Ubisoft just announced a sequel to Far Cry without giving away and meaty details -- instead, the teaser site lets you scare some birds and listen to crickets before everything ignites into a fiery logo of pain, bongo drums, and restless crickets. Kotaku reports that the game will be available in 2008 for the PC and the marketing speak says Far Cry 2 will be better than sex with Rachel Welch in the 80's, you know, before the crows ate her face.

Far Cry marked the beginning of a new era for shooters. An era of gorgeous graphics and of advanced artificial intelligence. We are confident that Far Cry 2 will have the same impact again on the FPS genre landscape.

Funny how every game ever assigned to a marketing person is going to re-write the future of all video games to follow, isn't it? I guess its less exciting that saying "Hey gamers, we've barely even started but we hope this game will be marginally better than other stuff!".  It would be more true, at least.

Care to speculate what the game will be about or where it will be set?  The teaser graphic doesn't offer us much other than a tequila sunrise and a slender tree.  Is the music indicative of an African setting or is David Byrne freelancing? I poked around the official forums and came up with nothing -- guess we'll just have to wait and see.  Whatever they're planning, I hope it can wait until Crysis is done and waiting for me with open arms at my local demoralized EB games.

[Thanks LostCrichton]

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bluemeep

My first impression was a savannah setting, based on the look of that tree there in the corner. Looks like Africa is the new cool place to blast people in the face.

bruceleethree

it better be built from the ground up on dx10 or im not interested in mediocre FPS'in.

Oni

I guess I should actually try to finish FarCry then, eh?

BahamutZero

BlindsideDork

Wasn't Painkiller the exact opposite? They were like..."screw it, we won't redefine it. we will just make you blow it up and kill monsters!"

BlindsideDork

fail BZ, fail

Maurice Tan

This will be a far cry from Crysis. Probably will get a nice tie-in movie too.

galagabug

far cry 2: distant yell *rimshot*

Wedge

I imagine the original Far Cry devs are working soley on Crysis and have nothing to do with this game. It's just another Ubi property now.

LordRegulus

Sure, they'll just license CryEngine2 back from Crytek and get the guys who made Breed: Vast Landscapes of Emptiness to develop it.



Mediocre FPS says what?

Zanch

Knowing how Ubisoft conducts business as of late, I imagine it'll only look and play marginally better than the original and will, in fact not have any impact at all on the FPS landscape. Ubisoft lost out big time when Crytek got away from them...they were the real star of the show in Far Cry. *Goes back to waiting for Crysis instead*

BahamutZero

THERE HE IS! pew pew pew

agreed mozgus

Steel Frog

Bah, I played the first 20mins of FarCry, got bored and never played it again. Guess I should make an effort...

AngelsDontBurn

Wow. With Crysis coming out they might as well of waited on this for a while longer. That game is looking more impressive the more I look at it.

Brock_Dainjer

FarCry is a terrible, flaming pile of elephant shit. Which makes it a huge, huge pile of flaming feces. It's the type of game that when someone mentions that its really good, I have to clench my fists, count to 10, and kick a fucking baby. The AI shit, the aiming mechanic is shit, the boards are shit, the "story" is shit. It's all shit. Actually, the AI is worse than shit.

SniperFodder

@BahamutZero
That is exactly why I never finished the game. Glad it wasn't just me...

DrXym

Far Cry for the PC was an awesome game. Anyone who says different really doesn't have a clue. The console ports on the other hand ranged from okay to abysmal. I loved Far Cry for the PC - the huge open levels, (fairly) intelligent enemies, the randomness, the beautiful effects, the battles. It was just a damned cool game and more amazing for being better than Doom 3 and easily equal to HL2. HL2 had far more polish but its battles couldn't hold a candle to those in FC. There were faults of course - the plot was pretty generic, the cutscenes were tacked on and the saves were a bit crappy, but the gameplay was fantastic.

But if Crytek have nothing to do with the sequel, I would steer clear of Far Cry 2 like the plague. I just don't trust Ubisoft to make a decent game until I see reviews to say as much. Just look what happened to Far Cry on the Wii - utter trash. Perhaps the sequel will be great. Perhaps it'll even use a licensed CryEngine 2 (used in Crysis), but until the reviews are in I am not going to care.