Waste of 50 dollars... Ubisoft Montreal has tarnished the Far Cry name built by Crytek
- Great graphics, not as power hungry as Crysis but still requires a decent graphics card
- Explosions are cool at first, getting a rpg and blasting stuff is fun
- Fire spreads
Cons:
- Long, boring, repetitive missions
- Non-Engaging story
- Enemies respawn if you leave an area even if you just killed them a minute ago
- AI is dumb and unreal
- The whole gun rusting thing could have been implemented better
Before I start this review, I would just like to make a point of the game being described by Ubisoft (I got this from the Steam page):
Non-scripted artificial intelligence - Medics will drag wounded soldiers to safety. Grunts will come to fear you. Your reputation and in-game actions will make enemies drop their guns and run for their lives. Feel the tension of never knowing just how an enemy will react.
MULTIPLAYER - Challenge your friends but watch your back-you never know who your true friends are and who might betray you! All the single player technical features are also present in multilayer mode.
What??? As far as I know, there are no medics in this game, just a simple "first aid" kit mounted on the wall that I've never seen the AI use. No AI has ever dropped their guns and ran away from me, they all just simply either get into a car and try to run me over or blast away. While we're on the subject of the AI, as soon as one sees you, they seem to know exactly where you are even if you are out of their sights.
But the real downfall of this game is the repetitive missions you are forced to do. Drive here (and trust me, you will be driving a lot), kill or blow up whatever needed, and rinse and repeat. Sometimes, your malaria will catch up with you and you are required to take a pill to control it, so once you run out of pills you are basically required to find more by (Surprise!) driving to a destination and clear the area.
It also would not have hurt if Far Cry 2 had a better story, maybe something to do with Blood Diamonds, or children soldiers, seeing as it is relevant with the African setting. The point is that the story doesn't really grab you in and make you care about your character or the others around.
In Far Cry 2, the more you use a gun, the more unreliable it gets, in which case sometimes, guns jam. If you continue to use the gun, it reaches to a point where it magically explodes and disappears (The character actually throws it away but its done so quick you might miss it). On top of that, enemies always carry rusted and unreliable guns, so it's pointless to pick up enemy weapons.
Although the graphics and physics are good, and the whole fire idea was a good addition, Far Cry 2 fails to live up to expectations. I really have a hard time believing these game reviews after playing this game, as Far Cry 2 is definitely not worthy of an 8.5. Blowing things up eventually gets tiresome, and the repetitive missions will absolutely make this game a chore to play. Not worth the 50 dollars; Ubisoft Montreal has messed up the Far Cry name built by Crytek.