Crytek chief puts on his Warface and says why Crysis 3 for Wii U ‘had to die’ (interview)

SAN FRANCISCO — Cevat Yerli has become a regular on the press tour circuit. But that’s because his company, Germany’s Crytek, is having a big year. Electronic Arts just published Crytek’s flagship game, Crysis 3, the latest in a long-running sci-fi shooter game franchise. Now he’s promoting Warface, a free-to-play shooter that has more than 7.5 million players in Russia and will debut soon around the world. Trion Worlds plans to publish the game in the U.S., and the companies recently showed the game off to the press.

The first-person shooter online game is part of a move to reinvent  high-quality triple-A games as low-barrier, free-to-play titles that you can play with minimal hassle on a wide variety of hardware. Warface uses Crytek’s CryEngine and GFACE social platform. Crytek worked on Warface in some form for the past five years. It debuted in Russia last year, and it has become the No. 3 online game in that country.