An amazing open world action game with hours of enjoyment waiting to be had!
What is the plot of Far Cry 2? Why are you in Africa? Well, in the beggining of the game, you get to pick between a bunch of different mercenaries. The other ones are thrown into the game world, and will pop up at random times in the game. You will build bonds with them, and they will help you. They all help you try to achieve your goal. Anyone guess what that is? To kill the Jackal, an arms dealer who has benn arming these two sides in this conflict in Africa. The two sides are the UFLL and the APR. You except mission from both sides in hopeing to try and get more information about the Jackal. These mission of course will have you running all around a iant map takeing place in Africa. The story in Fr Cry2 is not super interesting, but it is enough to inform you about what is happening.
What type of game is Far Cry 2? It does not have anything to do with the original Far Cry or any of the spin offs. Far Cry 2 is a croos breed between an open world RPG and a first person shooter. You take mission and explore a giant map, but the gamecontrols a lot like a first person shooter. The mission are not super interesting, but how you accomplish them is. Most people will say Far Cry 2 is repetative, and it is a bit. The mission are normally go kill this guy, or blow up this, or steal this. But how you acoomplish them is really interesting and fun. Now lets talk about Oblivion for a second. Now most of the mission in the game involve going through some sort of cave or mine, though there are a lot of mission that don't, most do. NOw imagone if you wnt through that game and only used swords. NOw would that kind of be the same as driving to a camp in Far Cry 2 and just going in there guns blazing. Now I know Oblivion had a fast travle in it, and Far Cry 2 doesn't, But I will talk about that problem later. But would that get a bit repetative. Well I guess it depends who is playing the game, but it would get repetative, but in oblivion, you could try useing stealth or a bow and arrows or magic. You get my point. Far Cry has multiple ways that you can tackle your objectives. You could go in with a shot gun and heavy macine gun and a bunch of mines and just blow the place to heel and kill everyone. Or you could go in with a silenced sub machine gun and pistol, and a dart rifle, and you trusty machete, and avoid every one or take them out silently. Far Cry 2 is about strategy as well as blowing everything up. You get to do a lot of both. Far Cry 2 is a game that you can play many ways, like other open world games should be. Only in Far Cry 2, it is a bit different.
To help you in your mission, you hve plenty of fire arms, and ways to upgrade them, and a handful of vehicles to get you to places. Weapons include assault rifles, sniper rifles, grenade launchers, shot guns, mines, RPG's, pistols, UZI's, flame throwers, etc. Flame Throwers are one of the funnest weapons to use. Judgeing by how the wind is, the fire that you start will burn in that direction. You can use it to burn enemies out of their camps, or just to unleash your inner pyro maniac. The vehicles are cool to. You have jeeps and cars, and boats, and hang gliders, which are all great to use to help your win your batlles and complete your mission. You could drive in on a jeep and use its turret, or silently drop in with your hang glider and eliminate your enemies. There are just so many ways to play this game.
Now with all the options you have, this game would not be hard with out great A.I. The A.I in this game is really good, and better than most games out there. They will flank, jump in vehicles and try to run you over or just gun you down. They will drag wounded away, or try to heal them. The A.I in Far Cry 2 is so hard to predict, because, since the game is open world, they will attack from different locations every time. They will do their best to make sure that you do not survive.
Now Far Cry 2's graphics are simple EYE MELTING!!!!!!!!!! Even on the Xbox 360 and PS3, and they look even better on a high end PC. Everything from the environment to the weapons look absolutely amazing. The trees and the bushes and grass look amazing swinging back in forth from the wind, and they look good when Far Cry 2's amazing fire effects kick in and set them a blaze. The weapons look amazing, and when the get old, they will start to rust up, jam, and even break. the vehicles look good. The explosions all look amazing, and you will be seeing a lot of them. Character models look pretty good, though they are repeated a bit. There are hardly any pop in textures in this game. Only when a small rock covered in grass might pop up. But if you look at land a distance away, you will see a bunch of trees, and if you zoom in, you will see every blade of grass. When you are injured in Far Cry 2, you either take an injection, or self heal yourself by pulling out a bullet or scrap of metal, or by snapping a broken bone back into place. These animations all look amazing. There is also wildlife in Far Cry, though there are only about three different types of animal, and some massive bugs that will sometimes land on your boat as you are riding down the river, they all look realistic and the act real to.
The sound in this game is really good. A burning fire sounds great, and just the sounds of the world around you sound real. Guns shots and explosions sound down right great. Vehicles sound great when they are driving. The music has the African twist to it and that sounds great. The voice acting is good, though people tend to talk a bit to fast. But is still sounds good. Over all, this is a great sounding game.
Now Far Cry 2 does have its flaws. For one, the game can get a bit repetative, unless you try to do different things, which is the way you probably should play it. Another problem is that giant hill seperate sections of land, and since you can't climb over them, then you just have to go around them. If you kill a bunch of enemies at a guard post, then in five minutes, they will respawn, and that can get a bit annoying. Also, there is no fast travel, so you have to drive every where, unless you take a bus, but there are only five buses on the map, and you can only travel to other nus stations. Also, you can only save at save stations, or right after you complete a mission. So is kind of sucks that you can't save out in the middle of some place, like in most open world games.
If you are not playing the single player, then you can play the multi player, and thankfully, the multi player is fun and deep, unlike other shooters that jst have multi player basically just thrown on. You play multi player, and rank up. As you rank up, you get diamonds, which you can apply to a certain class to get more weapons. There are a ton of maps to play. There are only four modes which are deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the diamond, and uprising. Uprising is a game were you have a leader, and your leader has to capture a few points on the battlefield, kind of like in a Battlefield game, only that only one person can capture the point. The other players have to protect the player that is the captain. If you are tired of the many maps that they give you in Far Cry 2, then you can use the easy to use, very deep map editor, and create your own maps to play on. There are so many options, that I don't even now where to start. You can cutomize the terrain, and place tons of trees and grass and rivers, and vehicles, and buildings, and even things that just make the environment look good. The map editor will keep you makeing maps for a long time if you get into it. Far Cry 2's multi player is awesome, though it may come a little short compared to Call of Duty, it is still awesome and a lot of fun.
Far Cry 2 is simplely one of the best games to come out this year. Weather you are looking for a great deep single player, of a deep multi player, or a map editor for you to build a bunch of maps and then invite your friends or random people and just play on those, you have to give this game a try. It blew me away, and if you try to play this game a little different every time, and soak in the amazing graphics, and get hooked on the awesome multi player, then you will have a blast playing this game. In my oppinion, Far Cry 2 has raised the bar to a new level for open world action games, and shooter in general, and is one fo the greatest games out there, in my oppinion. This is one game that you simplely have to try!