By John Walker on November 25th, 2010 at 4:29 pm.
Talking of Crytek, they’ve just announced a new game. It’s looking to be aimed at Asian markets, a multiplayer shooter with the eminently shoutable name, Warface. And that’s about all we know just now. It’s in the CryEngine 3, as you might imagine, and if my Chinese is up to scratch, it’s emphasising “positive versus” gaming. I’ve no idea what that means, but I imagine it’s some sort of tactical co-op. The Taiwanese site, GNN, that has the info is here. We picked up on this story from VG247. You can see the two new screenshots in full size by clicking below.
WARFACE!
Warface does sound like something you’d shout at people in the streets.
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It’s a part of the Novocastrian vernacular, e.g. “That lad just smashed a pint glass in Warface, like”.
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“Why’d he travel all the way to Warface to do that?”
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I’d smash her warface.
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You’d do no such thing to Warcheryl.
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NOT IN THE WARFACE!
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Just great. All that tech and they decide to do things all brown and grey just like every other war themed game.
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But the prettiest brown and grey yet.
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Wars of Face of War!
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Facewar: CryFace
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Mineface?
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Related, sort of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3woEDTUbDYg (skip to about 1:13)
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That. Is. Awesome.
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but… why Asians?
Unless they’re making it to train North Korea for a hypothetical invasion of… let’s say… CANADA!?
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Maybe. Thank goodness then that we’ve got a defend-North-America-from-the-Koreans game coming out soon: Homefront!
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Could it be a PC exclusive?
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http://www.mistajam.com/2009/04/29/jakes-warface-video/
That is all.
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I started listening to this as soon as I saw the title of the game. Lovely Crytek for reminding me.
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WARFACE
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http://lh3.ggpht.com/_SRKUEguYo0Q/TO6UjFPECrI/AAAAAAAAAII/m3VjfT_RQfY/warface.jpg
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Kieron thought it was Warf Ace.
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@Flobulon: Excellent.
Carry on.
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Wharf Ace could be fun. How good are you with a mooring line?
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@Flobulon
Nailed it. There’s no more War Face than that.
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…..WARFACE
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FACEWAR!
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WARFACE
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WARFARCE
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WOREFEY’S
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FARWACE
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SWARF-FACE
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Asian market exclusive? SADFACE :(
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WORLD OF WARFACE
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WARBOOK
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I thought Facebook registered “Face” as a trademark yesterday. Won’t this be a problem? :p
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/facebook-trademarks-the-word-face-tm/
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Oh good gravy, it’s getting like Langdell all over again.
EDGEWARFACE!
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WORST NAMED GAME OF AT LEAST THE LAST WEEK.
WARFACE.
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WAREFACE
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“positive versus” is a bit too literal, “正面对战” is actually the Chinese name of this game, meaning roughly “Frontal Conflict”, or “Face-to-Face Warfare”, if you will.
Translation (some blah blahs omitted)
“Warface was revealed at Korea Games Conference 2009 as “Project W”, uses CryEngine 3, a online FPS set in the far future
Warface put emphasis on high visual quality, advanced AI and physics, cinematic experience. Variety of PVE, world building, storytelling, co-op, and PvP
Crytek Korea says the game’s Alpha is complete and currently searching for a operator. Release date is undecided, Asia will be the main market, would adopt a “partial subscription” model .
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So I’m guessing that probably means Free to Play with microtransactions.
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FARCEWAR
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PHWOARFACE
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Where is the “cry” in Warface?
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WAR CRY FACE. There you go.
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The tears of you don’t get to play it, maybe
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Cry WARFACE and let slip the dogs of war!
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WHARF ACE!
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GOREFACE
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http://www.netmoon.com/startrek/imageds9/worf.jpg
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MANFACE
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OH HO HO DAT SLAPS ME ON DA KNEE! HAHAHA-AAAAAAAH! MANFACE!
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Modern WARFACE
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Fuck off they’re screenshots, that’s art.
FUCKFACE!
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Far Cry. Crysis. Crysis Warhead. Warface.
So the next game they announce will be, what, “Face Plate”?
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LOOOOOL
Facepalm ?
Or maybe the circle will close and it will be Face Cry
or
Face Far…t
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It will be …. FarFace
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WAAAAAGHFACE.
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HUWARU-FACEU
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They missed a trick not calling it CRYFACE
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This is one of the best comment threads I’ve ever seen.
WARFACE FOR THE WAR GOD
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Well it’s no HARD SURFACE comment thread but I guess it’s not bad.
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THAT DON’T LOOK LIKE YOUR WARFACE. SHOW ME YOUR WARFACE
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The Face of War!
(Is heavily scarred, and looks very tired)
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WARFOES
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Warface. Starring William Murderface and Toki Wartooth. Soundtrack on Murdertooth records.
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Private joker! Let me see your war face!
YYYIIAAAAAAH!
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Crytek seem to be very good at reducing their potential market. Now hardware has caught up with them they decide to shun most of the world on a geographical basis instead. Very odd to have such a reclusive developer. Yet one that still manages to complain about external influences hurting their sales.
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I think you’ll find Asia IS most of the world.
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Not in terms of people who buy games (as in actually buy them).
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MEN WITH GUNS !
crouching in cover
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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FACEWAR: NOCRYFACE WEARWARFACE
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Oh great, no single player campaign?
Well, zero interest in this one.
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WAR! IN YOUR FACE!
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IT’S WAR. IN YOUR FAAAACE!!!
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While I probably should have foreseen everyone else posting the exact same comment, I didn’t scroll down before posting.
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WIZZARD OF WORFACE!!!
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Soon to get a casual version: WARFACEBOOK!
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Dwarf’s Pace.
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So this is crysis WARhead for FACEbook?
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So, another company trying to capitalize on the CoD popularity then?
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Walk outside without a scarf.
RAWFACE.
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I’m not really sold on it. Does it include warfare? Is it about shooting things?
Now if they called it “WarFace: The Face of War”, that would clear it up.
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Warface. Warface never changes….
Unless it gets plastic surgery -.-
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I thought all Crytek games had “cry” in the title?
They should have called it “Cryface”.
PS, WARFACE!
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They could call it “Babyface” and have a souped-up bionic soldier destroying everything from inside a pram.
I think that’s the best option for the Western market.
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WARFACED DECAF RAW
LA VISAGE DE LA GUERRE!
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Microsoft just announced a new kintect title:
SEXFACE
You see you the camera films you constantly even when you’re not playing it and then takes the worse photo of you and updates your profile with it
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No, down a bit. Left… There. It’s gone.
You had a bit of war on your face.
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War! Never been so much face. War! Never been so much face! Go to your brother, warface him with your gun, let him war in the uniform, face in the sun.
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WARF LACE!
WARBOOK!
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I wonder why they didn’t call it “Warcry”.
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WARFACE WITH GUNS.
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FLAWEDFACE!
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WARFECES?
If they made a game about monkeys that could work out quite well actually.
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WARFESSE : CRY OUT LOUD
hint: fesse = buttock in french.
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Hey RPS,
That “Positive Versus” thing? It’s the BAD translation of the Chinese title of the game, which should probably be translated to “Face to Face Combat” or “Full Frontal Combat” etc.
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I’m not sure if Full Frontal Combat is any better of a title, honestly. It just sounds like a bizarre military pornography.
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“Full Frontal Combat” sounds like an excellent game. Somebody should make that.
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FULL FRONTAL COMBAT: WARFACE
In which you have to keep your head up at all times without looking people in the eye.
Battlefields include: Gym changing rooms, Saunas and Lidos.
DLC to include new flashback mode in a C&A changing rooms and new game mode set in a Pregnancy Ward.
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WHOREFACE
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The mobile version will no doubt be PALMFACE!
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War a face.
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What is wrong with your face?
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WARFACE!
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I don’t mind a test, but UNATCO better issue some WARFACE!
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So I see, the correction translation for the game title should be “Direct Confrontation”, which may imply that the game would demand players to face the enemies directly, no stealth kill, no flanking (or keep it to minimum). Intensive action. Such a boring Chinese name, Taiwaneses just cannot come up with a cool name, can they?
By the way, the translation “Positive Face” is done by computer program? Very awful Chinese.
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It looks a bit like Team Fortress 2 was originally intended to be, waaaaaaaaaay back.
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Do you reckon it’s because Facebook is copyrighting “face”?
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Wharf face! really handy down at the docks and or spaceships.
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RAAAAAAAWRFACE!
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Warface!!!
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Dere’s some boys wanna join me WAAAAAAAAGHFACE!
I think it was the collective effort, but this is the funniest thread I’ve read in some time. And frankly, the name is truly brilliant. Not even ironically brilliant. It’s so direct it smacks of taking the piss.
New titles for 2012: SWORDMAN, EXPLOREFIGHT and SPACELEGS.
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Want to go down to the wharf ace? I hear that there are whars that will let you all over their ace.
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WARSPAM
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STOREFACE
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