 crytek is a german video game company, founded in 1999 by brothers cevat, avni, and faruk yerli, that is headquartered in frankfurt. crytek has seven other studios, in kiev, budapest, sofia, seoul, shanghai, istanbul and austin. the company is best known for developing far cry and the crysis series, the open world nature of their games which showcase the company's cryengine, and for pushing the limits on pc specifications to showcase the most modern graphics and gameplay. their most recent major product is ryse: son of rome and its supporting cryengine 4th generation. crytek has partnerships with electronic arts, ubisoft, microsoft studios, nvidia, intel, amd, fmod, scaleform, xoreax software, sparkasse coburg, cloud imperium games, and rating services. ==history== ===far cry=== crytek was founded by the yerli brothers in 1999 in coburg, germany. crytek first attracted publicity at the 2000 ects with their tech demo at the nvidia booth. for several years thereafter, they released numerous demos of a game called x-isle, which ultimately evolved into far cry. on may 2, 2002, crytek announced the game engine cryengine. in 2003, crytek attended the game developers conference, where they showcased their new engine and its technology. "we've got awesome demonstrations planned which will showcase the very latest cryengine technology, including tools (cryedit, exporters), visuals (polybump, lighting & shadows), audio (dynamic music with full dolby digital 5.1 support), a.i. (easy to script) and physics (rope, rag doll, liquid) plus the uniquely [sic] rendering pow
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