Crytek details cancelled Redemption game

Crytek has released details of cancelled game Redemption, calling it a mix between The Last of Us and Crysis 2.

Redemption was first revealed in 2011 as a third-person shooter where players must protect a ten year old girl called Jelena.

But unfortunately Jelena was such an annoying presence that testers didn't want to protect her at all, with some of them even wanting to shoot her.

"At that point we knew - or I knew - this [was a] project we could not pull off yet," Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli told Polygon.

"We don't have the technology and the capabilities here. Not just the company, but the industry as a whole."

Since Redemption was cancelled we've seen the critically acclaimed BioShock Infinite and The Last of Us being released, two games that feature AI companions to protect.

Yerli predicts that Redemption will show up again one day, possibly after the studio is finished with Xbox One launch title Ryse.