With Blizzard’s highly successful (not to mention ingenious) marketing scheme of including free game discs with all purchases of World of Warcraft, alongside Valve’s “Free Weekends,” many game companies are taking the power of the free trial-offer seriously.
Far Cry and Crysis, both developed by Crytek, are growing up and parting ways. Far Cry 2 is now being developed by Ubisoft Montreal, while Crysis Warhead is remaining with Crytek and will be the first game released from Crytek’s Budapest studio. Each game will run on different engines: Far Cry 2 will run on a Ubisoft-developed engine called Dunia, which means “earth” in many languages. Crysis Warhead, on the other hand, will run on a revised CryEngine 2, and will be much more lenient on system requirements. The graphics for both games are stunning, but graphics aren’t everything these days.
