What an eventful week, first i play test subject for a study on diabetes (theyre noting my metabolism to use it in a comparaison table with people having diabetes to uderstand it better) and now i'm playtesting at Ubisoft Montréal.
Tis fun job i must admit, back in november i passed the new prince of persia a month before it went gold, two weeks ago i did 2/3 of the fourth splinter cell and right now im playing th new farcry on a mock-up develloper kit of xbox360.
I signed a disclosure contract forbidding for saying anything important about the game itself, like details of the story or concept that culd be stole by other compagnies, they call it protecting their assets, i respect that.
anyway, the first thing i got to say about Farcry is that at first the visuals arent impressive.
BUT
After playing for a while, i realised that the water effects and the grass were really well rendred. Most of the game happen in the jungle and i must say its really well done, a "far cry" from turok or goldeneyes or any first person shooter games where jungles areas are for some reason conprised between tight foggy rock formations. True Farcry got rock formations but you got plenty of room to sneak on people( whixch you dont have choices to do, theyre smart and deadly in groups the buggers). The environnemnt are massive and very visually charged yet there never was any slowdown, the only time something weird occured was in a bogey wild race as i flew away from helicopters, the music jumped from time to time.
All that forest and ambiant sounds reminded me of home and from the nearby forest where i lived, the recreation of real forest sounds are really well done, from time to time you just forget you got a goal beside fighting for your life on paradise island
The plot of the game seem to happen either DURING the first game or soon after, the game beginning reminded me of jurassic park 3but replace the kid with a journalist and Grant by the boat guy who brouht said journalist, for the rest, i cant say more
EDIT: forget what isaid, it seem the game is a remake of the orignal farcry and a port of the Xbox version

Still its pretty sexy
