Crytek Working on a New Shooter IP, Canceled a 3rd Person Shooter
After releasing the commercially and critically successful Crysis 2, developer Crytek has begun work on a new shooter IP, after cancelling development on a 3rd person shooter.
Spotted by internet sleuth Superannuation, the LinkedIn profile of David Ramos, Gameplay/Animation Programmer at Crytek GmbH, revealed the new game:
New IP, shooter genre, TBA title for Xbox360, PS3 and PC (1 year)
- Implementation of several core gameplay mechanics architectures
- Main animation programmer at game code level
- Refactored the code handling the input for aiming to drastically improve its feeling
- General optimization tasks for consoles at game code level
- Co-designed many of the project game mechanicsNew IP, third person shooter genre, cancelled title for Xbox360,PS3 and PC (half a year)
- Responsible of maintaining most of the animation-related functionality
Additionally, the CV of Dimitry Kachkovski names the canceled game as Redemption.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that Crysis 3 isn’t in development, or that Timesplitters isn’t being worked on by their UK studio, but it’s great to see that Crytek are still looking to bring out a new IP in this console cycle.
7 Responses to “Crytek Working on a New Shooter IP, Canceled a 3rd Person Shooter”
Crysis 3?
Timesplitters should be their main focus!
Fixing crysis 2′s crappy multiplayer should be their priority.
probably a spin off or crysis
Noo.. Dont you guys ever learn that by making a console version of crysis 2 f***ed the game up… Especially on the ps3?? stick to PC!!!
How did putting Crysis 2 on the consoles screw things up? It was the PC version that got hacked so if anything the worst version was the PC version. Can you really blame Crytek for wanting to make console games. They had their sales destroyed for the PC platform by PC Hackers which could have caused people to get fired and titles to be forcefully cancelled (That third person shooter that got cancelled? What’s to say they had to due to lose of sales from the PC Crysis 2 hack)
You try telling any of the guys who made Crysis 2 to stick to PC. After what happened I think they have every right to want to make more of their games multiformat.
Oh boy oh boy – another pretty ordinary shooter may be coming our way. Get the mega-overhype train started!