Hahahah, so friggin' derpy! Not my type of game, but I'm actually sold this time.

They've made a persuasive trailer, touché.

Can't a valid complaint be made to a(n) (inter)national consumer rights association?

Right. So. I'm glad I never got this game, woulda wasted my time. Maybe it IS overall better than the original, at doing what it's mainly for. Well, the original wasn't so ridiculously easy as he makes this one out to be, it actually had difficulty spikes at times that made it as much (dumbly) fun as frustrating.

The games are interesting in that you play an anti-hero in a The Hulk movie-like situation, where you're overwhelmingly powerful (grotesquely so) and rampaging, yet aren't the villain. But after the first game's been played, it's "been there, done that."

I might've gone for this, if it were about the original protagonist, Alex Mercer. I would've been interested in how his story develops, but apparently here he's become a bit of an antagonist himself, for some reason, conveniently giving us a replacement all-powerful sonuvab***h, a la vampire siring. Who happens to be a marine, OF COURSE. It was gonna be either that or a Delta Force, Ranger or SWAT cop, no doubt. Even a mercenary would've been more original (and you could still pretend that's why he can handle any and all types of weaponry and combat vehicles you come across).

Lol @ at the developer's logo. Re-released, but nothing new cept compatibilities, I presume, if nothing about the game itself is shown.

This kind of vid is quaint, but always fails to get thru to me much, knowing it's all acting. And the way they did this, well lol, it implies the game is particularly addictive, but overall not a good thing in people's lives. So if anything it could serve as a warning to anyone strange to it NOT to pick it up.

Re-read the second last paragraph, if you ever read it the first time.

Perhaps you should resist calling insulting names, even if indirectly, when pretending to mount the high horse.

Looking good, actually. A shame, all those shortcomings. I've actually been longing for a SimCity-esque game, it's been a while, me and management games. Never did play a SimCity, myself. This one just might be it, once it gets a good few patches, possibly with extra goodies to go along with it.

Funny, though, as VanOrd says, while not the pinnacle of the series, at least not in its current state, this might well be the pinnacle of examples in DRM irony. Because as it is, this game might be the one to most improve by getting cracked, more so than any other. Fail.

The ironic cherry on top of it all is that every game, sooner or later, gets cracked. A few of them with less features than the rest (e.g. Anno 2070 and its disabled ark storage/upgrades), not to mention multiplayer, but all cracked nonetheless.

I like how VanOrd chose to end the vid.

@Dredcrumb9 I hope it doesn't _regress_ to Far Cry 2 in whatever way. I haven't played yet, but I'd say I agree that he is a good villain. From what I have seen of him. A good villain isn't meant to scare you for the sake of scaring. A good villain merely has to be a good character playing the part of the villain, of the antagonist, and it feeling coherent. He does not have to be evil incarnate. I'd say that here, this villain is not meant to scare the player so much as impress the player. Whether by creeping him out, amusing him or even earning admiration (I can imagine it).
Describing him as a drug addicted, make-up wearing guy, as if that serves to prove something, falls through, to me. The less ordinary he is, for a villain, the more potentially interesting.

@Celsius765 @hadlee73 Right. Just like what he's been doing with Mario and Zelda, huh? Zealots... scourge of humanity.