Crytek on Ryse: Son of Rome PC Port

"It's important that it's not just a port," producer says.

The upcoming PC port of Xbox One's launch title Ryse: Son of Rome is a genuine port, it will not be Crytek's way of gathering funds for its financial issues. That is according to senior producer Brian Chambers, who in a recent interview acknowledged that "revenue's always good," but development on the game actually began months ago.

"We've been working on this for months," he said. "It's nothing we've pulled together. I've personally been on this project as a senior producer for months."

The PC version of the game will be on par with the Xbox One version, but it will have some PC exclusive features like 4K support. "It's important that it's not just a port," Chambers said. "We didn't go, 'Let's just shove it on PC and be done.' We dug into it and did a lot on the engineering side to actually get it to 4K. So it's the first 4K game to come out of Crytek."

And the technical improvements don't end there. "We've dug in on the technical side as far as the anti-aliasing approaches we've taken," Chambers said, explaining that the PC version features also features super sampling.

"We've done other things such as native UI resolutions so you can scale it however and everything still looks crisp and clean," he added. "And then, as you would expect on PC, we've made it so that it's all configurable so the user can tweak the settings as they need to work best with the hardware that they have."

Ryse: Son of Rome for PC is scheduled for release on September 5.