Far Cry® 2 Reviews

Pros: - Genuinely some of the best fps sandbox gameplay I have ever witnessed: the stealth is simple but effective, and going all out guns blazing feels really good. - The explosion physics and the fire: The way that a single molotov can burn an entire guard post down or how the fire spreads in the direction of the wind, how everything on your screen reacts to the explosions, car doors flying, a hundred leaves that are blown up from the ground and trees by an explosion. The destruction is absolutely insane at times. - The best part by far is how no matter how many times you go through the same camp, it somehow always feels different, be it your guns, playstyle, use of utility, your vehicle of choice, clearing guard posts in this game never gets old. Cons: - Buggy as shit: In a time where when a game was released it was done and never touched upon again, Far cry 2 is probably the worst example of how the industry worked back then. Softlocking, levitating npcs, npcs that move rapidly back and forth, or can't stop wiggling their heads. The game isn't poorly optimized just unpolished as shit. - Incredibly repetitive mission design: Go kill this dude, blow this place up. The gameplay loop is really tight, but the reason the gameplay happens is boring and unimaginative, level design in story mission related locations is mostly good, but the objectives are just bad, and don't even get me started with the classic Ubisoft side "content". - Forgettable villain and story: There's a good reason why everyone knows Vaas, but no one knows the Jackal, a lot of Far Cry villains have a habit of getting very little screen time, but The Jackal shows up like 5 times in the whole game. The story is as great as the objectives of it's missions, it's enough to get you going, but nothing of substance. Last but not least the illusion of choice the game gives you ten minutes before the credits roll doesn't make a difference in literally anything, not even a damn cutscene. That's real fucking low, even for 2008. It doesn't even say anything about manipulation or how you "Never had any choice in the first place", because the lack of impact and the lack of good and evil in the midst of a civil war (Which is a good theme in the game) was made very clear in the 20+ hours before you got to make the final "decision", that doesn't change the ending, or your preception of anything. The ending is just buns. Simple as that. Overall great gameplay and sandbox elements, forgettable and boring story.

Can't believe Cyberpunk 2077 copied the malaria mechanic and "terrorist in your head" from this game (I recommend installing the "Realism+ Redux" mod if you want to run this game properly)

The game itself is fantastic, but in typical Ubislop fashion the game is a technical dumpster fire. I installed it to my steam deck to try it out, and I disliked how it controlled, so I tried deleting it, only to realize that every time I tried doing so the game would boot up and the menus would be completely broken, necessitating a hard shutdown of the system by holding the power button. Eventually the only way to could figure out how to delete this broken mess from my system was by factory resetting it. I’d say I’m shocked at how broken this POS is, but Ubisoft has ALWAYS done a terrible job at supporting old PC releases of their games, so I suppose the jokes on me for believing otherwise. A shame to, as Far Cry 2 is actually a great game.

It pains me to leave a negative review for such a great game, but its technical state on modern systems is perhaps the worst I've seen so far from an old title. This is one of the most crash-prone games I've ever played, it crashes left and right and no fixes I've tried have resolved this problem. On top of that, you have to limit the game to 60 FPS or else it starts falling apart. There are way older games than this which are far more stable, including the original Far Cry game from 2004.

PC version doesn't work on modern hardware and crashes 5 minutes into it. And there are no patches that i can find to fix it. Play it on an emulator instead.

Far cry was not good until far cry 3. The intro is broken, everyone was literally jumping 10 feet in the air, and when I tried to uninstall the game it booted up and started playing itself.

One of my all-time favorite games (when I was a college student) <3. Haven't played it in years and I still love all the variety in the game with weapons and vehicles (plus their performance / physics), challenging missions, etc. Most of all I love this game for its atmosphere and music. The only game that competes with this atmosphere is the STALKER series. The improvement in narrative, dialogue and voice acting compared to FC1 is night and day. But, for the love of god, if you're playing this game now, add the Realism+ Redux mod. It improves performance and graphics, fixes the glitchy mess of a game it often is, adds random weapons NPCs carry and stops them from being boss battles. If you want a better experience (unless you want to experience the vanilla suffering), add this mod.

It's good, just make sure when starting the game you don't get malaria otherwise you might as well restart your entire game because it will make your life hell.

in typical ubisoft fashion. THey're selling you a game that doesn't work anymore. The controls, graphics, and missions are bugged to the point that you cannot progress further in the game. If you uninstall it, it boots the game up. how do you even botch something this badly as a "AAAA" developer?

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