Crysis
GameBy Crytek Frankfurt · Released Nov 2007
From the makers of Far Cry, Crysis offers FPS fans the best-looking, most highly-evolving gameplay, requiring the player to use adaptive tactics and total customization of weapons and armor to survive in dynamic, hostile environments including Zero-G.
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About the game
- Released
- Nov 2007
- Developer
- Crytek Frankfurt
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Genres
- Shooter, Adventure
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game data from IGDB.com
Documents about Crysis
Crytek Cites “Unfavorable Market Dynamics” in Laying Off 60 Devs and Putting Next Crysis Game on Hold
Crytek, the German studio behind Crysis and Hunt: Showdown, announced in February 2025 that it will lay off roughly 60 of its 400 employees, a 15% workforce reduction, and put development of the next Crysis game on hold.
- Crytek has laid off 60 employees, representing 15% of its 400-person workforce, citing unfavorable market dynamics.
- The studio has officially put the development of the next Crysis game on hold to focus resources on Hunt: Showdown 1896 and CryEngine support.
- Crytek previously attempted to achieve financial sustainability by freezing the Crysis project in Q3 2024 and reallocating staff to the Hunt: Showdown team, but these measures were insufficient.
"I'm Overburdened!": An Empirical Study of the Player, the Avatar, and the Gameworld
Jørgensen's study investigates how players understand their relationship to controllable figures within video games, challenging the adequacy of existing terminology such as "avatar" and "character" to describe that relationship.
- The study is based on interviews with 22 respondents (17 individual interviews and one five-person group interview) across four games: Crysis, Diablo 2, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, and The Sims 2.
- The central distinction it draws is between a direct, one-to-one relationship between player and figure and an indirect, mediated one, which it argues existing terms like 'avatar' and 'character' fail to capture.
- Only Crysis's first-person perspective consistently led players to merge with their figure, experiencing player and character viewpoints as unified and identifying most strongly with the avatar.