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. Anando your right, we will try to save the peoples mony from Ubisofts crapy game and Jim and Pissed off because my posts get deleted and others will try to advertise.Let the beast assholes win!!!Far Cry 2 SUCKS!!!

  2. First off this isn’t even a Far Cry game. As I recall Far Cry was fun Far Cry had good A.I. and Far Cry had an actual radar, map, story, and you know shit that makes a game good. Beside the nature graphics (fire spread system, and shooting trees, and the sun set) and the map editor the rest of the game plays like a drunk bear eating my chronic diarrhea. This is not an overstatement. That is an understatement. I didn’t even realize that people who were in the army didn’t clean their guns and just let it rust to hell. And the cars, the cars, My bloody vomit looks like a way better car model then the one they used. I rented this, but i consider it more than five dollars wasted. Fuck this game the staff who made this should be fired.

  5. I cant accses http://www.farcry2sux.com , i clickd the link i got this :

    Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

  6. I think I have a decent PC [AMD 3200+, 1 GB RAM and a 8600 GT, Windows Xp Sp3] and i can run this game smoothly on medium settings , 1152×864 Resolution and 2x AA and the landscape is awsome but this is only thing that is pretty awsome about this game. Ubisoft tried to amaze us with the grapics, and hoped that we will forget about the gameplay. I am happy that i did not bought this game [ I downloaded it ]. After about 30 minutes of playing it was uninstalled. Fuck Ubisoft !

  11. The worst part is that ubisoft doesn’t even put a demo out there for us to try. It’s like diving in a lake without testing the waters only to realize that it is infested with piranhas.

  12. Got fucked over by Ubisoft’s ‘BIA Hell’s Highway’ and since i am a big fan of Far Cry 1, I got fucked over again by their Far Cry 2… Those dipshits at ubisoft owe me about 120 dollars. They make (and by a huge margin) the worst shooters ever. Far Cry 2 isn’t even a game…. It’s the world’s worst and most irritating ‘African Jungle Safari’ ever. I may have lost 120 dollars, but I pray that every potential buyer reads this first, I pray that their sales ‘FLOP’, and I pray that they loose a hell lot more that what i’ve lost in buying their stupid games !!!

  14. 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.

  19. It’s been a long time since I was so bored and disgusted with a game that I felt compelled to uninstall it and forget about it. This game sucks. Repetitive, tedious, boring and completely uninspired game play. Yeah, the graphics are good, but WHO CARES. Even the nastiest looking games can become best-sellers if they play well, which this doesn’t do (and how!).

    I really gave it a chance; I got so annoyed with the long, pointless driving trips, being attacked by random people every 3 mins, having to stop to repair my jeep, being shot at through perfect cover, doing the same missions over and over again that I could only play for 15 mins at a time before getting bored/annoyed. After a half-hour break, I would try again….and have stop after another 15 mins. It was like punishment.

    I uninstalled after 3 days of trying…too boring and pointless. I cant believe it’s called ‘ Far Cry’. Ubisoft, get your shit together!!

  21. Anando,

    That michael guy on your site was right. paul used a double negative in his pledge. you might want to change it around.

    Regards

  24. wow, alot of bitching, i like it so far. enemys die fast when you shoot them in the head, and i use the pistol most of the time. love the fire effects/lvl editor

  25. I am disapointed because i dont read this page before i wasted 70 € in this shit* game!!!!
    They ruined far cry 2!!!
    Now i sell this and they only give-me 24 € for this crap!!!

  26. yes matt u r right I fixed it, I think I have..I dont mind negative response matt..its the rude way he spoke.

    And nick we all enjoyed it initially let some time pass then come back and say it!

  27. Wow I got mentioned its brilliant…! Anyways some guy said I am over the top and this game rocks..and another said to each their own some hate some games some love some games I think thats the honest truth..funny thing is the people who are crying about WE hating this game dont realise THEY are crying about we hating this game so before you people become all high and mighty you need to see when you point at us you point 3 back at yourself.

  30. Geez – that sums it up pretty well. Farcry 2 is fucking rubbish.

    I just wish I’d read your review before coughing up my hard earned on this piece of shit.

  33. Fuck i wish id saw this earlier, now i spent 50 bucks on this fuckin bullshit. Played it for like 2 fuckin hours and didnt even enjoy it for a fuckin second.

    so i totally agree with this review man, there isnt like a single good thing about this shit, well yes the graphics are nice.

    WELL FUCK THE GRAPHICS I WANT FUCKIN GAMEPLAY

    last time u ripped me off, fucking ubishit retards

  34. It is easy to flame Farcry 2 because of allot of things that have been repeatedly dragged through the mud here. As a long time FPS gamer I recognize the shitty AI and the hard to use map, the lack of stealth capabilities and so on. However I do not allow this to take from the rest of the game, you are presented with a massive world which can take forever to cross, (Bus Stations help cut this time down significantly) which is beautiful unto itself. You have a setting that rings a modern day bell and allows one to imagine. And finally you have the animations that yes, you must watch constantly, however this is done to actually try to get you into character, the shitty map was an original idea that while it can use some work does actually succeed in putting you into character. Take it for what it is, its not what it should be but some of it is really good and unique, perhaps FC3 will succeed based on failures this time around. Morrowwind while a great game caused me to burn out quickly due to its messy AI and loops in the rule system, Oblivion was bleah, but Fallout 3 really came together based all the things people didn’t like from the Elderscrolls.

  35. yer i shouldve read this article before i bought it -.- i got farcry 2 for my fking bday and i thought it was gunna b mad and all!! but when i played it.. im like not even finished the animation yet im like fk this ima play fallout 3. but i cant return it cos my rents will b mad cus i sed it was a gud game just so they cud buy it for me lols
    btw get fallout 3 its the maddest game ever been playing this since i got it !

  36. the site’s pledge book is filling slowly which is very interesting..looking at the response I will start a forum soon as well.

    http://www.farcry2sux.com

    Btw Mike thx for starting this blog , without this blog nothing would have been possible this started the movement :)

  37. i love far cry 1, but i stopped playing this piece of sh$t just after 20 min, this game is a joke !!! not to mention the the mp part, omg thats the worst multiplayer i have ever played!!

  38. fm thx for trying to spread the word on http://www.farcry2world.com/ . I apperciate it.

    On this forum link

    http://www.farcry2world.com/farcry-2-forums_thread_7696_Online-Petition.html

    I got flamed and names are being called. I was called rude and obnoxious. Maybe he is right but I am sure he forgot to mention the way he spoke to me. People tend to forget you cant clap with one hand. Unluckily I am not a very refined and classy person, if some 1 hits me I punch back so names are being called and I am fine with that.

    Something very interesting has happened, something I never expected. The owner of http://www.farcry2world.com/ , PED has not only given me the vote of confidence but has actually offered to help me by putting up a banner of http://www.farcry2sux.com on his home page. I really appreciate it Ped. THX

  43. Great review. I have to say, this is without a doubt the worst fucking game I have ever played in my 19 years of being alive.

    They rake you in with the commercial you see on TV, only to completely rape you in the ass when you play the actual game. I remember seeing that commercial and thinking, “Wow, that looks like a really kick ass game, i’m gonna have to buy that.” Jesus Christ, Ubisoft should have to give everyone who bought this game a refund. And I just read that this fucking game has sold a million copies. Wow, that is truly sad.

    The one thing that I will add that I think you left out in the review is the vehicles. Jesus tits on a log they are the slowest pieces of shit I have ever seen in my life. Seriously, every single vehicle in this game moves like old people fuck. It’s no wonder you spend the whole goddamn game driving, it’s because every vehicle tops out at 35. Well actually, that isn’t true. Enemy vehicles will do well over that when they are chasing you, however, when you take their vehicle after you stop and kill the cocksuckers, it is just as slow as every other one.

    This is without a doubt the worst fucking game ever made. I will rip my dick off and throw it in the river before I ever buy another product from Ubisoft.

  45. Why are you all so dumb? This game is awesome. You cant complain about having to run everywhere when you do the same in an MMO. There is no Mini Map cause it is supposed to be Border-line realistic and im pretty sure you dont have a mini map in your brain. Your best mini map is the vehicle GPS and the normal map is awesome cause you dont have to exit the game.. ever..
    Sure i do agree that the road blocks will get repetative and the map is almost always needed but i would say i like this Far Cry better than any of the others because its open world.. not boring old linear.

    And before you start flaming the game some more (i mean the title Far Cry and its series).. remember this isnt Ubisoft’s game.. its Crytek’s and Ubisoft made this one so dont feel disappointed its not like others because its a totally different approach.

    Personally, I say its a buy if your PC cause run it.. if it cant, you suck..

  46. Well I’ve read this page with quite some amusement. Given the the vast majority of reviews I’ve read, the comments from game playing friends of mine and the fact I’m enjoying FC2 immensely I find myself a little non plussed that a person can get themselves so upset to not only write a quite damning review but set up a petition too!

    Now as with all gamers I’ve been in the boat of finding that a game that I’ve been looking forward to is not all that I had hoped for. I’ve felt irked at having spent my money on something that has disappointed me but ultimately I’ve found there are more important things in life the get upset/worried about.

    It would that the reviewer just abouts hates every feature of the game that the majority of other folks (including me) like because they add immersion to the game. I’m very much a realism freak when it comes to gaming, I’m mainly play Armed Assault and still a little Operation Flashpoint at times. The comment about the Map/GPS in relation to finding diamonds in particular made me chuckle. So the reviewer wants a “Radar” constantly on display? Why?! How easy would that make things? Also as a nod to realism is a big part of FC2 then where it the real world example of this radar? No as the game describes the GPS is able to to pick up tracking signals in the attaches cases. Any real world tracking devices would have to be held in the hand so that’s the way it is in FC2.

    Now FC2 is far from perfect I would agree that at time the AI is not right, but not all the time. I’ve seen AI characters to some very stupid and consequently very human things. One guy coming to investigate my Land Rover didn’t see me sneak off and hide, when I lobbed a grenade at him he only heard it land to which he responded by saying “Huh?!” then bending over the long grass where it landed just as it detonated.

    Another things that bugs me is the AI respawn at vehicle check points. I would not expect a location to be fully rebuilt and re-manned ten minutes after I’ve torn the arse out of the place with gun fire and grenades. A few hours later perhaps but not simply because I’ve driven past some trigger point 200m up the road.

    I can’t help but the feel the reviewer likes a more structured game path and and guidance than FC2 gives with its open ended game design. There’s nothing wrong with that, my girlfriend is the same she like a game to have a definite start, middle and end. But just because a particular person doesn’t like certain features of a game it does not mean the game is bad, it’s just not suited to them.

    So what I’m saying here is if you like the reviewer appears to, don’t like free form game designs like FC2 or ArmA then don’t buy them. If on the other hand you like freedom of movement and a sense of reality (to a point, it’s still a game after all!) then don’t hesitate to buy FC2 it’s a great game.

  47. The multiplayer is shit too. You can’t even go prone, you have almost no ammo, your gun breaks after a few minutes of use, Ubisofts maps suck, you cant save your weapons in player matches, and the controls are sticky.
    Oh yeah and the grenade launcher is the most cheapest weapon ever concieved.

    The Voice acting is unbearable too.

  48. ______________________________________________

    FAR CRY 2 was made by UBISOFT MONTREAL, the fuckers that made ASSASSINS CREED. And fuck that game was repetitive as shit, FAR CRY was made my CryTek. The creators of CRYSIS. You can tell why FAR CRY 2 was shit.

    ______________________________________________

  49. Everyone is entitled to their opinion ! you enjoyed it good..we enjoy free open games too …like grand theft auto ..but sadly u got ur facts wrong FC2 is NOT an open game its linear…no matter what u do u have the same ending..u have no choice which stupid faction to ally with ..when u keep playing one faction very soon they will stop giving you jobs and force u to go to the other faction and then they will call u a traitor and send u 2 another part of the map down south which is even worse..more check points even more confusing roads without any proper minimap or directions. Then again the same will have work for one faction they will stop giving u jobs u go to another called a traitor shoot everyone and shit happens useless fucking game…want to play a game with choices? insane choices like u are hired to shoot one guy but you shoot the guy who hires you instead of the guy you are supposed to shoot and the whole game changes from that point! THat game is called GTA4 but ofcourse its not for kiddies like you its an adult game!

  50. Stealth can be really screwed up in this game, i can sneak by enemies at night pretty easily but ANY attack i make, even if i knife them instantly alerts all enemies within a mile to my area. Jeeps always know where i am, i get stopped by one jeep, kill the two of em, and in seconds two more come and run over me.

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