The models of both female characters look hideous.
This game is almost out? That's not a good sign...

XbhaskarX

@Bigfoot: Yeah.. It's kinda sad. I'd rather like to see a game that handles the textures and lighting good rather than some overlighted bloomfest :(

Jindujun

@popadophalis: That woman would be bad graphics on the original Xbox.

dowingba

@Gunhaver:

Should work. The specs for Far Cry 2 are quite intermediate.

KE

Is it just me or does that woman look abysmal?

popadophalis

Why doesn't she just push the gun away...she has all the leverage.

francoamerica

I want to know how scalable the graphics are. Being a gamer that plays for the game, not the graphics, and also being poor, I have a midrange pc. 1280x720 res here i come -woooo-

Gunhaver

@Jindujun: Good ol' bloom/hdr lighting. Everything glows!

Bigfoot

@NeVeRMoRe666: errr..throat...

NeVeRMoRe666

@Chinpokomon: ummm...hello...its called a "pokerface?" Obviously you've never been a secret agent whose had a gun pointed at your face...

You have such laaaaaaarge penis. so very large.

:)

NeVeRMoRe666

I really like the graphics but why does everything shine? While the gun is a bit too shiny it can still be shiny but her gloves? I bet with a good clean her shirt could be used as a mirror.

Jindujun

Why does she look so bored?

Chinpokomon

Ack, sorry, there's obviously a gallery tags problem.

Starting from the top-left, the first FIVE screens are new. The rest are old FC2 stuff that for some reason is turning up.

Luke Plunkett

I'm not sure why, but for me, FPS games have such a good graphics in the enviorment... But for the character's faces.. it just looks so bland.

akumaserge

Dear god, sniping in this game looks so freaking cool.

Lightman

Well, is she up against a wall or on the ground? That kinda changes things a bit. If she's on the ground, it'd be harder to push the gun away but if she's standing up against a wall it'd be pretty easy to push the gun away. Which is the difference between self preservation and attempted suicide, as far as this screenshot goes.

Also, the lack of shadows in the shot is just really wrong.

dowingba

Anybody see The Abyss? You know, with the water-worm that eventually molds a face to its end in order to communicate with the female lead? Slap a skin texture on it and this is what you get.

denki

@Jindujun: Its Always Sunny in Africa!

Ra is on House

I may be mistaken but I think she WANTS you to shoot her, she's in dreadful pain and wants to be.. what's the word, euthanized?

Kaonazhie

I don't know why everybody likes the graphics. They seem to be especially technically proficient, nor does the art direction stray from the norm.

MadMinstrel

ZOMG the main character is killing an African female!
Not only is this game racist but also sexist.

How come nobody bats an eyelid over this while RE5 creates a clusterfuck of a shitstorm?

MegamanPhantom

@orentholjames:
Nope, it's a completely new game, they only use the same name as the first one, but it has nothing to do with the original.

I Have No Name

....does this even have ANYTHING at all to do with the original Far Cry?

orentholjames

@MegamanPhantom: Wait,wait,wait...
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That's a female?

MentalNote

[kotaku.com]

Press Use (F) to be a boobie-grabbing jerk.

rivaldi22

@MegamanPhantom:

Because clearly the graphics are so bad they're such a poor representation of reality. So they can get away with it.

Zero_

@akumaserge:
Too right. I don't know why so many games feel that it's fine to not bother with facial expressions. Have you seen how dead the James Bond model looks in the Quantum of Solace game ? Jeez...we are putting facial expressions in the game that I am working on and they make SO much difference...it's not like it's a hard thing to do either...

RedEye

Gorgeous graphics?

The more I know Kotaku, the more I use it as a parameter of my opposition: when Kotaku says NO it's a YES for me :)

Colours are so dull.. and the ladies model? Just compare the forest scenery with the one from Uncharted. THAT's gorgeous!

Masatomo

I'm really interested in the game but i think its a bit sad that it turns out to be another "brown" game. WTF is wrong with some of the art directors in this buisness?
Just because the ground in africa is brown doesnt mean the world has to be a monochromatic brown place. Even in the video where the guys from Ubisoft visit africa for taking reference photos you can see that africa has other colors then brown.

Gambrinus

Dear god...the shot when she has the gun in her face, it's like Half Life 1...then the rest are splendid.

t3hdragon

...

1. not phallic enough.

2. the uncanny valley effect totally makes this image worthy of comment. though, more of a WTF, than WOW, THAT LOOKS GOOD.

3. not phallic enough.

toliman

Omg it's almost impossible for me to wait untill it's released and i can start playing it :D

CyaniD

lol @ pic.

"Quick! Make a dramatic face! You're about to be killed!"

"Yeah, sure. Oh, wow, a gun pointing at my throat... can you just take the picture now?"

AxelMinami

Wow whata a handsome...lady?

-EDGE-

They did real good with the environment, but could use some realism for the characters. Look at her, she look so damn calm for someone who's about to be shot in the throat.

The face says "Uh...can you move that unloaded gun from my face please, thank you, I don't like guns in my face. It blocks my view"

When it should be "Oh shit!!! Gun!!!"

pikpikjuice

are there any platform comparison screenshots? I just wonder whether the pretty shots are high settings pc while I'm more interested in what the 360/ps3 will look like

JakeDunn

The environments looks awesome. The character models? Not so much.

Gouki4u

I can't believe no one has shopped the first pic to make it NSFW, I mean come on, look at it! Yeah now you're thinking that too.

AndrosZ

Every time this game slips back in my mind it just pops back up to the front. Looking good.

Quicksilver4648

@francoamerica: She's not. She's one of your friends, and apparently this is what I read about in PCGamerUK - she's mortally wounded, and you have the choice to kill her and put her out of her misery.

Fullforce

@Lightman: Hopefully, they won't sabotage sniping by boosting the vision and awareness of the AI to superhuman levels.

Battlefield: Bad Company could have been a great game to snipe, but DICE ruined it by having the AI spot the player 5 miles away and gave the AI pinpoint accuracy at any distance as well. I shouldn't taking damage at 1000 yards from a guy with an AK. Nor should he even spot me either. Hopefully, Far Cry 2 won't do this.

Lixie

@XbhaskarX: actually, the 3D models, themselves, look pretty good. I don't think the characters are suppose to be "pretty." I'm guessing that's what you're complaining about... Gotta be.

rainofwalrus

@akumaserge: What surprises me is that this is, how many years after Half Life 2? That game had superb visuals for characters faces and top-of-the-line animation.

CoD4 was decent, but yeah, it seems the industry's walking backwards in this regard.

kazemizuhi

Pixar... can RenderMan and start using the CryTek engine. If you put in enough detail to slow the crytek engine down to the same speeds as RenderMan, things would look 10 times as good.

Oh, and hire Valve to make your human figures.

omicron1

@Jindujun:

1.Take a photo of leather gloves in a sunlit area.

2.Compare said photo to game image.

I think what's really at issue here is there appears to be a lack of normal and specular mapping applied to the models. Compared to the screenshot of the boat/river, the characters seem blown out, lacking contrast and depth.

I guess this is the compromise they had to make with such vast environments while keeping recommended PC specs reasonable. But seriously, the Far Cry series is driven by it's visual edge; and since this title doesn't look as good as a number of titles on the market (Crysis, Dead Space, Gears etc.) I hope they have a solid game in there to play.

kazemizuhi

The shot with the girl and the gun in her face. That looks awful. Are you sure this isn't an old Tomb Raider screenshot? I mean Oblivion had better character models...

gemetzel

Ok, Environmental renders are awesome, but wow the Human Models are so 1990's looking with High-res detail.. They need to hire someone with better modeling and rendering techniques for the Human models.

Darksider1972

@Darksider1972: Concurred. I love the expression on her face too, as a gun it about to discharge into her trachea.

Didn't Valve negate blocky facial animation in, oh, 2004?

guitarzan2k5

@Fullforce:

Well with a face like that, who could blame her?

francoamerica

game looks unreal, sandbox too :P

UnwantedKiller

@akumaserge:

Yeah, it's what I didn't like about Bioshock too. Crysis was pretty good though.

questworld