E308: Far Cry 2 trailer proves Africa is the hottest new setting for games

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E308: Far Cry 2 trailer proves Africa is the hottest new setting for games

Posted Jul 15th 2008 8:00AM by Xav de Matos
Filed under: News, E3, Videos, X3F TV, Far Cry 2

Resident Evil 5 and Far Cry 2 are both Africa bound! Coming soon from Ubisoft Montreal is Far Cry 2. A sequel of sorts, Far Cry 2 takes the name from the original title developed by Crytek and features a new story and world. Taking place in an unnamed part of Africa players can expect a more realistic shooter than the original. If that guarantees we won't be shooting up aliens in the boiling heat then sign us up! Also, check out the briefly flashed-URL that points to the blog of Reuben Monday-Oluwagembi, the personal blog of the journalist narrator from the trailer. Yay! More Alternate Reality Games! Far Cry 2 is set to release this October, the trailer is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Tags: e3-08, e3-2008, e308, far-cry-2, ubisoft, ubisoft-montreal

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-15-2008 @ 8:11AM

Viva La Champ said...

Meh, tbh the game doesn't look that good. I mean it has a nice weather system, but the gunplay looks very clunky..Oh and I love faccry being in nice jungle enviorments, now it's dull africa :'(
No demo too? I'll probably save my money on this one, and save up for "other games" *cough gears of war 2 cough* Unless the game gets fantastic reviews I'm probably going to sadly skip over this title =/

7-15-2008 @ 10:39AM

LongshotX said...

Now if we could only get more black people as the main characters.

7-15-2008 @ 1:55PM

Adam said...

Yup. People will complain that the game is racist because it has a white guy running around Africa killing black people. It won't matter what the story is.

7-15-2008 @ 11:45AM

South African Josh said...

Dull africa? its not dull at all. you don't live here. you don't know.

Haha, more black people. . .

well this is good, just so long as them Americans dont get an even MORE messed up perception of what Africa is really like.

7-15-2008 @ 11:07PM

Flakundenga said...

so no jack carver ummm? i'm not too sure on this one, i'll wait for reviews to see.

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