At a glance: Farcry 2

First off, take a look at this behind the scenes video in HD.



Lets begin with the trailer, well, there's no argument that the environments look awsome! And they should! Farcry is about the environments and using them to gain an upperhand over enemies. Okay, so the story is about hunting down the jackal and a battle that has ripped an African nation in two. The storyline seems pretty generic but the large amount of fps these days means its hard to be different and independent. The free roaming element returns to Farcry with 50 square kilometres of land to explore and complete your missions. The free roaming element was one of the things that made the older Farcrys stand out and most importantly hugely fun to play and with the great looking graphics its bound to be great fun! Looking at the trailer
it appears that veichles are available and its always fun to mess round with them and for getting to enemies fast. Wow, thats all I can say. The gameplay looks fantastic. Like he said stealth, sniper or all out explosions its got it all. The variation we hope will be a good thing. Obviously how good the game is will be dependant on the controls but I don't expect they'll be changed too much for Farcry Predator Instincts. The freedom of the game is what sounds good to me but with many games taking the open sandbox style, is it possible to be creative? The story seems to be pretty linear, beside the choice to do missions in any order it sounds like the eventual conclusion will be the same, however, we are told the game is open-ended. Amazingly enough, Farcry 2 has a completly new engine which seems to be rare these days (cough unreal engine cough), it will be interesting to see how the new engine - Dunia, plays. Ubisoft have gone all out for realism, for example, if you set on fire you have to pat yourself to stop it and you even have to remove bullets. Farcry has also utilised the new African setting and placed various species which the player can use to distract enemies. As a result of the realism there will be no feral instincts or the mutant enemies from previous instalments. But don't worry multiplayer will be included in the game but the modes included are yet to be confirmed. On my wishlist for Farcry 2? A map constructor, I wasted so much time on that and so did many others, it would be great to see this in the game but I wouldn't hold your breath, it is very unlikely. Still, if its fun to play and nice to look at, who is really complaining?
Don't forget to check back for the full review coming September this year and keep coming back for more updates and developments on the game!
Want more Farcry 2 right now? There is a 13minute gameplay video available, just click download on the site and enjoy.
Link: 13 minute gameplay footage click to download
~~Sean Linley,360stage~~