{"id":124887,"date":"2022-05-05T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T06:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124887"},"modified":"2022-05-05T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T06:30:49","slug":"former-hitman-3-director-now-leads-crysis-4-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/124887-former-hitman-3-director-now-leads-crysis-4-development","title":{"rendered":"Former Hitman 3 director now leads Crysis 4 development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crytek has announced that Mattias Engstr\u00f6m, Hitman 3&#8217;s game director, has left his position at IO Interactive to lead development on the upcoming Crysis 4 title.<\/p>\n<p>Since Crysis has always been known for its sandbox first-person shooter gameplay, Engstr\u00f6m&#8217;s experience with Hitman 3 makes him an excellent fit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are happy to announce that Mattias Engstr\u00f6m, known for his work as Game Director for Hitman 3 at IO Interactive, joins the Crysis family as Game Director for the 4th installment in the Crysis franchise, starting this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hHkOrXIAt6\">pic.twitter.com\/hHkOrXIAt6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Crysis (@Crysis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Crysis\/status\/1521540768460115969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mattias is unlikely to be the only new hire, as Crytek&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crytek.com\/career\/filter\/any\/any\/crysis-4-working-title-\/#jobs-listing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><\/strong> shows multiple open positions to work on Crysis 4&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the positions include an art director, character artist, senior environment character artist, and audio designer, indicating that the new title is still at the start of its development phase.<\/p>\n<p>Crysis 4&#8217;s development was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Crysis\/status\/1486324346532548610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a><\/strong> by Crytek on 26 January 2022, along with a cryptic teaser trailer that leaves a lot to the imagination.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post accompanying the trailer, Crytek CEO Avni Yerli promised fans that Crysis 4&#8217;s development team will release more development updates and that the upcoming sequel would be a &#8220;truly next-gen shooter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PQ_dmFUR2N8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/124878-arclight-rumble-blizzard-unveils-its-warcraft-mobile-game\">Arclight Rumble \u2014 Blizzard unveils its Warcraft mobile game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crytek has hired Mattias Engstr\u00f6m as Crysis 4&#8217;s game director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":124888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,3,11681,4],"tags":[26114,2228,26115,751,26116],"class_list":["post-124887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-nintendo","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-crysis-4","tag-crytek","tag-hitman-3","tag-io-interactive","tag-mattias-engstrom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}