Crytek's Ryse may ship with a multiplayer mode, according to the CV of a programmer at Ruffian Games. According to the resume, Ruffian was contracted to prepare "a multiplayer map for a first person, melee combat game based on the CryEngine," adding a separate note that the developer had worked on a game with "extensive use of the Xbox Live server platform and Kinect." That's a description that at least sounds enormously similar to Ryse.
While the gameplay shown from Ryse at E3 2011 indicated a linear, single-player experience, neither Crytek nor Microsoft has announced that Ryse will be a purely single-player game. It wouldn't be too unusual for Ruffian to be working on the game's multiplayer mode, either. Ruffian has done contract work on several recent Kinect games published by Microsoft, including Star Wars Kinect.
SOURCE: Resume hints that Crytek’s Ryse could contain multiplayer [VG 247]
