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| Far Cry 2 | 
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| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $49.99
New (27) Used (6) from $28.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  191 reviews
Sales Rank: 772
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 68408
Model: 68408
UPC: 008888684084
EAN: 0008888684084
ASIN: B000X9FV5M
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Better then expected! January 8, 2009
Far Cry 2 ...way better gaming expirience than expected.
This is the first game that has "free roaming" down to a science!
You are not bound by any rails or rail like missions, excellent!
The graphics are superb and rival those of Crysis, but without the drag on your PC's resources.
Initially the learning curve to figure out how to approach and obtain missions was a bit difficult, but after a few minutes with the game, became second nature.
Replay value is equally high. Overall a rewarding expirience for the casual and hard core gamer alike!
Well done. Worth every dollar!
The well hyped DRM/securom did not bother this reviewer a bit and remained well in the background without causing any problems.
 Watch out for the ending.....? January 8, 2009
When it comes down to it, gameplay was ok, graphics were good but demanding, sound was actually good if you have 5.1 speakers, guns and physics were mediocre, missions were a little challenging, and save before you get to the prison with the jackel. Overall, there could have been great improvements made to stand to play the game when everything is said and done.
 Drive here do this...Drive here do this...Driver here do this. January 7, 2009
I was looking forward to this game but it's a "Farcry" from anything I was expecting (I know, probably the 100th time that was used).
Do you want to know what this entire game is? Get a mission, drive across the map, kill. Get a mission, drive across the map, kill. Okay, okay...Sometimes you gotta blow something up, after you get done killing. And most of the time you gotta kill guards at check points to get to your mission...The same guards you just killed on the last mission. And the driving blows after a while, boring.
Thing is, it's the same thing over and over and over and over and....You get the point.
You are supposed to be hunting this arms dealer named the "Jackle" to STOP him from arming two factions so they stop killing each other right? So what do your missions entail? Simple, you get a mission from one faction, and it's to kill the other and viseversa. Wait, I thought I was supposed to help them to stop killing each other...But to do so, I gotta kill them? Hundreds of them?!?!
I don't think I'm gonna finish this one because I already know the ending and here it goes. The Jackle ends up in the unemployment line and on food stamps because he has no one to sell guns to anymore because I freakin killed them all! At least thats how I assume its going to end.
Now, for the positve. The graphic are pretty dam impressive at max settings. The physics are great and attention to detail is very cool. But see this is the problem...You have AWESOME programmers and HORRIBLE writers.
The writers really need to be replaced with people better suited to dream up games...It's like a hot rod with every thing under the hood to blow every one away, but the driver is a doof. Can't blame the mechanics.
And want to dominate this game? Use the Spas12, get in close and you will annihilate every one. Why? Because 20 rounds from an AK-47 into the chest of a tank-top wearing bad guy isn't enough to bring them down. Can you say "WTF"?
*OR*...this game was built as an multiplayer "Unreal/Quake" game with solo play as an after thought? I don't know, it just sugz.
Save your money...I'm glad I got mine free with my video card.
 Far Cry 2 - not top FPS but good value for $$ single play January 7, 2009
Far Cry 2 - Over all good game....8/10 - not the best in the class but much better than playing your others over again. Very good value for money in terms of $$ per hour of play.
I have played all the FPS shooters to come along over the years (All PC) and love the Genre. I Bought FC2 along with Fallout 3 and Call of Duty WaW ...Far Cry won the toss and got installed first. I was a little hesitant about it at first as I thought I might be put off by the role play element in the game, but it turned out not a true worry. The role play on the whole adds to the immersion and gives you some structure in a non-linear game. The big drum of marketing for Far Cry 2 was the open landscape - you are in a small African country under civil unrest and you can fight for yourself, either side, the resistance, or all of the above as you see fit.
World: Yes it is open to a large degree as you have the whole country to play in at your leisure....but no more so than Crysis or Fall Out 3. I never felt overly restricted by linier FPS games (Doom, quake, COD4, Half-life, et. al.) so the openness was not all that revolutionary to me...and it does have a down side....redundancy. You spend a lot of time retracing your steps and covering (fighting over) the same ground. Not a bad thing necessarily...but a trade off. Weather was a nice touch - wind, rain storms, etc. as was the time movement....the days move along as you play and you get day, sunset, night, and then sun rise as you play through.
Graphics: Good but not stunning. Better than Half-life, not as good as Crysis or COD4. Crysis had a nock of being a load for the system...not so, I ran it just fine...FarCry2 actually was harder to run with full everything.
Quality: Glitches etc....The auto update feature has issues and needs to be "aborted" to play most days, the game loads really slowly, and hangs often requiring a system reboot (win non vista), also hangs on "load game", several times on load - the graphics engine had issues...clipping, sheets, lines, what looked like twenty feet high wads of colored paper(?) requiring a game restart to clear. When it loaded, and ran, it was good.
Game Play: AI, etc. I am not typical for this space as I like single play as much as online...and most new games short change the single player to wow everyone with the online play. This was VERY good play for the money. COD4MW was 8 hours tops before you were into online games....FarCry2 is at 30hrs and I have still not found everything and completed every mission. The play is pretty good, lots of action - and you can manage the redundancy (after you figure out what is going on as the manual and help sucks - as is usual for these games) with travel by armed Jeep, then bus, then water, and different mission selection to add variance. Or you can just fight your way across the land repeatedly and enjoy the heck out of killing as much as you like. Once you clear a safe house it is yours, but expect towns, checkpoints, etc to get reinforced with new troops if you are gone for very long. The AI is good but not great...if you need more go online and fight people. The AI was mid pack...as in most of these games easy to figure out what the bad guys will do and then set them up for failure (better than Quake, equal to Crysis or COD4mw as I remember it). The bad guys (everyone you see really) are very aggressive....you may well lose "running in guns blazing" unless you are a top player...if you sneak, snipe, funnel, and ambush you will handle them pretty easily.
Ok game play, but disappointing graphics January 6, 2009
The game play on this was ok.
It tries to be a RPG FPS, but fails in the role playing part.
As a first person shooter, the game was fine.
The quest game play tries to be open and tries to let you do what you want, but he quests eventually run out and the game becomes linear again (which doesn't take long).
It took me longer than normal to finish this game. If you do all the quests and look for all the Easter Eggs, the game becomes very extensive.
The biggest disappointment was the graphics.
They may have been trying to do a style of graphics, but it just didn't work out for me. It felt the graphics was from 2000'ish, and took a step backwards from Farcry 1.
I picked up the game for $18 on a Black Friday deal, and for $18 it was entertaining. I would not buy this game at full price.
KH,
Boston
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