Far Cry 2 Released!

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For those that were big fans of the original Far Cry, you might want to check out Far Cry 2, as Ubi Soft released the long-awaited sequel today for the PC, PS3, and the XBox 360. Far Cry 2's setting is in the African Safari, with gameplay being more realistic than it's predecessor. The enemies are reported to be human mercenaries & vehicles, but no mutants this time around. Ubi Soft is claiming that the single player campaign is potentially 100+ hours long.

Unlike the original, Far Cry 2 was developed in-house by Ubi Soft; the original developers of Far Cry was Crytek, who developed last year's hit Crysis and the recent Crysis expansions (Warhead / Wars). Fortunately, Far Cry 2 is not as abysmal as the console-only Far Cry expansions were (also developed by Ubi Soft), as the game is scoring high review scores from several review sites.

More details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Cry_2

PC System Requirements:

Minimum:

Operating System: Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
CPU: Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or Better
Memory: 1 GB
Hard Drive Space: 12 GB of free space
Graphics Hardware: NVidia 6800 or ATI X1650 or better; (must support Pixel Shader 3.0)

Recommended:

Operating System: Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD 64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or Better
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive Space: 12 GB of free space
Graphics Hardware: NVidia 8600 GTS or better, ATI X1900 or better

For PC users, Far Cry 2's system requirements are a little bit hefty. PCGH recently did a Far Cry 2 performance benchmark and it looks like those with dual/triple/quad-core processors will see a large performance boost, while those with single-core processors will likely suffer in performance.

I'll definitely be checking out Far Cry 2.