I hate release dates.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » August 5th, 2008, 21:48

31st of October?
By that time i'll be on my 80th 4850.

Post by **HereComesPete** » August 5th, 2008, 21:50

Don't think so, ubisoft making/publishing are they not?

It has kinda slipped under the radar a tad, but the bits I've watched look rather fucking good.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » August 5th, 2008, 22:52

HereComesPete wrote:Don't think so, ubisoft making/publishing are they not?

It has kinda slipped under the radar a tad, but the bits I've watched look rather fucking good.

FC2 looked a bit good on the tech demos.

Although....it did look a bit sparse, I do wonder just how much of the game will be boring traveling between points.

Post by **HereComesPete** » August 5th, 2008, 22:59

Those points are miles apart in a hueg playing area. Gaps are filled with random warbands, enemy camps, diamond mines and weapons caches apparently.

I can see it being a bit of a walk if you trash the car really early, but I think you can just get on your phone and ring a mate who'll pick you up and drop you off for a small fee.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 5th, 2008, 23:05

hmm, wiki says 1st oct for farcry 2.

<strike>and it's still on the crysis engine, which means it'll run like a 2 legged dog with rickets.</strike>

apparently it's not, dunia engine apparently *looks for info*

Post by **HereComesPete** » August 5th, 2008, 23:11

Apparently it's a UT3 derivative, with muchos tweaking. So hopefully it'll scale well and look super shineh.

Editz - very similar to assassins creed engine apparently, but moar tweaked, I read that on a site, think it was gamasutra. Think they might use similar for assassins creed two.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 5th, 2008, 23:14

HereComesPete wrote:Apparently it's a UT3 derivative, with muchos tweaking. So hopefully it'll scale well and look super shineh.

I read that, then I read about 10 other things that said it isn't

It's either massively modified Cryengine 1 (farcry) or something new.

http://blog.ubi.com/farcry2/article.php ... e%20engine

Post by **HereComesPete** » August 5th, 2008, 23:29

Yeah, the more I read the more I doubt the UT3 thing. It sounds like they've spent 2/3 years writing it, the guy likes the word 'procedural' doesn't he.

Ubisoft make loads of money of their ds games and the big things like creed, doesn't look like they're rushing this because they're not desperate for the extra dollar.

Could well be fucking amazing. I'll not get hyped though, I'm saving all that for fallout 3.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 5th, 2008, 23:32

It'll be interesting to keep an eye on.

shame this year seems to be evil, whole fucking lot of potentially very good games spread over near enough 4 months.

Post by **Grimmie** » August 5th, 2008, 23:32

Baliame wrote:Spore is September 7.

Sept 5th UK, Sept 7th US.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » August 6th, 2008, 4:10

Grimmie wrote:Sept 5th UK, Sept 7th US.

Finally the US getting the worst of it? Pleased to hear.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » August 6th, 2008, 7:04

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:It'll be interesting to keep an eye on.

shame this year seems to be evil, whole fucking lot of potentially very good games spread over near enough 4 months.

Lets enforce our own staggered release dates then - no 5punker is allowed to buy more than one of the new releases a month, and we can vote on which one in which month.

Post by **FatherJack** » August 6th, 2008, 7:17

HereComesPete wrote:I can see it being a bit of a walk if you trash the car really early

I hope they are a bit more resilient than the ones in Crysis that exploded quicker than an unmanned jeep parked next to a pile of red barrels in the A-Team.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 6th, 2008, 8:09

Lateralus wrote:Lets enforce our own staggered release dates then - no 5punker is allowed to buy more than one of the new releases a month, and we can vote on which one in which month.

Post by **fabyak** » August 6th, 2008, 8:10

FatherJack wrote: I hope they are a bit more resilient than the ones in Crysis that exploded quicker than an unmanned jeep parked next to a pile of red barrels in the A-Team.

Hehulk · Post by **Hehulk** » August 6th, 2008, 14:59

Lateralus wrote:Lets enforce our own staggered release dates then - no 5punker is allowed to buy more than one of the new releases a month, and we can vote on which one in which month.

That'd bugger WAR though

*Wants to play, wishes he had a beta key

MORDETH LESTOK · Post by **MORDETH LESTOK** » August 6th, 2008, 15:32

Baliame wrote:Finally the US getting the worst of it? Pleased to hear.

pffft...you may win this battle...

Post by **deject** » August 6th, 2008, 15:39

Baliame wrote:
Finally the US getting the worst of it? Pleased to hear.

Damn. We just got our asses kicked.

We are about to achieve victory comrade!

Post by **fabyak** » August 6th, 2008, 15:40

Are you suggesting that we are a bunch of Commies?

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » August 6th, 2008, 15:45

Grimmie should be proof enough for that statement.