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.
Bullsh*t, the game sux , and the game play is boring . I dont know what game you played but it wasnt Far Cry 2 .
I found this site by googling ‘Far Cry 2 is shit”
Il be selling my copy too.
hi everybody, what do you guys think of far cry 2 huh?
Did you read this page ?
Ubisoft screwed everyone with this game!!! Tell you what people, pirate this game for free….don’t waste your money!! I dont even think its worth the free tag either….tons of glitches, computer crashing constantly (I have a pretty hot machine too) Even the steam version sucks!! Shame on steam for selling this game and i love steam! I smell a nice class action suit here…if not that, ubis going down in the books as a bunch of asswipes!!!
@ Jonno
Yeah, I found this page by googling “Far Cry 2 sucks” It was the top result and I totally agree.
@ boozie
Forget glitches, computer crashing, hot machines etc. Those kind of stuff can be fixed by means of patches. But the GAME sucks, as in the basic idea of the game.
Far cry 2 suck so much ! overhyped piece of shit
dudes the game is about the story for me, bitchin’ story, just wicked, however not enough gore, when i shoot someone in the head they should be fucked pretty up pretty badly. but i mean other than all my friends dying halfway though the game i liked this game, as for the driving part, TAKE THE FUCKEN BUS, holy shit it teleports you to any corner of the map and saves you all that time. so its not an amazing game, however its not as bad as some of you are making it out to be.
I played this game 1 time through. It was o.k., got boring at times but i was able to get through it. I decided to start a second one and have had problem after problem and am quite pissed off.
I agree with everyone that this is a boring, repetitive, shitty game. Good graphics runied by a shitty experience. You know a game is bad when you have to MAKE yourself play it. Ubisoft’s latest games are all the same; assassins creed, far cry 2, price of persia. Good graphics, repetitive gameplay.
Ubisoft hire some fucking writers!
I think u are right in some cases but its still worth all the money
ok ok some of it sucks but some of it is so fun like killing people with snipers and all the different wicked guns, its not that boring driving as u always need 2 stop 2 take out these small villiages and cars drive after u it rules and the graphics rule, it sucks sometimes like when the ai look somewhere else shoot and it hits u WTF? but then the realism is mostly so cool u have 2 buy this GAME ITS AWESOME!
I feel victim to this game far before i found this review. I hated this game from the second some asshole started shooting at me when i was driving through a checkpoint or village or whatever. i couldnt get a friggen break from being shot at, and checking the map every few second was ridiculous. i know they wanted to make a realistic game, but radars on the HUD is a must, and not many people still uses paper maps anyway. Fuck thsi game
Agreed completely, My idiot of a brother liked this game due to graphics but he doesn’t care about gameplay, So he liked it due to nextgen graphics and since I am different who is expecting gameplay I feel sorried to have spent money on this piece of crap, I am a big fan of the FC series but this one sucks and I feel it’s sequels are gonna be as bad as this shit as well v_v
Alas I still retain my FC1 copy somewhere and I will replay it again and enjoy the golden moments of it.
yeh this game is fucking arse, avoid at all costs
Yep this game is absolutely terrible. Very boring and infuriatingly irritating. They made a complete balls-up of this one. Fallout 3 on the other hand, is brilliant – and I’m usually not into that kind of thing ( thinking etc.)
Notice how on IGN this game somehow got a good rating but this page confirms what I been thinking all along is that Far Cry 2 SUCKS!!!!!!!!
Usually a post like this will have very few negative comments but there must be 30-50 negative comments here.
1. glitches
2. game lacks any common sene.
3. non-sensical anti climactic ending.
I BOUGH THE GAME ONLY BECAUSE IT HAD UBISOFT’s NAME ON THE TITLE, I WILL NEVER BUY UBI SOFT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish I had read this review before buying the game, i spent 4 hours on it and never played it again, ive never felt so mentally drained and frustrated by a game since rainbow six vegas 2, it seems theres a pattern to all ubisoft games.. a/ Full of bugs b/ a feeling of a very unfinished, very rushed game c/ half arsed graphics d/ laughable storylines e/ Horrible horrible horrible gameplay. I don’t even know where to begin on the AI and their constant respawning and the random encounters will ensure you dont feel like even getting half way through the game before putting the controller down to change game. The lesson being NEVER BUY UBISOFT GAMES (Apart from GTA4 which wasn’t THAT fun anyway.. But i won’t say it was a bad game i enjoyed playing it for a while.)!! Rainbow six and Farcry 2 can only be described as forced analingus with barry white.
Boy, if I was to write a review on FarCry 2, I would do it EXACTLY like you did… then I would add some more crappy stuff. This game is shit. Actually, it’s diarrhea. The biggest waste of time in the entire world. I was just doing those same missions over and over in hope for salvation, and when I finally thought that something new happens, I was simply moved to another ‘main-map’ and started repeating quests again. And the stupid animations scenes… cut me a break! I don’t wanna see myself knocking on doors and stuff. It’s a game, not a movie. It may look cool in a trailer, but when you need to sit through it for the million time, its annoying. Oh and the horrible save system… how many hours of gaming I lost due to the save system, why is there no auto save??? Plus, even though the game has TONS of weapons, many of them are not practical or simply the same…. absolute waste of time and money.
Meh, they only focused on graphics, not on the thing that is important, gameplay.
Me and my friend are buying some games.
He said he’ll buy Far Cry 2.
I can’t wait to see him dissapointed.
I keep telling him to buy Oblivion or Fallout3, the cool games. But he just relies on graphics and not the actual gameplay.
He’ll be like: Fuck! I just wasted my money, screw ubisoft, I’ll go play Super Mario.
Only good thing in Far Cry 2 for me is uh.. nothing.
The game is buggy as hell and shitty.
It sucks donkey balls. Seriously, it might have nice graphics, weapons.. but its really unrealistic.. as someone said: Shooting someone with a silencer, running away and just to find out that you have like 10 guards behind you. Idiotic, isn’t it?
Save system… couldn’t they make it better?
Also Far Cry was better than this piece of shit. At least I could enjoy the game somewhere on a tropical island with original storyline, not some goddamn piece of crap where you just drive, walk, shoot all the time. I just described 99% of the game in one sentence. Multiplayer? Come the fuck on. It sucks goddamn balls. God bless steam games like Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike: Source, Garry’s Mod that actually don’t have some kind of storyline but they kick goddamn ass and have solid multiplayer.
Who agrees?
“You could be on a cliff viewing the wildlife and randomly a jeep will pull up and open fire. ”
LOOL
Yeah, I’ve been playing a rented copy today on 360 and I was thinking the exact same thing. I wouldn’t go so far as to say the game *sucks* (I just finished playing RE5 which is one of the worst pieces of shit i’ve played in years) but there are some annoying aspects to it.
Ok, I hate to say it , but I agree for the most part. I actually only bought this game for the multiplayer and the map editor (which is amazing btw) That is where you will get your money’s worth. But to add to the list of complaints, NO SPLIT SCREEN!!??!!!??? WTF… thats all i can say is WTF… Halo 3 managed to include splitscreen co op, and allow up to three guests to play online with you, (along with the standard vs splitcreen). At least you could have pulled that off, i mean, what better way to show off your badass maps than to show your buddies spiltscreen style. Ubisoft dropped the ball just a tad.
soon people will want something to strap on their snails while their playing for extra satisfaction. Then they will find bugs in that. ‘it doesn’t zap me hard enough’ or ‘it’s to big and it slips off all the time’.
I think quality should be controlled by monkeys because they are the ones that know what poo really tastes like.
I remember playing duke nukem 3d via dial up modem so i’m quite happy with where far cry 2 is at, in fact apart from some annoying gameplay bugs, its a work of art, like a painting, but you can enter it and walk around for as long as you want, for $50. A hooker last week cost me $50 and she was no where near a ‘work of art’ although i did enter her and move around for a bit, but had a 30 min time limit, that’s not good. You people just don’t think outside the box.
love you all, DiLBO
THIS REVIEW IS SOOOO TRUE, I PLAY ON IT FOR LIKE 15 MINS AS I WANTED TO GET MY MONEYS WORTH BUT IT IS SOOOO BORING
This review only gives an opinion of the single player campaign (which I agree is shockingly bad), but the multiplayer, in my opinion, is the best a FPS has ever seen. It has kept me occupied for over 10 days total online play in which I have made it into the top 100 on nearly all the leaderboards. When I jump into a lobby I can be guaranteed there is at least one person who I know and who knows me. I have made some of my best Xbox live friends while playing. I am very happy with this game and the £50 I payed for the limited edition.
could not agree more, paid about 60$ for a USED COPY, and just got pissed of at ubisoft, it dosent have anyting to do whit far cry 1, which sux, cuz far cry 1 was a pretty good fps, but far cry 2 is just bullshit, like malaria, a “free roaming game” shouldent have shit like that, thats part of the free roaming experiance… but what pisses me of most is the fucking repitive missions, get a job, drive kill someone and drive back… over and over again, and the bad AI is almost worse, im just so happy you people feel the same way, thought it only was me :P
this is the worst ubisoft game that ever existed. the previous far crys were fukin awesome but that one sucks my stinking balls. i buyed this game and almost destroyed my ps3 cause the aiming sucks and on the top the bots wont die after u shoot a whole magazine on him. so this game sucks as a mothefuckers a hole. wth did i just say ?:D
I understand everyone will have a differing opinion of a game, but I thought Far Cry 2 was just plain categorically *BAD*.
Im no expert, I was trying to save and it wouldnt, I would waste half my life, getting somewhere, go to work come back to have another go to find the previous day wasnt there. But overall it is a poor excuse for a game on all aspects, I just want to play for the sport, this was a waste of money, time and brain cells., Should have looked at this site first would not have bought it, better off drinking guinness at least its healthier than this pile.
the people that wright that the game is good are just trying to fool them selves into thinking that their purchrase was justified,or they only played the game for five minutes, either way its simply not a good game,
even more, its a really fucking bad game
Wow,i cant believe how many people reacted to this blog and like,almost everyone here thinks the game sucks ass! Hahaha thats awsome,i hope ubisoft will take note of this.I was also very dissapointed,its just all about the graphics.The gameplay felt clunky, the driving was a headache,the aiming was a bitch and the kamikaze jeeps just plain annoying.You play as bad-ass mercenary but you cant sprint more than 20 meters without almost fainting! The thing i hated the most about this piece of crap was that you got a butt-ugly,saggy titted lesbo-bitch as a “best buddy”…Wtf is that buddy thing about anyway,are we back in kindergarden?….you are my bestest buddy and you are my 2nd bestest buddy….yaaaaaaaaay…seriously…wtf?I shot her in the face and left her to die first chance i got,that was the best part of the whole game.
So glad i downllll…..i uhhmm..i mean ehhr..found it! Yea thats right, somebody threw it out of their window and it landed right infront of me. Gotta go, bye.
Yup Far Cry 2 sucks balls!
I gave it a chance, I even installed Win7 to play it with DX10.
I wasted around 8hrs playing I mean working on this game.
Drive around in a crap car that breaks.
Get shot at by stupid AI
Get a bus
Buy some guns from a computer> then go pick’em up.
And if u try and run your character get’s tired after 10meters! WTF I can run my fat ass at least a 500m before I get tired.
If your looking for volunteer work, work on this game.
Far Cry 1 is way better, and it’s 5 years old!
Honest score:
GFX: 6.9/10
Game play: 2/10
So i decided to play Farcry 2 after seeing i had no more games in my collection to play….
I played it for about an hour…it sucks! Ok so i gave it a second chance…there i was happy that the tutorial had finished so i could explore the whole game :)
WRONG!
I reached the next enemy and the game f***in decides to throw in a ‘fix-jam’ tutorial when im 2m from a guy. So i die (quite happily tbh) and witness some random guy i met in the bar revive me. So there we are stuk in a village full of mad men who you can’t see unless they shoot you! The partner decides to die and the game decides to tell me the million and one things u can do to him (all i wanted to do was tea-bag the bastard). So there i was trying to revive him – the only reason i did so was for a 30G achievement =] Meanwhile i watched my complete health bar drain to shit and i died once again. Oh wats that ‘Load last save’? FUCK YOU! i spent about 15minutes getting to where i was and they’re telling me i have to drive all that way again? Seriously, im a big fan of Ubisoft but this game should never be brought up under their list of titles…EVER!
The healing is a load of bollocks
The AI could be better designed by a 5yr old
The driving is the worst possible kind (all the cars go the same speed – 10mph)
The controls were seriously badly designed
The game is wayyyy over-rated!
The Map shuld be used as toilet paper (the only thing they left out in this game was making the guy take a dump)
And on that note, this game is complete shit
The only thing im thankful for is that a cousin GAVE it us to play…well i can let this waste of time be his problem instead ;)
I’ve been playing for about 20 minutes, and my first instinct was to jump on google and type “Farcry 2 sucks.”
The map is frustrating, but it’s manageable and adds a certain level of realism that I can appreciate.
For me, the deal breaker is the controls. I just can’t see myself spending any significant amount of time playing a game where I’m CONSTANTLY forced to either battle with the controls or accept a very awkward view. Running around staring slightly at the ground, or the sky, is very fucking frustrating. If you want realism, give me real control over my character’s view. When I want to look straight forward, I look straight forward. When I want to look up, I look up. My focus snaps right to whatever I want to see. In Farcry 2, positioning the view up or down is a fucking chore.
(this is on the 360 version)
i personally love this game
this game sucks PERIOD!
This is the worst game I’ve ever played. There are so many more points than what you listed that make this game suck but.. seriously… worst game of all time, even worse than Fable 2.
played like 1h and got frustrated. the map system sucks. i am new in the land and EVERYBODY starts firing at me. most times i don’t even see the shooter, the animation doesn’t help too much, so i stop and stare to find the shooter then empty my gun before he dies. finding diamonds is shit because of the map system.
i never got the story, didn’t care at all. the game looks good but it’s shit. i just finished gta4, the main missions, i’ll just go back to finish the side missions.
anyway, far cry 2 is shit, i liked the 1st but this one is unrelated to that one.
rant over
OMG you are so totally rite. I thought it was just me! I kept trying to play it thru but i’d get as far as three missions or whatever and get sick of playing it.
Luckily it came with the xbox360 console as a xmas present so it didnt come out of my pocket!!! :P
Just finished this game took me ages hoping for somthing good to happen ! Shit game! great Graphics! semi good realism! not including the actually playing of the game ! AI was crap ! guns n stealth were shit ! cars were shit ! Boats Were CRAP ! didnt finish with options just finishes ! probably wouldnt play again unless wanted to sho either how shit it was or how good looking a shit game can be untill you spend hours playing it watin 4 somthing new! you basically have the game worked out by 20 % then its over same same same ! you never compleate the mission intention of the game ! no planes just crap hangliders that suck! UBISOFT why not make Kiddy games ! forget gameplay , you have lost my faith ! i will never trust ubisoft ever again
After ending the game (PC) you are “rewarded” with app. 8 min. non-quittable-scolling-list of persons involved in making this game.
Something strikes me. How many idiots does it takes to produce a crap game ?
FARCRY 1 is way better than FARCRY 2 (PIECE OF HORSE SHIT) firstly the environment isnt even tropical , shitty dry desert not even in the jungle
secondly there is NO JACK CARVER (cant play as him}
the storyline sux the whole game sux it just sux monkey titties!!!!!!
the weapons are shit n jam n also the cars are so fkn WEAK!! they damage is 2 seconds n then u gotta repair is by turning 1 screw!!! BULL FRICKEN HORSE SHIT!!!!!!
it has nothing to do with the original farcry and is a disgrace to have been called farcry coz the first was a classic FPS. FarCry 2 is just a pile of crap!!!!!
FarCry 1: tropical islands, better weapons, storyline, mercinary, gud graphics 4 its time.
FarCry 2: Deserted dry boring scenery, bad damage, ppl u play as cant even walk up small hills or cant jump, get puffed running n screen goes blurry anoyying as shit, weapons jam, overall just sux.
hope they make a gud add on to farcry 1 that is tropical and play as jack carver!!
farcry 2 isnt even fun to play it has gotta be one of the crappiest fps n people say this game is alright i just dont get it. i gave it 2 my friend he got bored of it in the 1st day he played.
the only positive thing i can say about farcry 2 is the map editor but even that is spoiled by the fact that vehicles damage way 2 easily.
FAR CRY 1 IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FARCRY 2 IS DRY!!!!!!!!!1
Although this game was pretty shitty, and a definite waste of money, I can’t hold it against Ubisoft because they’ve come up with the Assassins Creed series, and lets face it, it’s amazing. I think to enjoy this game at all, you just have to take out all your anger on the AI’s. Just fill them with as many bullets as possible :D. Anyway I know I do go against most of you by saying that I don’t hate Ubisoft, but come on lets face it they just came up a little short with this game, hopefully they’ll recover, and it seems they have (Assassins Creed II <3). I am against the fact that they made it seem a lot better though, that was disappointing.
Totally agree with the review. It seriously makes you wonder what planet the usual game review sites are on when they give it such great reviews.
It’s the biggest load of rubbish i’ve played in years and nothing like FC1, which was excellent fun.
I can see where they’re going with FC2, it’s just they’ve not even bought their ticket to get there yet if you get my drift. Repetitive mindless boring pap are the words i’d use here.
Sorry – just one addition – the one good thing in this game are the zebras which occasionally throw themselves under your jeep’s tyres :)
I picked this game up from Steam for $4.99 on a weekend sale, well worth the price because the game may suck but the multiplayer is pretty decent. I’d say if you can find this for $15 or under, buy it.
I bought a geforce gtx260 and this game came with the graphic card.. anyway, after looking the giant map, those stupid animations, driving for 10 mins, and being discovered and killed 100000 times… I exit this game and then i went running to play modern warfare 1 or 2 don’t give me a shit, any game is better than far cry 2… holy crap this game SUCKS!!
y the hell dont your buddies follow u
The game’s not that bad, just a bit repetitive yeah…
I played this game…to be honest..far cry 1 was a lot better , in the sunny jungle..now you have to play in the middle of a poor shit as country with rusted weapons and shit graphycs…..the graphics for the PC just suck….and the game is extremely stupid..especially when u have to play in the dark and can hardly see the enemy..