Ubisoft released a three minute "introduction trailer" (also available in HD) for Far Cry 2 today, embedded above. It includes glimpses of the Montreal development studio, a small amount of gameplay footage, anecdotes about the team's African research safari, and commentary by the developers (one of whom looks suspiciously like Paul Rudd) about their vision for the gameplay and setting.

Note that the studio behind the original Far Cry -- Crytek -- is not involved with this sequel. Instead, the team that put together the Far Cry Instincts games -- the Xbox and Xbox 360 iterations of the series -- is cooking this one up. Those games were a little more focused than the original title, but also less progressive.

We witnessed a live presentation of Far Cry 2 on the floor at GDC this year and were impressed by the technology. The open-world approach to gameplay sounds exciting, but past attempts at open world FPSes have been hit-and-miss in terms of quality. We'll see if Ubisoft can pull it off when the game launches this fall.