The level editor for the original Far Cry and Instincts console port was certainly a fan favourite, and now TVG can confirm that a level editor will also ship with Far Cry 2 on all three formats.

Far Cry 2's Creative Director, Clint Hocking, told us about the editor at UbiDays last week, where we got a chance to have our first hands on with the game. We asked whether there were any more details on the game's multiplayer offerings since the last time we spoke at Leipzig GC last year, to which he replied:

"We're still working on multiplayer. Obviously since Leipzig last year there's been a delay, so that delays everything all the way out - all the communications and everything - so we're still not talking about it. It's there; it's pretty cool. Most importantly, the new information we have is that we're supporting it with a level editor. We really learned from the original Far Cry about the importance of supporting a community online, and we also learned from the consoles versions of Far Cry about the value of having a really good in-game editor on PC and on console."

The level editor has been streamlined for public use simply because you'd need a manual the size of Karl Marx's Das Kapital and five years of developer school to use Ubisoft Montreal's original production editor:

"We can't ship our real production editor - it's just impossibly complicated - so the version we've built for the public is a very quick and super user-friendly level editor that allows people to build maps for multiplayer very, very quickly in a few hours," said Hocking. "It uses all in-game assets so it's as beautiful as the game, unless you make a giant pillar of rock 500 metres high and don't texture it or something - then it's ugly - but that's up to you."

Stay tuned for more on Far Cry 2 as we post a Q&A with Clint Hocking later today, or just check out our preview to find out why Far Cry 2 could be the best thing to hit FPS games since Gordon Freeman first donned an HEV suit.