We are very proud to announce that MechWarrior: Living Legends has been selected by Crytek as the fourth and final mod team to receive the pre-release version of the Crysis SDK and further support during its development.

Find below the official press release as seen on CryMod.com

By the 31st century, humanity has spread to thousands of worlds, while a handful of powerful empires wage continual war for the right to rule the stars. Foremost among the weapons used in that struggle are BattleMechs. Loaded with auto cannons, missile launchers, lasers, and charged-particle beam weapons, these fusion-powered war machines of articulated armor stand upward of fourteen meters tall. Piloting them are MechWarrior’s, the best, most intensively trained men and women available. Like the armored knights of an earlier age, MechWarrior’s are popular heroes, and their exploits are the stuff of legends.

MechWarrior: Living Legends (MWLL) is a total conversion modification for Crysis. MWLL is at its very core a mix between a First Person Shooter (FPS) and a Simulation (SIM). This will be achieved through the use of a, mixed arms massively multiplayer, gaming experience where the player takes part in a battle using a variety of vehicles and weapons. MWLL is following the concept set forth by Crysis of a sandbox feel where you get to play what you want and how you want it.

MWLL depicts the epic struggles between the two umbrella factions of Battletech, “The Clans” and “The Inner Sphere”. Maps typically have a mix of vehicles and infantry combat, using both of these to complete objectives as a team will be essential to winning rounds or campaigns in MWLL. In the project we will be bringing some of the legends of “MechWarrior” franchise back to life with new art and animations that do justice to these huge weapons of war and also do something that’s never been done before using the deep universe of Battletech. There are so many facets to Battletech and finally comes a title that is willing to explore them.


General Features

• Epic multiplayer missions that thrusts players into an ever-changing environment, forcing them to adapt their tactics and approach to conquer battlefields ranging from desert to tundra to Alpine.
  
• Take control of over 40 land, sea, and air vehicles. These vehicles include tanks, VTOLs, hovercraft, fast attack-vehicles, fighter jets, battle suits and finally hulking 100 ton BattleMechs.
  
• Will you be a living legend or a forgotten casualty? High Tech Vehicles allows gamers to augment their weapons and load outs in real time on the battlefield.
  
• Players can choose to enhance their capabilities through a modular weapon and vehicle attachment system.
  
• Countless weapon combinations, you play how you want no more “cookie cutter” classes
  
• Unique Teams and weapons.
  
• Outdoor dynamic lighting allows for every battle to be fought during day or night, with accurate simulation of shadows, atmosphere, vegetation and weather.
  
• Built from the ground up using on the next generation CryENGINE 2™, Crysis’ visuals define “state of the art,” with full DX10 support and scalable options to deliver solid performance on older machines.
  
• Fully destructible and open environments in the DX10 maps.
  
• External auto-updater and in-game map downloader to allow downloading of custom maps when connecting to a server.

• Online multiplayer action with up to 32 players on the PC.
  
• Work with and rely on your human teammates to perform specific tasks and objectives. Be it flanking a massive enemy convoy, stealing enemy technology or covertly observing the enemy
  
• to learn their tactics.
  
• Easy to find and manage friends.
  
• Offline training for new players.
  
• Dynamic Day-Night-Cycle, begin to battle in the morning and carry on battling into the dead of night.

• Be king of the Battlefield and pilot the Legendary 14 story tall BattleMechs of MechWarrior, among them the Blood Asp, Mad Cat, Bushwhacker and many more.
  
• Participate in historical Battletech campaigns.
  
• Use one of the many handheld weapons against the enemy, be it assault rifles, mini-grenades, laser rifles or hand held Particle Projector Cannons (PPC).
  
• Play as a lone wolf and give away enemy fortifications and equipment locations to your team via in game VOIP.
  
• Grapple up sheer cliffs and walls in an elemental battle suit or with “Gripper Gloves”.
  
• Ride teammates ‘Mechs to get to your locations faster.
  
• Get rewarded for playing tactically rather than recklessly.
  
• Enjoy the spoils of war and gain “C-bills” as you advance through the campaign.
  
• Fully Submersible BattleMechs.
  
• Full control over AeroTech fighters.
  
• Duel in the Solaris Dueling arenas.
  
• Full vehicle and weapon customization.

We're proud to announce that another magazine with focus on videogaming and esports has featured MechWarrior: Living Legends.

The German publication eGames.de has an article with interview in its online version. If you're able to understand German, feel free to read the article and interview yourself.  We'll try to have a translated version, at least of the interview, available.

Finally! Crysis has gone gold and will be in stores on the promised day! 

The year’s biggest PC game has just gotten that much closer to hitting store shelves. Crysis, Crytek’s next-generation first person shooter for the PC has gone gold and will be on store shelves everywhere November 16, 2007.

“We are extremely proud of what we have been able to accomplish with Crysis,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek. “We wanted to push the boundaries both visually and with open-ended, non-linear gameplay and we believe the end result delivers that vision.”

The current single player demo, available in DX10 and DX9, has given gamers their first taste of the immersive, non-linear Crysis experience. Highlighted by Crytek’s open-ended level design and the game’s Nanosuit gameplay mechanic, which challenges gamers to analyze and approach every individual encounter before acting, Crysis delivers a completely new and refreshing FPS gameplay experience.

Of course, the single player demo also features the stunning, award-winning graphics powered by Crytek’s revolutionary CryENGINE 2. Assistance from key partners such as NVIDIA, Intel and Microsoft have helped make Crysis one of the most anticipated PC games of all time.

“Crytek and EA are rewarding PC gamers with the world’s most technologically advanced video game,” said Roy Taylor, vice president of content at NVIDIA. “Our programmers are intensely proud to have helped Crytek push the boundaries of interactivity and immersion. The game was developed and tested on NVIDIA, and we recommend GeForce 8800-Series graphics cards for the best experience.”

This just in, straight from Crytek:

Crysis Singleplayer Demo

The demo is going to be released officially on Friday, October 26^th at 1:00PM (GMT+1). It will be exclusively available for those who pre-ordered Crysis for about 24hours via the EA downloader. On Saturday, October 27^th at 1:00PM the demo will be put online for download an all public sites, so keep tracking your favourite fan site.

Crysis pre-Demo Party!

Join us to the pre-demo party powered by InCrysis.com. It will occur at 1:00PM GMT (2PM CEST), Friday 26th of October on IRC. You'll need an IRC client or use a web-browser version. For those using a client, connect to "irc.gamesurge.net" and join #inCrysis.

In attendance will be Sebastian Spatzek (QA Manager), Eric Lagel (MP Dev. Manager), Michael Kolkau (Senior MP Level Designer), Chris Auty (Lead MP Game Designer) and Alex Marschal (Community Manager) from Crytek. During the party you'll have the opportunity to put your questions forward to the Crytek team. There will be some prizes up for grabs also!

This is a community event for all fan sites and their users. The more people in attendance, the better!