Have you ever wanted to see how your character heals himself? Or how about how much destruction a forest fire can do?
So you start of the campaign picking a character of your liking. Once that is done you start the campaign. A civil war has risen in Africa and a man that goes by "The Jackal" has distributed both sides with weapons. You are sent to Africa on a mission to find and kill this guy. The place has been abandoned and only the UFLL and APR fighters have stayed behind. On your way to your destination you experience the symptoms of malaria and faint. You find your self in front of the Jackal on a bed in a room but your to weak to do anything. Again you wake up and are in the middle of a gun fight between APR and UFLL. You escape but faint again. You wake up to find that a UFLL Lieutenant called Anto Kankaras saved you and you are to repay him the favor by working for him. From there you are free to do various missions in the game with the main intention of doing what it takes to find a kill The Jackal.
THE GRAPHICS in this game are just amazing and thats not a surprise coming from the makers of Crysis, Ubisoft. The resolution is very sharp and almost everything in the environment looks very realistic. Also the interaction with the environment is fantastic examples when you walk through the grass it waves, if you blow up something the impact will more all thing around the impact area including trees, if you start a fire it will move in the direction the wind is blowing it. And the fire leaves beind embers and ashes in the places burned. All these little things the people dont notice are what make it such a good game....well sorta
THE GAMEPLAY is pretty awsome aswell. You have a choice of doing your mission in what ever time period you feel is best, You can go all out and cause massive damage with explosions and fires, or you can do it in stealth and not make attention towards your self. In this game there are many things in the environment that you can use as a weapon for one you can start a fire and if there so happens to be an ammo pile in the way well guess what....BOOM! the pile goes off.....a jeep.....BOOM! sky high hope it lands on someone. The missions you get usually require you do kill or destroy something. ***The thing i disliked was the lack of you being able to prone. It felt like you were exposed to the AI almost all the time.
They usually send you to another place on the map and did i mention that the map is HUGE!!! Yep unfortunatly this is Far Cry's biggest advantage over FPS's but also its biggest disadvantage. ***The game requires you to do a lot of travel which gets boring after a while. Fortunatley Ubisoft kept the players awake by adding guardposts in the middle of the roads and by reducing the amount of travel by taking a bus to the area of your target. the weapons in the game are very realistic and i dont just mean the look. If your gun is old it will look old and will have a tendency to jam. You can go to the gunshop and buy upgrades for weapons for the cost of diamonds which you gain from doing missions or by finding suitcases that are scattered through out the world of Far Cry 2. And we all know the rewarding feeling of getting a new weapon :D
The health also adds a very interesting spark to the game. if you get injured to the point of bleeding in this game unlike other FPS's where you just grab health and vuala! here you actually see yourself heal yourself ex: if you get shot to the point of bleeding and heal yourself you will see the guy pull a bullet out of....well almost where ever. which is pretty gross but awsome at the same time.
THE SOUNDS of the game are pretty realistic and makes you feel like you are in the desert, wasteland, grasslands, or jungle. The sound is great everything fits in well and pretty much everything makes a sound. You can hear fire crakle, hear your enemy reload his weapon, or animals in the distance. When vehicles get damaged they dont sound or look the same as when they did when it was in good condition. The sound really helps you in stealth missions and the voices fit almost everyone.....almost lol.
OVERALL this game is great and most of the people the give this game such a negative review are bashing it for the few flaws that the game seems to have. I just wish Jack Carver was in this game =/ lol. This game is for anyone who enjoys FPS's, if your a Far Cry fan, or if you plainly love causing massive destruction to AI and the environment. well thanks for reading my review and i hope i made your choice in video games easier well till nest review!!!! TA TA FOR NOW!!!!! ;)
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