Yet Another PS3 Crysis Rumor Emerges

by Chris Naughton

If we had a nickel for every time there was a rumor that the PC giant Crysis was coming to PS3, we'd have at least a dollar by now. Maybe two or three.

The newest report comes from PSW, a magazine from the UK. The magazine insists that it's "no secret" it's coming to PlayStation 3 and that it will hit the console by year's end. And even more surprising: the game will supposedly be 50% new.

"Now it's no secret that Crysis is coming to PS3 this year. The excitable, hard-worked coders over at Crytek have said as much in many interviews - they've even produced a new, multi-platform engine in readiness - but the real juice here is that it won't be a straight conversion of the PC game," reports the mag.

"We understand PS3 Crysis will be an almost 50% new game, with many of the original games staff taken off PC Crysis months before release to begin to work on Crysis 2 and a port to PS3 that will include aspects of the sequel - but a new structure, environments, weapons and enemies will feature on PS3. This should be one of the year's biggest console shooters."

The news wouldn't be as surprising as it would have been six months ago, since the company did show their CryENGINE 2 engine working on both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at GDC, and what better a title to use the engine for?

A scan of the magazine can be found here, courtesy of MAXCONSOLE.