Surprise! Crysis demo delayed!

Posted by Victor Godinez

5:44 PM, September 21, 2007

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So apparently the developers at Crytek woke up this morning and realized that Halo 3 is coming out next week.

Because the Crysis singleplayer demo -- originally scheduled to go live on Tuesday, the same freaking day as the Halo 3 launch -- has been delayed until Oct. 26.

Of course, no one at Crytek or EA is mentioning Halo in the official release (peep it after the jump), but c'mon, guys.

Let's just all admit that you guys swallowed your pride and admitted to each other that Crysis was going to be crushed like Bambi at a nuclear bomb test site.

CRYSIS SINGLE PLAYER DEMO MOVES TO OCTOBER 26, 2007

EA and Crytek are announcing today that the single player demo for Crysis is moving to October 26, 2007. The demo will also be released with Crytek’s CryEngine 2 – Sandbox 2 game editor, giving the community a great amount of hands on time with the powerful mod tools coming with Crysis before the November 16th release date.

Please see Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli’s note to the community for more details.

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Hi everyone,

We have some news to announce.

First, I am sorry for the bad news - the Crysis single player demo will now be available everywhere on October 26th, 2007.

We are taking some extra time to make sure you that you have an amazing experience but also we did not want to risk the release date of Crysis at this stage. To get the game into your hands by November the 16th, we had to make this call.

Now the good news - the big surprise. The SP demo will be released with our CryEngine 2 - Sandbox 2 game editor, giving the community the opportunity to get familiar with the vast amount of tools they will have at their disposal four weeks before we ship, something we have always wanted to do.

This is an exciting time for us at the studio as the development of Crysis comes to an end and we are only a few weeks from Gold Master. We appreciate your patience and are looking forward to getting Crysis into your hands on November 16th.

Thanks

Cevat Yerli

CEO & Crytek