RichPowers says:

That looks amazing.

After playing GTA non-stop for the last week (thank Steam deals!), I forgot how much I enjoy the open world sandbox stuff.

October 10th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

Erlam says:

No I realise it’s saying they’re talenting, but it sounds (to me) like “Stalker, with a huge 50 km area, done by a well-funded (which the stalker team wasn’t) talented team.”

So I’m just reading that as “Stalker, done by a team that is better funded, and better talented.”

I don’t mean to accuse you or anything, I’m just pointing out that’s how it reads to me.

October 10th, 2008 at 7:32 pm

Fumarole says:

This looks to provide the most fun in a shooter this year, until Left 4 Dead arrives, of course. I’m really looking forward to this.

October 10th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

Nuyan says:

One thing that really bothered me with a previous well-known Ubisoft game called Assasins Creed was the storyline, it was so overly careful and simplistic, while it had so incredibly much potential.

Voice-acting here doesn’t sound amazing, but I still rather like that trailer.

October 10th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

dhex says:

crysis without boundaries sounds awesome.

October 10th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

Colthor says:

If they use limited installs and online activation for this I’ll be a Sad Panda, because then I won’t be able to buy it.

Either way, it’d be nice if they told us.

October 10th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

Downloads_Plz says:

And I’m sold.

*Throws my wallet at Ubisoft*

October 10th, 2008 at 8:51 pm

Tim E says:

Thanks for the compliments, Jim. I can’t wait for you, and everyone else, to play this.

October 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

Vivian says:

I’m sure this has been argued about in abundance, but what exactly does this (fantastic looking, admittedly) game have to do with far cry? Theres not going to be fucking rocketproof mutant wildebeest in the last half is there?

October 10th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

Leeks! says:

Damn. That’s a helluva trailer.

October 10th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

CrashT says:

So Tim, since you appear to be lurking, what’s the performance like for this? Is it upgrade time again?

October 10th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

Radiant says:

Also a quick google leads me to believe that the article isn’t out in the wild for me to read.
Come on internet let me see these words for free; it’s what I pay you for.

October 10th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

Poet says:

It’s on Steam btw, preorder is 5$ off (at least for us Americans).

October 10th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

CrashT says:

How about some cross game contamination… Far Cry 2: Cry Some More.

October 10th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

Friday says:

I really hope this game delivers, I trust it too be good but I just can’t read first reviews. I remeber pc gamer had the first for crysis and they gave it a 98, which was atleast a BIG 10 points more then it deserved. But I dont read that shit anymore so it cool.

October 10th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

mrrobsa says:

@ Friday:

PC Gamer 98′d Crysis?! Really?! I mean, I only played the demo, but 98?! Someone tell me otherwise.

Oh and Farcry 2 looks grand.

October 10th, 2008 at 11:44 pm

Bhazor says:

Certainly seems a step above the corridors of Crysis where the walls were trees and abject boredom of having nothing to do if you veer off the path.

October 11th, 2008 at 12:31 am

Katsumoto says:

@ mrrobsa

It was the US PC gamer that gave Crysis 98, as opposed to regular PCG which did this review. If that helps.

Also, as ever, this is only on Steam in North America. Godfuckingdamnit etc. But nevermind, I’ve recently rediscovered a passion for lovely boxes!

October 11th, 2008 at 1:06 am

futage says:

“game that makes you create your own fun rather than provide fun for you”

My favourite kind of game, that.

My feeling is that this is going to be Boiling Point done well.

October 11th, 2008 at 1:16 am

Klumhru says:

Regionlocking = not buying.

Ever.

October 11th, 2008 at 2:04 am

Colthor says:

Considering you can get the game a good £10 cheaper from online shops than you would be able to through Steam anyway (if it were sold here) it’s hard to really be upset that it isn’t…

October 11th, 2008 at 2:17 am

Deuteronomy says:

Konky,

Honestly I would be hard pressed to say whether HL2 was better than D3. Maybe a hair better. Crysis vs Far Cry 2 is going to be interesting.

October 11th, 2008 at 4:48 am

Chris R says:

Yup, I’m in for a pre-order via Steam as well. PLEASE BE GOOD Far Cry 2…

October 11th, 2008 at 6:41 am

Chris R says:

@ Fanciestofpants: Well then you’re not really a lover of sandboxes sir. What is your definition of “sandbox”?

Here’s mine to name a few (I own all of these, and they are currently installed on my machine):
All the GTA’s and its clones.
Crysis and Crysis Warhead
Stalker 1 and 2
Oblivion

To me the term “sandbox game” = any game in which you create your own entertainment, rather than the game ’showing’ you the “fun”, as is the case with heavily scripted games (COD4, Bioshock, HL2 and expansions).

So I call BS that you loved all the other sandbox games, and yet are failed to be impressed with Far Cry 2.
I enjoy sandbox games the most, and loath scripted games, and from everything I’ve seen, Far Cry 2 is amazing. If you love sandbox games, how could you not be excited by FC2?

October 11th, 2008 at 8:04 am

The Apologist says:

24th October. The day I get paid.

Destiny.

October 11th, 2008 at 11:06 am

Ubernutz says:

om nom nom

October 11th, 2008 at 11:39 am

roryok says:

Awesome. Im sure they’re already working on Cry Far with a Vengeance

October 11th, 2008 at 2:21 pm

Bhazor says:

The Jackal seems like a pretty nice guy to me. He justs wants you to hold on to a few million dollars for him.

Also if that’s the size of the diamonds one of those glittery bastards could buy half of the country.

October 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

Simon Jones says:

The title ‘Far Cry 2′ becomes more perplexing and inappropriate with every trailer.

They could have kick-started a hugely powerful new franchise here, but instead they’ve latched it onto a cheesy last-gen series that seemingly has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Very, very odd.

October 11th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

Dominic White says:

But it’s not a sequel! This is like renaming Battlestar Galactica ‘Star Wars Episode 7′.

October 11th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

Saflo says:

Well, it’s sort of a sequel in spirit, isn’t it. The main character in both is a man who points guns at things. In the jungle.

October 11th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

roryok says:

i read an interview with one of the far cry 2 developers who basically admitted it was piggybacked on the far cry name. He made some interesting points. He reckoned that they managed to sneak onto the pc gaming radar by calling it far cry 2, and that without a name people would have started out complaining that it was too ambitious.

October 11th, 2008 at 10:00 pm

Eli Just says:

@James T
Yeah, it was a PC exclusive until January when they announced the console ports. I wish it was still exclusive to PC just to show the rest of the world how awesome the PC is, but I guess more fun for everybody right? It still looks solid and definitely worth buying. I just hope it’s gonna go the way sandbox games should be (like the way that Crysis did objectives). I only played the Crysis Demo, but one of the things that really stood out was how open it was. There was one objective in the demo to take out a base on a sort of peninsula, and you could take a boat and shoot it up, drive a truck over there, sneak in on foot, or take the Koreans out from a distance. This felt sooooo good in comparison to GTA, where the whole game felt like a tutorial for the real fun that never came. In GTA you had to do everything exactly the way they wanted, going into every red circle and it playing a cut scene. It never said “We’re gonna rob this band, figure it out!”. Instead it walked you through and took away a lot of the fun. Anyways, I just hope Far Cry 2 can make this idea of the truly open world game a reality.
And also, I’m fairly new to RPS, and I have to say I love it! Thanks!

October 11th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

roryok says:

And while it may have little in common with Far Cry, that should be a good thing. I love Far Cry, right up until the mutants appear. Then it gets really dumb.

October 11th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

Dominic White says:

I’m fairly sure I’m completely alone here, but I’ve always thought that while the quality of Far Cry did drop a bit after the Trigens are first introduced, the best moments and setpieces were all after that point. The James Bond-esque speedboat chase and the entire ‘Rebellion’ level (the gigantic branching three-way firefight) in particular.

It seems that most people just quit the moment they encountered a new enemy type that was tougher to kill than the mercs.

October 11th, 2008 at 11:58 pm

Chris R says:

Bhazor, check out what Eli posted just above:

“I just hope it’s gonna go the way sandbox games should be (like the way that Crysis did objectives). I only played the Crysis Demo, but one of the things that really stood out was how open it was. There was one objective in the demo to take out a base on a sort of peninsula, and you could take a boat and shoot it up, drive a truck over there, sneak in on foot, or take the Koreans out from a distance. This felt sooooo good in comparison to GTA, where the whole game felt like a tutorial for the real fun that never came. In GTA you had to do everything exactly the way they wanted, going into every red circle and it playing a cut scene. It never said “We’re gonna rob this band, figure it out!”. Instead it walked you through and took away a lot of the fun.”

The way you played through a map in Crysis was nothing like HL2. Crysis gave you the primary objective, a few sub-objectives (take out the radar, check out this place for intel), and then left it up to you to get to the end. HL2 was basically a narrow hallway connecting event after event to one another. Play both back to back and you’ll see what I’m talking about. I want FREEDOM to choose how to tackle a mission, exactly in the way the trailers are showing for FC2. I could use a jeep and blast my way in, or snipe everyone from a hill, or set fire to the grass and burn the place down, or use a grenade launcher to blow the place up, etc, etc. It’s up to ME how I want to assault a place, I make my own fun, I choose when and where to fight. Games like HL2, Bioshock, COD4 don’t give me that freedom: In those games, I HAVE to go through this alley to get to the next area, I can’t go over this wall/fence and flank the enemy, etc, etc.

October 12th, 2008 at 4:11 am

Bhazor says:

Reply to Chris R

But how is that different to choosing whether to use a pistol, or a shotgun. One lets you kill from a far the other being an assault weapon. You still don’t pick what to do, just how to do it. Far Cry 2 on the other hand has an adaptive storyline, the ability to choose missions and picking which filthy mercenary to take with you.

In short I’m saying this looks closer to S.T.A.L.K.E.R which was a true sandbox in my opinion rather than a fat corridor shooter.

October 12th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

Lacobus says:

I’m like two days late for this post but I’ve wanted to pontificate about something to lots of unreal Internet people for a while. 50km of open world, is this actually something to commend?

The game is either gonna flow beautifully from one mission to the next with quality pacing like say Half Life 2 or Halo 3, OR it’s gonna have a stilted, laborious pace where you spend a great deal of your time wandering around aimlessly, checking maps in driving into rivers. Plus I’m sure all those trigger happy NPC’s are gonna make getting lost a barrel of laughs.

The game looks amazing I’d say and apart from the Crysis island I’ve seen nothing that looks as good. I haven’t read the PC gamer review yet either, but does he mention any of the sandbox trappings of hours of wasted time being lost, pointless side-quests and lots of time spent travelling to the fun? My first impressions make me think these these things.

October 12th, 2008 at 8:56 pm