IGN brings us another two new Crysis: Warhead screen shots and chats with Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli about Crysis, Crysis: Warhead, Crytek's future as a PC developer and more. Worth a read for sure. Thanks PhilB.

"IGN: How well did Crysis do?

Cevat Yerli: Well, commercially, we had hopes that were not met. But the real expectations were actually met. As a developer we made a profit, so we're happy. Critically, we achieved goals. The [reviews] were slightly under the critique-level that we wanted to have, but that's life. We may have failed a little here and there, but overall Crysis I would say it didn't do excellent, but it did good."

"I think our message is if you're a PC gamer, and you really want to respect the platform, then you should stop pirating. We will see less and less games appearing on the PC, or less and less games pushing the boundaries of PC gaming. Or, in other words, speaking in terms of PC exclusivity, we would only consider full PC exclusives--if the situation continues like this or gets worse--I think we would only consider PC exclusive titles that are either online or multiplayer and no more single-player."

"IGN: With Crysis do you think that you revealed too much of the game too soon?

Cevat Yerli: Oh yeah, with Crysis for sure."

"Warhead is contained. Warhead has its intro, its own story, and you don't have to know Crysis."

"IGN: Are we looking forward to a Prophet game?

Cevat Yerli: Might be [he smiles]. You never know. We might be thinking about that already."

"IGN: You're going to be one of the few PC exclusive games--the big ones--this year. A lot of PC games are multiplatform now.

Cevat Yerli: There's a lot of critique about this decision, "Why don't we just go for console?" And yes, it could be done; it could be done pretty straightforward. But I still want to have Crysis on the PC; the dominant platform should be PC. And Crysis should be on PC. This is a philosophical decision here. We'll see how it holds up here, and we see if our exclusivity is not rewarded, it will have consequences."

Full interview here
The four new screens in higher resolution at PC Games

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2008.06.27, Mocib