LGC 07: First Far Cry 2 media released

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Back in July Ubisoft announced that Far Cry 2 was making its way to the PC. Unfortunately news on the actual game was scarce, as were images.

Today Ubisoft has released the first concept art and screenshots of Far Cry 2, which is not being developed by Crytek this time around as the team is currently busy working on EA's Crysis. The screenshots don't really give too much away but it does seem like the lovely beaches have been replaced by some more inland locations. Whilst we wait for concrete details on the game we suggest you head over to the media panel and make some predictions about what the game will be about.

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11 Comments

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

Wow... that is some of the most amazing fire I have ever seen, too bad the tree itself doesn't quite cut the mustard. especially when compared to Crysis (which this game most assuredly will be seeing as Crytek isn't developing this one).

Karai Pantsu

5 years ago

Mmm... If those screens are in anyway indicative of realistically spreading fire with appropriate damage effects, then I'd buy the game for that reason alone.

The shot with someone stumbling out from the flames is just... *licks lips* ... yummy.

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

Yeah, in that case, that is the shiz. It certainly seems like that is what's going on. Suddenly the possibilities of a flamethrower in a forest became much cooler.

ObsoletE

5 years ago

i seem to remember seeing these about a month ago. i guess they were leaked?

still, it's looking pretty damn awesome - hopefully EA make a few improvements to the FC formula without losing the appeal of the first version of the first game.

Karai Pantsu

5 years ago

ObsoletE wrote

i seem to remember seeing these about a month ago. i guess they were leaked?

I have them in a copy of PC Powerplay that I picked up for a Fallout 3 interview, a week or so back.

Jim Dash

5 years ago

So instead of pretty water they're going for pretty fire?

Works for me. I never managed to get through Far Cry Instincts on the 360, didn't play well at all imo.

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

I had issues with the original Far Cry whereby the enemy had better accuracy with a pistol than I could muster with a sniper rifle. I still managed to plod through but the cheap AI was irritating to say the least (I could have dropped the difficulty but I'll be damned if I'm going to cheapen the experience just because the enemy has homing bullets).

ObsoletE

5 years ago

Sin Ogaris wrote

the cheap AI

eh?

did you by chance play a console version? the PC game had some of the best AI i've come across in a game before or since. i used to love stalking through the jungle picking off enemies as they tried to flank where they thought i was.

i wonder if it's just the way we played then, i tended to go the stealth route, so i guess i don't know if going guns blazing worked well or not.

ittekimasu

5 years ago

I stopped playing the first FarCry when i found out it had monsters in it...

but that won't stop me this time, not when i can set them on fire! with all the small things in games coming out of the wood works (fire,water,season's,weather effects) this whole gen is making me wan't to play them even more!

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

all I remember is me zoomed right in with the sniper rifle, in the bushes I might add, losing to a guy with a peashooter. Maybe i wn't playig correctly.

Aftershock

5 years ago

Karai Pantsu wrote

ObsoletE wrote

i seem to remember seeing these about a month ago. i guess they were leaked?

I have them in a copy of PC Powerplay that I picked up for a Fallout 3 interview, a week or so back.

Got that too.

Its set in africa, and its sort of a free-roaming pick-your-mission sort of deal.

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Far Cry 2

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Australian Release Date:
  23/10/2008 (Confirmed)
Standard Retail Price:
  $89.95 AU
Publisher:
  UBI Soft
Genre:
  Shooter
Year Made:
  2008
System Requirements:
CPU: Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better
Video Card: NVIDIA 6800 or ATI X1650 or better. Shader Model 3 required, 256MB graphic memory.

Recommended:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better.

Video Card: NVIDIA 8600 GTS or better, ATI X1900 or better, 512MB graphic memory.

A DVD Drive is also required which
is the case with most new games, and a list of supported video cards was released, which include:

NVIDIA 6800, NVIDIA 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 seri
es, 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops. ATI X1650-1950 series, HD2000 series, HD3000 series, HD4000 series.

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