![]() ![]() Here, use this bus,” all this just adds up to more of a redundant-world experience, regardless of how large it is. There are bus services which take you to separate points in the map, but these make it seem like the developers thought, “yeah it's an open world, but we don't want you to actually see it. The unnamed African country is too big, and most of it is filled with the same rocks, sand, and run-down abandoned shacks. The game is truly open world, and while this is a good and interesting path for an FPS to take, it didn't really do the game any favors. Confined, alone, brutal and as if you're not going to get out of it alive. If nothing else it's a good example of how a first person shooter should feel. Hopefully after all that talk of the good things you want to play Far Cry 2, now to ruin that moment. Leaving me no choice but to just make a run for the nearest rocky outcrop and hope not to be turned into a walking salad strainer. There was one section of the game where I'd hidden in a small barn surrounded by dry grass, the enemy moved around to flank me, decided that I was too well entrenched to be coerced out, and instead just torched the dry grass and the barn with it. has a lot of flukes that make it annoying, but as far as actually playing intelligently, Ubisoft has accomplished that. The enemy Artificial Stupidity is also excellent again, just as it was in the original Far Cry. It's probably the best looking FPS that I’ve played, I'm sure Crysis looks better, but the fire in Far Cry 2 is truly phenomenal. before taking out the high powered rifle and popping a few skulls. The bloom effects alone look stunning, especially when the sun is setting in the desert and you're watching it dip behind the horizon. There are no side missions really, only a few smaller missions, but there's enough to keep people entertained and to keep it feeling open, even though you're technically being creatively steered down a narrow, linear path. Yes, you have specific missions that kind of make it linear, but there's nothing stopping you from going to a known enemy hideout and cleaning house. Firstly, the game is huge and it's one of the only FPS games I can think of that is truly an open world. ![]() This way you can read the bad points with these in your head - instead of automatically forming an opinion based on all the bad points. Let’s get the shortest part of this review over with: the good points. I had to dig a little but there's some glimmer of hope in this heart of darkness, but perhaps that's just one of the diamonds that the game seems to randomly scatter into awkward places for no reason whatsoever. Yes it's repetitive, yes it's a simplistic shooter at heart, but there's something appealing about it. Far Cry 2 is more of THE game NOT to own. It really was THE game to own back in 2004. It was the game that people stress tested their machines with it had unprecedented amounts of foliage, lighting effects, and A.I. The original Far Cry game was a pinnacle of gaming in its time. ![]()
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