Let me start off by saying, yes I know Farcry 2 is not a MMO and yes I realize I’m reviewing a FPS on a MMO blog. However I do play games other than MMO’s and while normally I would refrain from posting about them here, I just could not resist considering how hyped up Farcry 2 was and how horrible the game acutally is.
Here’s a quick introduction to what the game is like. Drive 5 mins to a mission point, spend 5 mins getting your mission, spend 5-10 mins driving to your mission, spend 5-15 mins completing the mission and finally spend 5-10 mins driving to the next area to get another mission. Rinse and repeat for the rest of the game. Think of it as GTA except driving around is not fun at all, it’s the worst part of the game and you’ll spend about 50% of your time doing it. Then think of having to do basically the same mission over and over, with almost zero variation. What fun!
To make things ever better, you need to buy all your own weapons, which are mostly pointless. Here’s a great example. I used a “silenced” pistol to shoot a guard, before anyone saw or heard me, I ran behind a mountain and made my way to the back of the base. Without so much as a peep from me I had about 10 guards running to my exact location. WTF Ubisoft? Is there no AI at all? Does buying a silienced gun even matter if the comp knows exactly where I am regardless of how stealthly I’ve been? But what I like even better is when I’m outside a building with no windows and the guys on the inside shoot me through the wall even though they should have no clue that I’m there. No it’s ok, I doing mind playing a game with AI from 1995.
Moving on to the game map. This is a map you’ll use a lot and the best part is that it covers about 45-55% of the screen depending if you’re driving (45%) or walking(55%). No mini map at all unless you’re driving. However the minimap in cars is pretty much useless as it only shows about 200 yards around you, so you’ll have the main map open anyway and have about 1/3 the road blocked by the map.
Next up are diamonds, the currency that you’ll need to use to buy shit. You can either get diamonds by completing missions or by finding breifcases randomly thrown about the map. To finds a breifcase you need to use a radar that will beep green when you’re near a case. Best part here is you only have the radar if your map is open. WoooHooo! Why there is no radar on the UI is beyond me. I think developers goal here is to frustrate the gamer to a point that they take their mouse and shove it into their eye. So as a fun mini-game you’ll be opening and closing the main map about ever 10 seconds you’re walking to see if there are any diamonds near by.
Gun shops are by far the best mission givers in the game. There’s a handfull of these places around the map and guess what? Every mission is EXACTLY the same which you have to do in order to open up new weapons. Seriously it’s the same exact mission over and over again! I did 4 or 5 of them before deciding I would just use the weapons that are currently available. I couldn’t stand doing the mission again, it was that boring.
Jeeze, this list is getting long. Next we have the game animations. There’s basically an animation for everything, which you HAVE to watch. Off the top of my head there’s knocking on a door, opening a door, sitting down, standing up, getting padded down, healing yourself, fixing a vehicle, even a dying animation which is about 30-40 seconds long that cannot be skipped! The fact that you’re constantly doing all these things and have to watch a 1-2 second animation every single time takes some getting used to. While I love games that are realistic, please cut the crap that makes gamers bored as F@#K. I don’t mind the animations that are 1-2 secs, I can live with that. But when I die and have to sit there for 30-40 seconds as I watch my character fall to the ground, black out, get rescued, watch as they stand back up and get ready to fight again, it makes be want to quit playing the game. At least put in a skip button.
Finally you have everyone in the entire country trying to kill you regardless of what you’re doing. You start the game in a taxi who magically is able to drive around without being fired upon, however as soon as you try it everyone shoots first and asks questions later. It doesn’t matter what time of day, where you are or what you’re doing. You could be on a cliff viewing the wildlife and randomly a jeep will pull up and open fire. This is the most ridiculous attempt at trying to break up the boring and tediousness of driving around. Good job Ubisoft. Also thank you for making quick saves not actual save files. I very much enjoyed it the first time when I exited the game and came back the next day only to find out the last hr and half was not saved. ..|..
Being a huge fan of Farcry this game was the biggest disappointment in 2008. An absolute pile of shit, I only wish I could get my money back. On another note I see PC Gamer gave this game a 94%. Having been subscriber for 8 yrs going, I can only assume a huge pile of money was dropped on the table to get that score. To be very very kind, I would give the game a 60% tops.
I cant understand what they did in 5 years of time !. They even went to africa to make everthing so good as possible, what did they do in africa ? nothing else but BS. I dont feel like there are animals in the game,
the engine en graphics are cool , but the gameplay feels like they spend a single day to make all of it!.
Mate, i could not agree with u more on this.
This game absolutely sucks. It gets so repetitive that it just turns you off from gameplY. And driving around for 10 minutes to your next mission is the dumbest sh1t ever, no fun in it at all . The missions are the same thing over and over and over and over,,,,
And the AI.. wat a load of crock, u kill someone with a silencer and all hell breaks loose.. u have gaurds coming at you from all directions…
I’m very disappointed..
oh, and the most worst thing is that damn map, takes up more than half your screen and i always find myself crashing into boulders that are just out of my viewing area..
This game is not what it was hyped up to be… and for those of you who say there is nothing wrong with this game.. well there might be something wrong with you. I didnt pay $90 for this crappy gameplay, in th eend thats wat it all about, the gameplay.
i 100% feel your pain. i rented farcry 2 at blockbuster and after a few hours am pulling my hair out because of the terrible ai and everything else wrong with the game you’ve mentioned.
I love Far Cry , but Far Cry 2 SUCKS!
Ok Toptenkopf dude did you ewer even seen far cry 2 ,your a fucking idiot if you even think the game is good it deserves a -10 out of 10!!!!Ubisoft you destroyd your reputation,if you dont amend your self your gana go down dudes!!!!
I’m glad I didn’t pay for this turd. It came with my graphics card. I can’t even get it to run correctly and it has wasted too much of my time.
I believe that it won’t even be worth trying to get it to run since I did some early boring missions.
What a p.o.s. anyone want this turd, email me and I will send it to you.
Bleech!
I have to agree so much with this post. Definently a 5/10 game and most of that is made up by the admittingly breathtaking environment. Its clear Ubisoft put all their work into making it look good and neglected basic gameplay and interaction. For starters the hype about destroyable environment is short lived. Asides from being able to burn some grass theres not alot else u can do. I put a rocket launcher into a tin shed that was meant to be a “fuel station” before finding out i had to walk in with my pistol and shoot the cylinder inside…must be some mean sheets of tin in Africa.
Repetitive and no replayability. I cant believe the good ratings this game got. DO NOT PAY MONEY FOR THIS
Oh and im not sure if anyone has mentioned this but there is the illusion of choice but in the end there is only 1 ending. No matter what u do or which character you choose. Do not play and expect your choices to have any effect on the end result. Was possibly the most dissapointing ending to a game. I tried playing it through a few different ways and found the exact same thing over and over.
I am sorry to say that to a large degree its true. I have been playing it from release and although I keep going back its all getting a bit ‘samey’. I bought this game soley on PC Gamers review…and I have been struggling to see what the high score was for. Yes it does new things but as mentioned, there are some fundimental failures and it doesnt utilise the Buddies, open landscape or potential for big shoot outs/stealth. I only paid £20 for my copy form SHopto.net on pre-release..and thats about what its worth….such a massive shame..could have been a really classic game
This game sucks rhino balls! This guy’s review is for real, so please avoid this game.
Ubisoft should’ve made a better Splinter Cell game like MGS4, but damn they come out with this game instead.
They could have added a minigame on the map, like tetris or pong. That would’ve been fun!
Maybe you guys just need to buy decent computers to play these games on before you go whinging bout em being shite. Yeah the gameplay in farcry 2 is a lil tedious but the graphics are spot on as is the explosions, fire and weaponry effects but u cant see any of that playing on ur years old computers can u? U guys aint even gamers ur just whingers whacking on forums and talking dribble. Get ur hand in ur pocket and buy a pair of GTX280’s and a decent quad core processor then tell me the effects r shit. Until then u cant say its shit cos infact its ur PC thats shit kinda like You. As for Fallout 3 thats game is very novel has some really really cool parts in it such as blowing up megaton with an A-bomb and being able to blow the head off of everyone u meet even ur own dad :P You MUST buy fallout 3, farcry is passable cos of its repetativeness but as I said its still visually impressive if u got the Rig to handle the POWA clearley half u guys aint thou so go buy one u tight assed twats
Though i totally agree that this game sucks big time in its current condition i think it can become much better with few script changes, such as no more random spawning jeeps driving maniacly to roadkill you when you are hiding on a bush in total darkness or check points doesnt get respawns at least 24 hours after you clear them ,better hit loaction damage (head shot =kill) and ofcourse make sneak working again.
I am searching net for any mod for FC2 but no luck ,if anyone have any information about FC2 mods please share here..
wow 5 to 10 mins u must suck if 90% of the missions are just driving by somethuing and then blowing it up 1 to 3 mins mostly.every now and then u will get a mission that requires 10 to 15 mins to complete. i personally liked the game.
Can somebody please show toptenkopf how to use punctuation please. His retarded long-ass sentence hurts my brain cells.
Oh yeah back on topic, this game sucks the Ubisoft CEO’s momma’s fat jiggly tits. Don’t buy it ffs! (or any other Ubinoob game)
I wisely chose not to purchase Far Cry 2. I have played through it almost twice; first time on novice and second time on infamous (hardest). The only difference is that you are given less ammo, less health, and enemy bullets hit harder, meaning you will be saving and reloading much more frequently.
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Quick rating:
graphics: 9
sound: 8
gameplay: 7
Replay: 4
A.I.: 3
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The graphics are spectacular and in the right lighting, actors can look almost real. The engine seems to handle the massive environment and draw distances very well, unlike similar, older games like Oblivion. The game never has to pause to load content and you never observe objects ‘popping’ into existence (in my experience). I play the game on highest settings under DX9 (DX10 looks the same, but with a noticeable performance hit).
Voice acting is superb in controlled cinematics, but only slightly above average elsewhere. I’ll stab someone to hear them say “I’ve been shot!”. Also, there is not a great variety in what actors say to each other when looking for you or fighting you.
Environmental sounds, as well as weapon and mechanical sounds, are excellent and completely immersive. Out in the open desert, you can almost feel the wind whipping around your head.
When we start talking in terms of gameplay, however, things go from outstanding to merely average. The A.I. gets the job done and not much else. It is the weakest aspect of the game, which is a shame.
Enemies can see you just fine through foliage, when you don’t even know where to shoot. Forget about hiding in bushes, as was possible in the original Far Cry.
Enemies have divine inspiration from Allah, and will shoot at you the moment they can see you. They never need to guess who you are, even when you are driving toward them in one of their own vehicles.
Snipers are the only ones who will shoot at you “a mile away” as so many users complain. It’s actually closer to half of a mile and is not unrealistic. What IS unrealistic is that they have unlimited ammo, while you have only a handful of bullets with which to retaliate. At night, almost the opposite exists – you may walk within 30 feet of guards and they will not see you. Considering how bright Far Cry 2’s nights are, it just doesn’t jive, as you can see them perfectly fine. You’ll also never see a guard with a flash light.
Sneaking around at night is always your best bet and the sneaking itself is not particularly engaging, as it was with Thief.
Enemy checkpoints and stations will renew themselves within a few hours of game time, making the game more annoying than challenging.
You’d think that in this day and age developers could program A.I. buddies to accompany you and jump into vehicles with you, but such is not the case in Far Cry 2. If you are rescued by an ally, they will stay behind, forever within a small area, until you leave them, and then magically vanish.
If you meet them at the local hangout, they have a few idle animations that you may observe them performing, such as reading a map or doing push-ups. They may address you, but that’s the end, as far as their character depth goes. Besides giving out missions, they are quite lifeless and useless. Also, there are some model flaws – in particular, the elbow joint.
I could go on for pages about things the A.I. fails to do right and things the game should have improved on.
The “story” mode is also unimpressive – how the game is supposed to dynamically adjust to the order in which you do things. The story-driving missions are very linear and always lead to the same conclusion. You MUST follow the same basic sequence of events, every time.
The story itself actually became compelling to me and is why I even found myself finishing it (I never intended to play the game more than a few hours). I wanted to know how things turned out. Too bad the developers botched what could have been a truly great ending. Your friends all turn against you for hardly any reason at all, every time, and the Jackal gives you two choices: dynamite or bribe the guards, and no matter which one you pick, it ends the same way.
It would have been much more satisfying to have one of the girls stick with you to the end – helping you fight off the other betrayers and then putting you in the predicament of having to choose whether to sacrifice yourself or to escape with her. As it is, there really is no happy ending to the game. It’s suddenly over and you’re like ‘oh, well I guess that’s that…”.
If you agree or disagree with anything, feel free to make your opinion known.
For, what I feel is the most realistic review of the game, check out Yougamers.com
Thanks!
As an addendum, I’ll respond to a few things in the main review up top…
You will find many occasions where you will need to drive a considerable ways to your objective. This is realistic and I have no problem with driving; in fact, I find the driving itself to be enjoyable, except for a few things, caused no doubt by laziness at Ubisoft…
A) vehicle mechanics are boring. You can’t blow tires, you can’t run out of gas, you can’t powerslide properly and spew dust everywhere… the gauges on the dash work but not realistically, your actor never touches the shifter on standard vehicles, you can take any turn at 80mph easily… no sliding around on the dirt that you drive on, no spinning of tires, I mean, why the FUCK can’t we have THIS: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kazb_colin-mcrae-dirt-trailer_videogames
Or at least something CLOSE. Anyway, another driving killer is B) checkpoints, that you can almost never pass through unscathed or without picking up a trigger happy tailgater who will shoot you dead if you don’t do something about it quick. And these things are EVERYWHERE. They could at least have it where you must do something stupid before guards start to shoot and pursue you, like drive through at high speed, run into a guard, etc. That brings us to C) buddies cannot ride with you. How much more fun could be had if, say, the French girl, could jump in the truck and ride with you to your next objective. Not just that, but even TALK to you on the way. I think you wouldn’t mind the drive so much. Especially if she could get out and fight with you, then escape with you back to the truck, back to home base. But Ubisoft is lazy, so you must do everything by yourself, which includes driving.
I agree with the main review, that most of the weapons are indeed pointless. I’ve experimented with all of them and I can say that for practical purposes, I only need the Dart Rifle, a sniper rifle, and either a silenced pistol or uzi for close quarters. The only gun that is truly silent is the dart rifle, so I start with that and fall back on the regular sniper rifle if needed. Ubisoft gimps the maximum amount of ammo you can carry pretty hard, especially on infamous, so if you aren’t careful you’ll run out quick.
I don’t have a problem with the map, except the icons are a little cartoony for my taste… the cell phone is a replica of an actual phone so why can’t the map be a replica of an actual GPS, for a little consistency?
I’d continue but must sleep now…
Far Cry 2 is awful. Ubisoft can do much better than this. Yes the “world” is big and full of shiny crap, but the gameplay is a disaster.
Much like Assassins Creed, Ubisoft took a great concept, but left out the fun.
I rented this turkey, and I’ll be taking it back tomorrow. It’s simply a waste of time to play it.
Whatever you do, DONT buy this crap.
No thanks Gamer John, id rather not spend big money on top graphics cards in order to polish a turd. Why the hell anyone would want to make a bollocks game look as good as possible is beyond me, the fantastic looks just dont make up for the games shortcomings in every other area.
OMG! …..50 bucks later I wish I would have found this site before I bought this turd. I always atleast try to finish a game I spent 50 dollars on,….but I’d rather sit and count wall tiles.
This game is B-O-R-I-N-G , dumb and as unfun as getting a root canal.
wonder if I can sell this to some sucker on e-bay……*sigh*
Dude…you have no idea how right you are about this game! I have exactly the same complaints. Fary Cry 2 was an over hyped piece of junk. It could have been a lot better. Ubisoft should feel badly for using Far Cry in the name of this crap title. I’ll finish the game but I doubt I’ll ever look at it again.
Totally, TOTALLY agree. This game is just terrible..First of all, it has NOTHING to do with Far Cry…No Jack Carver (not that I miss the retard with his painfully stupid one-liners), no trigens, no experiments or mutants or continuity or anything…Now Capcom managed to pull this off with Resident Evil 4 where they switched zombies for infected villagers and took the story in another direction (with a recurring character though) but Far Cry 2 did nothing of the sort here…it’s a completely different game.
The graphics are sweet. And yeah, that’s about it.
Missions you get from the arms dealer are all EXACTLY the same (“a shipment of weapons is coming in, I want you to destroy it” — translation: chase after and destroy a convoy of 3 vehicles, ad nauseam), The main missions have a little more variation, but it’s always the same formula: go to a location, get a briefing, do the mission, get another mission. No twists, changes in the story arc or anything. Then there’s the “buddy system”: you make a pal, he calls you when he gets in trouble and you have to go and save his ass, he does the same if you die. Who gives a shit?
You have to travel to get your missions and accomplish them, and the distances are huge as often as they aren’t…and you get interrupted every two minutes because every person you cross want a piece of you.
And by far, that’s the stupidest part of this game…everyone wants to kill you. And I mean they REALLY want to kill you. I don’t think it’s humanely possible to want to kill someone as bad as these random people want to kill you: if you’re standing in the middle of nowhere and start firing off shots into the sky, guys will pull up in vehicles, stop in front of you and start blasting you in the face…Why? I don’t know. They’ll also chase after you unwaveringly in their vehicles if you jump in yours and try to get away (and you can’t lose them, no matter what moves you pull) or if you just drive by them. As you travel, you encounter “guard posts” over, and over, and over again…so get ready to be hated.
Oh and killing them takes like 10 shots, unless you get a head shot.
What the fuck is this game? Don’t waste your money or your time.
Just wanted to add that the story feels like a mix of the Lord of War and Blood Diamond movies. Total lack of creativity from Ubisoft which saddens me because they have made some really good games in the past.
Questions I have for Ubisoft:
1. Why can’t I go to a prone position?
2. Why did you leave out certain actions in the key bindings? (You are FORCED to use E to let go of a stationary gun or get out of an assault vehicle turret)
3. Why not just let us use the interact action to: enter a vehicle/vehicle turret, grab a stationary gun AND let go of it (its only interact action to grab the gun but a different button to let go of it that is not bindable!!!)
4. Who is the total idiot that came up with the multiplayer GUI? Can you bitch slap them for me?
5. Why is there no server list in MP like other functional MP FPS games?
6. How do enemy soldiers take 3 sniper shots in the chest and still live?
7. How do they continue to shoot ACCURATELY at you when you are loading them up with bullets from your gun?
8. How does a AI soldier see and shoot a rocket at me when I am barely in sniper distance and behind many many trees branches and other foliage?
9. How do they all find me and shoot me accurately at night?
10. Did ANYONE at your company actually test this game before launch?
etc…
Feel free to add more guys. :D
I just have a cople of thing to say:FUCK FC2,FUCK the people ho say the game is good and FUCK this Ubisoft (I want the old Ubisoft back)!!!!!! Dudes i hope this site helps Ubisoft to come around and make Far Cry 3 a beter game then this crapy game.See you around dudes,and good luck.
Because of dissapointments like Far Cry 2 I first try out the game…how? that’s your decision.
Then i judge it and if i kiked it i buy it.
If you do that you will never waste money.
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!!!!!!!! this game has great graphics… but the rest sucks a big weenie! This game is made for a console.. there is no challenge to it, IT IS the same thing over and over again… PACMAN from like, 1980 has a better AI.. and to mention you clear out a guard post drive around a tree and all the guys that you just killed are back in 5 minutes. Oh yeah.. and those 2 buttfucks, josef and the israeli are always butting into your missions… what a crap story line…
I would rather play stalker 1 another 3 times in a row. :)
can i get my $ back now???
Well,apart from EA we now have a second game publisher able to produce total crap and actually sell a million copy’s of it….i take my hat of to their marketing department as it seems to be the only department working as it should..but there is a light at the end of the tunnel..they made wolves of the pacific into a good game so maybe they will bring out a major patch to fix this abomination called ‘far cry’ 2,it is indeed a far cry from being a good game..maybe they took the title too seriously.
And the graphics are good?Man just look around,have you ever seen trees and branches move like they are on acid?…you walk into a bush and it will move to the max,no in between just up or down.weapondetails are about 1996 quality,and when you run everything blurs,yeah i have that all the time when i run..oh its the malaria?Well you dont run at all when you have malaria…but take a pill and you can after 5 seconds,it just makes you cry.And then there is the animation for every move like opening a door,or closing it…and the dying!Come on we have been there done that we dont need it anymore…this whole game is just an engine demonstrator and it even fails on that for having totally no atmosphere,or game immersion feeling like fallout3,now thats a game!
i could go on for ages,but i’m just gonna stop now and forget i even gave this piece of crap a chance,oh and Ubisoft i downloaded it for free,serves you right!
By the way i bought Fallout3 because i support good game developers..
Hello everyone, just completed the game tonight. I am going to rabble for a while about this game. I’ve spent alot of money on my quadcore sli blah blah machine to max out any game that will come out for atleast 1 and a half years only to find that game after game is just wank material, Crysis was a complete nightmare with its bugs and awfully crap engine which would rip any machine to peices, even mine… Then there was hype and hope about FC2, I bought got 50% of the way through it had to wipe my hard driver and play it all over again. took me two weeks to reinstall the game because of issues i had with ubisofts fucking DRM security feature which i fucking contacted them about and fucking thanks for only making a USA available contact number fucking dicks. I ended up swapping it for another copy of FC2 to reinstall, completed it tonight as I said and the ended is the worst i’ve ever seen for the amount of effort you have to put into the game, like someone said earlier, it is a chore!!!! I’ve played games since back in the day of starcraft and medal of honor, those two games are better than FC2. Yes the graphics I think are beautiful at points in the game, I love amazing graphics but this game kills it all. It has seriously dented my faith in thinking that true to life graphics is going to rule all games, FarCry 2 is F U C K I N G B O R I N G. Safe to say it’s the first and last i’ll ever buy a product of ubisoft. This is coming back a computer technician here…. You’d think i’d be able to emphasise or say nicer things for this game but it really has disappointed me…. Please people do not buy this game, its pathetic
Well to be honnest, My favorite moment was installing the game. I was so super excited. Then, there was a 20 minute cutscene. You know it’s cool and all, but i wanted to shoot.
THE GRAPHICS FUCKING SUCK. THE ONLY THING NICE ABOUT IT IS YOUR ARM WHEN YOUR FIXING YOUR PEICE OF SHIT CAR!!!!!
And i did that like 75 times btw. You CANNOT fix a car by fucking screwing in the middle of your engine. wtf is that.
ANDDDDDDDDDDD All they did was add a shit load of shadows. Theres shadows fucking everywhere. ITs fucking anoying!!
I can’t think of any review I’ve disagreed with more, at least in a factual manner.
Having a silenced weapon DOES matter, even being within 20ft of an opponent doesn’t mean that they can hear you kill off one of their own, and if you miss ithey will actually respond to the sound of your round hitting something opposite where you are.
I myself have never experienced any of the AI being able to shoot me through anything that they couldn’t actually see through. Those shanties that they hide in have plenty of holes to see or shoot through, and you can use them just as readily as the AI can.
As for the minimap, perhaps I’m just more than adequately trained at reading and retaining information from a map, I don’t find this any more cumbersome in the game than I do in real life.
And then everyone is trying to kill you, and this is explained several times to you – no-one knows who you are or who you work for. The cabby has a job, the nation is relatively peaceful while he has it. Once you are in situ then all hell breaks loose and you’ll notice that you don’t see the cabby anywhere ever again.
Still that leads us to the bus, why can it get around the map without incurring the wrath of the various guards? I have to assume its because the drivers only go through checkpoints that are controlled by guards that they are affiliated with.
Jeeps don’t drive around randomly. If you take the time to observe them you notice that they patrol a very specific area. Their drivers are idiots sure, but they patrol a very specific section of road and you aren’t supposed to be there.
If you listen to any of the Jackal’s tapes you come to understand that this is a country where 17 year old kids blow a buys abdomen to hambuger in order to steal his boots. You’re walking around with weapons fresh from the armoury, not dirty and dinged like the crap the mercs have. They are going to want to take them from you.
Still there are aspects that don’t make much sense:
-being able to achieve a one-shot kill with a silenced pistol from a distance of over 100m seems a little unrealistic
-not being able to go prone or kitten crawl, these are things that should be readily available.
-not being able to ‘mantle’, Looking Glass managed to fit this into Thief and System Shock, it makes sense to be able to heave yourself over obstacles you can get your palms over.
-no rope use, again Looking Glass was able to bring rope use into the world of Thief, although Rope Arrows really don’t make much sense. Still being able to string your own climbing rope a la XIII would be a good gimmic.
-locked doors and invisible walls. A .50cal should be able to open a wooden door, if not tear down an adobe brick hut completely, so why can’t it? And that leads to the question: why in a game that prides itself in its open air concept are there areas of the maps walled off with invisible walls? THAT is lazy.
As for image quality. I’ve got to say I like the look of this game better than Crysis. Perhaps its because of the games ability to render nearly believable details without bogging down my system, unlike Crysis.
I love the adjusted contrast that happens when you change from brightly lit to dark environments. I also like the reflections on the water and the way the .50cal backs a boat up right quick. All of that and my machine isn’t all that gutsy. A P4 3.4 GHz proc (pre em64t) 4GB ram, and a Radeon 4670 running on a 2 year old dc7600 SFF with Vista Ultimate installed. I can run the game at 1920×1200 with the quality set to High and still consistently get framerates above 60. Not something I can do in Crysis.
First at all excuse me if my english isn’t very good…i’m a spanish speaker!
Well, in my oppinion this is not a bad game. I’ve been playing games for 25 years and as a compulsive gamer i have played some crap games that makes PONG looks like GOTY.
I think they have done a great effort on graphics, music, physics, etc. and its amazing how they recreated Africa…but they totally fucked up the game by acting like noobs developers. And thats because 2 simply things:
– Playability time: Well, really i understand it must be hard to make an FPS game have the playability time that best RPGs have…but that doesn’t mean that repeating same things over and over is playability quality. For me it looks like developers had some brainstorming session while developing the game and stated words like “Hey, we created a huge world…how can we keep people busy on it?” And there was such ‘brilliant’ ideas like ‘Let’s make them drive for hours!’, ‘Let’s them have a magical diamond discovery GPS too dumb that can´t point exact location on map…instead it will make blip blip sounds while walking here and there”, “Let’s put some x/50 stats there for them to play nonsense for hours” and things like that. And thats what they got. A huge world for a boring gameplay that sometimes makes me feel like im trying to be entertained like a 7yo kid. Next time, if you are out of new ideas just make an exciting non-stop 10 hours FPS or an african RPG with 100+ gameplay hours…but don’t fuck a game just for silly playability time.
– Totally fucked up Far Cry reputation: Something like ‘Hey, let’s buy Coca-Cola and make it orange color and porridge taste’. Have the devs played the original Far Cry? It’s an huge game with high gameplay time too…but the story was paced and consistent, and every thing on the game looked like it was there for some reason…not for some random aliens here, warriors there, reward over there, bla bla bla. If you wanna make an African GTA just don’t call it Far Cry. You created expectations with the name, and disappointing is what you are receiving. Hope the money you made with the game helped you to live better being ashamed for breaking a myth. Now it’s not Far Cry series…it’s just Far Cry 1 and Far Cry 2. Don’t even think on making Far Cry 3 cause you already messed it up.
Ok. Despite that the critics are deserved…if you forget the game name still is a good game to play. Not to replay in short time terms. It’s worth it’s while cause i’m sure there is a lotta work behind the game…but next time call it GTA Africa and don’t create expectations just for filling up your bucket. Personally, i would never buy Far Cry 3 until it was 10€ worth…or until i amd sure then it would be an experience like Far Cry 1.
Best regards from Spain.
THIS GAME SO SUCKS. thx so much. edcox
haha perfect. I just rented this game from blockbuster and was thinking wtf, reviews said it was really good. This reaview was spot on but forgot one very important thing; the enemy has literally perfect aim. If you are driving 50 mph past an enemy camp(which are all over the place), you will be shot like at least 3 times and then baddies will start to come after you.
Gameplay is completely crap indeed, but the most annoying thing about the game is the multiplayer mode.
Unless you play on a very fast dedicated server you`ll be having the most frustrating online gaming experience ever.
The lag is so worse that you can shoot all of your ammo into an opponent an he still walks around while you will be killed after only 1 hit !!!!!
This article is so spot on!
Can someone send an email to UBISOFT and make them change all the anoying things, and make a new story, and give the people who have spent their money a free new game!
Hate the driving, there are no sneaking possibilites, I get sick when I play it (think it’s the driving), what’s the point of silenced guns?, there isn’t possible to climp the mountains, did I mention the driving? etc..
At least can they make a helicopter or a jet-pack so that you may travel around easier, and PLEASE remove most of the guard posts/make the enemies less hostile towards you!
Hell…U took my words…But I still have to add that I tryied this game after seeing the “incredible AI” in a Dev. Demo in Youtube where a sniper shoot an enemy’s leg and his buddy comes to help, so u cant thake both down.
Well…after many tries I finally got it. But the buddy didn’t come, and I waited for so long…
And what about “U have to relocate frequently” DAMN I MOVE EVERY SINGLE SHOT AND THE MF AI FINDS ME, even with “CAMMO” but u can’t see them in colorfull suits cuz of the “amazing scenary”.
I should wasted my money with something more usefull, like cleanning up my ass.
I liked Far Cry but what I read about Far Cry 2 everywhere make me avoid this game like the plague. I just bought Left 4 Dead instead and I’m enjoying every second of it. There’s something that Ubisoft did not understand: it’s a video game, and players don’t want reality, they want the illusion of reality. Just having a huge wide area is not enough, and is nothing if you kill it by bad game play.
I DISAGREE WITH THE GUY THAT SAID THIS GAME IS A TURD. A TURD IS AT LEAST USEFULL FOR FERTILIZER WHEREAS THIS PISS FILLED PUSS BUBBLE ISN’T GOOD FOR ANYTHING. I LOVED FARCRY AND WAS REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS, BUT IT IS THE WORST GAME I’VE EVER PLAYED. WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER UBISOFT GAME AGAIN. WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER PC GAMER MAG AGAIN.
Anyone that played Farcry (1) and then writes a postive review for Farcry 2 works for or is being paid off by Ubisoft. In every sense of the word, Farcry 2 is a ripoff that took advantage of gamers by using the Farcry name.
Wow, I was trying to find somewhere to vent about this tedious dog turd of a game, and this review lists almost everything about this game that annoys me; spot on. Pretty much everything about Far Cry 2 cheeses me off. Like having to watch the dumb scripting for every little action–getting in and out of cars is especially bunk. And why was the massive playing area treated like a mojor breakthrough in the marketing? It is so boring and repetetive travelling around it!
YES. This game is a load of crap and I think it’s a waste of time for me to even download it. I decided to just get it over with and play it to the end only to find what? The lamest ending EVER. It’s like knowing something is bad from the beginning, but you have hopes that it will improve only to realize in the end that you’ve just wasted your time. Time that you can’t get back in your life.
My main gripe with this pos game is that the weapons are completely inaccurate. For example, the G3KA4 should be one of the strongest rifles because it fires 7.62 rounds. In reality, one shot from that thing can blow off limbs. It sucks a$$ to see that bare chested guys can take 10+ rounds and then still roll around on the ground before it takes out its pistol to shoot you.
Plus, the AK is one of the most reliable assault rifle in the world, and seeing it jam and blow up on you the first day you use it is just plain stupid.
Oh, and I would disagree with everyone here who says stealth doesn’t work. Stealth totally works, but only for enemies and not you.
OMG! I read this after I bought it, I can do with the animations, I can even do with most of the boring missions BUT the DRIVING AROUND with a bloody huge map in my hand AND THE FACT that everyone on this game shoots me like I have raped everyone’s sister or something is ridiculous. Also whats ridiculous is the fact that I might be hiding 400 metres away behind a bush with a camo suit on and some pathetic NPC can shoot the hell out of me with a shotgun . I cant see him even if I run around but he can see my from behind some building.
Just to correct the author though, there IS ONE stealth gun and that is the dart. IF you can stay far away and shoot with it ….no one actually knows what happened and you can pick them off one by one.
Otherwise quite a sad game..and to think of it I was thinking between Dead Space, COD WAW and this..and I chose this, some one slap me.
BTW I mailed UBISHIT all the remarks on this site, hope they enjoy it!
Good job Anando you rock like the most of this dodes her,those cuple of idiots that think the gameshit is good are dambasses!!!
Thanks I strongly feel all of you should do the same..login in to your UBISOFT a/c and mail them how shitty this game is!
Also I was wondering has anyone realised how ridiculous the animals are in this game, they try their best to die and run on the road right in front of your car. Its like UBISOFT’s realism part is how to road kill endangered animals. Honestly I find it really distasteful . Everytime I try to save a zebra from hitting my car the zebra ensures it comes right in front. Even if that is true by some far fetched reason I dont think it was appropriate for them to put it in the game. In Oblivion only some maniacal rabid animals who want to attack you , attack you the rest stay as far away as they can or run away. And ITS AFRICA MAN where are the lions the hyenas ?? jeez can this game suck any more
The open play I can deal with but no Minimap makes me tear my eyes out. I found myself looking for the minimap and then saw it wasn’t there and couldnt believe it.
Opening the map every two seconds sucks. I hate the molaria crap. MAN just let me play WTF!!!
Shooting at guys in vehicles is all but useless.
Yeah this game is pretty terrible on many levels. I wish it was better and I kept playing expecting it to be better. But it never was. Thankfully I didnt waist money, a friend let me borrow their copy to check it out. Gave it back almost as fast. horrible.
Oh man,I just finisht the game.It took me more then 2 monts to do it.The game is SOOOOOOOO BORING!!! I played only 1 mission a day,I mean can the game get more BORING,its like “dej zja voo and voo and voo and what a suprise VOOOO”!!!! I whanted to blo my fucking brains out!!!And the ending, culd it get more crapier jezz I thot etliste the ending culd bee something, but its a pice off shit like the game!!!Dudes if Ubisoft doesent make Far Cry 3 like Far cry 1 Im never and I mean NEVER gana buy a Ubisoft game again!!!
oh yeh, your all right on this one.
i too played it for about 2 days, im easerly pleased…but
it sux,
i got angry at the game for many reasons, but what made me throw it in the bin was, the church or buddies part.
i went to church and then got to map 2, as you all know…then
my buddies where abandoned???
ok fair enoufgh, so where are they, why not say, missing or dead, why have abandoned, then i cant find them, the story sux.. to0 cut the ong story short
“this game Far cry 2, makes boiling point a game to keep, basically boiling point is way better than FC2”
and that says alot, dont get me wrong, BP is a far better game in ALL respects
anyways, stay clear of this one, also stay clear of games, that need internet for any type of activation, like that Mass Efect game, where you need to have internet to activate a game with no MP ??????
death to the NWO