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• Three brand-new weapons:
  Silenced shotgun; Sawed-off shotgun; Crossbow
• Two new vehicles:
  Unimog; Quad

• Four new maps:
  Cheap Labor; Last Resort; Lake Smear; Fort Fury
• New single-player weapons and vehicles also available in multiplayer

Gallery: Far Cry 2 DLC

• Rock Band 2 [Special Edition]
  
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles
• Disney Sing It
• Eternal Sonata
• The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
• BioShock
• Far Cry 2
• Spider Man: Web of Shadows

• Far Cry 2 (Collector's Edition available at GAME)
• Dead Space
• MotoGP 08
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles
• Spider Man: Web of Shadows
• Monopoly
• Blitz The League II

• NBA Live 09

Ubisoft made quite an impression with its latest console footage of Far Cry 2. While we'd like to say that it's simply the gameplay that caught our attention, we'll admit that this is purely for the eye candy. We're impressed to see that the console version looks just as good as the PC. Word to Ubisoft, though: can we please have a little bit of color into this unusually bleak representation of Africa?

Gallery: Far Cry 2

Many game developers have found the PS3 hardware difficult to work with ... intimidating even. Ubisoft Montreal, developer of Far Cry 2, was no exception and had some worries about developing for the PS3 in the past; however, those uncertain feelings have apparently been dispelled, according to a recent interview with tech director Dominic Guay.

Guay had a lot of positive things to say, calling the raw processing power of the PS3 'impressive' and the hardware architecture a 'nice fit' for their technical designs. He appraises Blu-ray and the PS3's hard drive saying they're ideal for Far Cry 2's continuously streaming open world. The only downside is that the PS3 can't compare to some higher end PC resolutions due to memory size differences, but "it's not a big deal" says Guay.

With the PS3 out for more than a year now, and developer kits out way longer than that, developers have had a lot of time getting to know the hardware they'll be developing for in the next few years. If this is a sign for anything, it must mean that we'll be hearing more and more positive comments like Dominic Guay's in the near future.

Previously announced exclusively for PC, Ubisoft has just revealed that Far Cry 2 is also being developed for Xbox 360 and PS3. (Could it be the poor sales of Crytek's much anticipated PC-only Crysis?) Developed by Ubisoft Montreal, this FPS has you running and gunning through the wild fields of Afrika Africa. Ubisoft is touting its custom-made video game engine, and as seen from this old off-screen PC footage, it looks pretty good (albeit familiar).

According to the press release, "Far Cry 2 is scheduled to ship fiscal 2008–2009." That's a pretty vague and unhelpful release schedule. For more info on the game, you may want to check out the next issue of Official PlayStation Magazine. They're totally going to crack the game open.

We're glad to see yet another good looking FPS head to the PS3, but we're still more interested in what the talented guys at Crytek might be cooking up ...