Far Cry 2 gameplay video blowout

by Alexander Sliwinski { Sep 17th 2008 at 10:00PM }

GameTrailers has five new videos of Far Cry 2 gameplay, all of which can be found after the break, with each showing off a different time of day in the game's African setting. There's really not much more we can say about the title prior to its Oct. 21 release, but from what we've experienced so far we hope it doesn't get totally lost in the midst of release neighbors: Fable 2, Fallout 3 and LittleBigPlanet.

Tags: far-cry-2, ubisoft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ubiqutous Oxymoron @ Sep 17th 2008 10:09PM

wow! looks great,

wonder how it will play on my 4870x2 and 30'' monit0r?

:)

T3kNi9e @ Sep 17th 2008 10:28PM

What? That kind of monitor does not exist

giantenemycrab @ Sep 17th 2008 10:47PM

@T3kni9e http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/monitor_3007wfp?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

T3kNi9e @ Sep 17th 2008 11:00PM

Oh, a duo monitor setup, I thought he was talking resolution

Foetoid @ Sep 18th 2008 4:48AM

My brother in law has the same videocard. Has it on a decent gigabyte motherboard, 4gb 800mhz ram, E8600. Runs Crysis MAXED OUT smoothly lol. You know any PC that can run Crysis maxed out can run ANYTHING maxed out, even this.

Clinton RRoD sept.3 @ Sep 17th 2008 10:44PM

im lazy. what happened in those videos ? did they look great ? that is all

Titanium_Orchid @ Sep 17th 2008 11:32PM

first there was this dude in the jungle and he was all like pew pew pew, then some other dudes got angry and they were like, get him. Then the dude said no way and busted out his boom stick and was all bang bang eat this. then he jumped on a boat and drove around the sea and saw another boat and shot it. then he took the other boat at drove that boat around the ocean. and then he started shooting these rockets at some guys and they were freaking out because they were all like where are these rockets coming from. then he won the game.

Clinton RRoD sept.3 @ Sep 18th 2008 7:02AM

thanks man i can image all that going down looking pretty great

theturtle363 @ Sep 18th 2008 11:14AM

you forgot the part where the one dude goes fuck it lets go bowling

giantenemycrab @ Sep 17th 2008 10:49PM

Wow, that looks like really awesome gameplay. I love the stealth based mechanics. I always try to go stealthy in FPSes, but it never really works right.. It's like the game doesn't really like me doing it. Glad this one will let you stealth around and slowly pick off baddies.

Joel @ Sep 17th 2008 10:56PM

Does anybody else feel like the AI is lacking?

Tehman @ Sep 17th 2008 11:11PM

Yuh huh.... I felt it too man...
Like in the Evening gameplay video, where the enemy mercenary's friend splotches blood out of his neck and dies when you shoot him and it takes him 3 seconds to react... and also blandly states "What was that?"

.......... Sure that's pretty realistic...

LordChimp @ Sep 17th 2008 11:19PM

Yeah, I thought so as well.

One thing I wish this game has is nice subtle music in the background, like how Oblivion does it. The normal sound of nature is cool at first but I think I would get bored after awhile.

Titanium_Orchid @ Sep 17th 2008 11:23PM

I had the same feeling to.

In the second to last movie, as the player was sniping and launching rockets or whatever those were, there was an NPC calmly looking at the river. Also, for some reason, I always have trouble being stealthy in the Far Cry games. I seem to get spotted instantly when moving through dense jungle, or when looking at a camp from a far distance. It might be that I have no clue as to how visible my body really is, but I think it has more to do with AI programing.

That being said, I am super hyped to try multi player and mess around with the level editor, so I probably won't have to spend to much time dealing with the AI.

Tehman @ Sep 17th 2008 11:26PM

Sublte nature sounds is another meaning for, play your own custom soundtracks while playing I guess from the developers... It's be pretty cool I guess to play something like death metal while blowing everything up! Not that I like death metal or anything.... It adds more to the do anything you want setting of the gameplay....

LordChimp @ Sep 17th 2008 11:43PM

@Titanium_Orchid

I had that same problem with the AI in the first one. I always would try to go stealth but they would somehow always see me, no matter how well covered I thought I was. It pissed me off so much.

wiredknight @ Sep 17th 2008 11:09PM

am I the only one who noticed that the first video is the same as the last?

Tehman @ Sep 17th 2008 11:20PM

*insert first line of my above reply to Joel*

Ganzor @ Sep 17th 2008 11:29PM

What a racist game. A white guy killing black guys in Africa? UNACCEPTABLE!

T3kNi9e @ Sep 18th 2008 12:43AM

Looking at the gameplay, I think it's treading on a line between good game and disappointing game. It seems very lack luster while the idea of map editor and open world is the only thing keeping me optimistic. The AI seems a little dumb and as much as I like stealth, it didn't have enough action. I think stealthy-ness is more fun in 3rd person, then again CoD4 did it nicely in a few occasions. Maybe it's an early stage of the game or something.

KeenCommander @ Sep 18th 2008 12:14AM

It looks slick, but almost cartoony - which seems odd for the hyper-detailed graphic and lighting. I actually think the first one created a better atmosphere, though it's hard to tell without actually playing.

KeenCommander @ Sep 18th 2008 12:19AM

But don't get me wrong - as long as my laptop can muster up the stuff, which it should be able to since it had no problem running Bioshock, I certainly will be playing it.

MrSpaceCowboy @ Sep 18th 2008 2:05AM

I will Farcry tears of joy when I get this game...

Well not really, but I will crank Africa by Toto.

Mike @ Sep 18th 2008 9:58AM

YES.

JoeTheBlow @ Sep 18th 2008 5:02AM

I think it may indeed get lost in the avalanche we have coming up.
Its just not a big name, its been absolutely ages since the last one, and as good as it was it was just a simple FPS.
I enjoyed playing through it, but this sequel is on the "only if everything else surprisingly sucks" list.