- Ultra-realistic combat
¦ Intense and amazingly realistic hand-to-hand combat based on dynamic character moves and camera angles
¦ Realistic physical reactions of opponents to hits
¦ Exceptionally faithful and detailed damage model, showing damaged skin, muscles and even bones
¦ Innovative system of targeting and hitting the opponents gives you precise control and a realistic combat feel

- Advanced Artificial Life System
¦ AL system allows you to take advantage of instinctive behaviors of groups and individual opponents
¦ Living, breathing and dynamically changing ecosystem faced with the destructive influence of a spreading epidemic
¦ Realistic and spontaneous NPC behavior
¦ Through your actions, actively influence NPC reactions

- Non-linear gameplay
¦ Explore a vast, open world of a tropical island, on foot or in a variety of vehicles
¦ Freedom of choosing your allies and completing tasks that bring you closer to the finale
¦ Player decisions influence the way in which the game progresses, making it a multi-threaded story

- Fully Interactive Environments
¦ The ability to use all elements of the environment as weapons
¦ A liquid, gas and electricity physics simulation system, which allows you to create your own unique ways of eliminating enemies

- Official Press Release

- next generation 3D engine
- unique weapon system that makes you "love" your weapons
- mysterious science fiction background story
- diversified enemies - thrilling and intelligent
- heroes to identify with
- heavy usage of physics
- destructible environment relevant for gameplay
- haunting single player mode
- versatile multiplayer modes

- Official Press Release

Far Cry marked the beginning of a new era for shooters. An era of gorgeous graphics and of advanced artificial intelligence. We are confident that Far Cry 2 will have the same impact again on the FPS genre landscape.

- Official Press Release

• Atmosphere of the Exclusion Zone
• Research of new depths of the Zone – Red Forest, Limansk, Pripyat Undergrounds and more.
• A-Life-driven War of the Factions
• Possibility to play and lead any faction to victory
• Advanced A-Life system
• Varied behaviour of NPC stalkers in the A-Life world
• Advanced spectacular storyline scenes
• Improved AI of computer-controlled characters
• Skirting around dynamic obstacles by NPCs
• Use of grenades by NPCs
• Fast Travel
• Improved concept of detectors, artifacts and anomalies
• New system of upgrades for weapons and armor
• Weapons and armor repair
• Reworked HUD and PDA
• New version of the game engine - X-Ray 1.5.
• DirectX 10 renderer
• Improved DirectX 9 renderer - parallax bump, soft particles, depth of field, motion blur, eye adaptation effect.
• Cutting-edge and detailed game graphics (normal map)
• Inverse kinematics
• New animation engine

- Official Press Release

Sometimes firewall software, such as Norton Internet Security or Windows Firewall, can block outgoing PB packets and thus prevent your computer from talking with the master server. If you do have a software solution like that running in the background and are having this particular problem with PunkBuster, try either adding the PunkBuster services to the list of allowed programs or disabling the software temporarily, and see if PunkBuster updates itself.

If that doesn't work, you can update your local PunkBuster installation manually by doing the following. Please note that this is a workaround and not an official fix:

Grab pbsetup from the Even Balance website and run it. Add Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars and let pbsetup choose the game path automatically. Add Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars again and this time provide the following path (please note that this will only work with English versions of Windows XP; you will need to adjust the folder names appropriately for localized versions of Windows: \Documents and Settings\YourUsername\Local Settings\Application Data\Enemy Territory Quake Wars Public Beta\

Click "Check for Updates" and let it update both locations.

- Badman's Blog