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Far Cry 2 is undoubtedly a brilliant game. It's got wonderful graphics, an engaging storyline, impressive tech and mind-blowing open world goodness. So good is it, that we gave Ubisoft Montreal's FPS a whopping 9/10 in our review. But it's not perfect. Cue our Top 10: Ideas that will make Far Cry 3 a masterpiece, where we detail our ideas for the inevitable sequel. Ubisoft's already made mention that it's in the "preliminary stages", and that the Africa setting still has a "huge amount of promise", so, let the fun begin!
10. Savage beasts!
The animals in Far Cry 2 are brilliant. We've driven off the beaten track on more than one occasion just to ride alongside a pack of zebra. But the animals in Far Cry 2 are not dangerous. They're all passive. Assuming Far Cry 3 is also set in Africa, we'd like to see some aggressive animals thrown into the mix. How about lions and tigers and bears... oh my! (Perhaps not bears). What about having to contend with killer snakes, or spiders? We imagine it might get animal rights activists hot under the collar, but how cool would it be to have to worry about a savage lion eating your face, or a pack of monkeys assaulting your Jeep, as you speed away from a chasing army of soldiers?
9. Improve your ability to kill!
This one is more for the console versions of the game, rather than the PC version, which has much more precise controls with the keyboard and mouse. In the PS3 and 360 versions shooting in the first few hours of the game is very difficult. Much of this is down to the fact that your weapons are woeful, with recoil that makes accurate shooting nigh on impossible and durability that makes them break more often than not. The feeling that it's quite hard is exacerbated by the fact that the enemies are tougher to kill than the Terminator. Sure, head shots do the trick, but anything else feels like chucking flowers at a brick wall. The bad guys take loads of non head shot bullets before they go down, even on the normal difficulty. We'd like your enemy to react a little more realistically in the next Far Cry, and some subtle tweaking to the accuracy of the shooting in the console versions.
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Why is it then that most major reviewers give this game such an awesome review? There are a lot of people out there that have wasted a lot of money on this sorry excuse for a game based solely on glowing endorsements such as this one.
Is it because Ubisoft refuse to do future business with magazines and websites that don't give them good reviews? Surely not!
Apparantly Africa is an empty place devoid of life except massive amounts of white people and one or two black people who shoot at you on sight and have superhuman radar and bullet proof skin. Oh, and when you kill them, wait for about 30 seconds and most of the time they'll have re-spawned. Car tyes in Africa are indestructable, small huts and thin tress are also indestructable, oh and so are peoples legs. The fire propagation effects are above average but the fire looks unrealistic.
Missions are bugged, people are having to restart the entire game because NPCs are missing or doors are shut when they should be open etc.
Ubisoft lied about the majority of the features that the game would include so anyone who is looking to buy this game based on the hype and pre-releae videos please think twice. Ubisoft are now well known for lots of hype and communication before a release, then a complete and utter wall of silence after the release. They've got your money, they don't care anymore.
Like assassins creed, all the missions become dull and repetative after you've doen the first 2-3.
Mission 1: Go to the other end of the map...kill a group of people...return to base.
Mission 2: Go to another part of map...kill a load of people...return to base.
Mission 3: etc etc.
"Far Cry 2 is, from a technical perspective, absolutely brilliant. The propagating fire is mind blowing and the physics are second to none."
...Have you even played this game before reviewing it?
My verdict? Don't believe the hype, Far Cry 2 is awful. Read the forums and see what real end users say about the game, wait for the patch and save your money for a developer that deserves it. Play crysis, oblivion or stalker:clear sky. Little big planet for PS3, Fable 2 for xbox360. Dead Space is apparantly quite good...
-Jimbo
(Someone who wasted their hard earned money on this steaming turd of a game)
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ALL THE FORUMS I BEEN LOOKIN AT GAMESPOT, IGN AND VARIOUS OTHERS DISAGREE WITH YOUR COMMENT. FOR EVERY HATER ON THERE I CAN SEE DOUBLE, TRIPLE OR EVEN QUADRUPLE THE AMOUNT OF PRAISE THE GAME IS GETTIN. HAVE YOU EVEN BOTHERED TO PLAY THE GAME YOURSELF ??., OR ARE YOU ONE OF THESE PEOPLE WHO HUST TAKE NOTICE OF NEGATIVE COMMENTS. I HAVE BEEN PLAYIN THIS GAME ALL WEEK AND IN MY OPINION ITS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES IN TERMS OF DESIGN AND GAMEPLAY WISE I HAVE COME ACROSS, I I HAVE BEEN GAMIN SINCE THE EARLY DAYS OF THE ZX SPECTUM AND EVEN THE ZX81. BUT THEN U R PROBOBLY HUST ANOTHER 12 YEAR OLD CALL OF DUTY FAN WHO LIKES TO PLAY LINEAR SETPIECE SCRIPTED GAMES THAT REQUIRE NO INTELLIGENCE OR REAL CHALLENGE TO PLAY. I HOPE THIS IS THE FUTURE OF FPS GAMES. BRILLIANT IN MY OPINION.
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I got the game from the glowing reviews and it really grates it's no merc 2 shambles but the things they have skipped made it hard to continue a playthrough. A good game but not great it really is marmite. Ubisoft titles from now on i will have to think twice before i buy, now should i play this game or trade in i cannot decide.
MP stinks.
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Try the official ubisoft forum:
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/1521068375
I'm glad you enjoy the game, are you playing on PC, xbox360 or PS3?
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For instance, if you assign the 'USE' key to anything other than the 'E' key then you can't get off mounted turrets. NPCs are missing or you can't get access to them meaning you're stuck at certain points of the game. Many people crash every 10-20 minutes on modern PCs.
NPCs re-populate camps too fast - there's no immersion to killing a load of people and then returning to the same camp a minute later to find the camp fully populated.
When John Rambo set those awesome traps up in the first movie that took out those hunters...did he turn around after they'd been killed and find them chasing him again 30 seconds later? No, they stayed dead! Did he have to shoot men 7-8 times at point blank range just to get them to die?
If this game is so non-linear, why is there only one way to play it that's fun?
My real gripe is that many of the magazines and websites failed to warn us of all these things and instead tell us how totally awesome the game is when it's clearly a fairly OK console game and a way below average PC FPS.
Once again, I'm glad you liked it but check out the reviews on amazon from other users: (If you can't be bothered, at least look at the average score from 92 reviews, hint: it's awful, 64 people have given it a '1')
http://www.amazon.com/Far-Cry-2-Pc/d...5394492&sr=8-2
I've seen so much hype and such good reviews everywhere for this game and it turns out to be rubbish for a LOT of people and yet it seems that anyone reviewing it is giving it top marks! I honestly don't understand it unless ubisoft have told them they HAVE to give it good marks unless they won't get access to future releases, which ubisoft are well known to do.
We all rely on magazines and websites such as this to tell us if games are worth paying for but if they're forced to give good reviews then we, the general public are being cheated out of our cash.
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http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=...UserId=5379799
It's short but a good read.
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BlackberryJism, I'm glad that you like the game but at what point did I say I had a prior dislike for ubisoft? I got exited and sucked in by the hype just as much as the next person. I went out and bought Far Cry 2 just like you didn't I? It didn't live up to my expectations just like it didn't live up to a LOT of peoples expectations and there are no reviews that reflect that, they are ALL positive!
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Other than that the only thing that pisses me off, as with many modern FPS' is the lack of NON-online multiplayer. I love playign co-op when the person is BESIDE me, not some 10 year old signign into the mic. And i love playing agaisnt bots in classic FPS style with a few of my friends. WHY HAVE THEY KILLED OFF ONE OF THE GREATEST ASPECTS OF FPS'!?
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I totally understand getting attacked when you enter a restricted area or other special zones where you could be interpretted as an intruder, but it seems more logical to me that the AI out in the open environment would be disinterested in you unless you threatened them.
It cracks me up everytime a little economy car pulls up beside me on the road and tries to run me off for no reason and then gets out and starts firing a weapon. What did I ever do to you sir?
I'm looking forward to the "Next-Gen" iteration of this game in 2011/2012 moreso than I am Far Cry 3 which will almost certainly be a current gen game. Atleast then they'll have the horsepower to take destructibility and atmospherics to a new level and possibly even exceed the standard that Crysis set.
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