Far Cry 2 Comments by Christian Donlan

Guys..dont believe for a minute this game is worthy of 8/10!! I played it yesterday and it takes 20 shots to down a baddie. There are widescreen problems, as well as mouse issues. Stealth is a JOKE. You sneak up on a guy and slit his throat special forces style and the whole bloody camp knows not only about the event but where you are 100% of the time! Thief the dark project it most certainly aint.

And it has securom..limited installs. And the respawning guards are atrocious. You cant turn around and break wind without the whol fecking town coming back to life the very next minute.

Such a f'ing waste of 50 bucks. Wait for Dead Space or Fallout 3 instead.

Im enjoying it so far. Im only playing it on the second easiest option and there seems to be a lot of places where i can save. Graphics look very nice and detailed and oretty colourful.

Couple of silly little things the designers really should have picked up on. When attacking an enemy base, even with the hit direction thingy, it can be really difficult to see which direction the enemy are shooting you from (it can be difficult to see them at all). Not sure if there will be some kind of radar, but that would have been much better (easier).

The malaria issue isnt so bad, yes of course it pushes you down a side route, not sure whey the reviewer put that as a negative, its not for me at the moment.

There is a stage where you clear out a base to release a buddy, in one garage there isnt a vehicle and when you complete the mission a vehicle is then in the garage, not believable and breaks the feeling of immersion (again why the designers didnt spot this i dont know).

The setting things on fire effects are really nice, though i did get ammunition to blow up in a building when the grass/tree outside the building caught fire.

The map/radar system appears and takes up most of the map, and when searching for diamonds is too big to do searching around... needed some kind of watch radar or something that wouldnt take up 3/4's of the screen.

Overall I'm enjoying it so far. I think an 8 EG score is pretty accurate, I would say at the moment it feels like a mid to top end 8 so far.

it looks so colourful on tha screens, in reality like worn brown sweater

@DaemonB - Not many jaggies on my PS3 version...certainly looks slightly better than the 360 version

I am just glad it's available on Steam, albeit at a premium with Pound Sterling falling through the floor; also ordered Fallout 3 at the same time. :-)

PC version looks good and is super smooth, even with maxed out settings, at least on my Über-PC. Introduction was fun, but it's a bit easy so far -- think I've played too many FPS and need to crank up the difficulty from the default.

The crop-screen versus widescreen is obviously shite though.

Just look at various reviews below: Many good scores esp Edge known for harsh scores, who gave it a 8!

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages4/9...

Been playing Far Cry 2 for 2 days now and seems to pick up the more you get into to it esp after the first couple hours into it. You don't really notice the negatives mentioned by Eurogamer as often as they make them out to be. Also being a bit harsh with the nit-picking...Been playing Dead Space; good action/adv, but not that scary!...Slightly over hyped I say.

If disappointed by the new Motor Storm 2 game on PS3, make sure to pick up Pure on PS3/XB360. Excellent arcade (but deep) off road racer - excellent online too! Dazzling grahphics.

"Stealth is a JOKE. You sneak up on a guy and slit his throat special forces style and the whole bloody camp knows not only about the event but where you are 100% of the time! Thief the dark project it most certainly aint."

I'm not sure about stealth with the machete but if you use silenced weapons it does work. You have to perform a headshot and nobody can see it happen or they will ALL come running. Also since you can't move bodies you should wait until the target is in a position where nobody else is going to stumble across him before you pull the trigger. If another guard sees the body he will run to the body and when he sees it up close all guards will be alerted and start looking for you, but they will not know where you are unless you are in their line of sight. If you shoot him before he can investigate the body then he will not alert all the other guards. Anyway stealth is definitely not a joke it's just less forgiving than what you might be used to.

Personally I think what holds FC2 back is the travel. If you are going to include this much driving you have to make it fun, and it isn't. Most of the vehicles are slow and clunky, you can only drive in first person, and they are so noisy that you can't hear anything else while driving.

i want to like it..

but it doesn't want me to like it

just isn't FUN

+1 BillyBrush

I feel like I've been lied to by the developers.

Yes, the game has its flaws.

But the tension it builds up is unbelievable. Christian's allusion to Heart of Darkness is absolutely spot on. For the first time in a shooter, I feel genuinely tense. The enemies come from nowhere and pose a genuine, intelligent threat. You always feel like you're running on empty. And there's none of that unrealistic targeting assistance, either. Take a hit from a sniper and you're going to have to find him using the naked eye. In the savanna, that can be like finding a needle in the haystack.

The world you inhabit in this game - unlike GTA IV, which had similar aspirations - really does have a life of its own. A malevolent one, at that.

got so many things right, what with the awesome environment, fire effects, buddy system. but man, the ai is so wretchedly bad, and more importantly, the gameplay is frikkin' monotonous. at about 20% into the game i am losing interest. drive/boat here, kill this person, kill this checkpoint for the 20th time, wash, rinse, and repeat. additionally, i am not sensing how any of the missions i am doing, which really seem like side missions, relate to the overall plot. finally, the developers blew it imo by not creating any meaningful interaction with npcs. all the player does is shoot them. where are the civilians in this game? they should be mixed in among all the mercenaries, especially since the game depicts them in that intro scene. it's not like they all evacuated. it really makes the environment pretty barren of life, reduces the tension and depth of the game (would be cool if the player could choose to bribe checkpoints as well, and obtain intel from civilians by giving them first aid or taking some humanitarian type missions from them), and makes the game a pretty mindless shooter, albeit one with a lot of freedom. the developers passed up a great opportunity, given what an awesome environment they created, they really dropped the ball in not creating any neutral npcs (well, except the handful who are integral to the plot) and ways of interacting other than shooting.
there's just, for lack of a better word, no soul to this game. it has none of the tension or depth of say stalker or oblivion. the choice and implementation of africa was f'ing brilliant, but it's like the designers created this incredible sandbox, but then forgot to put anything in it except moronic bad guys. coulda, woulda, shoulda.

I'v just had a look at some footage of the developers of this game to see if i could catch something in there eye that was in some way willfully malicious because what they have given us here is either some sort of evil experiment in mind fuckery or ham fisted, grab defeat from the jaws of victory wank up of mammoth proportions.
I am currently house sitting for a friend and playing this game on her wide screen t.v and it is for this reason i have, with quivering hand of barely contained fury, carefully placed the disk back into its box from where it shall never return lest i smash her telly into fragments in a frothy mouthed, screaming ball of rage and frustration.
Rarely have i been so dissapointed and NEVER AGAIN shall i be swayed by fancy ad's beckoning me in with atmospheric music, choice moments of visceral game play and shiny, shiny production values.
This game is the real world equivelant of one of those almost real sex dolls- looks good from a distance but once your into it all your going to feel is sad, angry, unsatisfied and a complete wanker for having bought it in the first place.

I found the Ai in Crysis and Fear more fun, the collectables and side missions are really annoying, the only reason people forgive the more repetative gta missions is that each mission is bracketed by really well done snippets of story often involving darkly funny situations.

After five hours of Far cry 2 ive come to several conclusions first it thinks its lego batman combined with gta with shooting every so often. Teh checkpoint complaint in the review isn't that valid as i've been able to avoid most with busses or wilderness driving.

But this adds to the problem of the game feeling really lonely and barren, it never feels like a country at war because its almost totally devoid of non combatants.

I bought it pre-owned for £20 and feel like I wasted my money anyone know how much id get on hmv re-play for it.

The reviewer says invent to stop it plodding but whats to encourage you to do that.

Also am I the only person to notice they totally messed up the stick controll, it goes from normal ramping up sensativity in the middle then it reaches a point and suddenly goes super fast. makes tracking side running enemies harder.

Ok so I wasted money on that crap. Now why it's crap?

PC version
a) nothing to do with Far Cry. Controls are different, combat feel different, AI is different.
b) no stealth
c) no leaning from behing corners. (in 2008 shooter?!) no crawling either.
d) f**ed mouse controlls. You can't tune your mouse to behave good in that thing

Excellent review, really nailed it I think.