Today, I have finally seen the first 40 minutes of Far Cry 2 on PC. Or, to be more precise, I've seen the first two minutes of the game about twenty times in a row. That's because over two months after the game's release, I've finally figured out how to dispell The Jackal's Curse -- [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Intel and Ubisoft announced the release of two downloadable missions for Far Cry 2, both available from Intel's Game On! website. The new content promises up to three hours of engaging new gameplay for the seasoned Far Cry 2 player. Mission 1: the Morrocan This mission sends you into the most heavily guarded region of the Leboa-Sako [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 5, 2008
Torrentfreak has released their list of the Top 10 games pirated in 2008, and while the list of 10 itself contains almost no surprises, what is surprising is one man is responsible for the top two: Will Wright. Obviously, we all knew Spore would top the list. The game had record-breaking downloads, thanks in no small [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 21, 2008
Yes, that's right -- they got Assassin's Creed in your Prince of Persia. And though we have to admit it was far more exciting the first time Ubisoft revealed that Altair would appear in a game not his own, we're certain that plenty of users who register at ubisoft.com for the free Xbox 360 and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 8, 2008
As the developers of Crysis will no doubt attest, it's one thing to build a beautiful PC game -- but another entirely to build one your audience can reasonably play on existing hardware. But this is one of the many areas where Ubisoft's Far Cry 2 is attempting to step out of its predecessor's soft [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 21, 2008
GameCyte gets all buddy-buddy with Far Cry 2's narrative designer. Who knew an free-roaming FPS could tell such tales?
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 28, 2008
At Ubidays 2008, we heard a number of very impressive things -- but as to what we saw, there was little that could surpass the technical prowess of Far Cry 2. And though the live demonstration we viewed has apparently not made it to primetime, Ubisoft did provide journalists with a concise tech demo that [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 28, 2008
We admit it -- not only is Trailer Tuesday one day late this week, but our trailers are also slightly out of date, surfacing here (in the case of Far Cry 2) as many as five days after their original debut. But considering three of those five days consisted of a rockin' Memorial Day weekend, [...]
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