Farcry 2: Holy Hell This Game Sucks!

November 3, 2008 LHStaff General 395

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.

50 Comments

  1. hell ya even crysis warhead…the fuckers have the worst mp in that game..the game can be finished in 3 hrs if not less and u have to activate via internet…screw that …
    oh btw i had mailed ubisoft through the helpmail system on their website and can u believe it..they are so shameless they could not even respond to how crappy their game is!

  4. Yeah Anando, what e-mail adress did you use to send UBISOFT your regards?Hey dudes we all shuld send UBISOFT this site maby then they will see how sereuse this thing is,and they will make Far Cry 3 like the original.If not then FUCK UBISOFT!!!

  5. I bought the game the same day it was released. What a waste of money. The game is horribly stupid – no AI, stupid repeats, so boring and fake. The folks who made this game are no developers, but wankers… Wish they would have been eaten by some predator on their visit in Africa. That would be worth my 50 bucks to see…

  6. To throw in my two cents,

    What I couldn’t believe is that if you completely clear out a camp and SAVE the game.

    Quit the game, and then load it up again lets say, the following evening. Oh look that emptied camp has now filled up again… in fact enemies have spawned RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!

    Rediculous, Ubisoft fucked up.

    And lets not get started on the animals, last night I WALKED up to a gazelle that just happily stood there eating grass, before I sliced it to pieces with my machette.

    I think this would make Darwin is toss in his grave; such a poor representation of animal behaviour for a game that boasts about it! GRRRR!

  7. Yes I trusted pcgamer for this purchase also and wow, I can’t believe they let me down for the first time ever. I haven’t even gotten into the game and never will even try it until they fix something that really really annoys me first. The mouse sensitivity in this game BLOWS! In all of my other shooters i have my mouse set really sensitive so that one swipe across my mousepad can give me almost 5 360 spins. At the most sensitive this game allows only 2 spins wich makes the game feel sluggish as hell to me. If they dont patch this simple fix very soon I will just delete the game and I hope Ubi enjoys the money i gave to them for absolutely nothing. First they screwed up the ghost recon franchise with the steaming piles of crap called advanced warfighter and now they screw up the farcry name. I think its time to x ubi soft products completely off the list.

  8. horrible game, bought it in Canada 3-4 days after release and was gravely disappointing. played the game to try to get my moneys worth but stopped at 50% and just gave up and went on youtube to see the ending which wasn’t so great. most of the negative aspect of the game i experienced have all been listed already by other users. as a person who is working as a busboy to make money (took 1 day to make enough to buy this garbage as wage is really low even with tip at my restaurant, 9 hour shift). i recommend all the people who will plan on buying this game to reconsider and download it first or rent it.

    As a guarantee to Ubisoft as of now, i will download all your future releases for screwing me over with hyped garbage and making me send 56.49 after tax and getting me yelled at by my mom for buying one of the most boring video games. even hitman 1 for pc (2000, eido) beats this shit.

  9. this is where u go

    http://ubisoft.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ubisoft.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_accessibility=0&p_page=1&p_pv=2.1880&p_prods=88%2C1880&p_cats=&prod_lvl1=88&prod_lvl2=1880&prod_lvl3=0&srch_btn_submit=%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0Search%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0&p_new_search=1&p_search_type=answers.search_nl

    OR

    http://www.ubi.com/US/Support/Default.aspx

    and then choose farcry 2
    make an a/c and login and ask for help from the website “ask a question” section..that ensures they get ur response. THey did not reply to anything I said ..and I have demanded an apology or I have told them that I shall NOT buy their next game. I am web designer guys..if this does not go well I might start a website against UBISOFT..petition not to buy any ubisoft game in the future..what do u guys say?

  11. I wonder if they even tested the game before they decided to promote as such a great game. I was looking forward to this game, but after a few missions it’s pretty clear that the game is all about repeating the same shit over and over again. And why the hell do all those enemies respawn over and over again at the check points? And the world feels completely empty. There is no movement, no dynamic living world and no story to speak of. I will continue playing it until I puke (hopefully I’ll finish it before that happens, but probably not). But I don’t think Ubisoft really cares about negative critique. It’s a shame they didn’t ask the community to test the game and give proper feadback. Why is the player the only one roaming the landscape? Everything else is completely static, except for a few enemy patrol cars that show signs of being stuck in a loop, going between the same two points. This game is crap. Ubisoft is crap.

  12. I have to add. The fact that there isn’t a minimap doesn’t bother me. That’s one think that doesn’t automatically degrade the game, there are so many other things that are greater game killers in this game.

  13. ANANDO, Start that website! Post here on how to find it. I will sign a petition! After you get the website up, I’ll help to spread the word about it. The gaming community was just raped by this company and that shouldn’t be acceptable; they should pay a price for it. It makes me sick to go on youtube and watch their rep giving demos of this game like it was the second coming…people at Ubisoft knew this was crap and they lied to us about it. People should be warned not to buy their games in the future.

  14. Love reading the complaints on this site, considering the hype and anticipation, this has to be one of the worst games EVER. EVER.
    Where is that petition people are gonna start signing?

  15. I am planning to program 1. My game is almost finished ..i am almost at the endb ut I couldnt play anymore coz i got a headache ..coz this game is such crap…why am i trying to finish it then? so that I can uninstall it and use the DVD to decorate my car and the box to clean my dogs shit. I have played game as bad as these but I assure you they were all FREE shareware stuff…I have always been very against downloading games or buying pirated ones and I always purchase a game legally ..but after this game I am having second thoughts about it

  16. I will only make a petition program website if there is a real demand for it coz ill have to take time out of my work to do it. So i dont want to make it if we end up getting only 10 petitions signed!

  18. Argh! I hate discussing how bad this game is with people who have only played it for 2 hours! They all think it’s great, so did I. But please shut the f*** up before you’ve played it for 6 hours. I promise you you will get bored shitless!

    Btw, I’ll sign the petition. Make that website!!

  21. Anando make the website and make Ubisoft pay fore this one.I will sign what the petition and im shore that milions of other gamers will suport you and the good couse.And if that wont make Ubisoft see the light then we will take Ubisoft down, unite we stand!!!Damn this sounded corny!But you get my point.

  22. This game has so many flaws that I’ll finish this rant and remember a few hundred I left out.

    First off, this game tries very hard to be realistic.(Weapon Jamming, Animations for EVERYTHING, Day to Night, etc.) So there is no excuse for having people take 10 shots from a G3ka4 and surviving.

    Flaw 1. People take WAY too many hits to die, you can unload an entire pistol mag on someone and they just keep limping and falling and getting back up. STUPID

    Flaw 2. You have to drive sometimes over 10 minutes to get to a mission that lasts 2 minutes. Missions are very repetitive, and the driving is just boring.

    Flaw 3. Molaria? What does that add to the game? Stress! Theres no point other than to annoy you! When you get a bottle of medicine it only has like 3 pills! Dumb!

    Flaw 4. (BIGGEST FLAW) Get mission drive 20 minutes, get shot at every 2 minutes by another random car post, get out fix your car, and repeat. I’m not lying or overexaggerating, this really happens. Don’t believe me? Play it for yourself.

    Flaw 5. Exploration is pointless. Theres nothing to find. No outfits or unlockables, just stupid diamond cases with 1 or 2 diamonds in them. Golden AK’s? Ohh yaaay

    Flaw 6. The buddy system is pointless. You just don’t give a shit about it. You see them every blue moon, who cares? You can’t drive with them, you only see them when you die, or when they’re being a pain in the ass in the story.

    Flaw 7. There is no choice in this game, everything ends up the same. All you do is pick from different characters (most of whom are stupid) and they all are exactly the same except for when you see they’re arm on the screen. Reeeal imaginitive…

    And really I could go on all day…I mean honestly I could, there are just so many flaws in this game it’s ridiculous. I’m just naming a few….A FEW of the major ones…Bottom line you can only truely understand how horrendous this game is when you chore yourself for a few hours playing it.

    Please save your money and get Dead Space or Fallout 3 or something lol

  25. Yes as a matter of fact I am coding it right now and about to buy a domain which I will soon. I came online to ask everyone to help me . I am making a section called WHAT WE GAMERS DEMAND ..basically that will be what we want changes from UBISOFT on farcry 2 and another called if they dont do it..then WE PLEDGE

    so I need around 15 points of major changes for what we demand

    and 5 – 10 points of pledge

    DANTE want to help me out? once I have that ill finish the site and upload it..the domain I am thinking is farcry2sux.com what do u think?

  27. Dont buy this game its totaly waste of time and money one word fellas game is freaking BORING.
    Game ending is lame scenario is lame,Game AI is lame everything is lame except Mortar btw even mortar is also lame sometimes no explosion effect.i am pretty disgust to jeeps because of the game.

    Lame Cry 2 ,NO MAAAM!

    dont waste your time with it buy Fall out 3.

    Ps:if one day i meet the creator of this game i will kick his ass till stone age.

  28. OK seeing as i got my post deleted because I have a different Opinion I will say this again…

    I agree with alot of what is being said. It is repetitive, Travel sucks etc…

    But The game isnt made for you to be promted to do everything the same way. You just choose to. Look at doing things differently. For example, when attacking a guard post, try Rushing it with a Vehicle, Rushing it on foot, Sniping, Sneaking around and macheteing and hiding, Mortaring etc…

    You need to make the game fun for yourself. If you do, you might actualy enjoy it.

    And I think that there is a hell of a lot more people that like this game that may have posted here… but maybe their posts get deleted, like mine did.

  29. hi guys the website is up. http://www.farcry2sux.com
    Please go ahead and start signing the pledges. When we reach 500 pledges I will mail it to stupid ubisoft. I will also try to get some more attention on the pledges. I was thinking of Installing a forum on the site do u think thats a good idea? Also please do spread the word about the website as i spent a lot of time and some money on this. If it doesnt run then all goes to waste. Dante if u give me your email address I can try to make u the admin when I install the forums.

  30. Hey Anando my e-mail address is Filohie@nspoint.net,yeah its stupid I now, but it dosent work, sory.By the way I seen your website its sweat,nice job dude!By the way what is the admin?And instal the forum its a good idea.And all of you dudes out ther go cheak out Anandos website http://www.farcry2sux.com and help us out please!!!

  32. ye great site anando. I really hope they make a patchh which will get more bus stops, will do something about everyone shooting u for no reason, the lack of civilians and the melee system.

  34. Another day, another deleted post. ILL SAY THIS AGAIN.

    You are all chucking a hissy fit because “oh, i dont like this game”. WAKE UP CALL! Not every game is perfect. You just have to deal with it. And often, its just that you personally dont like the game. Take a trip to websites like http://www.farcry2world.com. you will find lots of people that like this game.

    You also chose to buy the game. Its not the developers fault that you assumed that youd like it. Your fault for not testing it in the first place

    Just learn to realise ” hmm, this game might be crap. too bad”, and go out and buy a better one.

    In my personal opinion you need to make the game fun for yourself. try different tactics out. For example, when assaulting a Guard post, try these: Vehicle Rushing (driving strait in and running people over), Vehicle weapon bombarding (sitting outside and firing with the grenade launcher). Grenading, Stealth shooting (Dart rifle), sneaking around and macheteing, IEDing, Mortaring etc. The list goes on.

    The game wasnt designed to be a “hold your hand” game. It doesnt guide you through or promp you to do things to get to the next stage (unless its a mission chain and you want to reach a specific one). The game is made so that YOU choose what to do. You make it fun for yourself.

    Finally, to anyone that reads this and hadnt played the game yet, and thinks, “GOD, this game must really suck!”, There are pleanty of people who do like the game. The admins here just delete all the comments in favour of this game because it clashes with their opinions. My advice its to rent the game, try it out, and see yourself whether you like it or not.

    As I earlier stated, http://www.farcry2world.com is a good community site for good advice on the game. Posts arent deleted because people say they dont like the game. Look and post there if you want good advice.

  35. We didn’t delete any posts. We had a issue with MySQL and had to restore a backup from a few days ago, so some recent comments were lost.

  36. lucky i am residing in thailand at moment & only had to waste 20$ ON THIS PIECE OF SH-T , FARCRY WAS EXELLENT GAME, FARCRY 2 IS BETTER THAN VALIUM OR LIKE PUTTING AN ANGLE GRINDER TO YOUR FORHEAD BUT THAT WOULD PROBABLY STIMULATE THE GREY MATTER MORE, DONT KNOW HOW THEY GOT A RATING HIGHER THAN 10

  38. Even my posts were deleted so stop blaming mike for it..2ndly it would be FUN to try new things on that shit game if news things were possible..for eg trying to climb up a small mountain and get into a sniper position to take on a village but no our character CANT jump for shit. Secondly this game would be liked by people who have NOT played other open world games like GTA IV ..do us a favour and play that. You can do EVERYTHING on that game. Climb fences , steal cars, ur buddies get into ur car and shoot at things, steal a bike and act like a maniac, go buy clothes , go eat food..NOW THATS a FUN game. Thirdly, you like the game..good for you, enjoy it you dont need to tell us what to do .

  43. Firstly,

    My apologies to mike, jst that it happened 3 times and appeaed to happen only to my posts,

    Secondly,

    Anando-I didnt say that the game was good. I agree that it could have been a thousand times better. What im merely trying to say is that alot of the time it comes across as”go, do this and come back”, and it doesnt sound like anyone is going for variety.

    Thirldy,

    Im not telling you what to do. Im just trying to make you realise how small this is in the grand scheme of things. (sorry if i came across that way, i may have been a bit drunk when i posted that).

    Fourthly,

    No, im not being payed by Ubisoft, although that would be quite nice

    And lastly,

    I think you’re going a bit over the top. Its not the end of the world, not every game is perfect. You just need to move on.

  44. Put it this way, this game is so horribly bad, if i stood next to someone who said they loved it, id gladly smah there skull with a baseball bat, due to the high ignorance and stupidity, its people like that who are ruining our games!

  45. yes its not at all end of the world and yes I am kind of over the top and I assure I became like that after 10 of send mails through ubisoft helpline about bugs and requested patches. They did not even have the decency to reply something like “we will look into it” they did not reply at all.. games are NOT like movies that they cannot be fixed later..every game comes out with patches that fixes such issues and those games survive ..I remember swat3 which was a single player game ..but they took out a patch free of cost (not add on) to turn it into a multiplayer …just coz the gamers requested it. Now thats service..compare it to this shit with ubisoft ..we all just feel cheated. From HL2 to crysis every gaming company listens to their gamers and fixes their games..but not fantastic ubisoft..they are too busy coming out with pop new genre ! So thats why we are doing this, otherwise I am too busy with my work …I work all day and i would like to rest at night rather than doing this!

  47. Anando, Fair enough… Ill let you go back to whatever your doing now, even though i dont really agree.

    Let us know if you get anywhere.

  48. Yet, you failed to mention it’s online gameplay and excellence.

    It’s online gameplay is by far farcry’s biggest selling point. Single player action is useless, this is not a great single player game. It’s pure online fun, as fun as the old goldeneye on the 64 in terms of multiplayer games are concerned.

    Piss poor review dude.

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