Over 25 Hours of Play with only 14% complete! Talk about Bang for your Buck!

User Rating: 8.5 | Far Cry 2 PS3
By Tetratrance_CK | Review Date:
This game has been on my "maybe later" list since I read the GS review of it shortly after it came out. In all honesty I wish I would have got it sooner. With over 600 dollars worth of crappy games in my collection (and that's just counting this year!), I should have got this awhile back.

Dunia is Arabic for 'Worldly Life' (versus 'Akhera' for afterlife), and the 'Dunia' Engine lives up to its name. Everything from how fire realistically spreads through dry grass, the day and night cycles, the heat vapor rising from a PPK mounted machinegun after a continuous 2 minutes of fire, to how metal gradually rusts, It is the absolute star of this game and is truly something you need to experience to understand.

Instead of writing what to expect from this game and what it contains (there is plenty of that in other player reviews) I will mainly focus on retorting some of the comments I read from other reviewers.

First and foremost are complaints that this game has a lot of driving from one point to another, this in-turn makes the game long and boring. From my perspective this is the essence of a sandbox game. Plus with all the collectables and localities scattered throughout the 50 square kilometers their will be plenty to do in transit from one mission site to the next. Factor in how amazingly beautiful the inner world of this game really is, just stopping and looking around at the land around you is a joy that never gets old.

As far as glitches are concerned, no game is without them and the glitches in this game in my opinion are minor if not unnoticeable.

The variety of the games guns keep it interesting, and each set of guns (light, assault, pistols to heavy) has a nice set of accessories that make carrying and using them a delight. The constant jamming of old and overused guns gives this game a good dose of realism throw a jammed gun into the heat of a firefight and it will get your adrenaline pumping.

Last but not least the enemy AI. I believe the AI in this game is truly underrated and one of the smartest I have seen in a while, enemies rush and flank you; you never know what they will do. While teams of enemies are known to break off into smaller parties, one party may rush you with technical vehicle, the other will lay down cover fire while for flanking comrades. On the other hand having an ally rush to your aid when you get wounded is also a blessing.

This game is Solid, and will provide at least 70 hours of intense gameplay give it a shot, you will be pleasantly surprised.

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