Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 is a free roaming first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. Although it uses the name 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 Dunia 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 has 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.

In this benchmark, the HD 5670 is considerably faster than the GT 240. The HD 5670 provides a somewhat playable experience at the highest settings at 1680×1050 resolution while the GT 240 averages nearly 21 fps which is lower than the 24fps that is perceived as smooth gameplay.