Far Cry 2 due to arrive in autumn

By Robert Purchese Published 26 March, 2008

Getting louder.

Ubisoft has narrowed the release of Far Cry 2 down to autumn this year.

Despite murmurings of a delay, the publisher assured Eurogamer this is the first time a date for the title has been mentioned since it was pushed into fiscal 2008 at the beginning of the year.

Ubisoft is also confident that PC, PS3 and 360 versions will launch simultaneously, and that a demo is likely to appear, although there's no specific word on its whereabouts just yet.

Far Cry 2 is set in Africa this time around, which is, ahem, a far cry from the familiar tropical island locations of previous games.

This, a fresh engine, and a "no bullsh**" approach are all part of Ubisoft distancing itself from the Crytek-developed original.

Pop over to our Far Cry 2 preview to see why we are particularly excited about this one.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • syphaa #1 4 years ago

    Be interesting to see how it holds up on the consoles.
    Looking forward to this f0 sh0.

  • Killerbee #2 4 years ago

    Ubisoft distancing itself from the Crytek-developed original

    I'm not sure what to read into that - Far Cry was a great game. On the dialogue from the mercs and the slightly cheesy plot let it down.

    Has anything much been said about the engine? Are we talking Crysis-level stuff?

  • asphaltcowboy #3 4 years ago

    The EDGE preview looked awesome! Let's hope they don't 'pull a Crytek' and ruin the game 1/2 or 2/3 of the way through with stupid monsters or mutants!

  • HoriZon #4 4 years ago

    I already knew this, someone i know works for Ubi.

    Looks interesting though!

  • El_MUERkO #5 4 years ago

    after seeing this at play.com/live i want it now :(

  • gruntboy #6 4 years ago

    Bah. I was hoping to come to this comments page and see a raging debate on US/Domestic foreign policy and the West's contributions to the state of the Middle East. Back over to the Jihad article for me...

  • Kingofnothin #7 4 years ago

    @ Asphaltcowboy

    Hope your talking about the console version of Far Cry because killer monkeys on the PC version s**t me up!...........but yeah the console version was crap and hopefully they won't do the same this time around and the console version will be at least similar to the PC game. But the PC original was fantastic more of the same would do for me!
    Edited by 2 at 26/03/08 @ 16:20

  • kmittal82 #8 4 years ago

    Great game, saw a 30 minute live demo at play.com live, and its looks very promising.
    Excellent weather effect and graphics, but the AI seemed sloppy and very stiff character movements.

  • asphaltcowboy #9 4 years ago

    @Kingofnothin

    The killer monkey things were kind of exciting in a 'Fiend from Quake' sort of way - it just pissed me off a lot when it got to the massive guys with rockets for arms later on (this isn't Doom II after all)! It was much more fun to mess with the human AI and take them out stealthily and stylishly! Same goes for Return to Castle Wolfenstein - gave up on it when I got to those labs with those weird bulky guys with electricity!

  • Ryze #10 4 years ago

    "a far cry from the familiar tropical island locations of previous games..."

    as long as it's not set near the coast, then...

  • MouzerMalti #11 4 years ago

    Far Cry 2 is going to be set in the middle of a failed African state, still in chaos after a recent conflict. You've been sent there to take out a weapons dealer who is arming both sides involved in the conflict.


    It has NO Monsters whatsoever ;)

  • Whizzo #12 4 years ago

    The demo at Play.com Live was indeed excellent, this is probably going to be FPS of the year by some distance.

  • Triggerhappytel #13 4 years ago

    I'm interested in this, although I'm hoping it's a lot, lot better than the shitty Instincts console iterations and to be honest I'd rather it lead on PC then was ported to the consoles after a couple of months.

    Still, likely to be good. With the likes of this, OpFlash 2, Killzone 2 and Resistance 2 it's going to be a big winter for FPS sequels.

  • john_silence #14 4 years ago

    OK then *checks wallet* While I'd sure love to know how it performs on a budget PC, I'm upgrading my 2-year-old GPU for this little beast. Their engine interests me more than Crytek's. It does New Things. Plus, no monsters in a shooter of this ilk is oh so refreshing.

  • the_dudefather #15 4 years ago

    I love the mercs from far cry

    HOW DO YOU LIKE DEM APPLES?

  • asphaltcowboy #16 4 years ago

    "I'M GONNA SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE!" ;)

  • kangarootoo #17 4 years ago

    Far Cry was a great game overall (except for the crappy mutants, obviously). I quite liked the merc dialogue too, I thought it was very fitting.

    Also, one of the challenges in any game where AI searches for the player then gives up, is explaining the apparent goldfish memory of the guards. Far Cry came up with brilliantly bold solution to this with their dialogue basing it around the fact the mers were all about cash and skiving, my favourite being...

    "Whatever that was... I don't care!"

    Awesome ;)