Far Cry 2 announced

Mike Bantick
Wednesday, 25 July 2007 04:02

Your IT - Entertainment

Ubisoft announce the follow up to the popular first person shooter for the PC.  This time around Far Cry 2 takes the player off the tropical island and into multiple locations.  Hopefully this time around, Far Cry 2 will involve a different player wardrobe as well.

In 2004 Far Cry showed us a new level of first person gaming interaction.  Set on a tropical island, clothed only in a garish red ‘Hawaiian” shirt, the protagonist fought against cunning AI driven enemies as well as the environment itself.

In Far Cry, if you could see it, you could get to it.  Distant mountains could be reached with a bit of determination, and owning the sniper rifle meant kills from kilometres away.

Now Ubisoft Montreal announces Far Cry 2, taking you into Africa.

"Far Cry marked the beginning of a new era for shooters. An era of gorgeous graphics and of advanced artificial intelligence," declared John Parkes, marketing director, EMEA. "We are confident that Far Cry 2 will have the same impact again on the face of the FPS genre."

Known Facts:

Developed by Ubisoft Montreal
Anticipated release Spring 2008
PC only at this point in time
Teaser has a PCGAMER logo

Locations:
Africa
Desert Crash site
Shanty Town
Dogon village
Desert Water hole
Savannah
Jungle

Factions:
UFLL: United Front for Liberation and Labor
APR: Alliance for Popular Resistance

Characters:
Jack Carver
Warlord
The Jackal
Marty Alencar
Warren Clyde
Nasreen Davar
Hakim Echebbi
Paul Ferenc
Flora Guillen
Andre Hyppolite
Josip Idromeno
Frank Bilders

Classes:
Grunt
Engineer
Medic
Sniper

Weapons:
Compass
Flame Thrower
Molotov cocktail
Machete
AK47

Vehicles:
Glider

Lots of rumours, but no confirmation of Far Cry 2 coming to other platforms.  Most likely the Xbox 360 will see an iteration of Far Cry 2 as it did for the original game.