Crytek - EU Thinks Shooters are Bad, Mmmkay?

Forbes quotes Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli expressing the opinion that Europeans
tend to regard first-person shooters as "evil" (thanks Mike Martinez and
Computer
and Video Games). Here's a bit from the latest comparison between the tastes
of European and North American game players, which seems like the gaming
equivalent of rap's east coast/west coast rivalry, hopefully with fewer actual
shootings: Across the pond, consumers prefer racing and soccer games to
blockbuster action, adventure and first-person shooter games that are the staple
of the U.S. diet. Indeed, Europeans view such games as "evil," says Cevat Yerli,
chief executive of Crytek, a German game developer that specializes in
first-person shooters.

Guns and gore also don't sell as well in Europe because Europeans like short,
so-called casual games, rather than the long, epic tales that keep gamers
pounding on their consoles for hours at a stretch. Casual games also fit the
European lifestyle better: People can play these short games on trains and
subways on their way to work.


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