[Official] Far Cry 2

[Digitalx]

imo it's a balanced game but it lacks alot of fun things to do and also traveling is hard/annoying not being so open in many places. i also dislike the fact it can take upwards of 6-8 direct body hits to kill a person or sometimes more. Missions are a bit of a pain with the traveling and constant ambushing and stuff to get to and from and finding other ones.

thats my view on it

[madmk]

I bought the game whilst I was at work today in my lunch, now I just had time to install it and it gets to the loading screen on the first mission and bam, crashes to desktop. No error messages or anything :\ Can't find any support ANYWHERE on the net for this, so thought i'd ask you guys ;-D

---- Edit, I've bought a new PC since the one in my sig so its not that ;) Any suggestions?

[Ayepecks]

If you don't like the amount of bullets it takes, just switch to easy.

Anyways, installed the game and played for about 2 hours. I'm 8% in and so far it's just.... "eh." It's an average shooter so far in every sense of the word. Nothing thus far has been overly exciting, and a lot of it is just very tedious (and I hear that's how it stays throughout the entire game). It's not a bad game, though.

The traveling is really annoying IMO... they needed to find more unique things to do in the game to set it apart.

So far I'd give it a 3.5/5, but again, I'm really early in.

Edit: Oh yeah... malaria = lame. Waiting for a mod to remove malaria and degrading guns.

Edited October 24, 2008 by Ayepecks

[ViperAFK]

it wouldn't even take more than a minute to travel to most missions if it weren't for the random ambushes.

Just got the game an hour or so ago, anyone having problems playing it? I get ill and feel claustrophic after playing for a while. After a bit of searching I found that it was down to a fudge the devs made in order to play in Widescreen and as such the FOV is too low, probably what is making me feel ill :(

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1...75/m/6911036696

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum...pic.php?t=14737

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/42475/Di...-Get-BioShocked

http://www.n4g.com/News-220141.aspx

http://kotaku.com/5067446/far-cry-2s-wides...-all-cropped-up

http://www.examiner.com/r-3067584~Far_Cry_...Far_Cry_2_.html

Other sites are now posting this news too, so why wasn't it mentioned in any of the reviews as its pretty obvious when playing :(

I agree they should have used a wider fov, but most people didn't even notice until these stories, and not these same people are saying this like "I just paid my $50+ dollars for this today. It's going back to the store tomorrow. And developers and publishers wonder why people pirate games."

[kawasabi]

I'm struggling to understand why this game is getting such great reviews. The repetition is awful (driving through the same goddamn checkpoints at every intersection with the same jeep ramming me from behind), the AI is bad, the story is nonexistent (I thought I was supposed to be looking for this Jackal guy), I have to trample all over the place for 1 piddly diamond at a time, and I spend the vast majority of the game driving through the above frustrations. Plus the previously-mentioned problems with the cease-fire area and the confusing directional sounds.

Hopefully they'll fix these issues in the next game, which would make this a great FPS. But for now, they obviously made a deal with PC Gamer for those wonderful pre-release reviews.

All true.

Only great thing about this are the gfx.

[+Mystic MVC]

Edit: Oh yeah... malaria = lame. Waiting for a mod to remove malaria and degrading guns.

Are you serious? They are part of the game's atmosphere and add some aspect of realism. Jeez...

[rajputwarrior]

only played it for a bit so far. Runs great and looks awesome on my system. Everything maxed out at 1440x900 with 2x AA with no lag whatsoever. Gameplay wise it seems kinda like an average FPS but i barely started so i can't really say yet.

[Max Veteran]

Runs like poo on my P4 3.0Ghz/2GB/128MB 6800LE :p I get like 10fps at 800x600 everything set to low.

Can't wait to get my new Core i7 920/6GB/512MB 4850. The Nehalem wait is killing me.

[mail]

If you don't like the amount of bullets it takes, just switch to easy.

Anyways, installed the game and played for about 2 hours. I'm 8% in and so far it's just.... "eh." It's an average shooter so far in every sense of the word. Nothing thus far has been overly exciting, and a lot of it is just very tedious (and I hear that's how it stays throughout the entire game). It's not a bad game, though.

The traveling is really annoying IMO... they needed to find more unique things to do in the game to set it apart.

So far I'd give it a 3.5/5, but again, I'm really early in.

Edit: Oh yeah... malaria = lame. Waiting for a mod to remove malaria and degrading guns.

exactly how I felt

[HideAndGoatse]

only played it for a bit so far. Runs great and looks awesome on my system. Everything maxed out at 1440x900 with 2x AA with no lag whatsoever. Gameplay wise it seems kinda like an average FPS but i barely started so i can't really say yet.

I'm with you here, looks great on my system, runs great no lag, but looking past the gfx this isn't really a great shooter imo. The AI isn't all that intelligent, the character models don't move very fluently very jerky, and just the feel of the shooting system isn't at all great. The immersion and atmosphere is amazing but they should've focused on the mechanics of the shooter.

[TEX4S]

I want to donate my modified .exe for Far Cry 2 to the neowin community.

I complained to Ubisoft & secuROM about a bug in their "activation" process - they sent me a link to download a modified .exe (4mb) which bypasses the secuROM process -

this is a POSSIBLE noCD patch straight from the source - I need someone to verify though as I am not a cracker.

Just PM me if you want it....

(Before this gets closed from the mods)

:)

[Mannlich]

Overall, I am just not impressed with this game. The graphics aren't that great and the gameplay is boring. I find the game to be very repetitive with all of the driving around and constantly being bumped into in the same style by enemies. I was expecting much, much more from this game. I am not sure why it has received such great reviews.

[Ayepecks]

I'm sorry, but this game has locked up on me more in ~5 hours than any other game I've ever had.

[boogerjones]

boogerjones, not sure why you are complaining so much. In GTA you have to drive everywhere (especially IV) halfway across the map or use taxis, same principle here (just a bus).

In GTA you don't get blindly assaulted by THE EXACT SAME group of guys at every single intersection (including ones that you just took out a minute before).

I'm complaining because it's an awful game and I think this perfectly highlights how disingenuous game reviewers are. And frankly, after dropping $50 on this game, I feel I have the right to bitch about it all I want. Is there any wonder why they didn't offer a demo? It's because they knew gamers would generally be disappointed with it.

Look at the gamer reviews: you'll see the words "boring," "repetitive," and "frustrating" over and over. One guy even said that he felt like he was work all day after playing it for several hours. I enjoy my work, so I'd rather be there than playing Far Cry 2.

[notuptome2004]

i have yet to be blind sited by the same guys and after i shoot them and kill them and if i come back they are not there and if they are they are other guys not the same ones as most reviews stated their is limited variation in bad guys so they make look the same but they are not as once ya shoot some other hear the gun fire and come to see whats up every time i have played up to the 8.75 of game play i have been through sofar each time has been a difference.

as for the graphics they are great so the one guy saying they are crap well he must be playing it eaither on a low end system or purposely playing it on low settings. i have it siad to very high and it looks great the lighting and everything

[»X«]

Been playing for a while longer now and ive found the following irritations:

Vehicle got stuck on a (tiny)bush within minutes of driving. Couldnt free it so had to walk for ages.

Either the weapons have rubber ammunition or the bullets should be kriptonite tipped. 3 shots to the head to take someone down? No thanks

Boring. Played through the tutorial and thats it. I have no desire to drive from place to place meeting grunt after grunt and killing them with my peashooter.

It does look beautiful though, no doubt about it. However I found it to be like Boiling Point. Which is never a good thing. Giving the player too much freedom leaves me with an unclear path and as a result, I stray and get bored. Either going into cease fire zones and shooting the place up for the hell of it or driving around my "buddies" house and killing everyone in sight to test the limits of the system.

I just cant explain it, there is something about this game I don't like. I loved Far Cry and Crysis, but this game just bores me. Like I mentioned previously, if a game wants to focus of realism then let me sneak up on an enemy and silently take him out with a knife in a cease fire area. You cant do that without alerting every enemy within the town. So unless my knife has a siren on the blade or its just badly thought out.

Not to mention I'm still ****ing suffering with the loss of 50% sound which is getting right on my ######. So I won't loose any sleep if I never play this game again. Waste of money though.

[+Mystic MVC]

In GTA you don't get blindly assaulted by THE EXACT SAME group of guys at every single intersection (including ones that you just took out a minute before).

I'm complaining because it's an awful game and I think this perfectly highlights how disingenuous game reviewers are. And frankly, after dropping $50 on this game, I feel I have the right to bitch about it all I want. Is there any wonder why they didn't offer a demo? It's because they knew gamers would generally be disappointed with it.

Look at the gamer reviews: you'll see the words "boring," "repetitive," and "frustrating" over and over. One guy even said that he felt like he was work all day after playing it for several hours. I enjoy my work, so I'd rather be there than playing Far Cry 2.

Those words are mentioned with the fact that the game is still a lot of fun, graphically pleasing, and has great atmosphere. I can pick out one thing out of a review and blow it out of proportion. Every game has a negative aspect, choosing to ignore all the positives takes away the fun.

Not sure why you seem to be getting assaulted all the time but even if it does happen to you as much as you say it does, why not take the bus like I mentioned?

[ViperAFK]

In GTA you don't get blindly assaulted by THE EXACT SAME group of guys at every single intersection (including ones that you just took out a minute before).

I'm complaining because it's an awful game and I think this perfectly highlights how disingenuous game reviewers are. And frankly, after dropping $50 on this game, I feel I have the right to bitch about it all I want. Is there any wonder why they didn't offer a demo? It's because they knew gamers would generally be disappointed with it.

Look at the gamer reviews: you'll see the words "boring," "repetitive," and "frustrating" over and over. One guy even said that he felt like he was work all day after playing it for several hours. I enjoy my work, so I'd rather be there than playing Far Cry 2.

Yeah even in San Andreas when the gangs attacked you it was not nearly as bad.

Those words are mentioned with the fact that the game is still a lot of fun, graphically pleasing, and has great atmosphere. I can pick out one thing out of a review and blow it out of proportion. Every game has a negative aspect, choosing to ignore all the positives takes away the fun.

Not sure why you seem to be getting assaulted all the time but even if it does happen to you as much as you say it does, why not take the bus like I mentioned?

it's oftena longer drive to the bus than to the objective. And there are still checkpoints along the way...

I like the game but yeah, buses are only useful when you happen to be near them. There aren't enough bus stops.

[+Mystic MVC]

it's oftena longer drive to the bus than to the objective. And there are still checkpoints along the way...

I like the game but yeah, buses are only useful when you happen to be near them. There aren't enough bus stops.

How? For instance if you do a mission in the main city (where their is a bus terminal), which normally requires you to go to the end of the map, there is a bus for each corner.

If you don't utilize that main bus center in the town, then I can see why people complain.

[Ayepecks]

I think this has to be a new record.

The game has officially locked up on me 15 times within a span of maybe 7 hours. I can put it in DX10 mode, but then it runs like crap because of how unoptimized it is in DX10.

@ Mystic: It's tedious. I utilize every bus center, and the driving is still absolutely mind-numbingly annoying. I've spent more time driving than fighting... in an FPS.

[ViperAFK]

I think this has to be a new record.

The game has officially locked up on me 15 times within a span of maybe 7 hours. I can put it in DX10 mode, but then it runs like crap because of how unoptimized it is in DX10.

@ Mystic: It's tedious. I utilize every bus center, and the driving is still absolutely mind-numbingly annoying. I've spent more time driving than fighting... in an FPS.

what? i get more fps in dx 10 on my 9600gt, and my friend does in his 4870 and benchmarks I have seena nd reviews say it performs better in dx 10. Update to the latest drivers if you haven't that is not normal... the game is optimized for dx 10.

How? For instance if you do a mission in the main city (where their is a bus terminal), which normally requires you to go to the end of the map, there is a bus for each corner.

If you don't utilize that main bus center in the town, then I can see why people complain.

I do use the one in the main town. But for example after you finish your mission you are usually in the middle of the map between a bus stop and town, or the mission is closer to the town than any of the outlying bus stops... idk which game you are playing but you can't use the buses a lot of the time.

[Ayepecks]

Links to those reviews?

I did a quick Google search to try and verify what you're saying, and I only found one case of it, and it was on a forum topic... on which everyone else disagreed.

[habnad]

Just an FYI, if anyone is playing this on the 360, someone re-created the COD4 Shipment map for multiplayer download.

I haven't checked it out yet though to see how it compares.

[ienhz]

Just got the game an hour or so ago, anyone having problems playing it? I get ill and feel claustrophic after playing for a while. After a bit of searching I found that it was down to a fudge the devs made in order to play in Widescreen and as such the FOV is too low, probably what is making me feel ill :(

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1...75/m/6911036696

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum...pic.php?t=14737

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/42475/Di...-Get-BioShocked

http://www.n4g.com/News-220141.aspx

http://kotaku.com/5067446/far-cry-2s-wides...-all-cropped-up

http://www.examiner.com/r-3067584~Far_Cry_...Far_Cry_2_.html

Other sites are now posting this news too, so why wasn't it mentioned in any of the reviews as its pretty obvious when playing :(

Same here. The game makes me dizzy after playing it. Besides that, I really don't get how it got such high reviews. The graphics (at least to me) don't scream GORGEOUS like every reviewer says, maybe it's my setup? (I'm on a 46" Sony Bravia with the 360 connected via component running at 1080p). I thought COD4 looked better.

The gameplay honestly felt like just another generic shooter. The voice acting/speed reading was below-average, the objectives felt like I was just going from one corner of the map to another for no reason (why the hell did they tell me to go to Mike's Bar to get pills only to have the guy there tell me I have to go to a priest all the way across the map to get them?), and the story is flat out uninteresting. KEEP IN MIND THIS IS MY OWN OPINION. Overall, I just didn't really like anything about this game.

Does the game get better later on?

[Digitalx]

just 2 cents extension from previous post, I'm running all on very high with 2xAA at 1027x768 and it's nice and smooth for me.

5600+ X2 2.8GHz

2GB DDR2-800

HD3870 512MB

Only had one minor lock up but VPU recovery kicked in and was safe besides that been running well. graphically besides time stuff and lighting this games graphics are definitely not up to par with crysis. fire certainly looks crap for very high settings... is it any better with dx10/ultra high ?