Highly ambitious, but didn't impress as much as I'd hoped.
The real dealbreaker for me were 2 things: one is the annoying travelling across the map, and the second is the LACK OF RAGDOLL PHYSICS in the XBOX 360 version.
At first getting to travel around the African savannah in a jeep sounds like a great gameplay addition, but needless to say it gets very repetitive and dull quickly. It was an absolute pain to have to drive from location to location to see the next plot twist. An average of 2 to 5mins are wasted between each firefight or action sequence or story reveal before the next thing happens. After you weigh it up, you realise it's just not worth it.
I couldn't believe that Far Cry 2 360 took out the ability to shoot dead bodies and move them! Any game that tries to call themself a shooter needs to have FULL ragdoll physics, in motion and when static. Far Cry 1 had this, Crysis had it, Steam games have it, Gears of War has this and GTA4 does too. This extra level of interactivity, while may seem trivial, is a big factor for me. Why did they go to the trouble of modelling trees and plantlife that can be shot up to sh*t (quite realistically too) but took out the same level of realism for dead bodies?
I was really looking forward to hunting down wildlife in this game, but when you actually try it you'll be disappointed. When you shoot a zebra or a wildebeast they just topple over unconvincingly like a block of animal-shaped wood. They don't react like a wounded animal or struggle or collapse realistically at all.
All in all, the game does bring some nice graphics, good weapons modelling, grand landscape and relatively complex storyline. But pacing and interactivity let it down. I sold my copy on ebay after 4 weeks and only 12 hours of play time.