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In Spring this year, Ubisoft will release a Far Cry 2 map editing guide in conjunction with leading US publisher Charles River Media called, “Designing Wargames: The Official Far Cry 2 Map Editing Guide.”

“This is the next milestone in gamer-generated content,” says David Hutchison, associate Professor at Brock University. “Far Cry 2 makes it easy for both PC and console gamers to create cool new multiplayer maps that they can then share with other gamers. We want to honour this effort by inviting the Far Cry 2 map-making community to contribute to this first-of-its-kind game design book.”

Far Cry 2 dev Jessy-Gosselin Gant adds: “Level design is a defining factor in how the player will experience a video game.

“It constitutes a key role in production by having the responsibility of presenting all the different game components such as art, animation, AI and gameplay mechanics at their best, so the player can enjoy them in a convincing and attractive environment.”

By Mike Bowden

Ubisoft confirmed a slew of sales figures in its third quarter financials today, showing big numbers for its top line-up as explanation of a 13 percent like-for-like increase in sales for the period.

Far Cry 2 has now sold 2.9 million units, said the firm, while Prince of Persia and Shaun White Snowboarding have sold 2.2 million and 2.3 million copies respectively.

Ubi’s other big hitter for Christmas was Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party, with 1.5 million sold.

All figures are worldwide.

Ubi showed sales of €508 million for the third quarter, up from €450 million in the same period last year.

Intel’s sponsored two completely free Far Cry 2 missions for the PC version: download them here.

Some notes on the new content:

Mission 1: the Morrocan

This mission sends you into the most heavily guarded region of the Leboa-Sako territory. Hiding out at the old Legion fort is a Moroccan who might be able to help you locate the Jackal. Your objective is to locate him and find out what he knows.
Mission 2: the American

Your predecessor has tracked down the American informant to the Dogon village in the rocky northern ranges. Your objective: follow his trail and find out what the informant told him.

These are the first two of six free missions, after which, if you’ve played them all, you’ll be able to download a seventh. For nothing. That’s pretty cool.

Full detail through the link.

Ubi’s put out a trailer for the Far Cry 2 Fortune’s DLC pack, showing the new weapons, new vehicles and new maps included. Watch it after the break.

Here’s all the content.

The pack costs 800 MS Points, or €10 if you’re after the PS3 version.

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Eurogamer’s claimed the PC version of Far Cry is the best of the three SKUs in another of Richard Leadbetter face-off features.

“Far Cry 2 is an excellent release on PC, and the fact that it can run in high definition with all features set to high levels while still providing a reasonably smooth, graphically superb experience is a first-rate achievement,” said Leadbetter.

“Both console versions are intelligently ported and decent games to play, but with clear compromises.”

Not only that, but Ubi Montreal’s work is on a par with CryEngine 2, apparently, and even tops it in the fact that it’s already working on consoles.

“We’d still give the nod to CryEngine 2 in terms of overall performance, but [Far Cry 2 engine] Dunia is working in the here and now on both PC and console, while Crytek’s 360 and PS3 work remains under wraps in Frankfurt,” he added.

More through there.

According to this Eurogamer report, the Far Cry 2 DLC confirmed last week is to cost 800 MS Points.

The PS3 version will cost €10.

Here’s a run-down of everything included in the pack. It’s out before the end of the month.

Ubi’s confirmed that Far Cry 2 DLC will be made available before the end of this month, coming a bundle dubbed The Fortune’s Pack.

It includes:

Single-Player Mode

Three new weapons

• Silenced shotgun
• Sawed-off shotgun
• Crossbow

Two new vehicles

• Unimog
• Quad

Multiplayer Mode

Four new maps

• Cheap Labor
• Last Resort
• Lake Smear
• Fort Fury

Press release after the break.

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Ubi Montreal shooter Far Cry 2 has cleared more than 1 million units since it released at the end of October.

“[The game] is well on track to achieve our expectations for the year,” said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot.

“The holiday quarter is off to a solid start with the successful launch.”

The game topped the US PC charts in its launch week and was only beaten off the UK all-formats by Fable II.

Ubi’s released the first patch for the PC version of Far Cry 2, taking it to v1.01.

A ton of fixes are included in the update, mainly on the multiplayer side from the look of it. See everything after the break.

Get the patch from Fileshack when you’re ready.

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PCGH has posted up comparison shots of Far Cry 2′s various graphics settings, which pretty much suits Sunday morning.

Marvel as pictures change from very high detail to not so very high detail. You love it.

Take a look.

We’re not especially big on this sort of thing, but this does look bonkers. Bit-Tech‘s modded a PS3 with Far Cry 2 paraphernalia, showing every step of the way in photos.

The site’s giving it away to a UK resident, if you fancy a punt.

Thanks, PS3F.

According to this Kotaku piece, Ubisoft shooter Far Cry 2 ia available for download on the North American Steam. No idea as to when it can be downloaded worldwide, however.

Far Cry 2 is released tomorrow.

By Mike Bowden

The Far Cry 2 review embargo was lifted last night and Ubisoft’s follow-up to Crytec’s classic has done very well indeed.

Eurogamer gave the game 8/10, IGN awarded it 88/100, whilst GameSpot gave it 85.

If that’s not enough, you can find all them all over at MetaCritic.

By Mike Bowden

Far Cry 2 multiplayer will be class-based apparently and if you’re into that sort of thing then you’ll be pleased to know that the individual classes and their different strengths and weaknesses have been unveiled.

They are:

• Commando – “Mid-range assault class. Effective at fire-and-movement tactics.”
• Sharpshooter – “Long-range specialist. Armed with highly accurate weapons.”
• Guerrilla – “Short-range class. Specializes in close combat and ambush tactics.”
• Rebel – “Specialist in explosives and fire. Strong on offense or defense.”
• Gunner – “Heavy firepower specialist. Highly effective from static firing positions.”
• Saboteur – “Equipped with silenced weapons. Specializes in stealth tactics.”

Thanks, Far Cry Gaming Front.

By Mike Bowden

According to PSBlog, the Far Cry 2 PlayStation Home space has launched on the closed beta.

“The space will invite players to dig deeper into the game’s vast African landscape,” says the piece. “Users will have the opportunity to investigate in-game environments, including a bombed-out train station that has been converted into the ad hoc office of Reuben Oluwagembi, a journalist caught in the middle of the propaganda conflict between the warring UFLL and APR factions.”

Looks pretty good, if we’re honest. All we need now is that release date.

More through the link.

By Mike Bowden

According to this post on the US PS Blog, Ubisoft’s launched a Home space for Far Cry 2.

Home’s still in is beta, obviously, so you can only see it if you’re involved. Or you could just hit the link and look and the screenshots.

Apparently, “The space will invite players to dig deeper into the game’s vast African landscape,” and allow people to walk around the office of Reuben Oluwagembi, a journalist caught in the middle of the propaganda conflict between the warring UFLL and APR factions.

Game’s out next week.

Far Cry 2 multiplayer producer Richard Gaetan has told VG247 that he expects the game’s level editor to allow users to create “hundreds of thousands of maps” after it launches later this month.

“It was always big,” said the developer when asked how important the multiplayer aspects of the game wer to overall development.

“For us, we have three games in one. We have single-player, which is huge. Then we have the multiplayer and the map editor, that will have thousands and hundreds of thousands of maps there, so that’s like another huge part of the game.”

Gaetan went on to explain that simplicity and accessibility were key when constructing the level editor.

“Our strategy with the multiplayer was that we wanted to bring cool, good, solid mechanics but are simple at the same time, so the user will easily make good maps for all game modes. That was our focus point,” he said.

“You know with the single-player being really big and deep, we could have gone with something really complex on the multiplayer side, but then no-one would have been able to do maps for it, so we said, ‘OK, make sure everything is solid, and then the user and community will take care of creating thousands of maps.’”

The game’s out for PC, 360 and PS3 on October 24. There’s a video of the editor in action after the link.

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Far Cry 2 is the latest PC game to use SecuROM protection, according to this Blues post, and will apparently allow five installs on three computers.

According to that story, based on this forum post from a Ubi rep, “Uninstalling the game ‘refunds’ an activation. This process is called ‘revoke’, so as long as you complete proper uninstall you will be able to install the game an unlimited number of times on three systems.”

There’s more through there. The game’s out on October 24.

Ubisoft’s confirmed that Far Cry 2′s done and dusted and off to manufacture. All versions ship on October 24 in Europe and Octobr 21 in the US.

More on IGN.

While Epic ran into some sticky issues about allowing user-created content on Xbox Live with Unreal Tournament 3 mods, Far Cry 2 developer Ubisoft Montreal has managed to get past the problem thanks to going through the process before with Far Cry Instinct on Xbox.

Far Cry 2′s user-created content comes in the form of multiplayer maps, obviously.

“[Microsoft has] some restriction: they have some technical issues,” multiplayer producer Richard Gaetan told us when asked if user-content on Xbox Live presented a problem for the game.

“As we have the experience from Far Cry Instinct in Montreal, we encountered some issues and that’s why it was only peer-to-peer.

“And so with that experience in our background, it was a bit easier. Then we started to discuss with [Sony], and make sure it was the same for PlayStation, to make sure it was alright with them. We made sure we sent them early builds.”

As reported yesterday, maps will be either stored locally on gamers’ machines or on Ubisoft’s servers, and can be shared from either location.

Shipping on October 24, the game comes with a full map editor on PC, 360 and PS3 versions.