When I went to my local EB Games a couple of weeks ago I was looking for a game that would last me a while or at least until the holiday game release madness that is soon to come upon us. While I was there I picked up Far Cry 2 for a great price. I had been wanting to buy Far Cry 2 for a while now, but seeing the bad reviews of the game from when it was released I didn't bother buying.
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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.
Far Cry 2 was awesome for the first maybe 10 hours. After that, the driving gets extremely boring and tedious, the enemies are annoying because you can't get from point A to point B without running into a group of angry Africans, even if you're working for their faction.
BUNNNYAUNNNAYAAA!!!!!
*coughs*
Yeah it was a fun story also the map editor on the consoles was nice .
I love, LOVE the concept of the game. But the execution got old and tired QUICK.
I had the same problem with Far Cry 2 that I had with Assassin's Creed the year before: I loved the first couple of hours then it's just the same missions over and over. Though to be fair FC2 did have more area to explore and the occasional unique mission to undertake. Either way I thought it was a decent game that deserved most of the reviews it initially got. If you find it in a bargain bin for $20 or less then absolutely go for it.
Trophies took way to long to unlock
Game was repetitive, mission after mission.
While the game tracked time of day nicely, night, day, game save by going to a hut --- it got repetitive really quickly.
Driving sequences were way too long