So Far, So Boring!
Now to begin, my first beef is that you can't change the camera view of your character in a vehicle, and that is very annoying, my suggestion would be to have 3rd person view made available. Getting out of a vehicle is also very slow as they show your character moving in or out of a vehicle. Immediate would be better. Once you go through an area and kill everyone off, if you have to back track through that area there will be guys there again. There isn't enough customization of the controls overall. Upgrading weapons is tedious and takes way too long. Being sick with malaria is very sporadic and annoying and slows the game play down. Although the environment at the beginning is absolutely immense and very beautiful, that in itself is a hang up for me, as there's very little diversity, and everything eventually just feels the same after playing for hours on end. As well, the map is weird, these random huts and houses all over the place, which don't make any logical sense for being there. I haven't finished it, in fact I've only found about 10 diamonds so far, but being an attention deficit adrenaline junkie, this game has already taken a back seat to many first person shooter games I would consider outstanding, like Halo, Bioshock, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and everything Crysis. Maybe I need to put more hours in, but so far I'm completely frustrated and constantly picking apart the weakeness asking why it isn't more like this game or that game, which have given more attention to the overall gameplay to create a more fluid and exciting experience, which Far Cry 2, simply does not measure up against.
If you like the random, do it yourself missions, on a huge monotonous map with limited controls for what will inevitably be hours on end, by all means play this game.