Far Cry 2 tech video is a pyro's dream

by Richard Mitchell { May 28th 2008 at 4:30PM }

More from the Ubidays event, as Ubisoft has released a tech demo video of Far Cry 2 and, more specifically, the Dunia engine on which it runs. The video shows off lots of nifty aspects of the engine, such as dynamic weather, dynamic light and shadow, day and night cycles, and (beautiful) procedural sky. Oh, and did we mention that it's frickin' gorgeous? Well, it totally is. Lest we forget, the video also shows off the engine's fire propagation. In other words, if you set something on fire, it will, in turn, set other things on fire. Sounds like a great way to surprise a hut full of guerillas.

Tags: far-cry, far-cry-2, ubidays, ubidays-2008, ubisoft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Munchfreak @ May 28th 2008 4:40PM

first!

RyanBlack @ May 28th 2008 4:41PM

I highly doubt the 360 version will look anything close to that though

Trekster_Gamer @ May 28th 2008 6:09PM

I bet it looks close, given some of the 360 footage we have seen it does not look far off from this.

Magic Whiskey @ May 28th 2008 6:41PM

Nothing within the video looked un-doable for the 360. Looks great so far!

carterk @ May 28th 2008 6:44PM

Sweet!! For graphics whores like myself this video looks like a dream. Now I know beauty is only skin deep so the gameplay always needs to be on par with the presentation. This game is going to be multi platform so hopefully if one version has an advantage I find out (on the 360 or PS3, sorry PC's are for old timers) before I impatiently buy the game on the release date. I've got my fingers crossed and $60 set aside on this one.

Mr.ESC @ May 28th 2008 6:52PM

OH sweet.

adam @ May 28th 2008 6:57PM

That looks better than the kz2 videos for sure.I hope it really looks that good on 360.

DBoyFlex @ May 28th 2008 7:38PM

I sure hope it doesn't ship with as many bugs as Instincts Predator did for the 360.

Deck @ May 28th 2008 7:55PM

Something else to add to the Radar!

It is looking good! Hopefully we see some more actual gameplay soon!

Royale @ May 28th 2008 10:54PM

I only hope that they make the engine more efficent with PC hardware than crysis. I know it's a different engine than Crysis or whatever but a lot of the effects are the same, minus the fire... which looked so cool I really couldn't believe it. I played Crysis on pretty high settings and loved it, but would have loved have to have played it maxed.

Oh is this xbox360fanboy.com? Well, I'm sure the 360 version will get along as well and if there is something awesome about the 360 version that the PC doesn't have I'll get it there. I do think that it's sweet that they are squeezing so much out of the 360 hardware.

BananaBoat @ May 28th 2008 10:58PM

Before I say my bit (and you know my bit is coming), I'd just like to ask why developers think the sun is able to completely blind you if you look at it? I can go out and look at it right now, and while that would be terrible for my eyesight, I'd still be able to see the sky etc /endrant

I've got high hopes for this game. If this turns out to be African Crysis though, I'll be pretty dissapointed. I hope they've got the story perfected, as it seems they've got the graphics pretty nailed down at this point. Here's hoping guys, here's hoping.