You may want to hold out on putting this one on your credit card...

User Rating: 6.5 | Far Cry 2 X360
I have to be honest here... There have been quite a few 360 games that I have found disappointing. This one certainly is no exception to that rule. I literally ran to GameStop to get this game when it was released because I was such a fan of the fist FarCry, but I now know that I should have waited a while for the price to come down. Lets go over the main reason that I didn't like this game as much as I had hoped.

1) The single player portion of a game like this SHOULD NOT SUCK! I can't believe the lack of inspiration that the single player experience has! It's amazing to me how the Devs can spend years creating a beautiful and creative environment, character models, vehicles, architecture, and textures, but then have a complete lack of creativity when it comes to mission structure. WTF!!!

2) Stupid CHECKPOINTS!!! I can't believe that 90% of this game involved driving up to stupid checkpoints and killing the guards. It made me want to pull my hair out! It's gets even better when you fight your way through a checkpoint and destroy everything just to drive to your objective and drive back through the same checkpoint two minutes later to find that everyone is back and the buildings are magically repaired. Did the Devs actually not think about this being a problem??? Either these terrorists are magically inclined, or they have the fastest builders in history!

3) The multi-player feels unbalanced. It seems like people can take a ridiculous amount of damage without going down sometimes. I think that someone might go down from an entire clip of AK47 rounds to the chest in real life... Apparently the Devs do not agree.

4) The map editor was the entire reason that I purchased this game new. I was impressed with the amount that you can do with this thing, but it is a little clunky and I have published three maps without even a single download or review. A better system is needed.