[Official] Far Cry 2

[Windows7even]

been playing for many hours now and all my saves still say that im on act 1 and only 8% completed..im saying wtf? how long does this game take to beat

[+Mystic MVC]

Well sorry guys, I'm not jumping on the bandwagon. I'm sticking to my original opinion about this game. Yes you can hound the hell out of one negative aspect, its fine if you don't like it but that doesn't mean the game is complete crap sorry.

Edited October 25, 2008 by Mystic

[notuptome2004]

i have taken many bad guys out with the pistol in 1 shot to the head not sure what you all are doing wrong

[Denholm]

This has got to be the best game I have played since Bioshock.

Blows my mind how good it is and how totally smooth it runs for me.

Maybe, Crysis and Crysis Warhead should be re-released on the Dunia engine (Y)

[Ayepecks]

Well, it says I'm about 39% through the game, so I think I'm qualified to give a fairly decent opinion.

First off, I've had numerous bugs with the game. Most notably, the game locks up left-and-right when loading a section -- particularly when doing the "bus" segment. It simply stops loading and freezes. I've never had this much trouble with a game, to be completely honest.

That said, the game's not horrible. The gun play is fairly fun, but I would hope so since that's all the game is... well, that and traveling around. Traveling around actually takes up more time than the actual fights, at least in my experience with the game, which is not a good thing. The traveling is tedious, and while there may be a bus system, you're still going to spend a ton of time traveling throughout the world.

The A.I. is a mixed bag, but if I had to lean one way, I'd say negative. Sometimes it makes neat flanking maneuvers, but 90% of the time it just stands there begging to be shot... even after you've already shot it or killed its team. The "checkpoints" where guards are set up are annoying as hell, and if that weren't bad enough, there are random people driving around who always ruin the transportation even more. It doesn't matter if they're in a military Humvee or tiny little Kia knock-off, they want to kill you.

Maybe it's just me, too, but the atmosphere in the game is severely lacking... it's supposed to be this war-torn country where children are dying and all this, but you don't even get a glimpse of that. If not for a few side comments by some characters, you wouldn't even know. The voice acting by those characters is largely poor, too, so you may technically hear it but not be paying attention because none of the voice talent knows that a comma means pause.

My biggest problem with the game, though, is the malaria system. It's just a crutch the developers used to get you to meet certain people, and after a while it just becomes annoying. You'll be driving somewhere, having a guy ram you, and in the middle of it all you'll have to pop your malaria pills. Quite possibly the worst game mechanic ever invented.

All that said, though, it is still a fun game. The gun play really is fun, and you'll probably become addicted to it. It's just that a lot of these minor (and major) problems drag down what should be a great game. It's still good, though... I'd say 3.5 (maybe 4 once I get done with it) out of 5 good.

[ahmz]

Maybe, Crysis and Crysis Warhead should be re-released on the Dunia engine (Y)

To illustrate a point, I launched Crysis Warhead after playing FarCry2, pressed Space Bar to skip all the scenes (which you can't do in FC2) and got straight into the killing and mayhem. I was playing it on 2560x1600 on max'd out settings [besides AA (my friend has 3 GTX280's in tri-sli)] and both the gameplay and graphics of Crysis absolutely destroys FarCry2, there's absolutely no challenge. I was so immersed into the gameplay of Warhead from start to end, no people to talk to, no things to interact with, just straight out war and it looked absolutely amazing.

[+Mystic MVC]

I'm still confused guys. Could the game be designed that different between the PC/Xbox 360 to have that many more bugs? I'm just saying people on the PC seem to be having a TON of bugs, for instance like Ayepecks mentioned. Why are they so absent on the 360 version?

[TEX4S]

Alot of you guys have some pretty lame system specs - think maybe thats why its crashing ??

I run everything maxed and its flawless.

[Denholm]

My biggest problem with the game, though, is the malaria system. It's just a crutch the developers used to get you to meet certain people, and after a while it just becomes annoying. You'll be driving somewhere, having a guy ram you, and in the middle of it all you'll have to pop your malaria pills. Quite possibly the worst game mechanic ever invented.

The whole 'malaria' idea, quite honestly blows.

Seems to be next to impossible to get to Mike's Bar for me.

Is there a way to get all healed up and just play the game without stumbling around like a pill dependent druggie?

[notuptome2004]

This has got to be the best game I have played since Bioshock.

Blows my mind how good it is and how totally smooth it runs for me.

Maybe, Crysis and Crysis Warhead should be re-released on the Dunia engine (Y)

i am gonna take it as if you was not making funny mmk and say no crysis nore warhead would be re-released on the duin engine as the dunia engine is a ubisoft engine and crysis/war used the cytek cryengine 2

[Denholm]

i am gonna take it as if you was not making funny mmk and say no crysis nore warhead would be re-released on the duin engine as the dunia engine is a ubisoft engine and crysis/war used the cytek cryengine 2

I know. I was just saying, Crysis running on the Dunia engine would be far more playable.

[Emn1ty]

I'm still confused guys. Could the game be designed that different between the PC/Xbox 360 to have that many more bugs? I'm just saying people on the PC seem to be having a TON of bugs, for instance like Ayepecks mentioned. Why are they so absent on the 360 version?

Because a console has a hardware standard where a PC can be any form of configuration imaginable.

[Manson_AAN]

Just a quick question, how's the multi-player aspect of this game? Is it fun/addictive? Because that's the only thing I'm hesitant about at the moment because I love playing games online. Are people already making maps and uploading it? Because it'd be such a waste if there wasn't any, the map editor looks so awesome from the vids. and reviews are giving it praise as well.

[madmk]

Just a quick question, how's the multi-player aspect of this game? Is it fun/addictive? Because that's the only thing I'm hesitant about at the moment because I love playing games online. Are people already making maps and uploading it? Because it'd be such a waste if there wasn't any, the map editor looks so awesome from the vids. and reviews are giving it praise as well.

Yeah MP is decent, played it for about 2 hours for the first time this morning so it must be ok. It feels a tad 'empty' though you know? :s Go try it out.

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[+Mystic MVC]

Because a console has a hardware standard where a PC can be any form of configuration imaginable.

No like campaign bugs and other stuff when people are in the game. If it deals in the game/story/etc. how does that have to do with their setup if it is something fundamentally wrong with the game. I guess I'm just saying if people are having this many problems and just criticizing from the PC standpoint, why not consider a console version then?

I know some people have experienced crashes and that, but surprise surprise that comes with any PC game, some people always seem to have issues.

[ViperAFK]

I haven't encountered ANY "bugs" (besides gameplay flaws which would be in the console versions) and I am 70% through the game.

[uniacidz]

Game seems to be ok.

Waited ages for it and anticipation was high and finally got it and im like 'meh'

Played it for a couple hours, and seems ok.

[Konstanov]

Game seems to be ok.

Waited ages for it and anticipation was high and finally got it and im like 'meh'

Played it for a couple hours, and seems ok.

The more you play the storyline missions, the more you think "Why the **** does this keep happening to me?"

Also why does the Jackal repeatedly save you, the first time from Malaria, and the second time from the Desert?

[White Cuban]

so does it install securom?

[Konstanov]

so does it install securom?

Yep, you get 5 activations over 3 different pcs.

[ViperAFK]

there was also a revoke tool released as well so you can revoke when you unisntall, not sure how well it works though.

[Si Veteran]

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.

Waited ages for it and anticipation was high and finally got it and im like 'meh'

I'm with these guys. I tried the exact same thing with the knife, and was also really annoyed that the whole world instantly knew about it. It's just.. meh.

What a shame :(

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

(BTW got it today as a rental) Yeah, have to say while I do not think it is bad by any means, it also has not jumped out at me as great by any means. Seems just okay.

I am only about 45 minutes in (now at the point I am making my own decisions free in the world), so I do realize I have to give it a bit more time, but I usually know right away if a game is going to capture my undivided attention, and if there was nothing else out, I would probably be much more into it, but the simple fact there are other games out, I do not have much time to play anything these days, so I have to be particular in what I do play.

I too tried the knife sneak up, was hugely disappointed it did not work.

[Guyro]

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.

the spaces between the boxes are a bit bigger than on cod but other than that it is fine

Just a quick question, how's the multi-player aspect of this game? Is it fun/addictive? Because that's the only thing I'm hesitant about at the moment because I love playing games online. Are people already making maps and uploading it? Because it'd be such a waste if there wasn't any, the map editor looks so awesome from the vids. and reviews are giving it praise as well.

best multiplayer game ive played all year (360 btw) no lag, its fun and addictive and custom maps rule

the only bad thing about custom maps is that any old idiot can make a rubbish map, however there arent many of them