{"id":12764,"date":"2011-07-06T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"far-cry-3-will-be-10x-bigger-than-previous-games-in-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12764-far-cry-3-will-be-10x-bigger-than-previous-games-in-the-series","title":{"rendered":"Far Cry 3 will be 10x bigger than previous games in the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribing to the design philosophy, apparently, that bigger = better, Ubisoft has announced that Far Cry is going to be ten times bigger than its predecessors, and &ndash; presumably &ndash; ten times better.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you look at the vistas and the scale of Far Cry 1 and 2, take that and multiply it by ten,&rdquo; the project&rsquo;s narrative director, Jason VandenBerghe, tells UK gaming mag, Edge (via<a href=\"http:\/\/beefjack.com\/news\/far-cry-3-ubisoft-boasts-ten-times-the-scale-of-far-cry-1-and-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Beefjack<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>So that&rsquo;s kind of huge, but not the kind of huge that&rsquo;s just huge for the sake of being huge (see: Just Cause 2).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We want to take that even further. We&rsquo;re focusing on taking that scale and making it dense, so that around every corner there&rsquo;s something to find or see.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a key in open-world experiences. We ask ourselves: if there wasn&rsquo;t anyone to shoot in the game, could it still be fun?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>People to shoot in the game? Looks like they&rsquo;ve got those priorities in order, then. Everything else is really just bonus.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15424-FarCry-3-will-be-10-times-bigger-than-previous-FarCry-games?p=471204#post471204\" target=\"_self\">How big do you like your game worlds? <\/a><\/strong><\/span>&lt;&lt; let us know in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bigger, better, faster, harder, OOH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}