The big announcement everyone was waiting for is finally, well, announced, and it is indeed a beta.
EA and Crytek announced via Facebook that their offering a beta for the game's multiplayer mode next week. Here's the word right from the horse's mouth:
"The Crysis 3 Multiplayer Open Beta will be released on Jan 29th, available to everyone on the PC, XBOX360 and PS3 platforms! The beta is designed to give you just a taste of the full Crysis 3 multiplayer experience, and help the development team collect your valuable feedback.
In the Crysis 3 Beta, you'll be able to suit up, team up with your friends, level up to rank 10, and customize your Nanosuit with different weapons, attachments and suit modules.
Suit Up for the Crysis 3 Multiplayer Open Beta, beginning on January 29th!"
The beta will offer players a crack at two of the game's multiplayer modes, Hunter, and Crash Site. Hunter mode "is all about the survival of the fittest. There are two teams, initially comprised of two permanently cloaked "Hunters", and up to fourteen CELL troopers awaiting extraction. Each trooper slain respawns on the Hunter team to prey on their former allies, building to a frenetic climax."
Crash Site Mode is more of a "King of the Hill type experience. An Alien dropship deploys a pod at random around the map. Players on each team must remain near the dropped pod in order to capture the zone and accumulate points. Each alien pod holds two shields players can utilize defensively as weapons. In addition, each Crash Site map will have a 'Pinger', a CEPH-constructed walking weapon of mass destruction." Other players can hijack the Pinger while you're inside of it, mixing things up a little bit.
The beta will also offer two maps, Airport, and Museum.
The beta starts Jan. 29, and goes until Feb. 12, for all platforms Crysis 3 is coming to, PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
