Holy Shit!!! That is some impressive stuff, when i here map editor on console game i instantly think Timesplitters 2 where you had about 12 textures, 12 objects, 4 lights, and really only tunnels to make your level unique, this is just godly the fact you can make levels that look as good if not better than something an Ubi dev created is just astonishing.

"Not so much from the visual aspects or dynamic nature of the game, but from the slant the developers have taken with this iteration. No more deadly walking half-human creatures. Not Night Vision and super leaping powers, or catlike senses. No, just you and other human beings."
And what is wrong with that. IMO that is what made the old game fun, the fact the it was 12 mercs takin on a predator where the only way they could kill him is by powering up the generator. It definatley needs to be added for this game or something included in the map editor like on halo3 where you can change the speed of characters, give them special powers and change how they look. The Map editor looks *bleep*in awesome though and is quiet amazing at how simple it looks considering map editors like the cry and unreal engine on pc.

Never played Far Cry 1 .

But this looks awesome. I think i will get it, or at least check the reviews.

That viral advertising blog thing that they have for this game sold me on this title.

We hope to be interviewing the guy that does the viral site, War Unlimited that is shown in the above article. You'd swear that it was for real and the events he is depicting are real ones happening right now.

It shows a different level of the games that many seem to be forgetting. That it's NOT about monsters and oddities in life, but about the cruelty of life and how REAL people can be as calious and cruel as monsters at time, if not more so.

I don't thinks BlackLable was indicating the game had been "dumbed down" but more to the point, made to run smoothly across all 3 major platforms. Many developers can and do make thier games to run on far less memory and power on consoles than they need to do on PC's.

So they can experiment with them to a greater degree and extract even more visual and processor power. Such as Bad Company with its destructible environments. Not by using more memory, which is how they usually do it, but LESS by storing it in the cache and then feeding it back as you move back and forth in the scenes.

Having less to work with, but dedicated, has made developers look for smarter and more effective ways of doing their work, rather than relying in ever increasing rampage of power from the PC.

Just makes more sense. Cryteck already have a workable game of Crysis on the 360, had it earlier on actually, but hey, it wouldn't do well for them to say they had THAT level of game play on a mere console, when they were trying to sell it as a Vista Only PowerPC product that needed the ants-pants to run it.

Wuold ppl buy it (PC version IF they knew they could grab it for their $400-$600 console, certainly they would. Rather than spend say $2,000 - $4,000 on new hardware on their PC. Sure it moight not be AS great looking etc, but for a huge amount $ less, they get something very very similar.

Look at the Map editor and the visuals on that, the environments etc, they are all shown on the 360 version. So for those saying the console versions of Far Cry 2 are crappy and terrible looking, they obviously haven't REALLY seen real footage at all. They perhaps simply do not like consoles taking what used to be PC only titles and running them on the console market.