Ubisoft shows off their upcoming games to the Australia press!

In type Sydney irractic weather of late, sunny one minute, pouring rain the next, followed by gail-forced winds, then solid 30 degree heat and humidity. Who said the end of the world is not upon us, it certainly feels like it . . . With 5 members of our team and the 2 guys from OzBoxLive (Melbournite's) set out to view what Ubisoft were presenting to the gaming media in Australia....
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SnagWire: Ubisoft has announced that with only a week to go until Far Cry 2 hits shelves (October 21st), the shooter with amazing visuals has gone gold and entered the manufacturing process.
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Softpedia writes: "Ubisoft is ready to launch a very strong holiday line up with games such as Far Cry 2, Prince of Persia, Shawn White Snowboarding and EndWar will be out from now till Christmas. In order to gain a competitive advantage over the other big publishers, Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard, the France-based one is preparing to start an extensive advertising campaign, to the tune of some 10 million dollars."
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VG247: Ubisoft's told us you'll be downloading user-created Far Cry 2 maps both from Ubisoft's servers and other gamers' consoles: it all depends on speed.
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Speaking to VideoGamer.com, Far Cry 2 Multiplayer producer Richard Gaetan has said that Far Cry 2, along with other games with user-generated features, like the PS3's LittleBigPlanet, is evidence that the industry has reached "Gaming 2.0".

"I'm sure we'll have maps that are not really playable or not fun to play but that will be like pieces of art that are created from our editor," he said. "And we've seen it internally already. We have Montreal Olympic stadium built just from a few hundred blocks, so we'll have The Great Wall of China, the Colosseum from Rome, all stuff like that, alongside a lot of maps that are copies from other games, other shooters."
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While gamers can get bonus missions for Far Cry 2 by pre-ordering through Gamestop, those of you interested in purchasing the PC version might want to check out Steam's pre-order offer. It's not as sexy as bonus missions but it will save you some cash.
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VideoGamer.com writes: "Ubisoft has bullishly claimed that upcoming open world safari FPS Far Cry 2 is "more fun" than Infinity Ward's phenomenally successful Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare."

"I think it's more fun for everybody," said Far Cry 2 multiplayer producer Richard Gaetan. "In Call of Duty 4, the good guys are always the same, they always play the same way. In Far Cry 2 you cannot do that. You have to adapt, you have to change your strategy. And with the map editor you won't be able to learn your maps, because you have so many and if you want to play with your friends and with different people then you have to switch - it will be a bit of a surprise all of the time. So I think it's more fun."
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Most people would call the period we are about to be entering the holiday season. Us gamers refer to it as a different name: FPS season. And one of the plenty of shooters releasing this fall that hopes to stand out from the pack is Far Cry 2. We already know the game is gorgeous but will it capture our hearts with its gameplay? The first three reviewers of the game seem to think so.
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PCGamer voted Far cry 2 a "Wild" 94% quoting its pros were Beautiful, Free roaming and Utterly Absorbing, and its cons were, its not a linear shooter, its not a prescribed story and its not going to let you go !

The basis of Far Cry 2's story telling: Characters and situations are swapped via a software author, its responding to choices made by you the player. Its something that's been on the cards for some time - mostly in research projects - but this is the first high-profile game to use it.
Its nothing less than a revelation. What makes this procedural storytelling cool isn't that you get to play the game lots of times, and see new things happen, or do things in new ways, Its not even that it gives you stories to share, situations to compare with your friends. Its that the game just works and responds to your successes, failures and f*ckups. If you don't like what a guy is asking you to do, then don't do it... If you really like one of your buddies, you stick with him. When the situations force choices on you... By God, its incredible.
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CVG reports: "Far Cry 2 has grabbed an official thumbs-up, scoring 9/10 in upcoming issues of both the Official PlayStation Magazine and the Xbox 360 Official Magazine.

OPM says: "Whatever happens you'll believe it's a real world and a fantastic setting for the action. It's not as dense or as varied as, say, Oblivion - you'll go somewhere, kill everyone, every mission - but it's utterly convincing and engrossing."
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Far Cry 2 multiplayer producer Richard Gaetan has admitted that the shooter's online play was heavily influenced by Call of Duty 4, but that the Activision shooter's exact formula was too "chaotic" for the African action game.
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Videogaming 24/7: "The scale of Far Cry 2, as well as the fact the game's engine was a proprietary affair, prevented the inclusion of co-op in the upcoming shooter sequel, VG247 was told in London last week.

"The first thing was that the environment is so huge, and we pushed the engine really to the limit… the consoles to the limit," said multiplayer producer Richard Gaetan."
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That Aussie Game Site is wrapping up the gaming news that matters to Aussies - daily. US Journos have already finished Gears of War 2, the Quantum of Solace PC demo is available for download, Tomb Raider Underworld has new DLC coming and ps3trophies.org has the low-down on the trophies for Midnight Club: LA, Far Cry 2 and Resistance 2. All the details and more over at That Aussie Game Site.
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VG247: You asked. We got it answered. Far Cry 2 is set at 720p, but the game can't managed 60FPS because it has too much going on.
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HMV has announced that customers who pre-order Ubisoft's upcoming FPS Far Cry 2 from them will receive an exclusive code to unlock four bonus missions.

The four missions are said to tell of the events leading up to the beginning of Far Cry 2's story, offering a backdrop to the Jackal's mysterious past.
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Aeropause writer Joe Haygood takes a look at the best games that the PC has to offer in the month of October. Some of the stand outs include Dead Space, Fallout 3, and Far Cry 2 to name a few.
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dailygamesnews.com - Far Cry 2 multiplayer producer Gaetan Richard has said the map editor provided with Far Cry 2 will provide very similar functionality to the dev kit used in creating the game.
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Harry Neary of XboxBoomTown writes:

"This morning we traded bullets with Far Cry multiplayer producer Gaetan Richard before discussing the game's adversarial combat..."
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Neocrisis.com - We list the weapons for the Primary Slot, Secondary Slot, Special Slot and Mounted Weapons.
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