Ubisoft's bold follow-up to its surprise 2004 hit was nothing if not controversial. Taking the reins from Crytek, new developer Ubisoft Montreal chose to abandon the story and tropic setting of the original in favor or a more ominous locale - a fictional African nation teetering on the brink of anarchy. The bold new direction earned both critical praise and detractors.
Some critics loved the open world action and politically charged story, while others felt major design gaffes kept the game from realizing its potential. Ubisoft Montreal's Clint Hocking took time out of his schedule to address these reader-generated questions.
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2 and 3, pretty much the only ones i really enjoyed. 1 was amazing for the time but aged quite poorly. 4 has the elephant gun, all i can praise from any entry after 3 lol
Ummmm 3 than stop.
Okay maybe two as well. But yeah probably 3 and then move on.
Far Cry 2. People constantly rant about games now being too easy, holding your hand, having too many unnecessary RPG-lite leveling features, etc. People specifically complain about open world games being too focused on tons of collectibles and "checkmarks" that just waste time.
Far Cry 2 is an answer to all of those complaints. It was made by Ubisoft before they fell into all the traps discussed above (and before they started inserting towers into their games to defog the map). It has respawning enemies, weapons that degrade, and the collectible diamonds are very useful in the game (which you find in a similar way to the way you find shrines in BOTW with a radar system). The map you have is an in game item you pull out while playing, not a pause menu that is unnecessarily detailed. Also the enemy AI and physics are much better than later entries in the series.
It has a mixed reputation because people at the time said it was too hard, the weapon degradation was annoying, and then respawning enemies were annoying. FC2 came out in 2008, so this was before games like Dark Souls and BOTW had come out and made it cool to like these types of features.
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I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.
Far Cry 2 was awesome. In addition to having demonstrably better physics and AI than later games in the series, it had a lot of design decisions that, criticized at the time, have since been praised in games like BOTW and Dark Souls.
It might not be super amazing by today's standard but I thought Mgs3 looked really good
The Far Cry series’ best game – not Far Cry 6 – just got more brutal and realistic thanks a mod than revamps and remakes the classic Ubisoft open-world FPS
Far Cry 2 where your guns never ever jammed until you got into a gunfight is their best? I disagree.
Far Cry 2 may certainly not be the most "fun" game in the series but from a narrative standpoint it definitely is the most interesting of the bunch. FC2 couldn't be further away from the pointless fragfests that the following episodes turned out to be.
at first I was put off by the controls. The looking anolog stick moves normally from down to up but when looking side to side its spins way to fast. I tried different settings & nothing fixes it. Then there's the a.I.
You might be able to sneak up on 1 guy but that almost always alerts the entire guard post. And sometimes, if you alert the post the enemies look for you but If they don't find you they pretend nothing happened. So its like, they are pretty dumb & you're way too smart to be stopped by them at all.
Forget about shooting the armorless bodies. You are just wasting ammo because it takes a few shots to drop them. Only go for headshots. If you're into role playing, then pretend the respawning enemies are just reinforcements & they heard about you. Farcry 2 is a okay game & if you are like me & had a fallout 3 glitch from meeting you're dad & escorting the scientist to project purity thus ruining hours from your last save file then try farcry 2 for a while. You might like it. Its a bit rainbow sixish minus the great controls.
I have to disagree, I gave Far Cry 2 more than enough of a chance and it was just a poor game in my opinion, It never felt 'fun' to play, more of a chore.
Far Cry 1 was a master piece and crytec must look at what ubisoft have done with there franchise and laugh!
Ubi had all the right ambitions and ideas, but the never added the fun factor. it suffers from bad direction and lack of focus I feel.