Marketing is incredibly important, especially for a game of this scope. If they did pick CryEngine solely for marketing, it has proven to be an incredibly smart decision. If they hadn’t been so successful they’d still be working with a small team and couldn’t have possibly gotten this far even if they had written an…

There is a lot to be said about being able to rapidly iterate by starting off with an off the shelf engine and then customizing as needed. The development time is really not in writing the lines of code of the final product, but coming to the understanding of what the final product should be (from an architecture and…