The sun moves around the sky, so there are light and shadow changes in the game world as the day passes."
While you can shoot up(and burn down) trees and shrubbery, it will actually regrow. Just to show off the technology, Guay demonstrated the function in quick-speed, and not only does it work, it looks damn cool, too. This helps to ensure that areas you retread over the course of your destructive exploration still have plenty of vegetation to keep the environment interesting. Of course, if you happen to torch a few buildings while it's raining, the fire won't propagate as much as if it's dry."
"You get missions by visiting the competing warlords-representing the APR(Alliance for Popular Resistant) and UFLL(United Front for Liberation and Labor).
The enemy AI is already working with devastating effect, as they can see and hear you-even listening for your weapon reloading.
Want to perform a mission at a certain time of day? Take a nap and set your alarm to wake up at a specific time.
There you can buy and upgrade your equipment courtesy of the arms dealers at the local bazaar, who take the diamond currency you find and earn for completing missions. In fact, Redding explained an RPG-lite system at work. "You can find manuals and upgraded tools that allow you to repair damaged vehicles," he says. In addition, every mission you take, and the style with which you execute it, impacts your reputation in the game world.
"Far Cry 2 requires a lot of processing power", Guay explains, "and using the PS3's SPUS is great for complex systems like the vegetation." From our first look, Far Cry 2 will push the Playstation 3 Cell processor as hard as any game has needed to so far. The game is set in a non-specific country in Africa.
Other things mentioned included an RPG like system where you can fix up vehicles, changing reputation based on your actions and such.
Sounds really amazing! Ever since Uncharted I've wanted some console game(apart from Oblivion) to try and push a living breathing world. Seems this might give it a nice attempt.