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06-26-2008, 09:17 PM
IGN (http://pc.ign.com) managed to sit down and have a Q&A with Cevat Yerli Crytek's (http://www.crytek.com) CEO in which he looks back at Crysis, talks about the new game Warhead, and discusses the company's future as a PC developer. Lets check it out:
With the recent unveiling of Crysis Warhead, German developer Crytek wants to expand its acclaimed first-person shooter franchise in new directions. As our recent preview notes, Warhead promises to be a much more action-heavy game than last year's Crysis. You'll play as Sergeant Michael Sykes, aka Psycho, one of the supporting characters in Crysis as you experience a whole new set of adventures. During our visit to Crytek's Budapest studio, where Warhead is being developed, we had the chance to sit down with Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli. We asked him about Crysis, Warhead, and the company's future as a PC developer. Excerpts of our conversation can be found below.
IGN: How well did Crysis do?
Cevat Yerli: Well, commercially, we had hopes that were not met. But the real expectations were actually met. As a developer we made a profit, so we're happy. Critically, we achieved goals. The [reviews] were slightly under the critique-level that we wanted to have, but that's life. We may have failed a little here and there, but overall Crysis I would say it didn't do excellent, but it did good.
We are upset at ourselves actually, because we miscommunicated some of the things. We labeled certain things wrong inside the game, like configuration for example. We could have labeled it more efficiently, saying that very high [detail] should have been ultra high, and high should have been very high, because our high compared to other games' high was a generational difference. But the perception from the gamer was that if he qualified for medium, he said, "Hey, I'm playing other games at high. Why don't I play Crysis at high, too?" And it's a fair enough question.
IGN: There are different approaches to online verification, server-side stuff like EA's. Are you looking at that or thinking about that?
Cevat Yerli: Effectively, if the game isn't an online game or multiplayer game--there are challenges regardless of what you do--the game can be cracked. The effort is to make it more difficult to crack, and certainly we're going to make it more difficult this time with Warhead.
To check out the rest of this article, visit here. (http://pc.ign.com/articles/884/884757p1.html)
With the recent unveiling of Crysis Warhead, German developer Crytek wants to expand its acclaimed first-person shooter franchise in new directions. As our recent preview notes, Warhead promises to be a much more action-heavy game than last year's Crysis. You'll play as Sergeant Michael Sykes, aka Psycho, one of the supporting characters in Crysis as you experience a whole new set of adventures. During our visit to Crytek's Budapest studio, where Warhead is being developed, we had the chance to sit down with Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli. We asked him about Crysis, Warhead, and the company's future as a PC developer. Excerpts of our conversation can be found below.
IGN: How well did Crysis do?
Cevat Yerli: Well, commercially, we had hopes that were not met. But the real expectations were actually met. As a developer we made a profit, so we're happy. Critically, we achieved goals. The [reviews] were slightly under the critique-level that we wanted to have, but that's life. We may have failed a little here and there, but overall Crysis I would say it didn't do excellent, but it did good.
We are upset at ourselves actually, because we miscommunicated some of the things. We labeled certain things wrong inside the game, like configuration for example. We could have labeled it more efficiently, saying that very high [detail] should have been ultra high, and high should have been very high, because our high compared to other games' high was a generational difference. But the perception from the gamer was that if he qualified for medium, he said, "Hey, I'm playing other games at high. Why don't I play Crysis at high, too?" And it's a fair enough question.
IGN: There are different approaches to online verification, server-side stuff like EA's. Are you looking at that or thinking about that?
Cevat Yerli: Effectively, if the game isn't an online game or multiplayer game--there are challenges regardless of what you do--the game can be cracked. The effort is to make it more difficult to crack, and certainly we're going to make it more difficult this time with Warhead.
To check out the rest of this article, visit here. (http://pc.ign.com/articles/884/884757p1.html)