So Vg247 just released some pre-alpha footage of Far Cry 3, and holy cow does this game look and sound cool as hell in action. The multiplayer looks like more of the same, with XP streaks, capture and hold gamemode and all of the standard stuff, but I still love that formula so to me it looks really exciting, I especially love what they've done to the killcams haven't seen that stuff before. I know the story is what I look mostly forward to, but besides Bioshock, this is the only game I look forward to all the rest of 2012, so having some long lasting fun with it. Honestly, the game basically just looks gorgeous, and I can't wait to play it!

It looks more like some DLC for Modern Warfare 3 than a standalone game. Kind of like BFBC2 Vietnam but for CoD.

looks like a likes a less exciting COD.

Bad Company 2 crossed with COD is what I immediately thought after the video. Decent but more interested in the single-player.

Also, does the fire effects look off to someone? I remember Far Cry 2 having much better fire effects.

@Packie said:

Also, does the fire effects look off to someone? I remember Far Cry 2 having much better fire effects.

Yep, loved the fire stuff in Far Cry 2, it was very cool in multiplayer as well, played a bunch of it in that , weird that they apparently toned that stuff back since it was a very central mechanic. The again, this is pre-alpha.

"I'm reloading!"

Looks generic as hell. Way more interested in the singleplayer, especially if it's being done by the same team that did the second game...

Wow the guys voice is annoying in that video

@Packie said:

Also, does the fire effects look off to someone? I remember Far Cry 2 having much better fire effects.

notice how it says pre-alpha build in big letters up in the top left corner.

No one's going to take my fishmarket!!! Battle Cry!!

fucking call of duty.

So I assume it's a given that custom maps are stripped from both the console and the PC version of the game?

Looks like nothing too new, but there's still a few cool additions here and there. Still looking forward to it! Get hype!

Does this game run on Cryengine 3?

yeah kind of looks like a variation of a call of duty game.  Wasn't planning on playing FC3 for the multiplayer though so it's cool, i like the kill cam.

ehhh it's whatever. the killcam's kinda neat but honestly i'm much more excited for the single player.

i feel very sleepy all of a sudden

@Crixaliz said:

Does this game run on Cryengine 3?

Nope.

I was hoping this game would forgo competitive multiplayer entirely.  Far Cry 2's map editor would have been excellent for creating 4-6 player cooperative scenarios to play through.  I wish that potential could have been realized in Far Cry 3, but I guess not.

Oof, can't wait for them to go back over the UI. It's a bit too heavy at the moment.

That said, still pretty pumped!

Looks like Call of Duty or Battlefield. I like those games, but this will probably end up being really lame like its predecessor.

Still hoping it turns out good though :(

Does anyone play Far Cry online? I personally love the single player stuff.... and thats it.

Goddammit. Why? WHY?! WHYYYYY?!

I loved the multiplayer in Far Cry 2. It didn't always FEEL complete, but the overall pacing was something unlike most multiplayer shooters I've played. The openness of the maps was cool. The level of detail - how you could set grass on fire and weed people out or how you could blow up a little shanty that people were hiding in - gave it this unique feeling. Moreover, the map editor was fucking AWESOME!

Now it's just a goddamn COD clone. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!

Looks, kind of generic, but tbh I will probably play it more than black ops 2

I hope they have some co-op gameplay, my interest for competitive multiplayer seems to wane every year.

@jakob187 said:

Goddammit. Why? WHY?! WHYYYYY?!

I loved the multiplayer in Far Cry 2. It didn't always FEEL complete, but the overall pacing was something unlike most multiplayer shooters I've played. The openness of the maps was cool. The level of detail - how you could set grass on fire and weed people out or how you could blow up a little shanty that people were hiding in - gave it this unique feeling. Moreover, the map editor was fucking AWESOME!

Now it's just a goddamn COD clone. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!

I read a preview somewhere which stated that both console and PC will have a map editor.

@Spoonman671 said:

I was hoping this game would forgo competitive multiplayer entirely. Far Cry 2's map editor would have been excellent for creating 4-6 player cooperative scenarios to play through. I wish that potential could have been realized in Far Cry 3, but I guess not.

I still haven't played Far Cry 2, but is the map editor only for multiplayer? No co-operative vs AI anything?

2:28: "Joke's on them though."

Looks okay, yet again another Multi-player add-on tacked on to appeal to the 'competitive' scene.

Map editor confirmed.

I'm glad they brought the hallucination and fire stuff, and the battle cry is a cool buff. The level design looks vertical, which I love, it'd be awesome if you were zip-lining and got a DFA kill.

Killcam is the coolest thing though, getting to see the bullet trajectories to see how many bullets and where on the body you got killed by.

I hope you like circles.

That looks shit. I get the feeling this game will be immensely disappointing.

KONY 2012: The Video Game.

Looks interesting - a little disappointed they only showed the Domination mode, I would have liked to see the Firestorm mode in action.

I see that the advanced death killcam from Counter-Strike is coming to FC3.

This looks like it could be fun, but I'm obviously going to come to this game for the singleplayer.

Generic ass fuck... Fucking CoD..

I like the feature at the end, but that's just BEGGING to have every match end in ragequits.

That commentary....

Although I gotta say Fatalities in FPS is somewhat unique, but being this whole seperate post-game thing seems hammy. Think I prefer GeoW style executions. It's all a fairly obvious tack-on to combat re-sale though, which makes me sad inside.

I wish developers would eventually realize that if you are going to include multiplayer in your first person shooter, you need to do your best to differentiate it from Call of Duty or Battlefield.

Man that reminds me so much of Call of Duty. It may as well just be a different texture pack. It's not that it doesn't look like it's done well, but it's been done before far too many times.

I guess shooting guns in multiplayer equals COD now. It just seems a lot people of is getting their panties in a bunch over nothing. Also I think this multiplayer looks SaWEEEEEEEEeet!

Although I'm still looking forward to trying it, I agree with others that it looks very similar to what is already available in terms of FPS multiplayer. I guess that's not too surprising, but I was hoping for something significantly different.