ATI Radeon HD 4770 Review

Far Cry 2 is an free roaming first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. Although it uses the name of the original of the original Far Cry game, the similarities end right there. Far Cry 2 is a completely different story set in a completely different environment.

Far Cry 2 uses the Dunia game engine developed by Ubisoft’s Montreal development team for Far Cry 2.  Dunia means “world”, “earth” or “living” in Arabic but also used in many languages with Arabic loanwords including Punjabi, Persian, Nepali, Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Kurdish, Turkish, Malay, Marathi, Urdu, Gujarati, Marvadi and Swahili.  To portray the African setting in the game as realistically as possible the development team went to Africa to study how things work there. The engine features Dynamic Weather, Dynamic fire propagation (influenced by weather system), Realistic Fire, Physics, Full day/night cycles. Realistic Fire is a high point of this game. It is the best looking depiction of a fire in a video game to date. The engine takes advantage of DirectX9 and DirectX 10 technologies.

I used the benchmark tool that comes with the game. Here are the settings screens:

HD 4770 loses out to 9800 GT in this game, but nearly matches the GTS 250 when overclocked.