Results tagged “release date” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

Ubisoft emailed me yesterday with some long-awaited news - Far Cry 2 will be released on October 24.

And not just the game - some other announcements too - the special edition will come in a WOODEN (!) box, and also available in the tie-in product fest are a limited edition Far Cry 2 t-shirt," The Art of Far Cry" Art book, collector 50km² map and Making-of DVD.

I can't imagine many people wanting to see a 'making of' DVD, but all said and done, I'm looking forward to it.

I remember the first Far Cry - and it was what made me into a real 'tekkie'.

It killed my computer at the time. No computer game had ever done that before - most were capable of running in some form on lower grade rigs.

But Far Cry just froze solid and wouldn't do anything. So it inspired me to self-build my first ever state-of-the-art computer.

Hopefully the latest version will be more lower-end system friendly - after all it doesn't do to make half of your potential market unable to run your game.

And it also highlighted for me the dodgy nature of 'recommended' system suggestions on the back of the box - mine at the time should have been ok to run Far Cry - but it didn't even run it slowly - it didn't run it at all!

Below - Far Cry 2 - hopefully you won't be seeing it as a slideshow on your computer.