'Altered Carbon' Author to Pen the Story for Crytek's Blockbuster
Action Game Coming Holiday 2010
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Apr 09, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Crytek GmbH today announced that
Richard Morgan, award-winning author of the science-fiction bestsellers
'Altered Carbon' and 'Broken Angels', is writing the story for this
holiday's blockbuster action game, Crysis 2. Morgan is working
with Crytek to bring his trademark visceral writing style to the
project, which is his first entry into the video game medium. In Crysis
2, New York is under the attack of a unique and frightening alien
species that combines deadly weaponry, exceptional sensory abilities and
intelligent collaboration to present players with the most challenging
opponents ever seen in a first person shooter. Surrounded by
devastation, players must assess the situations they encounter, adapt to
this urban jungle and use the weapons and powers given solely to them to
save New York. Morgan enters this distressed world and brings it to life
with gritty characters, a rich back-story and plot twists rarely found
in video games.
"Video games are one of the only things in my life I would qualify as a
complete addiction," said Richard Morgan. "The medium has every bit the
potential for exciting and emotionally charged storytelling as
literature and film, and I'm excited to explore this format on my first
project in partnership with a world class developer like Crytek."
"At Crytek, we pride ourselves on working with the most elite talent in
the industry, and Richard is no exception," said Cevat Yerli, CEO and
President of Crytek. "He has helped us take our ideas for Crysis 2
and transform them into a story that really engages the player in many
new and exciting ways. His passion for his craft and for games is a
perfect match for our team and we can't wait for gamers to experience
this collaboration."
In Crysis 2, the aliens have returned with a full invasion force
bent on nothing less than the total annihilation of mankind. In New
York, terrifying alien invaders stalk the streets and a nightmare plague
strikes down the city's myriad inhabitants with brutal epidemic speed.
The city's systems are in chaos, its streets and skyline are smashed and
in flaming ruin. Neither paramilitary law enforcement nor the might of
the US military machine can stand against the invaders, and all who
choose not to flee are dead men walking. Just to survive in this
maelstrom of death will require technology beyond anything any modern
soldier has ever seen. One man will inherit that means to survive. You
alone must wield the combat technology of Nanosuit 2, and make the last
stand to save humanity from destruction in the urban jungle that is New
York City.
Built on Crytek's new state-of-the art multiplatform game development
system, CryENGINE(R)3, Crysis 2 will be available this holiday for
the PlayStation(R)3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360(R) videogame and
entertainment system, and PC.
For more information on Crysis 2, please visit http://crysis.ea.com
or follow the game on Twitter at www.twitter.com/crysis
and become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/crysis.
About Crytek GmbH
Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is one of the world's leading independent
development studios for interactive entertainment. It is based in
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and has additional studios in Kiev
(Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea) and
Nottingham (UK). Crytek is dedicated to creating exceptionally
high-quality video games for the PC and next-generation consoles,
powered by their proprietary cutting-edge 3D-Game-Technology, CryENGINE(R).
Since its foundation in 1999, Crytek has created the multi-award winning
PC titles Far Cry(R), Crysis(R) (awarded best PC Game of E3 2007 and Best
Technology at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards) and Crysis
Warhead(R) (awarded Best Graphics Technology at IGN Best of 2008 Awards).
Crytek, Crysis, Crysis Warhead and CryENGINE are registered trademarks
or trademarks of Crytek GmbH in the USA, Germany and/or other countries.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is
a leading global interactive entertainment software company. Founded in
1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive
software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless
devices and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under
four brand names: EATM, EA SPORTSTM, EA MobileTM
and POGOTM. In fiscal 2009, EA posted GAAP net revenue of
$4.2 billion and had 31 titles that sold more than one million copies.
EA's homepage and online game site is www.ea.com.
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of companies."PlayStation" is a registered trademark of Sony Computer
Entertainment Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
SOURCE: Electronic Arts Inc.
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or
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