Crysis 2 Novel Announced
Today we're extremely pleased to announce the Crysis 2 novel written by Peter Watts! This book will be based on events happening in Crysis 2 and provide an exciting and thrilling adaptation of the Crysis 2 game.
The book is set to release in March 2011.
For more information we have included the press release below. You may also leave questions for the author Peter Watts in the comments section, we'll take a selection of the best questions and present them to him. An article with all of his answers will be published in the near future.
DEL REY BOOKS ANNOUNCES NOVEL BASED ON THE CRYSIS® VIDEO GAME SERIES
NEW YORK, NY – December 1, 2010 –Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today that Del Rey Books will publish a novel based on the award-winning Crysis® video game series. CRYSIS: LEGION, an adaptation of the highly-anticipated Crysis®2 video game, will be written by author Peter Watts and will release in March 2011.
In CRYSIS: LEGION, terrifying armored alien invaders stalk the streets of New York, while a nightmare plague strikes down its human population with brutal speed. The city is in chaos, its streets and skyline in smashed and flaming ruin. Nothing can stand against the invaders, leaving New Yorkers with a stark choice - flee or die. Just to survive in this inferno will require technology and armor beyond anything any modern soldier has ever seen. One man will inherit that means to survive. His mission: shake off death, carry the fight to the aliens and drive them back.
ABOUT THE GAME:The world has been ravaged by a series of climatic disasters and society is on the verge of total breakdown. Now the aliens have returned, with a full invasion force bent on nothing less than the total annihilation of mankind, starting by trying to rip the heart out of Earth's most iconic city.
In New York, terrifying alien invaders stalk the streets and a nightmare plague strikes down the city's myriad inhabitants with brutal epidemic speed. The city's systems are in chaos, its streets and skyline are smashed and in flaming ruin. This is New York City like you've never seen it before.
Neither paramilitary law enforcement nor the might of the US military machine can stand against the invaders, and all who choose not to flee are dead men walking. Just to survive in this maelstrom of death will require technology beyond anything any modern soldier has ever seen. One man will inherit that means to survive.
One supersoldier, wielding the combat enhancement technology of the future with Nanosuit 2, will make the last stand to save humanity from destruction in the urban jungle that is New York City.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Peter Watts has spent much of his adult life deciding whether to be a writer or a scientist, settling somewhere in between both. His original novels, Starfish, Maelstrom, and Behemoth are all universally acknowledged as some of the best hard sci-fi of the last 20 years. His most recent novel, Blindsight, was published by Tor in 2006 and was met by both critical and commercial success. He currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
ABOUT DEL REY:Del Rey Books (http://www.delreybooks.com) was founded in 1977 as an imprint of Ballantine Books, a division of the Random House Publishing Group, under the guidance of the renowned Judy-Lynn del Rey and her husband, Lester del Rey. Del Rey publishes the best of modern fantasy, science fiction, and alternate history.
ABOUT CRYTEK: 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) and Crysis Warhead® (awarded Best Graphics Technology at IGN Best of 2008 Awards). In March 2011, Crytek will release the newest instalment of its multi-award winning FPS Crysis® series, Crysis® 2 – the first Crytek game to be available on all three major platforms.
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