FarCry 2 Console Release...Finally!

MondoPest | January 03, 2008 | News | PC Playstation 3

Looks like eventual has happened, Far Cry 2 will be released not only on the PC but also the XBOX 360 and PS3 consoles, so sayest the official Ubisoft press release.

Official Press Release:
London, United Kingdom 3rd January, 2008 Today, Ubisoft announced that Far Cry® 2 is being developed for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. Far Cry 2 is a next-generation first-person shooter being created by Ubisofts Montreal development studio.

More than just a visual and technological achievement, Far Cry 2 immerses players in an entirely new kind of gaming experience, featuring a custom-made video game engine built from the ground up. Players will discover a true open world gameplay set in one of the most beautiful environments in the world, Africa, brought to life by high-definition next-gen technology. Far Cry 2 is scheduled to ship fiscal 20082009.

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DragoniteBallZ | January 03, 2008

I don't know how good it would turn out not being made by Crytek or using CRYEngine2.
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JelalTrueshot | January 03, 2008

True, I share your worry. I was actually surprised to hear they were not working on the game. I guess CryTek is more interested in Crysis and this mystery IP.
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Slumpy monkey | January 03, 2008

well if the rumor about crysis comeing to consoles is true, than Farcry is going to have some big competitition
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VeGiTAX2 | January 03, 2008

Finally? the game was just barely announced as an upcoming title, given that it's still being developed it's not that much of a shocker to see it going multiplatform given that it is Ubi and Ubi ported the life out of the original anyway.

Finally would be in reference to Crysis by EA and Crytek. Farcry 2 =/= Crysis

The amount of confusion between EA and Crytek with Crysis and Ubi and Farcry 2 is really bad these days. It'd be nice to get people on the right page.

It's doubtful we'll see Crysis on the console level anyway, with the game in realtime consuming over 1GB of ram during levels you'd be hard pressed to find HDD caching coming close to compensating for that given how slow data transfer rates are compared to RAM speeds.
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  Final Blade | January 06, 2008
  
  Wow you make a good point Vegitax2 i didn't realize Crysis needed 1GB of ram. Learn something new everyday. I can see that not being able to put it on consoles anyway.
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    VeGiTAX2 | January 06, 2008
    
    Crysis shot
    
    Using relaxed settings still and not running at 1080 it consumes over 1GB of memory in game not including the OS consumption (320mb when doing the shots) and not including RAM consumption on the video card as well. (1920x1200 on High (not very high) consumes 615MB of Video memory)
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Pinkrhyno | January 03, 2008

Ehm, the Farcry 2 engine is like the biggest competitor to CryEngine 2, I don't know how well it'd run on the 360 & Ps3.
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Incidnia | January 03, 2008

So all the videos for it so far were on PC?

I actually want this game though, I got the old FarCry for the hell of it on the 360, this aughta be awesome though.
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DragoniteBallZ | January 03, 2008

Well I dunno. Ubisoft made one Far Cry without Crytek and it was a disaster.
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djjimmy2k2 | January 05, 2008

another PC exclusive down the *bleep*ing drain. all the best PC games are getting console releases, why? do we PC gamers not deserve any exclusives?
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  VeGiTAX2 | January 05, 2008
  
  Given that it's Ubisoft we're talking about and Farcry, it's doubtful the game was ever going to be PC exclusive after they ported the original Farcry to everything they could possibly get their hands on before regardless of the quality of the port.
  
  I don't recall Ubi ever talking about it being a PC exclusive regardless though. Unless it's another case of someone confusing Crysis with Farcry 2.