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3.0 stars
"Huge playground, small jungle-gyms"
Pros: The landscape in this game is nothing short of breathtakingly beautiful. It is highly representative of Africa with jungles, plains, deserts, shanty towns, shody bridges and unused railway tracks, burning cars and rusty old weapons and vehicles.
Cons: Everything in Far Cry 2 is almost perfect, but nothing in this game is actually perfect. Whether its a rusty car that works exactly like a brand new Jeep Wrangler, or first mission of the game to the last, it becomes very repetitive very quickly.
Summary: Far Cry 2 sends you to Africa within seconds of it loading up. You immediately feel dirty, alone and far from civilisation. The characters and landscape are immediately threatning, and you begin to look for the exit immediately.
As soon as you are left to your own devices, you feel like you are in Africa, from the sun beaten dirt roads, to the dilapidated shanty structures and the eternal buzz eminating from the insects.
So, you gather yourself, grab the resources you need and head out to face the dispair head on, hoping to "fix" the situation in which you find yourself. You tackle the missions head on, improve your resources and develop as much intel and knowledge as you can only to find that nothing changes, nothing improves, and even less gets worse.
As fast as you were thrown into Africa, you are just as quickly thrown into boredom. The characters you meet are only vaguely interesting, the different tasks can all be experienced within two or three hours, which means you have got another 30 or so hours of monotony awaiting you.
With a miriad of weapons, vehicles, sites and tasks, the situation is always the same. You will meet bad guys, you will need to take them out and you will get paid all the same. There is very little difference in what you need to do to finish each step let alone complete the game.
The most fun had, comes from exploring Africa, playing with one or two of the weapons or trying to do silly things with the vehicles. Once achieved, there is very little to keep you entertained.
It definitely is a game worth buying to experience a truly different, specifically African landscape. Its accurate and complete, but not much else.
If you are into good story telling, this one aint the one for you.
Where to buy
Far Cry 2 (PC):
$19.35 - $19.99
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