Far Cry 2

[Cavalry]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/846/846707p1.html

It was nearly three years ago when development started on Far Cry 2. "Far Cry on PC had just come out when we started working on this," says Clint Hocking, the game's creative director. "We had a mandate to make a next-gen sequel to Far Cry the PC game, and we knew that the tropical island as a fresh and new environment was going to be burned for PC?I mean burned conceptually." For the development team, it was important to maintain a sense of wonder while exploring a new type of environment akin to the feeling players experienced when wandering around the jungles in the first Far Cry. Though Africa was eventually settled upon for the setting, it wasn't the only place being considered. "We though about jungle islands," says Hocking, "we thought about going more science-fictiony in certain ways, we thought about an underwater city because it would give you that sense of wonder?we thought about the arctic frozen tundra, but that was overruled by a team that didn't want to work on a snow game."

 

[AiM]

Those graphics are damn nice... but one must wonder, what sort of demi-god of a computer is needed to run that.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

I'm guessing this has absolutely nothing to do with the first game. It could be good as long as they stick away from that trigen crap. Although if I do pick it up i'll wait for a while.

 

[Warbie]

Looking good. If we get all the non-trigen bits from Far Cry but bigger and better, I shall be well happy

360 and PS3 too.

 

[Rapstah]

And it's for all seven-generation consoles excluding the PSP, the Wii, the NDS, the GP2X, the HyperScan, the GameWave Family, the Atari Flashback and the FC Twin Video Game System too!

 

[jimbo118]

i want to see the 360 version.

 

[Gargantou]

This game is totally different from FC, even conceptually wise.

1. Totally sandbox open-ended freeform gameplay, no linear story you must follow.

2. No trigens/monsters/aliens of any kind.

3. No sci-fi elements

4. No island/tropical environment.

Jimbo, why the 360 version? I thought you were a PS3-man?

By the way, all those screens are 'old' and were posted on GameSpot several days ago.

 

[jimbo118]

Jimbo, why the 360 version? I thought you were a PS3-man?

I'm not any console man tbh, no preferences, i have 360, before that a ps2, don't have a ps3. The only thing i want on ps3 is, unsurprisingly if you know me, mgs4.

 

[Cavalry]

By the way, all those screens are 'old' and were posted on GameSpot several days ago.

know what, gamespot sucks giant cajones.

I can't stand gamespot (mainly because of the forums)but the layout seems to kill my computer, it takes 10 minutes to load the homepage.

 

[Gargantou]

kk, same here!

By the way, some criticisms I have for Far Cry 2.

1. You can stop in the middle of a battle to pull BULLETS out of yourself, that's a bit erm, retarded.

2. Ejection for weapons is on the wrong side to make it look 'cool' but IMO it looks retarded as hell.

3. No predatory animals nor endangered animals of any kind in FC2, only non-endangered non-dangerous animals, boooring.

By the way, the IGN article is partially incorrect about release dates, PC version is due to come out in March, with the 360 and PS3 versions coming out summer or afterwards.

From what I've been told on the forums etc this is one of those rare times when the game is being FIRST released on PC, THEN ported to consoles.

 

[jimbo118]

1. You can stop in the middle of a battle to pull BULLETS out of yourself, that's a bit erm, retarded.

In the long preview demo that indeed looked retarded, he was constantly pulling bullets out in the shanty-town battle.

 

[Cavalry]

true, since the game takes place in Africa, there should be dangerous animals....


(BTW, the developers of Crysis are taking a role in this, so a super computer is necessary?)

 

[Rapstah]

(BTW, the developers of Crysis are taking a role in this, so a super computer is necessary?)

No, they're not.

 

[Gargantou]

Rapstah is correct, this is a Ubisoft-only project, being developed by Ubi Montreal.

The engine only has about 3-4% remaining code from CryEngine 1(Which Ubisoft licensed from CryTek long ago), so the engine is for the most part totally new.

And since this is being handled by Ubi MONTREAL(Who IMO do GOOD multiplatform games/ports ala Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.) I think it will be fairly well optimized etc.

 

[Cavalry]

ohh, never mind, I read the paragraph wrong, the original was.

oooppss

(who thinks that blacks will be offended by this game since it takes place in Africa(like RE5)?)

 

[Bob_Marley]

Should be good, very good if they can minimize the amount of bugs in it. This is one of the games I'm really looking foreward to.

 

[CrazyHarij]

(who thinks that blacks will be offended by this game since it takes place in Africa(like RE5)?)

bahahahaha

 

[Stigmata]

1. You can stop in the middle of a battle to pull BULLETS out of yourself, that's a bit erm, retarded.

Didn't they take that out because it got in the way of the combat? I thought I read that in the preview you linked to

 

[Russian Mafia]

Didn't they take that out because it got in the way of the combat? I thought I read that in the preview you linked to

They made it so it can only happen once every 30 minutes.

 

[Krynn72]

What?

You pull bullets out of your own body?


What is this nonsense?

 

[taviow]

What?

You pull bullets out of your own body?

Yes you do.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/118821.html

Happens at 6:49, I think the 2nd part of the video shows it more of the same.

It's stupid.

 

[Sedako]

The first aid aspect of the game definitely needs some tweaking, but tending to wounds in a realistic manner is pretty neat. I just really hope they don't cripple the PC version for it to work on all platforms.