Far Cry 2's map editor is flipping amazing

by Dustin Burg { Aug 19th 2008 at 1:15PM }

Here's your jaw dropping amazing video of the day. After the break (or jump, if you're all about BIG videos) you can view a demo of Far Cry 2's map editor in action with commentary by a seductive narrator (not that we're complaining or anything). And it's a guarantee that you'll be impressed. Seriously, we had no clue Far Cry 2's map editor would be so vast, so customizable and so epic in scale. There are over 1000 objects, you can change the weather, the landscape AND even alter the environment's textures. It's hard to admit, but Far Cry 2's map editor puts Halo 3's Forge to shame. Hell, there is no comparison. We're flipping impressed with what the Far Cry 2 dev team has accomplished. A big round of applause to them.

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

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

wa27 @ Aug 19th 2008 1:22PM

woah, that's cool.

Alex C @ Aug 19th 2008 6:47PM

I have to know this. Does anyone know if you are able to download other people's maps? If i get this game, ill use the map editor, but it will end up looking like crap. im not sure, but i think you were able to download other people's maps in the first game.. so help?

dmb360 @ Aug 20th 2008 12:42PM

Yes you can, there will be a central server that you can load / download games to plus vote on the content.

I really hope the cave making tool is in the game, like in Crysis.

StLouisRibs7734 @ Aug 19th 2008 1:28PM

Note: messing with the sun will be the best thing ever

Magic Whiskey @ Aug 19th 2008 1:28PM

That's incredible! More fuel for the fire; Far Cry 2 is on my shortlist this year for sure.

They just moved the release date to October 21 from the 7th according to IGN, and that's going to be a BIG day for us gamers; Dead Space and Fable II also hit that same day.
(My birthday is the 25th...)

MissingLink @ Aug 19th 2008 5:35PM

I'm pretty sure Dead Space is coming out on the 31st....Halloween.

DRE Fei @ Aug 19th 2008 1:28PM

This map editor made me drool. I can't wait for this!

Max @ Aug 19th 2008 1:29PM

Even the the previous far cry instincts and far cry predator map editors for the xbox1 put halo 3's forge to shame! Cool editor tho I hope Far Cry 2 is as good as ever!

webster1990 @ Aug 19th 2008 9:03PM

yeah, i found that i spent more time using the map editor in that game than i did playing the actual game, it was amazing.

p.s. I like the new comment box, looks very swish.

sambob117 @ Aug 19th 2008 1:30PM

That is sick!!!

Too many good games too little income

esc1 @ Aug 19th 2008 1:31PM

doesn't mean anything if the game is no good and the first one wasn't.

Zeus.:God @ Aug 19th 2008 2:07PM

What are you talking about?! The first one was amazing!

Erik Stroud @ Aug 19th 2008 2:32PM

The first one was good... on the computer. I'm not sure if I want this on PC or not. Probably based on what my friends get it on will determine what I get it on.

Project Ekim @ Aug 19th 2008 1:31PM

Well this a is a map maker not editior and Forge was never meant to be this. It was just made to tweak and edit maps even foundry had this concept in mind but due to gliches like inter/geo locking more was able to be accomplished. However with that new Halo video showing a blank blue grid. Bungie may just have a way to impliment a map "Maker" into Halo 3 and if this does happen, that would be the thing to compare with far crys MM not forge.

On another note FCs Map maker looks very good i just wonder if you will be able to co-op map make.

joeybeast @ Aug 19th 2008 3:10PM

So, Forge is just a gimped Map Editor.
Gotcha.

Clinton J Curry @ Oct 9th 2008 11:10PM

Well in my opinion Halo 3 is old news. It has had its fifteen minutes of fame. Far Cry 2 Map Maker puts Halo 3 forge to shame. Bungie is running out of ideas. Thats why they are putting out an RTS.

OS Perry @ Aug 19th 2008 1:31PM

Offially on my pre-order list now... how about it Infinity Ward... can you match this for COD6?

Edge @ Aug 19th 2008 1:33PM

At the risk of sounding like a Halo fanboy, Forge wasn't trying to be a full level editor. It wasn't even a "level" editor. It was a collaboative object editor and it did things completely differently. If you were to collaboatively edit a map like this in Farcry 2, that would be coming close. In fact, it SHOULD be a feature, considering the complexity necesarry.

However, THIS is totally awesome. As long as we can play all manner of game types and share creations freely, this will be amazing. Can't wait.

MrKniceGuy @ Aug 19th 2008 2:14PM

Yes, you sound like a halo fanboy. Sorry.

Halo should have done it like this the first time. FCI:Predator did. And that came out shortly after launch. Oh, well. Maybe next time Bungie.

Joey @ Aug 19th 2008 1:34PM

I wanna see people making HALO remakes on that map editor... That'd be HOT!!!

MrMuggs @ Aug 19th 2008 1:34PM

I'll be the first to say it. This is fuckin amazing.

When you create the maps will you be able to upload them for others to play? I wish the 360 allowed users to create maps for everyone to play.

MrKniceGuy @ Aug 19th 2008 2:12PM

WORD!!!! I can't believe my eyes. I loved the editor in Predator. This looks absolutely amazing. I see many, many hours making awesome stuff in my future....

CASEY @ Aug 19th 2008 1:36PM

WOW, i taught editing was only for PC, then i saw the xbox controller and whaaaaattt!!!!

Zeus.:God @ Aug 19th 2008 2:08PM

They had, more or less, the same exact thing for Far Cry: Instincts for the original Xbox.

Muffin_man @ Aug 19th 2008 1:40PM

OMG OMG OMG I LOVE FAR CRY'S EDITOR WATCHING NAO.

*gasms*

Also new comment submission system? Ace.

Dustin Burg @ Aug 19th 2008 1:56PM

Very ace indeed :D

Delgado @ Aug 19th 2008 1:47PM

This is like a slightly dumbed down way to Mod, but for consoles. To me, it's going slightly beyond just a map editor.

Lanceo9 @ Aug 19th 2008 1:50PM

I want it. now.

Bukster @ Aug 19th 2008 2:07PM

Finally people will see what has been keeping us 360 Far Cry fans happy for 2 years. To even try to compare this to Forge is quite short-sighted. Where Forge is a map EDITOR, Far Cry's is a map MAKER.

Jonah Falcon @ Aug 19th 2008 2:08PM

As someone who's wrestled with "easy" map editors like Unrealed, that's fucking amazing.

DaxterKing @ Aug 19th 2008 2:08PM

Damn, that looks sweet. i expect map remakes from just about everygame. I just hope you can download maps from the net like in Halo 3 and that there will be some sort of devs picks like Bungie Favorites. I know Im just gonna make the thickest forest, and have almost everyone spawn in there, and one person outside spawns next to a flamethrower. =D

Crash Davis @ Aug 19th 2008 2:12PM

Wasn't even thinking of picking up this game ... after seeing this map editor demo, so going to now. Can't WAIT to mess around with this thing ... giddy up!

kyle @ Aug 19th 2008 2:13PM

Wow, thats freaking sweet!! Halo 3's Forge always pissed me off, I want this game, NOW!

Ed @ Aug 19th 2008 2:20PM

I can't believe it looks that good and plays that smooth on the 360.

Anticrawl @ Aug 19th 2008 2:30PM

Finally! I've been waiting for this video for ever, looks like the first Far Cry map creator but even better which is all I wanted out of Far Cry 2. I can't wait.

Azshros @ Aug 19th 2008 2:31PM

WOW. I dont know anything about FC2 or FC1 for that matter but i want this game for this feature alone!!

Total Bad Assness

Jason @ Aug 19th 2008 2:58PM

sweet

hunter2223 @ Aug 19th 2008 3:00PM

Wow.

That is Amazing... and there's Drop in Vehicles.

I foresee some serious Autoduel map action going on out there. Heck if it doesn't exist I'll make sure to make them :)

veridis @ Aug 19th 2008 3:02PM

This looks beautiful, i love how much you can play with the environment, to the very minute makking a sunset etc, this is now my must buy game

geekinabox @ Aug 19th 2008 3:21PM

obviously this far-exceeds what forge can do.

on the flip side, while this looks great for creating broad-swath outdoor environments, i wonder how fine-grained the controls could be for creating arenas and carefully structured environments. perhaps this doesn't apply to far cry, but in a Halo-esque world you obviously need detailed object placement to carefully craft certain environments (i.e., to ensure symmetry, sight lines, jumps, etc.) ... just saying 'create mountains here' and 'place building here' and brushing in trees doesn't do that.

nonetheless, for a FC world, very cool stuff.

Chris @ Aug 19th 2008 3:27PM

Nice, very nice.

Two things... So I realize each map has a area limitation based on many variables (playability, limited memory, view distance, etc..). I'm cool with this.

My question is, why couldn't they have provided a non-playable area, outside the build-able space, which created the illusion that you were playing in a larger area as opposed to, well, i'm here at the edge of the world looking off into a white void (as is the case with all maps created using far cry's current editor)?

Think of them as non-playable, 3D, backdrops...

My second question is, what about tunnels (digging)? I hope such a feature makes it into the games Gold version.

Regardless, what I had seen is impressive. Now if they would just tell us when the thing is going to hit the shelves...

chubytuby @ Sep 7th 2008 4:07PM

Man that would be pro if far cry 2 had a digging feature. *drool*

kp @ Aug 19th 2008 3:33PM

yah, the previous FC map editor on the 360 was pretty amazing. friends and i put hours of time into making maps and then trying them out. fun times. this game is going to be ridiculous.

cranium @ Aug 19th 2008 3:38PM

the Forge is a real-time interactive map editor. That's its appeal. That's what makes it different from every other map making tool I've seen.

You can't have multiple people editing a single map while simultaneously competing within it in Far Cary 2's editor.

you think their editor will have an "add color" option?

sldtrap @ Aug 19th 2008 3:43PM

That's un-freaking-believable! I can't wait to see what kind of resources it takes up (hard drive space, memory, CPU usage, etc). One concern is the possiblity of a dropped framerate for such a huge map (does it have to be loaded entirely in memory, or does it load on each HDD, and then load only a limited area in the memory of the system of that user of the system). Should be great even without any story mode. This sort of idea alone may have saved Shadowrun from disappointing reviews and sales.