Who finished Far Cry 2? Does it get more interesting?

I couldn't wait to get Far Cry 2 and bought it on the day of release. For the first week thought it was great. But as has been said a lot it soon becomes very repetitive. I got about 6 hours in before losing interest. So for those of you who carried on, do things become better? Also does the 1.03 patch add much content, did they ever include predatory animals?

Cheers,

i hate Far Cry 2

i hate Far Cry 2

guildclaws

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i hate Far Cry 2

JTWibble

I am not actually coming back to it right now, it's just sitting on the shelf, not installed. I'm just curious as I don't like not finishing games.

Far Cry 2 is no more repetitive than GTA or Mercenaries. Neither of those have interesting stories - in fact - GTA stories are actually unappealing.

Far Cry 2 is a sandbox game that doesn't tell you how to make it interesting, you have to learn how to mix it up. It took me about 10 hours to realize I didn't have to fight at every checkpoint.

I like it.

i can't finish it because of the bug where you can't complete a mission because a door won't open, i think its known a the "27%" glitch or something.

I thought it get better after it changed to the second act.

Not anymore interesting. I played it for about 5 hours with nothing special happening.

I also got the game on release and have put about 10 hours in, the long journey times killed it for me, I doubt anything special will happen later into the game.JTWibble

Ditto....I felt like a freakin cab driver...I recently picked this up cheap on STEAM and put about 3-4 hrs into it....got very borning for me, haven't played it since....very disappointing .....:(

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It wouldn't have been nearly as bad if they just put some sorta respawn timer on those damn outposts. Like a week (ingame time) or something. I was really looking forward to FC2..too...

Far Cry 2 is no more repetitive than GTA or Mercenaries. Neither of those have interesting stories - in fact - GTA stories are actually unappealing.

Far Cry 2 is a sandbox game that doesn't tell you how to make it interesting, you have to learn how to mix it up. It took me about 10 hours to realize I didn't have to fight at every checkpoint.

I like it.

Born_Lucky

good for you, I pre ordered this with all the anticpations, but when I got it, just like people above mentioend, it was repeitive and boring.

When I purchase a game with so much hype, I expect much better thabn "you have to learn how to mix it up". Lot of game mechanics aim at "realism" such as gun jamming and wound healing with decent animation, but they implement it with so many annoyances. It was clearly obvious that they didnt QA right.

such a waste of money, the game itself had nothing to do with Far cry 1 and called it a sequel.

I really enjoyed the game but if you got bored early on then there is nothing later on that will make it better for you.

The game stays pretty much the same throughout until right towards the end where it takes a really weird twist.

It confused me a bit, but it was fairly fun.

As someone said, the game is repetitive, but you have to create your own fun, i'd say this isn't one of those games that holds your hand throughout but rather shoves you into Africa and tells you no more.

Sure it doesn't execute it that well, but it can be pretty fun.

It gets less interesting, to be honest. Act 2's map is pretty poorly designed on the whole compared to act 1's, and the sense that the world is very static and lacking in truly compelling scenarios to take part in only sets in more and more deeply (which, granted, I feel is reinforced by the poorly designed Act 2 map, as it just makes all the things that were fun in varying doses before - stealthing, sniping, blowing stuff up, running and gunning, driving, finding diamonds, etc. - not as fun anymore). Also, in the second act you start to buy all the rest of the weapons at the gun shops, and it becomes pretty clear that the manner of the categorization of the weapons is disappointingly limiting if you like to outfit yourself in any number of ways for different missions (not to mention the lack of usefulness to quite a few of the weapons).

Far Cry 2 is no more repetitive than GTA or Mercenaries. Neither of those have interesting stories - in fact - GTA stories are actually unappealing.

Far Cry 2 is a sandbox game that doesn't tell you how to make it interesting, you have to learn how to mix it up. It took me about 10 hours to realize I didn't have to fight at every checkpoint.

I like it.

Born_Lucky

Far Cry 2 was cool for about the first 20 minutes when there was stuff actually happening. If I recall there was that opening scene on rails where the guide talks to you, then the outbreak of the civil war and then you collapse. After that the game was ****.

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Far Cry 2 is no more repetitive than GTA or Mercenaries. Neither of those have interesting stories - in fact - GTA stories are actually unappealing.

Far Cry 2 is a sandbox game that doesn't tell you how to make it interesting, you have to learn how to mix it up. It took me about 10 hours to realize I didn't have to fight at every checkpoint.

I like it.

dakan45

Ive finished it, mostly because I hate to own a game I havent finished (if it is possible to do so).

It does not get a whole lot more interresting untill the last few hours, but those will only make you dislike the game even more.

It irks me quite a bit that the team behind the game had some really really good ideas, and the story thry would have been able to tell would have been decent, but the design flaws and poor direction and pacing ment that story and other things went to waste. btw: last 2 hours or so are pretty nice, except there is a great disconnect that no one would be able to explain in any way O.o

I finished it, I personally enjoyed it. It's only as fun as you make it. Try crazy raid tactics or try and create the biggest fire ever. That's where I had the most fun.gamerguy845