Ubisoft: Players can create art with Far Cry 2 editor

'We've reached Gaming 2.0', says multiplayer producer.

Ubisoft reckons players will create 'art' using Far Cry 2's map editor.

Multiplayer producer Richard Gaetan told VideoGamer.com in an interview, due to be published early next week, that Far Cry 2, along with other games with user-generated features, like the PS3's LittleBigPlanet, is evidence that the industry has reached "Gaming 2.0".

He said: "It started with Web 2.0. You have a lot of user generated content on the web, you have Facebook and Flickr, places where you can share pictures with your friends and everything. I think we are coming to Gaming 2.0."

Players have already built recreations of well-known landmarks, like the Eiffel Tower, using Far Cry 2's map editor, and Gaetan expects to see maps that are less focused on actual first-person-shooter gaming, and more focussed on "art", when the game is released October 24.

"I'm sure we'll have maps that are not really playable or not fun to play but that will be like pieces of art that are created from our editor," he said. "And we've seen it internally already. We have Montreal Olympic stadium built just from a few hundred blocks, so we'll have The Great Wall of China, the Colosseum from Rome, all stuff like that, alongside a lot of maps that are copies from other games, other shooters."

So there you have it. Time to don your berets and dip your paintbrush in clear water (remember that from school?). Gaming's about to take a distinctly artistic turn.

You can check out Neon's hands-on preview of Far Cry 2's multiplayer right here.