Watch the Far Cry 2 Map Editor In Action

I think this will feature will be more widely used on the PC, but it is definitely cool that it's available for consoles as well [the interface seems very user-friendly, too!]

lol nice lagg

This is very cool. Since Warcraft 2 I'd hope more developers would be out more friendly, easy to use editors and although games today obviously are much more complex than Warcraft I didn't understand why more editors couldn't be something like well, what was demonstrated in this video. Looks very promising.

Looks very user friendly. I like it.

The gap between PC and consoles is slowly, but surely, getting smaller. User mods and maps will be the next big thing for next gen consoles IMO.

"The only limit... is your imagination".

Well, that and the obvious limit on the size of the maps seen a bunch of times in this editor. What's that, 1km by 1km or so?

anyone else think the narrator is channeling Bob Ross from the Joy of Painting?

The map editor that came with the XBOX FarCry games made them worth the price of admission.

Had so much fun with those. I spent approx. 20 hours of my time (willingly!) making my first map, and tweaking it just so for a variety of gameplay modes (Deathmatch, Predator, CTF).

The ability to carve rivers was lacking in those editors and I'm so glad it's in FarCry 2.

I didn't see any other map making abilities featured that weren't in the previous FarCry games except that obviously everything looks way prettier and you have way more 'brushes' (objects) to play with.

I don't need to hear anything more about FarCry 2 or it's story. Instant purchase for me. :)

All I could think while watching that was; "Now you've met Andrew Ryan, the bloody king of Rapture..."

So does this work on PS3 and/or PC too or just Xbox?

I wonder if you'll be able to import new meshes and textures into the PC version.........

Impressive map editor for a console. Can this be used for editing a singleplayer map too?

I always prefer to play shooters on new maps rather than the memorized-to-hell maps where everyone (but me) knows where the chokepoints and vantage spots are.

Of course, it helps to be playing with like-minded people, who will also carefully explore a map from the first second, instead of running to their preferred spot secure in the knowledge that the other side can't make it that far in the same amount of time at spawn ...

I'll probably just end up playing solo stealth assasination vs. AI on user-made stuff :P Still, endless botmatch variety? Win.

Nice! This solidifies my decision to buy this game :)

I like his reaction to the forest fire starting, friggin pyormaniac. =)
Looks very nice anyways, wish we had such simple level editing tools at my work...

"...will be supported by an online sharing and ranking network. Users will be able to rate their favorite multiplayer maps and download the more popular ones, ensuring less time wasted on junkier levels"

While that's actually pretty cool, and would cut down on crappy maps, that makes it sound like I can't share a map directly with a friend. Just as an example (because I was thinking about doing this) what if I recreated some classic BF42/DC/BF2 maps, my old BF2 gaming buddies want to try them, but they're not ranked high enough by "the community" and so they can't download them?

I fully support the "no crappy maps" idea 110%, but there should still be some sort of choice available to the player. If I really want a map that "they" don't think is good enough, it should still be available to me in some way.

I hope they include some kind of metrics and guidelines as far as object placement vs. system performance, instead of the tried-and-true method of trial-and-error.

This does look amazing. The only problem with an easy map editor is that the least talented and undedicated schlub can make a map and share it around, so separating the wheat from the chaff becomes quite a task. Hopefully there'll be some kind of built in ranking system when people start sharing them.

That's how it's done, great stuff :)

Holy fucking shit, that looks absolutely incredible.....that's exactly what a console map editor should be. Customize, pick, place. That's awesome.

Man I can't wait. I have the first Farcry on 360 and I still use the editor. It's so easy to use yet so powerful. I also find it quite relaxing. It looks like they made making forests even easier on this one and added tons of more objects to place. I was hoping for a way to make single player maps as well as multiplayer but, this appears to be multiplayer again. There's still time so maybe it'll happen.

looks awesome, this game should be fun :)