Comments on: Far Cry 2 first impressions

By: mAFIUL

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:07:25 +0000

a GREAT PROBLEM IS Weapon Shop. If I can bye it from Manu’ it will be best. I cant go to Shop bY running a full map TO BYE GUN AND then come back for the mission!

By: Acbd

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:13:41 +0000

You all seem to be too distracted with realism. Don’t you prefer to have fun rather than walking across, or rather driving, the map just to find a doctor? And you think every console game has preset areas where you can save and no where else? i got news for you, its called 2009/2008/2007/2006 all the way back to whent he first xbox was created. Don’t try to tell me off either I’ve got both a computer and a xbox and a 360. I’ve played Crysis and it is awesome. Still though I think games like Call of Duty 4 and CoD: WaW are awesome. Oblivion and Fallout 3 are perfect rpgs with Sandbox themes and horrible gun aim in Fallout 3. I looked up the review to see whether it’s worth buying the game. Thank you for the time you put into writing the review, but from the normal buyers point of view, it sucked. Period.

By: Jas

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:39:30 +0000

I never played far cry 1 (apart from on xbox but lets not go there) because my pc was shit at the time but i did play crysis on a top range pc and boy was my life changed!! i dont know whether crysis spoiled me by raising the bar or whatever but far cry 2 just doesnt seem to live up to what i imagined. at no point did i ever feel crysis was getting repetive (even when it was) but far cry 2 is just bloody annoying now. every mission is the same!! drive half way accross the massive map at 20 mph… shoot other drivers along the way… collect a diamond… kill some dude with bad voice acting. i wish i could at least destroy some buildings to kill some boredom like in crysis, but no. infact the only reason im still playing the game is because i saw a trailer where the character is hang gliding and im just trying to get there. even though it looked pretty cool, im sure it’l get old fast. god i hate ubisoftand there power to destroy everything good they touch!

By: Huh?

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:36:03 +0000

Mafiul:The much bring part is Weapon Shop. If I can bye i t from Manu’ it will be best. I cant go to Shop but running a full map then come back for the mission!

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By: Mafiul

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:06:20 +0000

The much bring part is Weapon Shop. If I can bye i t from Manu’ it will be best. I cant go to Shop but running a full map then come back for the mission!

By: Cyde Weys

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:18:07 +0000

I can’t necessarily answer for Grokmoo, but I’ll try. Crysis uses “scifi realism”, in that most of its mechanics make sense with the basic assumptions that the technologies exist. Far Cry 2 doesn’t even have that kind of realism, as it bills itself as a modern-day shooter, yet there sure as hell isn’t any injection in the modern day that can instantly cure bullet wounds. At least with Crysis’s nano suit, there’s some self-consistent explanation for it.

I agree with you, health pickups are a good standard of the FPS genre, and that’s why you see them in everything. But there’s a recent “realism” trend towards dressing them up as other things that simply don’t make much sense. You’re right, it is a minor nitpick that doesn’t really have much bearing on how good the overall game is, but it is still a nitpick.

By: T2A`

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:00:43 +0000

Why do you keep comparing realistic things to Crysis? That game is friggin’ arcade mode all the way. D:

Also, would you prefer to heal up by sitting around sucking your thumb for a few seconds like every other recent shooter? Health pickups, no matter how they’re implemented, are better for gameplay, and it’s a hell of a lot easier to believe the use of a syringe over waiting ten seconds for your mortal bullet wounds to heal themselves.

By: Cyde Weys

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:36:27 +0000

Richard: Yeah, that definitely jives with what I’m reading in another series of user reviews (one, two, three). I haven’t played through it as far as Grokmoo has but I’m already getting bored of the repetitive driving around followed by killing a few people, then repeat ad nauseum with the occasional annoying guard post thrown in.

Yet the professional reviews give Far Cry 2 a rather unbelievable 88% on average. I don’t think the big game reviewers speak for us, the gamers, anymore. They’re too beholden to advertising dollars and AAA titles. That’s why I don’t really trust the professional reviews anymore. I rely on what people on smaller blogs and in forums are saying, and at the moment, that’s the only way to really get the truth about Far Cry 2.

By: Richard

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:20:46 +0000

I can confirm that even as you play this game it gets even more and more repetitive.

By: Cyde Weys

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:37:28 +0000

Most of the complaints on ye olde Reddit seem to stem from some kind of misplaced console gamer belief that nothing ever suffers from being designed for consoles and then ported over. Depending on the genre, different aspects of the game have to be changed when adapted for consoles, but there are always some changes. In the FPS genre the changes are especially noticeable. Compare the feel of, say, Half-Life 2 and Bioshock on the PC. Completely different. And I think it’d be hard to find anyone who preferred the latter.