Kotaku reports:

While video games often present a clean and polished atmosphere, Far Cry 2 presents a world that "isn't this clean, sterile, digital representation of Africa." Guns jam and wounds that are left untreated become fatal. As for leveling up your character, that plotline begins to sound a but like Haze.

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Ubisoft has confirmed today at CES in Las Vegas that it will include Philip's amBX tech in some of its major upcoming titles.

amBX allows developers to include "surround sense" elements in games through various peripherals, including light, colour, sound, rumble and air flow through enabled devices like fans and LED-powered lights.

The tech is being shown at CES working on both Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway and Far Cry 2, which were recently delayed by Ubisoft until the next fiscal year beginning April 2008.
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Surfer Girl reveals why Lost, the next Splinter Cell game, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Far Cry 2 got delayed.
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Jan 3, 2008 In one of its traditional ten-minutes-'til-home-time press releases, Ubisoft has revealed that the sequel to Far Cry will be coming to Xbox 360 and PS3 as well as PC. The Africa-set follow-up recently saw a month delay, putting its release back to March - though from what little we've seen of it so far we'll be impressed if it even makes it out that early. It's nice to see that home consoles at least aren't getting a watered-down port this time around (not that Instincts was at ... » Read More

Rumours of console versions of Ubisoft's upcoming Far Cry sequel have been doing the rounds almost since the game was first announced for PC, and today the France-based publisher has confirmed that Far Cry 2 is on the way to Xbox 360 and PS3.

In development at Ubisoft Montreal, Far Cry 2 is a next generation first-person shooter which hopes to immerse the player in an entirely new kind of gameplay experience. The game utilises a custom-made engine which has been built from the ground up, making it possible to deliver real open-world gameplay.
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Ahh delays, the gaming industries way of tying a carrot to a string and watching you chase it.

It was recently announced that Ubisoft, creators of the hit game Assassin's Creed, will be delaying three of their 2008 titles. Those on hold include Far Cry 2, Tom Clancy's Endwar, and Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. No indication on when exactly they will be released other than that they will be released some time in the 2008 fiscal year, which starts in April.
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Dec 12, 2007 Ubisoft has offloaded its weekly release schedule, revealing a handful of delays for its 2008 shooters Far Cry 2, Haze and Brothers in Arms. As if we didn't know already, the French publisher has confirmed that Free Radical shooter Haze won't make it into the shops this year, and is now destined for release in "early 2008". Meanwhile Far Cry 2 has seen a month delay, putting its release back to March - though from what little we've seen of it so far we'll be impressed if it even ... » Read More

Ubisoft has today revealed its highly anticipated Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway will be released across Europe on PlayStation 3 in March 2008, a month later than the planned February release for the Xbox 360 and PC versions.

The news comes from the publisher's latest release schedule which also reveals a month delay for Far Cry 2 on PC - now scheduled for March- and a March date for its new franchise Tom Clancy's End War.
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Nov 20, 2007 In March 1898, two maneless Tsavo man-eating lions preyed on workers during the construction of the Ugandan railway. The pair, part of a testosterone-charged sub-species of lion local to the area, killed an estimated 135 people - their efforts later immortalized in the Val Kilmer film The Ghost and the Darkness. In late July of this year five men from Ubisoft Montreal were spending a night under canvas in the same area. “We couldnt see anything - we just heard an elephant ... » Read More

Nov 12, 2007 Set in the African savannah, Far Cry 2 is full of interesting features - from the roaming wildlife to the astonishingly real spread of fire through the tinder-dry foliage. It's also, according to artistic director Alexandre Amancio, "filled with shit". Ubisoft sent its artistic team to the actual, God's-own, real Africa so as to get a handle on how it felt to be in such an exotic locale, from the sounds and sights to, it seems, the smells. "The first thing we noticed when we set ... » Read More

Ubisoft has today issued an updated released schedule, revealing Far Cry 2 is set for release on PC in February 2008. Far Cry 2 is the sequel to the Crytek developed PC (and later Xbox, Xbox 360 and Wii) first-person shooter, only now the title is in the hands of Ubisoft and not the original developer.
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Its been a few weeks since Filefront had an Open File installment but things are still happening on the many Filefront affiliated websites so without further delay lets jump into this weeks edition. The files listed in this feature are selected by the Filefront Hosted Site admins and each week they highlight the most exciting add ons, maps or mods for some of the hottest games in the PC gaming universe.
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Clint Hocking: "To cut straight to the heart of it, Bioshock seems to suffer from a powerful dissonance between what it is about as a game, and what it is about as a story. By throwing the narrative and ludic elements of the work into opposition, the game seems to openly mock the player for having believed in the fiction of the game at all. The leveraging of the game's narrative structure against its ludic structure all but destroys the player's ability to feel connected to either, forcing the player to either abandon the game in protest (which I almost did) or simply accept that the game cannot be enjoyed as both a game and a story, and to then finish it for the mere sake of finishing it".

Read on to find out more of what the Creative Director on Far Cry 2 had to say.
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They inform Joysiq that there will be no visual or audio recording during the FarCry 2 demo. Developer Clint Hocking is on the stage, having flown to Seattle from Leipzig for this one, single demo. They've reserved the first two rows for press, eager to ensure their forfeiture of sleep doesn't go unrewarded. The screen is showing a Windows desktop with a big, shiny FarCry 2 logo. Carolyn Carnes opens up, reminding us there is no recording equipment (OR ELSE!), asking us to turn our cellphones off, reminding us this is a pre-alpha (read: if something goes wrong, it's early!) and of course, they won't be able to answer everything during the Q&A session.

They gave a limited demonstration of the game at Leipzig, but this will be the definitive unveiling of the game. She intros Clint, notes he was the lead developer of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (someone yells out, "Oh yeahhhh!") and creative director of the FarCry 2 project. He's been on the project for over 2 years now, starting with a small team of eight guys working to determine how to make a sequel worthy of the original. They went into production three months ago and "aren't even alpha." They're targeting first quarter 2008.
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Aug 24, 2007 Here we have new(ish) screenshots from Far Cry 2, many of which are used to show off the new game engine Ubisoft has developed for the first-person shooter sequel. Obviously a gameplay movie would give us far clearer idea of the qualities of the technology, but just look at that burning tree. It's hot! Ahem. Once you've passed mince pies over the screens, go read our Far Cry 2 interview with Louis-Pierre Pharand, Far Cry 2's producer and Clint Hocking, the game's creative ... » Read More

GameSpot found a listing for an Xbox 360 edition of Ubisoft's upcoming PC game Far Cry 2. The original Far Cry was a hit for the publisher upon its release for 2004, and the first-person shooter quickly made its way to consoles. However, much like the game's menagerie of mutated mercenaries, the game had been changed along the way. The Xbox played host to Far Cry Instincts and Far Cry Instincts Evolution, while the franchise burst into the new generation of hardware with Far Cry Instincts Predator on the Xbox 360 and Far Cry Vengeance for the Wii. While the GameFly listing offers no description of the game, the fact that the title has remained unchanged suggests that the online rental service expects the Xbox 360 game to be fundamentally the same game as the PC edition.
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Below is the second and concluding half of our look at Far Cry 2. Click here if you missed the first part. Far Cry wouldn't be Far Cry without a heavy dose of jungle. While you will be crawling on your belly through the forest, it's not all-consuming like before. The canopy opens up and there are large expanses of open ground where there's hardly a piece of bark in sight. "It was an absolute requirement that Far Cry 2 maintain the exoticism [of the original game]," explains Pharand. "The ... » Read More

Jack Carver isn't here. The monstrous Trigens are gone and that tropical island from the original game is over a thousand miles away. Instead, we're on the sprawling plains of the African savannah, and our enemies are angry humans and hungry wildlife. Far Cry as you know it is dead: long live Far Cry 2. If it's not white beaches or slathering mutants, what is it? In short, everything. Far Cry 2 is hugely, impossibly ambitious. It's S.T.A.L.K.E.R. gone on safari; it's Boiling Point with a ... » Read More

Far Cry 2's action takes place in two large fully open worlds, and features a non-linear, dynamic storyline that uses "a simple drama management engine to populate the story with key characters and facilitate the convergence of the story toward major climatic events", the sequel's producer Louis-Pierre Pharand has explained.
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The first hints of the setting - or settings - that Ubisoft is using as the backdrop for the action in FPS Far Cry 2 have arrived via concept art that's slipped out onto the internet. And judging by what's on display, the follow-up is going to take us to numerous locations around the globe. You'll also notice the concept art includes characters or "Buddies," which are surely people who join up and fight alongside you during the adventure, although we imagine they won't do so all at ... » Read More