Since its casual announcement late last year, news has been relatively quiet on the Far Cry 3 front. Now, according to the latest issue of PC Gamer, it would appear that Ubisoft Montreal‘s anxiously anticipated sequel is in full production.
According to the magazine’s rumor-filled ‘Spy column’, development of Far Cry 3 is “in full swing now”, and is being headed by Josh Mosqueira, a man whose previous work includes Lead Designer on the RTS franchise Company of Heroes. Little else was divulged by the magazine’s sources, but that won’t stop Game Rant from speculating.
By all accounts, Far Cry 2 was a divisive game amongst the gaming community. Some loved the way its harsh, unforgiving gameplay mirrored the beautiful African backdrop to which it was set, whereas others cried ‘Where’s the fun in this game?!’ after dropping dead from Malaria for the fifteenth time. If comments from Patrick Redding, Lead Narrative Designer on Far Cry 2, are to believed, then it’s likely that Far Cry 3 will retain a similar setting. However, when asked about Far Cry 3 in 2008, he did mention the snowy landscapes of Antarctica as a possible alternative to the dusty plains of Africa. An intense location perhaps, but one that fits with the series’ current ‘extreme’ landscapes. Admittedly though, it’s one that I’m not particularly sure about. I may know very little about Antarctica, but it has always appeared as a far more desolate and hostile environment than one in which a ‘fun’ video game could take place in.
It will also be interesting to see how many of Far Cry 2‘s unforgiving game systems will be retained in Far Cry 3. It was originally assumed that Clint Hocking, Creative Designer on Far Cry 2, would be handling development of Far Cry 3, but following his recent move to Lucasarts, it’s unlikely that any influence he originally had regarding the title’s creative direction will be valid anymore.
Personally, I’m quite excited to hear that Far Cry 3 is in full development. Sure, it’s all a rumor for now, but it’s one that makes a great deal of sense. Far Cry 2 was released in late 2008, and a 2011 release for Far Cry 3 would give Ubisoft Montreal enough time to ensure that the title would be just as good as, if not better than, its predecessor.
Are you excited for Far Cry 3? Did you have any particular issues with Far Cry 2 that dampened your experience? Let us know in the comments below.
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I never got around to playing Far Cry 2, but I’ve only heard good things. I’ll have to check it out before the third one comes around.
For some reason Farcry 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. I think the developers really did a good job of making you feel like you really were in that African setting. The amount of freedom in that game is also something I personally have never seen in any other fps. Last but not least Farcry 2 is by far the most realistic game I’ve ever played. Am I looking forward to Farcry 3? Absolutely!
The tech, graphics, and even most of the gameplay was fun in Far Cry 2 but the load times, sometimes frustrating checkpoints and repetitive missions made me put it down before I beat the whole thing.
If I want to kill everything and blow s*** up I play Just Cause 2. Less realistic, but much more fun.
I like FarCry 2 alot. its wierd but fun. Far Cry 3 will be sweet!
It would be cool if they put it in a snowy setting. Then I can die of frostbite over and over instead of malaria.
Farcry2 was fantastic and immersive…..but dull. I played twice and never finished either time.
I would be excited about this game on the PC but it will feature horrendous ubisoft DRM. By the time this game is released Ubisoft DRM will probably be so extreme that after paying for the game you can only play it if you are physically sitting in Ubisoft HQ
lol! I just had an image of thousands of people queuing up outside Ubisoft, all waiting for one solitary PC
I would much prefer a hopeful change of scenery and some added gameplay. I did enjoy Far Cry 2 a bit, but it became very redundant after a few hours. While it felt like first person GTA, it was just very annoying to have to constantly stop at places to deal with people shooting at me so I can get to the mission area. Otherwise, the planning and open world parts of the game were definitely what kept me playing for so long. Here’s hoping Ubisoft takes some of that into consideration and executes it with a vengeance.
far cry 2 sucks big time, the game play, graphic, controls all sucked big fat ****, I am glad I didn’t pay for that piece of crap. and I uninstalled it after 10 mins into the game. Hopefully Far Cry 3 won’t become a big disappointment.
Wow, I can not wait for FC3. The map editor is calling!
I’m sure I am in the minority but I did not enjoy Far Cry 2. The Uwe Boll movie was cheesy awesome though
I wont be getting it due to the crappy DRM that they have. The first game was fine but as usual from ubi’s standards of support they left online gamers high and dry from all the burning fires crap bugs in the maps that allow you to shoot through the edges of rocks without being seen. no prone..the best thing about it was the map editor and us guys chatting in vent..then the stupid stuff we did on bargewars with ied’s blowing ourselves up to see how high we went in the air…they need to sort the weapons ouyt too…so we could have only sniper weapons or pistols only…it was good that you could have a server up and run it without paying for it like those at EA with Bad Company 2…like I say a compatible but better map editor would be great…thats my thoughts
Well, we all looking forward to next Far Cry, but I hope they (UBI) learned from what was wrong or poor on Far Cry 2, which doesnt allowed to this game to be much more popular than it is/was. First – only few are focused to singleplayer, much more important is multiplayer theese days. And there FC2 failed, mainly because of lack of support, fetures etc. One example – UBI refused fix issue with user maps autodownloading for Windows 7, even the game is still on stores and Win7 most used operating system atm, so community had to find solution with their own… If Ubi going to keep their approach how to deal with community, than Far Cry 3 cant be better than previous game. The best thing was map editor (doesnt matter that it was cutted down for minimum objects and features but still, great tool) which allowed us play a new maps every day. So fingers cross for UBI/us with FC 3
Yeah single player was ok, for about an hour, online was royally screwed though. I played online even ran a few servers {1S2K} ALL THE WAY!! and was able to use the server launcher only thanks to MChats creative interface. I’ve vowed to never get another UBI game as well due to the horrid support. After i pirate the game and see if it’s worth it maybe, and that’s a big maybe, i’ll buy it.
I hear the was a lot of problems with the PC version of Far Cry 2. I would recommend picking up the console version of FC3 because we didn’t have any problems with MP on 360. We had a great time building and sharing maps. One of the reasons why I prefer to do my gaming on console as opposed to PC.
Well, Idont want to turn this discussion to blaming consoles for that PC version was screwed up, but of course it was one of reason why Far Cry 2 couldnt build strong clans community which could keep this game more popular and also to be played/buyed by PC users.
We know that UBI was very afraid about piracy, mainly for Pc platform and they spent a lot of time/money to try secure it up, but take a look on Battlefield Bad Company 2 ? They released demo, then they listen community feedback and keep support game – and they sold milions of copies, more than 50% are PC players… !
So as Dragon said – if they dont let community without proper support as like with FC2, (yes, we are also able run servers only because we got nice Server Manager by DKM2), and if they could offer real quality, than they dont need to have worry about selling numbers. And I will not preorder this game because first I would like to hear community feedback, not just just prerelease hype by UBI… !
Agreed, never heard of the DKM2 thing, but i’m sure something else had to of been created since MChat fell off the face of the earth and didn’t update anymore lol. Down with hype, up with listening to the people who have to pay for what’s made.
FC2 Server manager by DKM2 is this:
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5071014757/m/4311099138
Great tool, unfortunately – made by just by community member, not by UBI….
Not sure what the setting will be in Far Cry 3, but if it is in Africa you would think that maybe there would also be some dangerous animals to contend with at times? Being careful during the day for wild animals and in the dark of night. I think that would be cool addition to the game. Just sayin’
We were all dreamed about predators for FC-2, but it doest happened, what was shame.
But first – they should focus on multiplayer features and community support for 1000% more, only that is the right way how to get some good selling numbers. Look at the Battlefield Bad Company 2.
You can see there rolling patches with changes for whose community asking for (R/10 on the way atm… !!) and even that sinleplayer part wasnt as special so we could call it as super game, they sold over 5 milions copies… !! And game simply rocks !
Viva DICE… !
An official release date would be nice.
FC2 was my 1st online game, i had win 7 & no game support, emailed ubi re: map d/l prob & PB (i knew nothing back then)…. no response & i knew no-one that played the game. Hopefully with FC3 people will not have to go thru that….