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Third Far Cry demo planned

Full game is gold and out on March 26th.

Ubisoft is determined to woo first-person shooter fans with its tropical FPS Far Cry, which was recently completed by German developer Crytek, and now plans to round up any fence-sitters with a third single-player demo due to launch on March 15th, eleven days prior to the full game's European debut.

Following the release of the original "Fort" demo, last week gamers got their second slice of tropicana thanks to a leaked - and subsequently official-ised - demo level called "Research". Next Monday, we can expect to get our grubby mitts on a demo called "Boat". Then: "Beach", and possibly "Shed", not to mention "Stu-- [Shut up now. -Ed]

Although Kristan wasn't hugely excited when he played the first demo, he wouldn't stop talking about it after he saw it last September at ECTS, and we all have high hopes for the final version. Expect to see a review of it just prior to its European release on March 26th.

You can download the original two demos of Far Cry from 3D Gamers here. We'll post a link to Boat on Monday.