FarCry 2

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Anyone played it? Anyone like it? Hate it?

Personally.. fire is for the win, more so than any other game I've ever played
And I can verify.. the scenery really does actually look exactly like Africa.

I actually picked that up today, my brother gave it to me for christmas. Pretty good. A little hard though. The guns are cool.

That toughness is deliberate. Its much more realistic in its damage levels, and the AI is as crafty as it is devious

the only bad things i heard about it in a noobtoob review which is my main source for game reviews was that the character AI is hyper sensitive and can detect you to easily when your trying to be stealthy also i think they said there's some endless enemy AI respawning in areas even when you have already conquered the areas but one reviewer gave it a big thumbs up and one down because of the issues mentioned above




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[quote="paganita"]the only bad things i heard about it in a noobtoob review which is my main source for game reviews was that the character AI is hyper sensitive and can detect you to easily when your trying to be stealthy also i think they said there's some endless enemy AI respawning in areas even when you have already conquered the areas but one reviewer gave it a big thumbs up and one down because of the issues mentioned above




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Neither of these make the game bad. In fact, I reckon it makes it better.

Havent played it yet, but it looks really good.

I thought there was too much hype surrounding Far Cry 2 that made expectations get so stratostrophic it became a disappointment for me.

Firstly, for all the fantastic terrain, there isn't enough life out there to complete the complete immersion into the game world that was achievable in Far Cry 2. The environment scores a 12/10 from me for being able to reach out of the monitor and yank me right into the game world.

The plot was decent, I thought. Not epic, not superb, but it was unique and instilled a sense of despair on how screwed up things usually are in Africa. There're many parallels with the film, Blood Diamond, where you can see plenty of things happening in the game that would've drawn chuckles from the characters in Blood Diamond and quipped, "TIA", or, This Is Africa. It really drove me to figure how fortunate we in the West and the First World nations are in comparison to the Africans.

As for the weapons, how the shell ejection could be on the left completely blew the immersion factor for me. First off, it's impractical to have shell casings eject out by the left. They're hot as heck upon discharge and they can sting and hurt your face. However, the M16 jam animation was probably the most impressive FPS weapon animation I've ever witnessed, that perfectly re-enacted how any trained personnel would've handled a jam (that happens too often IRL) with the AR-15 platform.

Combat was okay, the NPCs happened to have eyes on their back just like in the first Far Cry, so it's really tough to play it all sneaky-like. Can't even have a silenced weapon and expect it to be easy, because it's head shots or if you end up with a body shot, target yells out and alerts everyone. And the most amusing combat event of all was how the RPG screwed up (which also happens quite frequently IRL), where the round just burst out, rocket failed to ignite and fell to your feet. Run away!

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Yeah im definitly gonna buy it.

Farcry 2 is the more boring of the boring, the intro alone put me to sleep.

Because....? Put reason to your rhyme.. why do you think it dull?

I found it frustrating to play, endless cutscenes you cant skip. Also the "open" world its touted to be is just a winding maze of roads, be damn careful you dont crash your 4x4 or your in for one huge walk, and i mean walk, you cant run for more than a few feet.

The graphics are amazing but the gameplay is poor IMO. 1 hour of treking 1 min of getting shot, mainly because you were just too loud running...err walking up the road towards your objective. Im too impatient to be sneaky for miles before i get somewhere.

If you like CS style run and gunning or super stealthy gameplay it might be ok...only if you can get through the endless cutscenes.

I LOVE THIS GAME!! !! the online play needs sorting out becuase i lost my rank of i changed games but other than that everything is great, it may be a 10/10 from me if they fixed the online ranking, and add a coop feature

The cutscenes are only really long for the first few scenes. It gets much more freeroaming, to the point where you dont actually have to listen to the mission parameters at all sometimes. Admittedly the distance on foot is an utter b***h, but lets be honest, there is a great deal of f**k all in Africa in real life, and one of the facets of the game is working out safe routes, and where there are going to be vehicles. Its also possible to steam straight into checkpoints and such, all guns blazing.. its just a lot harder to avoid being killed. A crafty driver can mow down two or three bad guys before you even get out of the car. As you unlock other firepower the options get even broader. Using a Blooper against a charging jeep is awesome.. so long as you dodge the falling burning jeep it makes.

The world itself is a lot of valley, true, but there are lots of open plains too, and the valleys hide some fun surprises.

And at 40 quid a game, I like having a LARGE place to play, and this is LARGE.