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GDC 08: Crysis on Xbox 360 Shown Behind Closed Doors

By Alex Petraglia on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 10:00 AM EST  

Crysis on consoles was one of the biggest mysteries of GDC this year. Crytek itself sent out a press release in January announcing that it would be showing Crysis running on ‘next-gen’ consoles at the show.

No further details were unveiled by the time GDC arrived, so I decided to do a little investigative work while on the exhibition floor.

At Crytek’s own booth, a representative from the studio revealed to me that the game was indeed being shown running on the Xbox 360, but only behind-closed-doors.

As much as I pleaded, the rep would not allow access, but did reveal that they were showing the game to prospective publishers.

EA was responsible for publishing the game on the PC, but apparently did not secure a deal at the same time to publish on consoles.

If the game did garner enough interest from a publisher at the show, and we couldn’t imagine why it wouldn’t, an official announcement shouldn’t be too far off.

Update: 1:50 PM EST Wednesday 3/5

Several readers have voiced concern over the validity of this report and believe that it was CryEngine2 being shown, and not Crysis itself.

The representative’s exact words were “We are showing the game behind closed doors.” I did not press him/her for further details, nor, again, did I see it first-hand to verify the claim.

If he or she misspoke and meant to say ‘engine’ is open to interpretation.

Regardless, it’s just another strong indication that Crysis or a different Crytek game in a similar vein will be coming to next-gen consoles in due time.

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18 Responses to “GDC 08: Crysis on Xbox 360 Shown Behind Closed Doors”

  1. Skyler Sutter on March 3rd, 2008 8:52 pm

    Please god let Crysis be released on 360.

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  3. Prof on March 4th, 2008 8:25 pm

    Can you not read your own website’s past stories? CryENGINE 2. Not Crysis. The engine. Crysis is not coming to consoles.

  4. drum on March 4th, 2008 9:29 pm

    seriously, this is the ENGINE they were showing off, to potential customers that would like to license the engine out for console development. now, of course they were shoing off crysis, what else do they have that they could show off? a few tech demos maybe, but why not just use crysis?

    this was a showing of the engine to potential customers, not a showing of crysis going to the consoles. in fact, not 2 weeks ago they themselves even said that they are still considering a console version.

    all that being said, i expect it happen eventually, after all, this is ea were talking about here.

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