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Editorial Review:
Exploring 20 square miles of African savannah and jungle is never an easy task. But when you’re up against an army of highly trained mercenaries, the danger becomes unimaginable. Welcome to the world of Far Cry 2.
Far Cry 2 has some of the best explosions in the business
Vehicles are great for cover as well as transport
It’s best to keep some of the game’s factions on your side
The environmental graphics are both stunning and highly varied
It’s been over four years since the release of the first Far Cry, and Far Cry 2 has almost nothing in common with it beyond being a first-person shooter with excellent graphics and advanced artificial intelligence. It’s by a different developer, and you now play one of eight different mercenary characters out to catch an arms dealer nicknamed “The Jackal.”
The sci-fi enemies have also been jettisoned in favour of a much more realistic game where survival skills are just as important as a good aim. The rules of engagement--either by stealth or all guns blazing--are entirely up to you.
Key Features
Virtual safari: The game features 20 square miles of terrain for you to travel, filled with realistic fauna and flora and fully destructible trees and buildings.
Fiery realism: With an all-new graphics engine created just for the game, fire moves and propagates exactly as in real-life, with vegetation breaking and snapping realistically.
The coming storm: A dynamic weather system changes to reflect your mood, with the sky turning dark and stormy during bad times.
Jungle survival: Highly realistic weapons degrade with use, bullets need to be dug out of your body, and vehicles break down if pushed beyond their limits.
Buying friends: Meet and co-operate with fellow mercenaries as you pit different factions against one another in a war-torn African state.
About the Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Ubisoft’s huge development studio in Canada has created many of the French publisher’s biggest hits, including the Splinter Cell,/i> series, the modern Prince of Persia games, Rainbow Six: Vegas, Assassin’s Creed, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja and the Far Cry sequels and spin-offs.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
Disappointment Due to the fuss over the 5 installs only we shall not be purchasing the game as we like to play then go onto something else and go back to the game later. I think this "security" measure is stupid and we are therefore voting with our pockets!
DRM!!!!!!!! Why can't they realise that their sales would be doubled or even tripled if they remove this "VIRUS"!! Yet again the PC gamer gets a kick between the legs!!
It's a classic Sadly I am too dumb to understand all the protection stuff, I bought this game because I loved FC 1 and this sounded interesting. I am about half way through it and think that is sufficient to offer a view on if it is worth getting as it is a complex and surprisingly involving game. It is different from the original as it is a blend of FPS and role play set in a vast African landscape. You arrive to kill a gun dealer but things go wrong and you end up taking a variety of jobs to keep you in medicine... more info
Why complain about DRM? There's a pretty good reason for this. Amazon ships literally thousands of these games, so an extreme negative reaction on the review pages to the game's restrictive DRM is a necessary and deliberate way for consumers (that's US) to register their objections to any attempt to limit the installation of a fully-paid, properly licensed copy of the game. You wouldn't buy an CD or DVD that restricted the amount of times you could watch or listen to, would you? Many of us will change PC's, re-install... more info
Far Cry 2 has some of the best explosions in the business
Vehicles are great for cover as well as transport
It’s best to keep some of the game’s factions on your side
The environmental graphics are both stunning and highly varied
