Far cry 2 review
Introduction
Far cry 2 has visuals that you would not have thought possible on the next generation machines with a stunning draw distance and amazing textures but can it offer unreal visuals and amazing game play well read my full review to get the answers.
Single player/ story
Far cry 2 has you free roaming Africa to complete your missions this sounds like real life and it gets too close for comfort due to the size of the map which makes travelling extremely repetitive and on your travels you will meet AI that end up chasing you now this can be very frustrating when you have made such a big journey and then to be killed by AI that are nothing to do with the single player this is what holds far cry 2 back its obsession with realism almost kills the game you even have to repair the damage to your car and with the AI that chase you in a jeep you need to walk around them making this a tedious tiring experience. The games missions are not even that good you go somewhere kill someone or stop a convoy that is guarded by that ridiculous AI once again. The games weapons even ruin the game further they jam when its really not convenient and they feel very underpowered although with that said they are accurately designed and look like the real guns.
Don't stop reading yet I am not a hater of this game but I do think the Montreal team have made a very frustrating single player that its over realistic.
Multiplayer
I played this for a while its actually good at times but the guns mostly ruin it when you are trying to shoot someone from a distance buts it's a good MP that sadly is too much like the SP itself
Map editor
Far cry 2 best feature its so in depth you could spend hours with it I got some laughs out of my map which was a joke but at the same time it was the best I have seen yet and makes halo 3 look like a complete joke
The good
Stunning visuals that put the others to shame
Very realistic world with enemy AI healing and helping each other
Map editor is fantastic
The bad
Too realistic for its own good
Frustrating travelling
Uninteresting missions
Ai are far too good even on lower difficulty settings
Score 7.0/10
Ambitous and almost rubbish