Why on Earth is this game called Far Cry II, It doesn't have almost anything to do with the first one.
You meet some interesting people in the game, you can interact with them but you can't ask them to tag along, or have them do much of anything else. Which is too bad because they seem to have some real deep backgrounds, but all you can do is talk to them at a few safe houses, and they can give you some advice, that's about it.
The missions are the key to this game, and the problem. Though you have a free reign to go wherever you want in the game, the way it's setup you end up battling the same outpost over and over again. You also find yourself doing a lot of driving back and forth from your safe house to your mission and back again, once again fighting through the same outpost that you have be fighting all game. It gets really tiring really fast. Also because of pretty good AI you have a tough fight ahead of you, mostly because you end up going against the a whole camp or compound pretty much alone, against a pretty well arm force that seem to have remarkable vision, and can see you way before you can see them.
This is very well done but it really shouldn't be called Far Cry II since it doesn't really resemble the prior game at all. Under its own name I think it would have been fair to brand it a pretty good shooter, but using the Far Cry label give the game a unfair but well known name to use to draw in customers. This game really disappointed me, just because of what it could have been. The missions are pretty lame, and the driving back and forth through outpost over and over again will soon drive you nuts.