I hope that we truly get that level of freedom. A lot of games have no problem promising it, and then not delivering to the scale promised.

The question is: How many devs claim that their game lets you play the game you want to? If that were true, any game I play would have lightsabers in it.

That said, FarCry 2 does look awesome.

I am looking to get this for the PC if things still look this good. Can't wait really.

I'm excited.

And that music sounds like its from a '50s Hitchcock film.

My PC is going to cry if this game gets within 50 feet of it, if Crysis is any indication of system specs.

One of the villages in the pic looked like it was picked right out of assasins creed, it looks fantastic though obviously thats gonna only look that mindblowing on PC, damn thats impressive

Wasn't Bioshock supposed to be like that? It didn't make me believe.

As long as it'll have a map editor i'll be happy.

The first FarCry was badass to say the least. I am really looking forward to this new title.
i think the best thing about the past farcry's was the map creator and being able to play them online with friends. It really and truly allowed you to have an infinite number of maps to play and not have to wait for the devs to create a map pack and sell it to you.
The previous builders were great, so I can only imagine what kinds of things they threw into the builder for the next gen consoles.

looks good, but in my experience ubisoft's games always look good then turn out to be very mediocre. I'm looking at you rainbow6 v2 and assassins creed.

Lookin' pretty good and I'm assuming it'll play just like Crysis (sans suit) so I'll prolly enjoy it more than the first Farcry :)

I didn't like the gameplay in the first Far Cry or in Crysis (they were related, right?). So I won't like this either. Just not my kind of game. It does look very very pretty though.

This looks stunning. I wasn't a fan of the original Far Cry but this has piqued my interest. It will definitely require a monster PC though.

Far Cry 1 delivered on this, and Crysis took it to a new level, which was what made it so fantastic (the first 2/3rds of the game, anyway). What that means is that it's doable, but given that this isn't from the same devs as Far Cry and Crysis, we'll just have to wait and see.

Far Cry 2 looks a lot more interesting than Crysis. More than just a pretty face.

if you actually play crysis, aside from being gorgeous, its one of the best shooters out there.

just my oppinion.

@WPennypacker:I completely agree. Fantastic gameplay. I have to believe there is a large percentage of it's critics here on Kotaku that have never played the entire game; or at all for that matter.

@houkah: Ubisoft aka "Les Artes Electronique".

The open endedness of Far Cry was amazing. I can't wait to be able to afford a machine capable of running this beast.

@Canadian Impostor: "Les Arts Electroniques"
No "e" in Art. just saying..

I agree, looks much better than Crysis which I found to be rather boring and redundant.

And jeezy creezy, 50 square kilometers? That's huge! I think I may have found a new favorite game. Can't wait to play this on my rig.

@biznatch: Did you really just critique my spelling in an obvious faux french joke?

Ubisoft please, please include a left-handed control option for this one on consoles.

Farcry 1 was ruined on Xbox (for me anyways) because of the lack of this simple option.

@karasu is my homeboy: Amen Brother.

Something I've learned over the years, if a game has "cry" in it's name it means it's only virtue is graphics. I still can't believe how pathetic gameplay experience Crysis turned out to be, but damn it looks stunning. One can only hope they get the "physics" to same level one day, and gameplay in general. Story I won't even bother to ask for....

It's on 360? Yes!

MY PC may have some power on it, but judging from the vids, it looks like it will barely get past the install screen =/

Consoles FTW!

Along with Fallout 3, Brutal Legend and Fable 2, this is one of the game that I'm the most excited about for 2008 (hopefully, all of the games I named will hit the shelves this year).

Their accents are funny like Snoopy dog.

Every time any developer claims this the resulting game always sucks a gigantic donkey penis.

is a crappy souldpatch required for employment at ubi? because, damn.

Is the character you play as white? And will the majority of enemies, since it's set in Africa, be black? I wonder if the press will pick up on this one...

Grand Theft Auto: Afrika?

This looks better every time I see it.

And if any of you guys out there are looking for a place to take an affordable vacation, Montreal in the summer? Magnifique!

The first guy who talks sounds a bit like G-man.

Anyway, might turn up good, if it is *anywhere* close to what you see in the trailer.

I want to see more about the lions assaulting their camp.

I still laugh at the over the top talking of ... *looks up* ... Alex Amancio.

He's trying so hard, yet not at the same time. No hotels for them! No sirree. Will be watching this one, no trigens? Woo!

After Farcry, my hopes on Farcry 2 being good are near 1 to 2 percent. The game would be more fun if driving wasn't as big of a nightmare as it usually is. Seriously, why can't driving be fun?

@WalkOnWater:How do you know the main character is necessarally white? One thing I do know is there are at least 10 male characters and 3 female in which to choose.

With that number of characters you can play, there is bound to be a racial spectrum. I am just guessing at this for the most part, but it just makes sense to me that out of 13 choices there would be differences between them other than clothing.

I imagine I'll have as much luck running this as I did with Crysis. Although this looks far, far more interesting.

@homernoy: Misinformation there. You will have about 12 playable characters to choose from. According to Wikipedia they all will have a different look and will all be different 'types' of characters.

I'm glad to see these heavy spec games come to consoles as well. It saves the effort of upgrading your pc each year with $500-$1000 of new kit.
This will probably sound in the slow end of pc gaming, as less developers are willing to only develop for the pc (thanks to our good friends the software pirates)

Biggest shame is theres no co-op :(

@homernoy: I didn't know, which is why I was asking. It's a good thing that they have a range of characters. Though I imagine Ubisoft will pick their trailers a little more carefully than Capcom did with Resident Evil 5...

Im so going to set everything and anything on fire. Even more so is figure out the exits for the base in the grasslands, set fire to those areas. Then wait at the only safe way out of the base behind a vehicle mounted MG.

If thats possible that is. ;D

hopefully free roaming is very prevalent in the final game.

one of the reasons i love stalker so much is because of all the nooks and crannies you can find and explore... its just a shame in stalker, often there's nothing in those nooks and crannies. luckily, the other reason i love stalker is the setting.

in fact, screw clear sky, re-make Stalker with Dunia engine.

The background music was quite awesome.

@WalkOnWater: Actually I don't 'know' either to tell you the truth. I am just speculating that there will be diversity in the choice of that many characters. At least I hope they give us some interesting character options.

As long as it doesn't have freaky genetically engineered monkeys I'll be all for it. (Seriously, those monkeys scared me- not the ones with the guns, just the jumpy ones.)

I am sick of how everyone gives these types of games a free pass because they "look pretty" - if it plays like Far Cry or Crysis (game mechanices good), then I am not worried, but if it has shit plotline just like Far Cry or Crysis, then I am worried.

@anonymousryan:Those primates freaked me out too. Just about the time I would get a bead on one about thirty feet away, it would jump towards and and kill me! The first few times I encountered those bastards I died right away.

Definitely looking forward to check this out on PS3.

And when my flux capacitor gets here from NewEgg I'll be able to purchase, from NewEgg, the hardware needed to play this.

All of the music on that video was actually from Beyond Good and Evil, which is really cool and at the same time makes me really angry that they haven't announced a sequel yet.

Ubisoft avoided making the same mistake has Capcom with Resident Evil 5. It's placed in Africa but you're still killing a majority of white people ! Great job !

the last scene i shot pretty girls for i had over 9 gigs of pictures in just 3 hours with one set-up. shouldve taken butt adams on their research safari.

but after i think about it, most photogs dont carry more than 2 extra cards around with them.

Aw, they survived a lion attack just for us gamers! How flattering.

and rockstar said they had trouble fiting gta4 on a dvd for the xbox 360, hah!

It's really weird with Crytec leaving to do Cryis you'd have thought Ubisoft would have just run the IP into the ground. But this, to me at least, looks way better than Cryis. Crysis is so amazing in some ways and terribly disappointing in others. This just looks way less sterile and way more fun.

Not sure why they're calling this Far Cry 2. The original sucked, but this game looks completely unrelated and cool.

@Itri: I recognized the music, its a song called Fear the Reaper from the game Beyond Good & Evil, also from ubisoft.

Looks great so far. I wonder how linear it will make the storyline, if you simply must do a few missions in order to track down the jackal.

@Spartan1308: Made by a different company but same publisher, original developer went on to make Crysis. Using the Far Cry name gives it a bit more recognition in the marketplace.

@Witzbold: I'm sure the AI would just hole up until the flames magically dissipated after 30-60 seconds and then snipe you with pistols from across the map as you try and find them with your binoculars.

Definite potential here, it could turn out well if it doesn't have a game-breaking fault like magically respawning bad guys, or ridiculously stupid and/or omniscient AI.

@Slash3: At least there will be no mutants or aliens this time around. ;D

@hubris: The original Far Cry did an amazing amount of detail without being over-demanding (an above-average PC at release could at least play the damn thing at high settings, unlike Crysis which is still struggling in the best PCs). I'd estimate you're gonna have some requirements somewhere between UT3 and Crysis. The fact that this is coming to consoles as well tells me that they're at least going to make it scalable.