Ryse was initially revealed at E3 2011 as Codename Kingdoms. The game is a first person hack and slash title where players take on the role of a Roman warrior. The teaser site seems to indicate a bit more being possible however.

It was assumed that Ryse would be releasing on the Xbox 360, using Kinect. Given the substantial upgrade Kinect has received with the Xbox One, we feel a little more comfortable in seeing how the gameplay will turn out. Given how you can’t use the console without Kinect, we might as well get a decent experience out of it.

Stay tuned for more details as Microsoft reveals its line-up for E3 in the coming weeks.

Last year’s Codename Kingdoms was an enigmatic tease at Microsoft’s E3 presser. Well, we finally got to know what it’s about- it’s an actyion title set in Rome, that is controlled via the Kinect.

The game of course looks incredible as far as graphical prowess goes, which is to be expected from a Crytek game, but we don’t have much more to go on with, except that it will be entirely in first person. We’ll have more for you as it happens.

“I think [GoW comparisons] are quite off the mark at that point,”It won’t be anything like God of War for sure.”

He added: “We’re like 20 per cent complete. It’s very, very early days. We’re experimenting a lot with it; we’re trying a lot of cool ideas. We know what we want to do with the game and the concept of what makes this game unique has improved and now we’re trying new things around this. I think people will be quite surprised with what this game is about because it’s quite different from what we have done in the past.”

The game is exclusive to the Xbox 360 and no launch date has been announced yet.

“Sony is a partner that we would definitely love to work with. A is something we considered before – we talked about it a lot, but for reasons of portfolio or timing in the past it didn’t work out. But that doesn’t mean in the future it wouldn’t work.”

“Sony is a great company, so is Nintendo and so is Microsoft. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses, and luckily our strengths are almost always complementary to their weaknesses.”

After that Yerli then talks about Xbox 360 exclusive Codename: Kingdoms.  He said: “We have been talking with Microsoft for five or six years now about working together – and for some time I have said that I don’t want to work [exclusively with a] first-party. The time came around where we said maybe this IP, Kingdoms, could be very strong for a first-party platform. We asked Microsoft and they said ‘yes, that would be fantastic”

We’ll keep you posted as we learn more.