Far Cry 2 Trailer

The player's hunt for The Jackal will be entirely open-ended and non-linear, with the player being able to ally with anyone he/she chooses. Further to this, the player's choices are completely unfettered, giving a Sandbox style of gameplay and allowing the story to progress at the speed the player chooses. Instead of using individual maps, the game will take place in a sprawling nondescript land in Africa, with terrain ranging from savannah to jungle ,similar to those seen in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Just Cause and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl. The gameplay area will be 50 km2 (19.5 sq. miles). Some members of the Ubisoft Montreal team spent 2 weeks in several locations in Africa filming and photographing native wildlife. The team will use the animal footage and environment photos to create an extremely realistic environment.
Various factions and vehicles will be featured; enemies will include human mercenaries, but sci-fi creatures such as the mutants from Far Cry will not be featured. Furthermore, the player's feral abilities introduced in Far Cry Instincts and its expansions will not be returning in Far Cry 2. A dynamic weather system has been added that varies the weather based on the players ability - if the player is doing exceptionally well the sky will be clear and sunny, but if problems arise the sky will become dark and stormy.
A pre-Alpha video of the game, showcasing visuals and 13 minutes of gameplay, with developer commentary was made available online in spring 2008. The video showcases many dynamic gameplay features which included procedural breakage of vegetation, allowing players to shoot down trees and shoot branches and leaves off of trees, which can eventually re-grow. The developers also showcased dynamic propagation of fire, and volumetric wind effects capable of breaking vegetation and spreading fire. Man-made structures were also shown to be highly destructible.
The game will be much more realistic with features such as the player having to use a map and compass to get around, and more life or death related features such as having to use tools to dig bullets out of the body and pat themselves down when on fire. Weapons will disintegrate over time, adding a grimmer look to them, and eventually causing them to jam. Several species of African wildlife can be encountered in the game, and will be able to distract the enemy as well as make them aware of your presence . All the large animals in the game will be grazing herbivores only, such as zebras, wildebeest, gazelle, buffalo, impala, Gemsbok and the like. The reason for this was said by one of the makers "The problem was, if we wanted to put predators into that ecosystem we would have to balance it to make sure the lions didn't eat all the gazelles and then all starve to death."
The game's producer, Louis-Pierre Pharand, says that the single player will "potentially have close to 50 hours of game play."
Far Cry 2's African-themed setting and visuals.
During a demo at the Dream Hack Summer 2008 event, Ubisoft developers also showcased some new game play mechanics, such as weapon jamming, vehicle damage, propagating fire, destructible environments, adaptive enemy artificial intelligence, as well as day and night cycles, and dynamic weather.
The player will also be able to tag certain objects and locations such as cars, sniper towers, ammo pickups and buildings, so that they will be able to monitor them on their map.
There is a map editor, similar to that of previous console Far Cry games, this will allow the player to create their own levels, which can be played online and off-line

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[MilitantDanny]

Sorry bud, but unless your dealing with a MK19, nothings going to explode on you. At the worst, you might get cookoff's resulting in the bullet (a solid piece of lead/metal with no explosive properties) to take the path of least resistence... OUT THE BARREL. Runaway guns sometimes happen with belt-fed machine guns. But nothing explodes in your hand. If the barrels completely plugged with something extremely solid, then yes you will have a dangerous situation. 9/10 it will blow it out though.

[bluevipa]

only thing i dont like is the gun exploding in your hand ill be fine with it its just i dont want to keep dealing with guns that blow up all the time it ruins the fun but i rate the game 10/5 i like the rusy dirtyer part of the gun and graphics.

[vushtrrinalit2]

hope Far Cry 3 is coming out soon

[canjbob]

omg i have this game it is so cool

[dethtoall5]

ok people who complain about guns exploding and how MilitantDanny thinks that its not realistic for a gun to explode in your hands... dude... for one this isnt modern day and is obviously shown by the condition and weapons on the battle field... the wep. selection is like 20th century... those kind of weapons when worn down can brake a muzzle off a gun ok... so stop whining :P

[samslykid]

dumbass....graphics get a 1?

[samslykid]

fc2

[KingConservative]

Something else that I love about far cry is how you can make your own maps and play them online. Some people have great talent with making citys or rural maps.

[KingConservative]

They did a good job with that, I got really into farcry and felt for my avatar.

[sup3rt0aster]

thanx

[bvosman]

@sup3rt0aster FAR CRY @

[virusspoon]

Far cry 2 i just got it i had crysis far cry is MUCH better!!