Far Cry 2

[EverBlue]

so.. what is Far Cry 1/2 about or what makes it special? Cos to me it just looks like an FPS where you run around in a photo realistic landscape... thats it?

You are a gun for hire, trapped in a war-torn African state, stricken with malaria and forced to make deals with corrupt warlords on both sides of the conflict in order to make this country your home.

You must identify and exploit your enemies' weaknesses, neutralizing their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and of course brute force.

Fire Feel the heat of the most realistic fire ever seen in a video game! Use wind and propagation to surround and trap your enemies. Grab your Molotov cocktails or flamethrowers to take out your enemies.
Destructible environment No more obstacles: Everything is breakable and alterable, even in Multiplayer mode. The DUNIA engine's RealTree technology also delivers the most realistic nature deterioration system ever.
Open world Experience real freedom while roaming in more than 50km2 without any loading. Choose your own path in this vast environment and explore a living African world.
A huge adventure Fight for two rival factions, and make your way up to your primary target by any means necessary. Take on over 70 side missions to earn valuable information, new weapons and vehicles.
Non-scripted artificial intelligence Medics will drag wounded soldiers to safety. Grunts will come to fear you. Your reputation and in-game actions will make enemies drop their guns and run for their lives. Feel the tension of never knowing just how an enemy will react.
MULTIPLAYER Challenge your friends but watch your backyou never know who your true friends are and who might betray you! All the single player technical features are also present in multiplayer mode.

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[Lupusy]

sounds like a nice enormous playground....


but im always a bit worried about photorealistic games -- its begining to sound too much like real hard life.

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[EverBlue]

This game is a blast.
To put it simply, it's a sandbox game.
You choose which missions to do, how to do them, etc etc.
Hell, you don't even have to do them if you don't want, but some further the storyline, and some are needed to keep you alive.
You've got a bad case of malaria, and when you run out of pills to keep it at bay, you need to get more.
The buddy system is interesting. Just a bunch of NPCs that'll help you out, develop different plans to do missions, and there's one buddy that will "rescue" you if you fall in battle.
The fire in the game is amazing, though. You could be setting an ambush for an enemy convoy, and decide to coat the surrounding area in molotovs, creating a fiery hell for your opponents, but if you're not careful, the brush fire could end up surrounding you.
Been playing this game for about 3 hours now, and I haven't even scratched the surface. Hell, I spent 5 minutes chasing a zebra with a machete.. He got away, though.:(

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[monstruo696]

Just wondering if anyone's got FC2 yet, have they used the map editor? whats the SP like? Gogogo, released today!

Heard it was pretty good. Apparently the only gripes reviewers had were texture and model pop-ins in some heavily populated areas, but being a mainly PC game, that might get fixed/improved. Even so I doubt it'll break the game for you.

And for the 2 guys still complaining, don't be ignorant. If you're going to make a claim, make sure you at least have a source to base it from so you don't sound like a total jerk.

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[Enko]

It outperforms Crysis and Crysis Warhead, I can actually play it on my laptop at near perfect graphics without the ugh Crysis does to it to reduce it down to a medium setting, and with a few ajustments you can reduce the popup to nil just like in Warhead.

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[Tinky57]

Zygoeths, have you even played it? they ditched the Hawaiian shirt after FC1. Far Cry is not made by the same team that made Crysis (Although it would have been better if it had) they just run on the same engine (i think). Also if you have ever played through Crysis or Warhead you would realize Crysis has an really good story and the gameplay is absolutely AWESOME.

Meh, i think its definitely undercooked. Three more months of production and i could have been a great game. It has a lot of potential but seeing as there is no SDK it probably will never live up to that. If you ever played STALKER without mods, that is what this is like. There are moments that make you think it could be awesome but also so much repetitiveness and lots of glitches spoil it. One good thing about it is it took a leaf out of COD4's book and it is totally immersive which i think is a good thing. But that doesn't make up for the fact that the AI is terrible, missions are EXTREMELY repetitive, Animals cant even be shot in the head and they don't have dying physics, the fire (although still pretty damn awesome) is not effective at all and dies out after about one minute and although the enticed us with and promised us open savanna and the like probably 70 percent of the map that is actually used is jungle land. In my opinion it was released 3 months too early (got it the night it came out) and although i have pretty much criticized everything about it, its still better than 70 percent of games that have come out this year (Thats just my opinion, PC gamer gave it 94!).
Although i would never put it past Ubisoft Montreal to make an average game out of an amazing and awesome idea after Assassins Creed, lets just help they build on it like they did with Prince of Persia.

By the way the level editor is really cool, even a 9 year old could use it because its sooooo user friendly. Unfortunately like most user friendly and easy to learn programs it doesn't have much depth and you cant edit single player at all.

Im going to stick to warhead and the crytek sandbox2

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