FarCry 2

Not sure how I missed this. Looks like it is going to be in Africa this time.... Pulled this from the official forums.

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UBISOFT ANNOUNCES FAR CRY® 2
The Legendary Shooter Returns to PC in 2008
Paris- FRANCE – July 19, 2007 – Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced that it will launch Far Cry® 2 in Spring 2008 for PC. Far Cry 2 is being developed in Ubisoft’s Montreal studio.

The original Far Cry® won PC Gamer’s Action Game of the Year Award in 2004. Since then the combined installments of the Far Cry® brand has gathered critical acclaim and numerous awards, and sold over 3 million units.

“Far Cry marked the beginning of a new era for shooters. An era of gorgeous graphics and of advanced artificial intelligence,” declared John Parkes, EMEA marketing director at Ubisoft. “We are confident that Far Cry 2 will have the same impact again on the FPS genre landscape.”

Check www.farcrygame.com regularly for more news.

© 2007 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Far Cry, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the US and/or other countries. Based on Crytek’s original Far Cry directed by Cevat Yerli.

Known Facts:

Developed by Ubisoft Montreal

UBI TEAM:
Producer: Louis-Pierre Pharand
Art Director: Alex Amancio
Creative Director: Clint Hocking
Technical Director: Dominic Guay
Support Coordinator: Kimi ( Who is Kimi, and what does Support Coordinator actually mean)

Anticipated release UBI financial Q4: Spring 2008

PC only at this point in time

Far Cry® 2 is the next-generation PC first-person shooter from Ubisoft, discover the real sequel to the award winning PC game. More than just a visual and technological achievement, Far Cry® 2 will make you take part of a brand new gaming experience. Discover one of the most beautiful but also most hostile environments in the world, AFRICA!

Engine: Dunia

Over 50 square kilometers

Full free roaming, with non-linear missions

Destructable Environs

There is a day and night system.

There is a dynamic weather system that adapts to how well you are currently doing. If you're shooting everything in site, and well too, the skies will be clear and sunny, but if you start getting owned, the sky will darken and become overcast.

Weapons can take damage and begin to malfunction and wear out. It's up to the player to take care of his weapons and keep them in top condition for the journey.

Running into a tree can cause it to break and fall down, just shake, or the player to crash to the floor, all depending on the size of the tree.

Advanced and adaptive AI wear color co-ordinates from GAP with +55 heads and infinate skin shading possibilities.

AI has morale settings, insult their clothing and their moral will suffer... Okay that and the bit above about GAP isnt true, but the moral of the NPCs is a function of what is happening around them, shoot their commander and their moral gets worse, shot the man next to them and it becomes even lower.

No Medi packs:
COD2 style health up to Critical wounding, then you have to heal yourself.

No Trigens or mad scientist.

No feral abilities

Locations:
River Network
Africa
Desert Crash site
Shanty Town
Dogon village
Desert Water hole
Savannah
Jungle

Factions:
UFLL: United Front for Liberation and Labor
APR: Alliance for Popular Resistance

Characters:
Warlord
The Jackal
Marty Alencar
Warren Clyde
Nasreen Davar
Hakim Echebbi
Paul Ferenc
Flora Guillen
Andre Hyppolite
Josip Idromeno
Frank Bilders

Classes:
Grunt
Engineer
Medic
Sniper

Weapons: +30 types and include reliability factors
Flame Thrower
Molotov cocktail
Machete
AK47

Equipment
Compass

Vehicles: +14
Glider

Provisional Min Spec:
DX9 with High End Single core processor
1-2GB of RAM

Provisional High End:
DX10 and Quad Core Support

Cool, maybe I'll have a new computer built by then. . .I'm sure I'll need it. I need it NOW with 2142, and the blame for that I lay SQUARELY at the feet of the developers. It's crazy that game can't scale down enough for acceptable performance from my existing machine.

I've heard some grumbling about Crysis (Far Cry 2 now, huh? Making it easier to connect the dots.) The jungles and such look awesome, but about half of the game is said to take place in (SLIGHT SPOILER, you probably read all about this minor thing well before it's out)
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icy conditions. Iced over stuff everywhere, all in shades of white and blue. Less nice than the jungles.

Crysis != FarCry 2

OIC.

Damn, those two releases are gonna be kinda close together. . .

Sorry for the short reply. I had to run, so I made it short and sweet. I know, so unlike me.... 😛

Yea, it is confusing.... I believe they are on different engines too. Crysis uses the Cryotek engine and FarCry 2 uses the Dunia engine.

I really liked FarCry, but the online aspect sucked big donkey balls. I gave up on the single player when they released the patch that wiped out all of your saved games, forcing you to start over. What really sucked was the fact that the patch actually fixed some major game stopping problems. Either way, I was screwed, so I just dropped it.

Still for $10, Farcry is on my top games for the money list right next to UT2004 and Baldur's Gate I/II.

Just to get FC2 and UT3 in 08' is going to make it a banner year. This year sucked for fps'ers.

I am looking forward to Crysis, haven't looked at Farcry2. Been trying to figure out their relationship

Great! Will FarCry 2 suck as much as FarCry 1 when it comes to multiplayer?

FarCry was pretty, but I can only shoot the computer so long...

I am with you. MP in FC was terrible. The game had so much potential, yet fell way short.....