Kotaku: Far Cry

From Far Cry 3 to It's a Wonderful Life, Dubstep Makes Everything Better

Kirk Hamilton — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:00:00 EST

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Far Cry fans the world over have gotten a fresh taste of Ubisoft's coming open-world shooter via a trailer that was released yesterday. More »

Far Cry 3 Trailer Features Bros, Shots!Shots!Shots! and Some Kinda Voodoo(?)

Evan Narcisse — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:45:00 EST

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The latest installment of Ubisoft's open-world FPS series comes into focus in this new trailer, where we see that it's never a good idea to get blackout drunk on an uncharted island. You'll watch regular guy Jason Brody—bro is even part of his name!—just trying to get away from civilization for a few relaxing days with his girlfriend. They got further away than they ever bargained, it seems. Far Cry 3 will hit PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 on September 7th of this year in Europe and September 4 in the U.S. More »

The Far Cry Games We Never Got

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 05:00:00 EDT

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Far Cry 2 is a high-powered shooter for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. That's not all, apparently! More »

Taking A Different Approach to Far Cry 3's E3 2011 Demo

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:30:00 EDT

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Ubisoft's E3 2011 demonstration of Far Cry 3 was—obviously—not the only way to run through the jungle and get to the chopper. Flexibility and player choice are key in Far Cry games, which Ubisoft illustrates in the above gameplay demo. More »

Far Cry 3 Sanely Delivers the Same Results, with the Same Methods

Owen Good — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:30:00 EDT

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Perhaps ironically, perhaps not, Far Cry 3 opens with a psychotic bandit lecturing you on the nature of insanity. Crazy is doing the same thing, expecting different results, goes the oft-quoted saying. And again, for the third time now in this series, you are surrounded by a jungle, up to your ass in trouble. More »

Far Cry Piracy Case Walking The Plank

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:00:00 EST

Earlier this year, the US Copyright Group filed a lawsuit against 4,577 people it accused of pirating the movie Far Cry, a big screen adaptation of a 2004 PC shooter. In December, things aren't going so well. More »

Wait, Dolph Lundgren is Working With Uwe Boll?

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:00:00 EST

Hot off his work in high-profile action feature The Expendables, Nordic thespian Dolph Lundgren will be working with, that's right, Uwe Boll. More »

Nazi Zombies, Auschwitz And Uwe Boll

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:00:00 EDT

Uwe Boll, the German filmmaker best known for his film versions of video games, is helming two movies about World War II. Both films were shot back-to-back. One is based on a video game and features zombie Nazis. The other? More »

"You Gonna Read This, Fisher?" The Art of Enemy Taunts

Chris Breault — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:00:00 EDT

I can't think of another game so destroyed by its dialogue as Splinter Cell: Conviction; not by bad lines alone (which are nothing novel in gaming) but by the way Ubisoft's designers and programmers used them. More »

Far Cry Trailer Does Not Make Us Cry

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST

Released in Germany back in 2008, Uwe Boll's cinematic adaptation of the video game Far Cry is now making its way to home video. Here's the DVD trailer, recently posted by IGN. More »

Far Cry 2 Goes Hardcore

Owen Good — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:00:00 EST

The next set of patches for for Far Cry 2 will deliver a "hardcore mode" begged for by players in Ubisoft's forums. It will deliver "a more realistic experience" in multiplayer. More »

Far Cry 2 Lands On Steam, But Only For North America

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:20:05 EDT

Hey, kids. Far Cry 2 is out. Ubisoft has shipped the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game to retail stores, letting you shoot things in Africa with really excellent foliage. Valve also got in touch with us to let us know that the Steam version has hit the tubes, with one caveat: it's for the U.S., Canada and Mexico only. More »

Oh Noes: Far Cry Releasing in Germany Only

Owen Good — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:00:00 EDT

Kidding! We mean the piece-of-shit movie Uwe Boll is making under the same title. It has a Germany-only release date of Oct. 2, at least according to the press kit Big Download dug up. But still, big month for Uwe: Postal's out on DVD, he's got a game coming out, 1968 Tunnel Rats, which nevertheless sounds like the name of some second-division Bundesliga team. I wonder though, if he makes a movie based on the game of 1968 Tunnel Rats, would that be like a dog eating and then crapping its own turd? More »

Far Cry 2 Is Not Ubisoft Trying To Outdo Crysis

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:40:00 EDT

Far Cry was developed by PC developer Crytek. Crytek made Crysis, and that game is very, very pretty. But Crytek isn't doing Far Cry 2 — Ubisoft is! The photorealism of Crysis must be somewhat intimidating, even for Ubisoft. But the Far Cry 2 developer is going a different direction. Says the game's art director Alex Amancio: More »

Custom Video Games Training American Spies

ogood — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Fascinating article on Wired.com — the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's CIA counterpart, just paid $2.6 million for three custom video games to train its entire analyst corps, young and old. So, you want to bitch about $60 titles on the Xbox, think of that next time. Plus, these games are bereft of squad-based FPS tactics or any real arcade action. They're designed to get to the heart of epistemology, which is, in essence, how you know what you know, and in these three cases, it's how to assess a threat or judge the quality of information. More »

New leaked FarCry 2 footage and some backstory. This...

Enix XIII — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:05:46 EDT

New leaked FarCry 2 footage and some backstory. More »

The Far Cry Movie Trailer Is Par For The Course For Uwe Boll

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:30:00 EST

This trailer for Uwe Boll's film adaptation of Far Cry is sure to put asses in movie theater seats. Snappy catchphrases in the making like "I haven't said anything about being simple" and the gleaming star power of Til Schweiger are going to go a long way to ensuring that Crytek's game becomes a massive blockbuster. Is it me or is there an out of place punch-in-the-face sound effect near the end? More »

Crytek Talks Crysis 2, Far Cry Movie and CryEngine 2

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:06:25 EST

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Don't Hate Uwe, He's Nice To Injured Drunks

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:00:40 EST

Sure, German director Uwe Boll makes shit game adaptations, takes advantage of tax laws and beats up nerds. But that doesn't mean he's all bad. (Just mostly?) AMC blog Monsterfest points out: "Last summer in Montreal, I witnessed him help out an injured drunk who fell down and hit his head, even calling the paramedics himself." Hey, he might be nice to drunks, but he's really mean to motion pictures. More »

No Reservations Meets Uwe Boll

Mark Wilson — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:40:24 EST

Confession: when I'm not writing about gadgets and games, I'm at least a little obsessed with food: eating it, reading about it and occasionally making it. Needless to say, I'm a huge fan of flippant ex-chef-gone-writer Anthony Bourdain and his excellent travel show No Reservations. More »

Ubisoft Titles Go Free On Fileplanet

Mike Fahey — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:00:12 EDT

Are you a PC gamer who's never tried Far Cry, Rayman's Raving Rabbids or Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time? Well today all four games have shown up on FilePlanet, completely free of charge for subscribers to the service. Well, not exactly completely free. They are all now in convenient as supported form, meaning you'll get a healthy dose of marketing along with your free game, but hell, these are some pretty awesome titles to get for the low, low price of watching a few commercials. Not sure if this is a temporary deal or what, as Ghost Recon was up there as well but the link is now not working, so you might need to hop on this ASAP. More »

Crytek Wii Game Plans? "Maybye in 3 or 4 Years"

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:00:10 EDT

PC shooter Crysis developer Crytek has loads of ideas in the pipeline. Loads! The develop already has an entire team dedicated to the PS3. According Cryteck honcho Cevat Yerli, the studio even has a "separate" room creating "some secret technologies...which are not related to the CryEngine 2." Crytek also has an Xbox 360 title in the works. It's not a FPS and a "complete departure" from the studio's titles Crysis and Far Cry. What about the Wii? Yerli answers: More »

Crytek Loves EA More Than Ubisoft

Mike Fahey — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:30:59 EDT

Sometimes size does matter, especially in the bizarre and awkward love triangle formed between developer Crytek, Ubisoft who published their first game Far Cry, and EA who will be releasing Crysis for them in November. Despite Ubi giving them the start they so richly deserved, it turns out Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli is a bit of a size queen.

"Everything's just bigger. From a business point of view, we have more support from EA and superior distribution and marketing power behind us, more freedom," Yerli said.

Yerli still reflects fondly on Ubisoft, noting that without the experience and fame gained from their tryst with the company did teach them a lot about how to make sweet, sweet love with publishing companies. More »

Far Cry 2 Images, Leaked?

Mark Wilson — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:40:35 EDT

Were not sure whether or not these Far Cry 2 concept images constitute a leak, as they were found in an online Crysis directory, but we're pretending that they are new, special and forbidden to promote our bad boy, leather-wearing, Far-Cry-2-image-posting reputation. More »

Screw Attack's Far Cry

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:00:50 EDT

Pay to star in a Uwe Boll movie? Why not! A while back, Uwe Boll was auctioning off a small role in his Far Cry adaptation. Game site Screw Attack set up a donation fund to get themselves in the flick. And they won the auction! From their on set report: More »

GameTap Coming Mac OS X

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:20:19 EDT

Turner Broadcasting's subscription gaming service GameTap is coming to Intel-based Mac users on June 28th. The GameTap Lite service, an ad supported offshoot, will launch for Mac users near the end of the month, with the full-fledged, pay-to-play service arriving later in the summer. More »

Nobody Wants To Be In Far Cry

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 28 May 2007 06:00:15 EDT

Poor Uwe Boll. Not only is he unnaturally short, he is also a rotten filmmaker. The "director" recently try to eBay a role in his Far Cry adaptation. Bidding started at €2,498 (US $3,360). Not did the winner get five days on the set with Uwe, he or she would also have to cover things like the flight and the hotel. Any takers? No, it seems. The idea that Uwe thinks people would pay to be in his movies, let alone watch them, is HILARIOUS. Brian Ashcraft More »

Uwe Boll Talks Making A "Good Movie," We Shudder

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:22:04 EST

Another year brings more Uwe Boll cinematic shitty. The chowderheaded filmmaker talks about his upcoming Far Cry film: More »

Clips: Far Cry: Raving Rabbids Edition

fdemarco — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:00:06 EST

In a brilliant show of cross promotion, Ubisoft has released this new Far Cry: Vengeance trailer featuring a special guest from another game. Watch out, those bananas are set to kill. More »

Ubisoft? More Like Oopsey-soft! Groan

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:22:01 EDT

We at Kotaku love NeoGAF. Unfortunately, that love is one hundred percent unrequited, which breaks our rumor posting, Wii loving hearts. One of the reasons we love the kids posting at the board formerly known as Gaming-Age Forums is that they find things like this. Ubisoft posted a 2GB RAR file to their public FTP server featuring a ton of artwork and screenshots for games yet to be released—and yet to be announced. More »

Far Cry Coming To Wii? Are You Kidding?

brownlee — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:40:05 EDT

GoNintendo is speculating that Far Cry — the shooter that makes even top-of-the-line systems shudder and weep — is coming to the Wii, a console that is basically an overclocked Gamecube with a magic wand attached. Their proof? A screenshot from Amazon.ca, which calls the game Far Cry Nintendo Wii but doesn't know what platform it's for. More »

Ubisoft Snatches Up Far Cry

Brian Crecente — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:00:57 EST

As Crytek busies itself with high-profile title Crysis for Electronic Arts, Ubisoft has swooped in and snatched up the rights to the best selling Far Cry franchise. More »

Crysis Trailer from GDC

brownlee — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:40:57 EST

A beautiful movie of the upcoming sequel to Far Cry, Crysis, was on display at GDC. There's some really amazing technology on display here: dynamic day and night cycles, interactive palm fronds, volumetric fog and the best looking NPCs we've seen in a game this side of Half-Life 2. More »

EA's Latest Crysis

lsmith — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:40:20 EST

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Using the Crytek engine (which also seems to mandate that each game incorporate "Cry" into the title), EA announced Crysis, a brand new addition to the FPS family. The game will feature weapon and armor customization, but hopefully no more uses of the word "Cry." More »

In Stores: Far Cry Instincts

lsmith — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:31:36 EDT

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While Far Cry Instincts bears the name of its PC predecessor, the content is supposed to be all new. Instead of simply releasing a port of the superb Far Cry, Ubi Soft Montreal made Instincts' gameplay a new experience. While the storyline of Instincts is a retelling of the original, the game tries to flesh out some plot details all while offering more of that hot gun porn I can't seem to get enough of. More »