Far Cry 2 intro trailer mixes gameplay with developer commentary

by Alexander Sliwinski { May 7th 2008 at 4:00PM }

Ubisoft recently released an introductory video for Far Cry 2, its upcoming human-hunt across the African plains. The trailer mixes clips of Ubi Montreal developers talking and actual gameplay footage. Although we got some footage showing off the game's engine earlier this year, we really haven't seen gameplay footage since Leipzig.

The developer clips in this trailer are actually quite entertaining, with Far Cry 2's art director, Alex Amancio, explaining how the team almost got eaten by lions while camping in Africa (silly Quebecers, should have hired someone with lion-mastering experience). Far Cry 2 is expected later this year and will allegedly be the same game on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

Gallery: Far Cry 2

Tags: far-cry-2, farcry, farcry2, introduction, ubisoft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

noskillbassist @ May 7th 2008 4:03PM

Never was a fan of Far Cry to be honest.

Obie @ May 7th 2008 4:09PM

The first Far Cry was pretty cool, not ground breaking on anything but not bad.

But this one looks even better!

syrik zero @ May 7th 2008 4:23PM

This one does look pretty awesome. I like to do what I want

DangerMouse @ May 7th 2008 4:23PM

I'd say it was somewhat innovative with regards to the large environments and freedom to take any route possible while choosing to utilize whatever vehicle was available. I did find the gameplay a bit bland, and they should've fine tuned it a bit better. And made it a little easier.

Obie @ May 7th 2008 4:25PM

I liked the "powers" you got in the last game, meleeing a guy 200 feet off a cliff....and the lush jungle environments were very impressive.

Tiptup300 @ May 7th 2008 4:42PM

...It had a long draw distance. That's saying something...

Tiptup300 @ May 7th 2008 4:44PM

"Far Cry 2, from the first developers to say 'Fuck it, that's what minimum requirements are for!'"

Huey2k2 @ May 7th 2008 4:11PM

I didn't have a computer that was good enough to run FarCry back in the day, so I never got to find out what all the hype is about. But I am told it was realy good.

Alex @ May 7th 2008 4:44PM

It was.
Don't bother with Instincs: Predator for the 360 though. That killed it.

Mike @ May 7th 2008 8:26PM

Huey2k2
re:"I didn't have a computer that was good enough to run FarCry back in the day, so I never got to find out what all the hype is about. But I am told it was realy good."
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Geeze you have no excuse not to pick this game up now that you have a rig that can handle it. You would be able to do all the super high res hacks/tweaks and still get 100's of frames per second. FarCry was HELLA more impressive once you turned up the goodies and maxed it out. TRY IT. Great game..

Matt B @ May 7th 2008 4:16PM

Ludwig the Lion Masta!!

Mr.ESC @ May 7th 2008 4:23PM

For all platforms huh.

*Travels in time to play Farcry 2

*Plays in Xbox 360.The xbox 360 explodes.

*Plays in Ps3.The install procces indicates the install will finish in either 10 years of until Nuke Dukem Forever releases.Which happens first.

*Plays in Pc.Pc explodes.

*Gets New Pc

*Plays game but first set all graphical settings as low as possible.

*Enjoys playing in 15 KM of Brown boxes.

*????

*Profit