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Far Cry 2 release date announced
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 8th September 2008
Far Cry 2 will be released on October 24th, but will be completely detached from the previous game.
Which makes us all the more excited by the announcement of the imminent release. Ubisoft has just announced that Far Cry 2 will be released on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on the 24th of October 2008.
In addition to the getting a standard release though, Ubisoft has teamed up with UK retailer GAME to offer a special Collector's Edition of the game too. It seems as if the Collector's Edition of the game will not be available to buy through Gamestation, even though the two market leaders are owned by the same parent company.
The Collector's Edition version of the game comes with a t-shirt, art book and a fold-out map of the playing area. There's also a making-of DVD and a nice wooden box to keep the whole collection in.
Ubisoft will also be distributing the game with a super-powerful map editor that Ubi promises will allow players to make complex maps in only a few minutes.
Far Cry 2 itself casts players as a mercenary operating in a section of Africa measuring at 50 square kilometres. The aim of the game is to take down a merciless gun-runner known as The Jackal. For more information though, as well as details of how the game feels to play and how it looks, you can check out our comprehensive Far Cry 2 hands-on preview.
Are you planning on picking up the Collector's Edition version of the game, or are you planning to wait for the reviews on this one? Let us know what you think in the forums.
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Collectors edition here I come.
agreed
Probably need a new GPU though :|
So... no Steam version for rest of world ?
Hopefully it will take all the good bits from Crysis and Far Cry (Amazing graphics, open gameplay, lots of shooting and being generally badass) and remove the bad bits (aliens/mutants).
Also, that weapon deterioration is only for old guns that you find in the grass that are already knackered I think. It was in one of those developer diaries on Gametrailers.
As far as I recall it was for all guns, but most noticeable in lower quality guns. It won't make a huge difference though as you can swap guns over and so on.
Personally, if it'll run on my PC, which is slowly dying (it can't even run Spore on full graphics without a bit of jerkiness), I'm rather looking forward to this.
Whats so new about this article?
Seems a little old to me, its been in the autumn handbook of GAME for quite some time.
Shouldn't that be speciest?
Back on topic: I believe its going to be better than Warhead.