Hopefully new to some people but let me know if it has already been posted.

Shows day and night cycle, weather effects and a few more bits of fun. Post your comments below!

Far Cry 2 GDC Footage

Thanks, man i cant wait for this game...

gnarly. cant wait. shooting off tree branches with a pistol did kinda seem wierd to me, but i guess if it was a small tree....

Uh oh, was anyone else listening to what he said at the end? Vegetation regrowth won't be in the game, it's just something the engine can do.

really? my sound card is toast, so i cant here anything. that was all visual for me...

that sucks.

I would feel a bit odd to spend time blowing holes out of trees and seeing them grow back in a short time. I guess it will also be interesting to see what effect fire is going to have on trees/grass too.

I always thought having such a wide open game remember what's been destroyed, what's regrowing and how much things have grown by was way too much for any game to handle for many years to come. Unfortunately, it seems I was right. Maybe when we have 50GB of memory...

High res downloads of the footage is mirrored on my website .

Also listen to what is said in the video Raide posted carefully!

Achilles

This looks amazing!

It probably goes without saying, but I recommend checking out all the games media websites (ign, etc) for info from the GDC. It seems a lot of what was talked about was this procedural data generation. It sounds very clever, although ign are very vague in their definition of what it really does. They hint at what it can do, but they don't seem to be able to explain how it actually works.

Let us know if you've found any particularly good articles from the event. I've only seen ign's coverage so far, which is ok...