    Posted Jul 17, 2009 3:02 am GMT

    @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 )