Ubisoft technology director Dominic Guay told Next-Gen sibling site CVG that system requirements for Far Cry 2 are still "in flux."

But he added, "...The game is very scalable, including to single-core processors and GPUs that are many years old. ... A little while back, I played the game on a gaming PC that is almost four years old.

"At the other extreme, I sometimes play the game on a four-core system running in dual GPU mode. Our development team uses a large array of PCs and they all run the game.

"We are still focused on optimizations but as we near the ship date we will be able to give clear requirements."

Far Cry 2 is also appearing on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but the franchise"s roots are in the PC platform. The original was released on PC in 2004, developed by Crytek and published by Ubisoft. Ubisoft eventually bought the franchise outright.

Far Cry 2 is in development by Ubisoft Montreal.

Producer Louis-Pierre Pharand also said that development across PC and consoles didn"t result in Ubisoft imposing technical limitations on the potentially more powerful PC platform.

"...We started as a PC game and we are still a dedicated PC team," said Pharand. "Since we want to have as many PC gamers enjoy the experience, the console developments actually helped the mid-requirement settings on PC. ... We did not impose limitations on the PC version."

(Far Cry 2 still probably won"t run on the computer pictured.)