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FAR CRY 3 IS ON THE WAY TO CREATION
Ubisoft’s producer has made it pretty much clear that the Far Cry 3, a sequel to the previous series is on its way to development with many changes which is the only reason that the developers had not released anything, big or small. It is expected that now, after this long time in which they did not release any thing, they would surely give the audience a surprise package. The game is under development and it is taking a whole lot of time for the only reason that there will be many changes, improvements and surprises that the game will see. There are two ways one can produce a game, one is just release the sequel one after the other or wait for some time, make the changes that the people do not like, put in the game whatever the previous one was lacking and then release it so that the gamers do not get disappointed even a bit. Ubisoft is expected to take up the latter strategy for the release of the Far Cry 3. The African environment that had been forgotten after the release of the first game in the year 2004 is likely to be seen in the Far Cry 3. Also Far Cry 3 is expected to make use of an all new engine, superb graphics, mind blowing features and so much more. If the Far Cry 3 will be released then this is for sure that there will be no big hit than it as the developers seem to working day and night with all their might to make the game the biggest release of the next year, 2009. It is also heard that the developers are engaged in making some game for the Far Cry series, now if it is a sequel or another game for a different console is still not clear but whatever game that will be released for the Far Cry will be a hit now. Rumors are that the game will have a changed setting as to the theme. It may not be an island theme as many people had started flinching from it. May be, this sounds more like the come back of the previous theme that was initially used in the year 2004. You never know what Ubisoft is upto these days. Let us all wait and watch.

THE BEST RECEPTION OF THE GAME

1UP.com gave the game a B+

Eurogamer gave it an 8 on 10

GameSpot gave it a 8.5 on 10

IGN gave the PS3 and the XBox360 versions an 8.8 on 10 while the PC version an 8.9 on 10

PC Gamer UK gave the game an aggregative score of 94%

PC PowerPlay gave the game a full 10 on 10

Game Rankings gave the XBox360 version 86%, the PC version 87% and the PS3 version 85%

Metacritic gave its PC version 87%, the XBox360 version 86% and the PS3 version 86%

The graphics and the OPEN-WORLD design in the game were praised by one and all with the game getting the best and positive reviews overall. The intelligence of the ENEMIES, actively hunting for the player and noticing unresponsive AI was also praised by many critics.

The points where the game has been criticized is the long TIME it had taken to travel from objective to objective, the less information within the plot and the storyline that was not that compelling. IGN pin pointed that there was a difference in saving the game in the PC version which allows its players to save it at any time in the gameplay while the console versions allow only the players to save it at certain points in the game.

THE CRACKS OF THE GAME

Press the ‘~’ key and enter the following codes:

\load_game <name> so that the game loads quickly

\save_game <name> so that the game saves quickly

\map dam for the dam level

\map factory for the factory level

\map swamp for the swamp level

\map river for the river level

\map catacombs for the catacombs level

\map boat for the boat level

\map cooler for the cooler level

\map archive for the archive level

\map rebellion for the rebellion level

\map control for the control level

\map regulator for the regulator level

\map steam for the steam level

\map bunker for the bunker level

\map treehouse for the treehouse level

\map research for the research level

\map pier for the pier level

\map fort for the fort level

\map training for the training level

\map carrier for the carrier level

\map volcano for the volcano level

\map demo for the demo level

Begin the game with the -DEVMODE command line parameter which can be done by either making a shortcut to the game on the desktop, right clicking on this shortcut icon and editing the properties. Before ending it you should put in the -DEVMODE option and press ok. After this, pressing any of the following keys during the game play will activate the corresponding function. Also all the levels will be unlocked when one is in the developers mode.

backspace activates the toggle bgod mode

F1 activates the toggle first and third person view

F11 will activate the toggle extra information

F10 will load your current position

F9 will save your current position

F2 will make you move to next checkpoint

F4 will activate the Toggle no clip that lets you fly through the walls and various other things

O will give you 999 Ammunition

P will give you all the Weapons

F3 will create a spawn point

equals will increase your speed

minus will decrease your speed

F5 will take you back to the default speed

THE INTERESTING STORYLINE OF FAR CRY 2

The most awaited and the famous game of all time, the Far Cry 2 has a realistic plotting set in a small Central African state that is fictitious. All its characters are different where the characters that have the ability to play, if are not chosen by the player then they become the non player characters and are seen in the game as friends of the main player and are known by the name of Buddies.

The game starts with the nation’s government getting collapsed leaving behind their collapse the two major factions which are the United Front for Liberation and Labor led by Addi Mbantuwe who is a former opposition leader and the Alliance for Popular Resistance which is led by Oliver Tambossa who is the Chief of Staff for the former government. Both of the factions want their control over the people for which theyclaim themselves to have the people’s interests at heart but the people say that both of them have shown signs of ruthlessness, warmongering, greed and disregard for the people. These factions hire foreign mercenaries to extend their influence over the people. The diamond mines of the nation are exhausted resulting in turmoil with many foreign mercenaries not getting regular pays or a way out from this country in which they are least interested.

The player has to perform the task of finding and assassinating “The Jackal” who deals in arms and ammunitions and sells weapons to both the factions. This goal of the game has to be completed by hook or by crook.

THE MINIMAL SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR FAR CRY 2

MS Windows

Operating System of Windows XP with a Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista

CPU of Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+

Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD 64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom

Memory of at least 1 GB or 2 GB

Hard Drive Space of 6 GB free space

Graphics Hardware of NVidia 6800 or ATI X1650 supporting Pixel Shader 3.0, NVidia 8600 GTS, ATI X1900

Blu-ray Disc

DVD

Keyboard

Mouse

Gamepad

THE ENGINE – TOO FAST TOO FURIOUS

A new engine called DUNIA has been developed for the game. The word means “world”, “earth” or “living” in Arabic and is used in several languages of Marathi, Punjabi, Urdu,Gujarati , Marvadi, Bengali, Farsi, Hindi, Indonesian, Kurdish, Turkish, Malay and Swahili. The engine gives a real environment for destruction with many special effects like dynamic music system, fire propagation, storm effects, real-time night-and-day cycle and non-scripted enemy A.I.

The engine also constitutes a multi-core processor and also a multiple processor supporting DirectX 9 and DirectX 10. The game also has the capability to support the amBX technology of Philips adding the VIBRATING effects, ambient colored lights and the fans generating the wind effects.