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The holiday quarter is off to a solid start with the successful launch of Far Cry 2

The game is well on track to achieve our expectations for the year.

No one is submitting any maps because they cannot get on line to play multiplayer and scores of people are complaining the single player is repetitive and boring.

My own personal feelings are very clear, this is unfortunately the last Ubisoft game I buy.

According to the Ubisoft Forum Manager:

• You have five activations on three separate PCs.
• Uninstalling the game "refunds" an activation. This process is called "revoke", so as long as you complete proper uninstall you will be able to install the game an unlimited number of times on 3 systems.
• You can upgrade your computer as many times as you want (using our revoke system)
• Ubisoft is committed to the support of our games, and additional activations can be provided.
• Ubisoft is committed to the long-term support of our games: you'll always be able to play Far Cry 2.

The biggest difference between Ubisoft's and EA's DRM is that EA lacks the "revoke" function. Once you've installed one of its games on three systems, you need to contact EA's customer support and ask for authorization for future installs.

I bought the game not knowing anything about first person shooters my only online experience was playing Diablo 2 on cold winter nights exchanging swords and slashing demons whilst talking to people about objects and spells I did not know anything about. Then I read an article about a new game coming out called farcry, I had just purchased a new Pc and was pleased it could run farcry, so I waited for the release date went out on my lunch break at work and waited anxiously to get home at Five o’clock to install it.
 

After installing the game I started the single player game and I stuttered my way through the first section of the game (in a sewer if I remember correctly) dodging and weaving my way through debris and fallen girders, Then came the part of the game that made me sit back in my chair and gasp for air , That was the first sight of the sea and trees with the mountain background glowing with colours with birds flying by and fish swimming in the sea, it looked so real I could imagine the heat of the sun and the humidity of the jungle, that image soon ended when I came across my first enemy and to my surprise he chased me (yes I ran away). after that first encounter started the epic adventure that was to give me many sleepless nights and many hours of day dreaming in work.
 

Part way through the single player game I decided to venture into the Multiplayer side of the game, I picked my gaming name and entered into my first server to be met by the sound of rockets exploding and jeeps whizzing passed with the glare of scoped weapons in the distant hills, it is a sight that will remain with me always, this was the first impression I got when I first logged into multiplayer and I was addicted from that point.
 

I spent many hours trying to learn the game exploring the extremely large maps and perfecting the many skills that would take me through many matches and into the late hours of the night. The maps where very enjoyable and well made and that sound of the flag siren still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up This was Assault this was farcry to me it was the greatest computer game ever made and I still play it today.
 

But The first farcry did have its problems with excessive punkbuster kicks for reasons nothing to do with cheating and a very poor netcode that frustrated many players, many bugs where discovered and some patches failed, some players tried to ruin the game with hacks but for some reason I still carried on playing.

I tried to play other games but always came back to farcry why I did not know at the time? But when Ubisoft released details of farcry 2 without the Assault Mode I realised that it was the game play I liked with the excitement of defending your base and outwitting other teams, it was a place to have fun and to have banter with the opposite team somehow this game mode gave you this excitement and community spirit that made the game enjoyable.
 

I met many new friends playing farcry online and played in some great clans, many have stopped playing and some clans moved onto other games but I live to hope that farcry 2 will bring back some familiar names and hopefully in time Ubisoft will realise that farcry 2 without Assault wont be the same, I don’t doubt it will be a great game but I want to hear that siren blasting in my ears and the screams from team members shouting “touch the flag touch the flag”. Time will tell but for now bring on farcry 2 and let the new adventure begin.

Players have already built recreations of well-known landmarks, like the Eiffel Tower, using Far Cry 2's map editor, and Gaetan expects to see maps that are less focused on actual first-person-shooter gaming, and more focussed on "art", when the game is released October 24.

Far cry 2 Gets 93%

If you look around you and realize how many things you can do in beautiful Africa, you cannot suppress a blissful sigh

Even a blind African can see that Far Cry 2 is an open world game of highest quality

If you like open world games, Far cry 2 is your game, it cannot be more obvious

There was no more time, and they really needed something that was solid and felt good with the map editor. So I said, 'Now there's no more room for trial and error', and we went back to basic game modes.

First of all, it's about as solid an online FPS as you could hope for. It's slow enough to require a nice mix of cunning and reflexes, the weapons are fairly tactile and there's a good balance between guns, knives, grenades, vehicles and fire that'll have you using all five depending on the situation.

• Fable II: 44.9%
• LittleBigPlanet: 25.4%
• Far Cry 2: 18.6%
• Spider-Man: Web of Shadows: 7.5%
• Wii Music: 3.3%

This mod really seems to have taken off; wiith not only impressive screenshots, dynamic fire and other technical things, they even have multiple media in the form of music for you to download and listen to.

• Very detailed enviroment
• Many missions
• Full day and night cycle
• Savannah, jungle and industrial maps
• Dynamic fire

• Head bobbing
• Ultra High config
• Dynamic Fire
• Custom sounds

We wish it would be 60 frames a second, but no. With the world so big – even in multiplayer the biggest maps are pretty huge – the dynamic grass that can catch on fire, the trees that can be destroyed, the vehicles in there as well, there’s so much going on that no, we’re not at 60 frames per second