More proof that CRYSIS is coming this September?
Prima is doing the strategy guide for CRYSIS. They have the release date for the guide listed as 9/9/2007. That is 2 days before the ship date of CRYSIS and 3 days before the retail outlets receive them. Game guides usually arrive in stores a few days before the game actually does, so this all lines up.
Have a look:
http://www.primagames.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780761557401
And this is even more interesting:
http://www.primagames.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780761557418
The CRYSIS E-Guide will be available to download 8/24/2007!
Now, when we went to E3 in 2004 - we spoke to some guys we know that work for BradyGames. I was super-mega-excited about MGS3 and I was trying to get our friend Jeff who works for BradyGames to let slip some guide details - like if there would be an artbook, etc. He told me that he wasn't allowed to say, but that the editors have to finish the game first before they can finalize the guide's content. He added that they would complete 100% of the game around mid-September.
?!? I was stunned. The game came out in November, and they would finish it in mid- September. That means they would have to get the finished game by August at the latest so they could make the guide and be certain they had the time to do everything the game allows. "They always do it like that" he told me. "Game companies always ship us an advanced copy of the game in either completed retail form or at least near complete, so we can pour over it and get our guides underway in time for the respective game's release date."
Advanced copies of games give the editors of each guide plenty of time to play through the game and find absolutely everything.
Now, if the E-Guide releases in late August - that means right now, or at least very soon, the editor of the CRYSIS Prima Guide will be playing a finished copy of CRYSIS! [Or at least a 95% complete version containing everything we are going to get in the retail version]
Lucky fellow