Crytek eventually developed their own Spiritual Successor to the original Far Cry, Crysis.
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The first work in the series was made by Crytek and published by Ubisoft, but subsequent entries are made entirely by Ubisoft due to a legal dispute, from which Ubisoft emerged with rights to the Far Cry name, whereas Crytek kept the engine they developed for it.
Word of God: In a 2012 tweet, Hideki Kamiya (the director of DMC1) believes that Trish has an actual Devil Trigger form other than donning sunglasses and manifesting a Golden Super Mode in this game.Far Cry is primarily a series of First-Person Shooter video games developed by Ubisoft. Uncredited Role: Hideaki Itsuno is the sole credited director, but he wasn't such until the final six months of development. Ikeno also claimed that several members of the dev team didn't understand or appreciate 1's game design and tried to go too far with the creative liberties Capcom gave them - among other things, Dante was almost a new character in a green jacket and his drastically different personality happened because the unnamed producer didn't like Dante's attitude in the first game. Since the arcade division's work experience came from games like Street Fighter and Power Stone, they were ill-prepared for the genre shift to DMC, especially when nobody on 2's development team even knew what 1 was supposed to look like due to its incomplete status, leaving them without much guidance. Second, said greenlighting prompted a partial restructuring of the company, diverting manpower from Capcom's arcade games division into their console games division. 
First, Capcom was so sure of the then-fledgling franchise that they greenlit 2 before the first game even finished production, a decision vindicated by DMC1's runaway success.
In Devil May Cry: 3-1-4-2 Graphic Arts, an interview by long-time Capcom artist Daigo Ikeno revealed two additional reasons for the game's turbulent history. The fact that the end result is even playable is a minor miracle in itself, but Itsuno demanded to be allowed to make one more game so he wouldn't be The Scapegoat that made DMC2. By that point, the game was only months away from release, meaning Itsuno had to do a lot of legwork in half a year ◊. Itsuno's part was basically to course-correct the game and make sure it didn't come out a complete disaster. Most of the animations weren't implemented, save for Dante's horribly nerfed Stinger animation. The game itself was in a state where it wasn't even functional. The original director's name remains unknown, but they left the game a year and a half into production. 
Worse, this game wasn't even made with the original team behind Devil May Cry at all - Hideki Kamiya didn't find out DMC2 was being developed until months before release. In fact, he wasn't the director at all for most of the game's development.
While this is the first game with Hideaki Itsuno as a director, he wasn't the original director. The Other Darrin: Though credited under Special Thanks, Matthew Kaminsky voices Dante instead of Drew Coombs due to the game's English dialogue being recorded in Los Angeles this time around. No Dub for You: Like the previous game, Devil May Cry 2 was released in Japan with the original English dialogue. The first one lets you play as Dante, the main protagonist of the series, while the second lets you play as Lucia, who'd only appear in this installment. With 5's announcement at E3 2018, it was initially stated that the order was 3 > 1 > TAS > 4 > 2 > 5, but later on, Capcom streamed a summary recap on Februthat changed the order of the timeline to 3 > 1 > TAS > 2 > 4 > 5 instead. While the placement of 3's manga, 3, 1, TAS, and 4 were easy enough to arrange, Capcom was so wary about 2 that it wasn't until the Devil May Cry: 3142 Graphic Arts artbook that gave fans a resemblance of a timeline. Flip-Flop of God: In regards to 2's placement in the chronology of the numbered titles. Only applicable to Dante, as Trish's Stinger functions identically to the DMC1 version. 
"Stinger Level 0" - The oddly nerfed version of the Stinger move in this game. The secret transformation didn't have an official English name, but "Majin Form" is a common fan nickname for it, which was canonized later on by the English version of the 3142 Graphic Arts artbook. " Desperation (or Desperate) Devil Trigger" (" DDT"), "Majin Form" - Dante's low health Nigh-Invulnerability Super Mode. "Duntee" - Dante, exclusively for his DMC2 version.
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