EA Partners bigwig David DeMartini has expressed the company’s desire to publish future entries in the Crysis franchise, and believes the series’ second instalment has what it takes to become a contender for Game of the Year.
Quizzed by CVG as to whether or not the company would like to publish Crysis 3, DeMartini replied: "Absolutely, yes. I’m confident we’ll continue to have that series and that relationship. We continue to fulfil what we promised [Crytek] and, as I said, they are fantastic partners and incredibly loyal."
"With regards to our ongoing relationships with Crytek and future Crysis games – absolutely. We’re always very interested in anything that they’re doing. But the nature of our relationship with them is – to some degree – unwritten loyalty to each other,” he added.
Elsewhere, DeMartini touched on Crysis 2, expressing his hope that the sequel’s critical reception matches up to the likes of Halo Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops – in other words, Game of the Year material.
"The funny thing about Crysis is that people get so enamoured with how great it looks – and it does – it sometimes get labelled as "the best looking game", as opposed to what actually should be its title, which is "the best game".
Through the suit, what you’re able to do with the suit and the setting in New York – this kind of destroyed beauty – it offers everything. My personal hope is that it’s critically viewed in a category with the Bungie game and the upcoming Call Of Duty – as well as the best things that EA has – as the greatest game of the year. I think it should be."
Crysis 2 is pencilled in for release in late 2010 for PS3, 360 and PC.