Although FarCry 2 is a sequel in name alone, it is still a fun, involving and beautiful game.
FarCry 2 a huge open-world shooter in which you play as a mercenary-for-hire affected by malaria. You are given the task of finding a highly dangerous war criminal known as the Jackal who is responsible for funding a civil war between two African factions. Once you find him it is your objective to terminate him, the campaign is a long journey full of exciting gunfights, relaxing drives through the African outback and fire. Fire is a major part of FarCry 2, with the new fire propagation system, fire is an extremely useful tool which is very cool to play with. You can smoke out enemies, burn down hideouts and take down entire forests with the push of a button. Fire is awesome and it looks really good, then again so does everything else in the game, FarCry 2 successfully manages to make you feel like you're a part of the jungle, hunting baddies. The environments and lighting all look very realistic and really suck you in.
The gameplay is pretty original and very realistic as well. The guns all have their own unique feel to them and are all fun to experience with, also a gun's reliability is very relevant in this game; a purchased weapon is very reliable whereas an enemy's dirty and used weapon isn't and is more prone to jamming and misfires. Also the malaria can also become an issue because you will occasionally need to stop and pop a pill so that your vision doesn't become too fuzzy. In FarCry 2 the health system is also rather new, your health bar is divided into 5 segments which regenerate as long as they are not completely drained, yet when you get down to the last segment of the health bar you will need to take a break and heal yourself by prying a bullet from your flesh with some pliers or bandaging up a wound also you are given a handful of syrettes which will bring your health back up to 100% at any time.
The online play in FarCry 2 is what you'd expect, it has the standard deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag modes, but capture the flag is known as capture the diamonds. It works well and you are also given a map editor so that you can build your own custom maps however you want and submit them to the online community if you so choose. A map rating system is also included so that you can easily find the best of the best.
FarCry 2 is an excellent shooter with a refreshing blend of old-school and new-school gameplay, great graphics and story that evolves however you want it to.