Crysis… for 360? (Which “isn’t” Crysis for the PC)

(Was drinking water, saw the subject matter of this article, and spat all the water out in shock) No plans of porting Crysis to next-gen consoles, Kim Jong-Il’s nuked hind quarters! Well, surprise, surprise, someone’s telling 1UP on the 1UP show that they’re bringing a Crysis game to the Xbox 360 after all…or are they? Here’s the catch, though: (a) It won’t be the PC game. And (b) it won’t be at a D3D10 G80 D-HIDR8 graphics quality.

Both Xboxic and Crysis-Online have posted up summaries of the Crysis 360 (not-so) port. We’ve also had a listen to the 1UP podcast ourselves – it begins with a reference to comparing Age of Conan D3D10 PC to Age of Conan DX9 Xbox 360 during CES… and then segues right into the surprise: “And with Crysis, the 360 game is not going to be the same game…” The presumption is that the guy saying that’s a Crytek dev, based on what Xboxic said, but the entire 1UP podcast is long, covers so much ground, we kinda couldn’t ID the voices themselves anymore.

Anyway, what he meant by “not the same game” was that it wouldn’t focus much on the graphics (which would be the D3D10 PC’s cachet) as it would on the gameplay. There’s also the hint that the 360 Crysis would take place in the same universe as the PC Crysis – Fabula Nova Crysis, perhaps?

The only thing missing before we blow this report from Rumor to News is the official press release from Crytek… or EA. You see, Crysis-Online thinks that the 1UP guys must have mixed up the discussion of the 360 Conan with their Crysis talk. The dialogue did seem to indicate a separate Crysis game, but like we said: no press release yet. Unless this is… an inadvertent leak. Is it?

(Was drinking water, saw the subject matter of this article, and spat all the water out in shock) No plans of porting Crysis to next-gen consoles, Kim Jong-Il’s nuked hind quarters! Well, surprise, surprise, someone’s telling 1UP on the 1UP show that they’re bringing a Crysis game to the Xbox 360 after all…or are they? Here’s the catch, though: (a) It won’t be the PC game. And (b) it won’t be at a D3D10 G80 D-HIDR8 graphics quality.

Both Xboxic and Crysis-Online have posted up summaries of the Crysis 360 (not-so) port. We’ve also had a listen to the 1UP podcast ourselves – it begins with a reference to comparing Age of Conan D3D10 PC to Age of Conan DX9 Xbox 360 during CES… and then segues right into the surprise: “And with Crysis, the 360 game is not going to be the same game…” The presumption is that the guy saying that’s a Crytek dev, based on what Xboxic said, but the entire 1UP podcast is long, covers so much ground, we kinda couldn’t ID the voices themselves anymore.

Anyway, what he meant by “not the same game” was that it wouldn’t focus much on the graphics (which would be the D3D10 PC’s cachet) as it would on the gameplay. There’s also the hint that the 360 Crysis would take place in the same universe as the PC Crysis – Fabula Nova Crysis, perhaps?

The only thing missing before we blow this report from Rumor to News is the official press release from Crytek… or EA. You see, Crysis-Online thinks that the 1UP guys must have mixed up the discussion of the 360 Conan with their Crysis talk. The dialogue did seem to indicate a separate Crysis game, but like we said: no press release yet. Unless this is… an inadvertent leak. Is it?