XFX HD5870 Black Edition Review

Far Cry 2 (commonly abbreviated as “FC2 or “fc2”) is an open-ended first-person shooter developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released on October 21, 2008 in North America and on October 23, 2008 in Europe and Australia. It was made available on Steam on October 22, 2008. Crytek, the developers of the original game, were not involved in the development of Far Cry 2.

Ubisoft has marketed Far Cry 2 as the true sequel to Far Cry, though the sequel has very few noticeable similarities to the original game. Instead, it features completely new characters and setting, as well as a new style of gameplay that allows the player greater freedom to explore different African landscapes such as deserts, jungles, and savannas. The game takes place in a modern-day East African nation in a state of anarchy and civil war. The player takes control of a mercenary on a lengthy journey to locate and assassinate “The Jackal,” a notorious arms dealer.

Far Cry 2 is still a popular game and the open world environment can be taxing on even the latest hardware available today. We set the game to 8xAA and 16 texture filtering and maxed all the other settings in game.

The results prove that the overclocked card manages to wrangle a few extra frames per second which goes some way to smoothen up the experience during the more taxing moments. We are using some of the most intensive sections of gameplay to give a thoroughly worst case scenario result.

Analysing the minimum frame rates we can see that in a good section of our game testing the XFX Black Edition manages to keep frame rates above the magic 30fps zone with some dips below, just above 25fps. While this doesn't seem like much, we found this game played better than the reference card, especially in heavy firefight situations.

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