During a one-hour Electronic Arts Studio Showcase event EA Partners boss David DeMartini announced that we'll be getting our first look on the multiplayer portion of Crysis 2 at Germany's biggest gaming show gamescom, in Cologne. Gamescom will keep its doors open for business from August 18-22. There is also a possibility that we'll get to see a sneak peek on Crysis 2 MP on August 17th during EA's gamescom press conference.

Nathan Camarillo, executive producer on Crysis 2, revealed in a recent Official Xbox Magazine preview that we should expect a more focused, class-based multiplayer than the PC original.

The multiplayer portion is developed by Crytek Nottingham who were known as Free Radical Design before the Crytek acquisition. The studio was famous for series such as TimeSplitters.

Crytek has posted the first episode of a new developer video diary series called Crysis 2 TV. The 8-minute long episode was created for Crytek by Area 5 and it consists of a studio tour around the Crytek Frankfurt offices, quick interviews with people currently working on motion capture, sound design, art direction etc. and more Grand Central Terminal gameplay footage. Watch episode 1 of Crysis 2 TV below via Crytek's YouTube channel.

Crysis 2 is coming this Holiday season to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

On June 14-17 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo Crytek demonstrated Crysis 2 Xbox 360 gameplay for the public on several occasions and (supposedly) the PC version for the press only. Crytek's upcoming first-person shooter Crysis 2 has brought Crytek several E3 "Best of" awards and nominations as well. The multiplatform sequel to Crysis impressed GameSpy so much that the site awarded it for Best Shooter, Best Graphics and Best 3D Experience.

Crytek also demonstrated Crysis 2 in 3D at the event and it seems that the stereoscopic 3D implementation of CryEngine 3/Crysis 2 is truly a sight to behold since it got Crytek Best 3D awards from 1UP and the aforementioned GameSpy. For those curious about how much 3D will "slow the game down", so to speak, Crytek CEO and president Cevat Yerli stated in a recent interview with VideoGamer, that the performance hit from enabling stereoscopic 3D in Crysis 2 is only 1.5%.

EA and Crytek have released a new Crysis 2 Xbox 360 gameplay trailer. Most of the gameplay footage shown is practically a repeat of the New York City Grand Central Terminal material shown at E3 2010 but presented in a hectic yet stylishly cinematic fashion. Quick bits and pieces of previously unseen melee moves and other combat action can be seen here and there.

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Crytek CEO and co-founder Cevat Yerli has revealed some new Crysis 2 story elements in G4TV's E3 2010 video interview. We already know that Crysis 2 is a reboot of the franchise with some continuity of Crysis and that the story happens three years after the events in Crysis 1. Crysis 2 will introduce a new cast and some oldtimers from Crysis will reappear, with Prophet being one of them, but, in Cevat's words, the fictions are decoupled.

In 2023, having been buried deep inside the earth, the aliens are awakening underneath New York and everywhere in the world causing worldwide martial law situations. This explains the huge alien spikes coming from below the streets and causing massive destruction, as seen in the gameplay clips and in the 3D trailer.

We will be playing as a soldier named Alcatraz who inherits Nanosuit 2.0 to become a supersoldier with the main objective to save New York: save New York, save the rest of the world. Some unofficial reports have stated that Alcatraz actually hijacks Nanosuit 2.0 and Crynet Systems, dominant technology provider to all the top military powers, goes after the player in an effort to retrieve the suit.

That was all that Cevat was willing to reveal at this stage. After this information, one can't help noticing that the story of Crysis 2 bears a striking resemblance to War of the Worlds.