Warface is the 'Most Anticipated Online FPS' in China

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Crytek GmbH

19 Jan, 2012, 16:46 GMT

FRANKFURT, Germany, January 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

China's well-known and highly valued IT community portal http://www.yesky.com recently awarded Crytek's first free-to-play title 'Warface' as the most anticipated online First Person Shooter in China. According to their '2011 annual horizontal evaluation', it's the outstanding quality that lets Warface stand out from the masses. The Yesky editors highly praised the game's visual effects such as lighting, shading and motion blur and even compared it to blockbuster FPS' such as Crysis 2.

The CryENGINE®3 powered military shooter with its near future setting provides gamers with a constantly updated extensive Player vs. Environment (PvE) universe with a challenging state-of-the art artificial intelligence and massive boss fights, competitive and fast paced Player vs. Player (PvP) action, a high level of team play in both PvE and PvP and real-time weapon customization for adaptive changes in playstyle.

About Crytek GmbH

Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is one of the world's leading independent development studios for interactive entertainment. It is based in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and has additional studios in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea) and Nottingham (UK).Crytek is dedicated to creating exceptionally high-quality video games for next-generation consoles and PC, powered by their proprietary cutting-edge 3D-Game-Technology, CryENGINE®.

Since its foundation in 1999, Crytek has created the multi-award winning PC titles Far Cry®, Crysis® (awarded Best PC Game of E3 2007 and Best Technology at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards), Crysis Warhead® (awarded Best Graphics Technology at IGN Best of 2008 Awards) and Crysis® 2 (awarded Best Shooter of E3 2010 and Gamescom 2010).

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