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  • I must confess I was drawn to this game thanks to this review, but I have to say that I found the underlying shooting mechanics to not be all that fun. I agree with the concept of the buddy system etc and everything being great, but I found the actual gameplay to not be much fun, which is a shame because I really enjoyed The Void which is another game you recommended.

  • One time playing this game I missed a dude and an ammo box asploded and wounded him then his buddy came to save him so I murdered him too

  • The one bad thing about this game, that I've heard, is that the enemies will respawn, very quickly, at places you clear out.

  • This is another game that I hated because I sucked at it. I couldn't do ANYTHING because I kept dying all the time.

  • Hey Anthony, have you ever played a S.T.A.L.K.E.R game?

    It does the open world aspect a lot better than FC2 and the atmosphere is just amazing.

  • Yay! I thought i was the only one who liked it.

  • i just wish FC2 was way smaller in map size and didnt have the old too gamey features like enemy respawns on checkpoints, plus it came in a really crowded time.

    Also buddes werent used as teammates, or i gave up and uninstalled the game way sooner than i should have.

  • @635574 If you fall and a buddy saves you they stay and fight along side you. If you choose to do a buddy's mission the mission will almost always be a two-parter where they become directly involved in the second part and fight along side you.

  • I had one of the heavest moments in a videogame, my buddy was down, i diddn't want him to die so i injected him with a syringe, it diddn't work but I diddn't give up, after three syringes I realised he was going to die anddied while I was trying to heal him

  • Couldn't agree more with this review. My biggest complaint about the game isn't the respawning guard posts but the glitch where crucial quest giving NPCs just wouldn't spawn. Happened to me in two separate play-throughs, so I never even got to finish it.

  • I loved attacking a guard post, just not the same one the fifth time on the same day. Made me stop playing, really.

  • lol at him using the EXACT same weapons i use. Dragunov and Mac 10

  • I remember when I was trying to revive a teammate and it got really intense because I was in the middle of a firefight and I finally got to them and I am giving him syringes and then he dies and I am like fuck he died.

  • non linear wester shooter? red dead redemption?

  • @TonyOnlyandFriends Red Dead Redemption is very linear...

  • @TheHitez eeeehhhhh....Yes and no...

    While the missions were definitely linear, there was still a great deal of non-linearity. Take the bounty missions for example, were all of the bounty targets in a canyon, with no possible other way of approaching them? I think not. On most of them they were in a place where they could be approached from various angles. Plus you had the option of how you wanted to go in. Plus you had the option of whether to hogtie and bring him to jail or just kill him.

  • You sir, have an incredible diction. Kudos.

  • The idea of far cry 2 was just great. An open world and such, do what you want however you want, moral decicions, use fire as a weapon... Problem is it didn't turn out too well...

    Crysis is famous for its graphics, but the gameplay just isnt as good. The multiplayer also had a huge potential and every technical thing was perfected down to the very details.

    Really sucks that Crytek makes technical masterpieces that aren't good as games. I hope they make a real groundshaker sometime

  • this cant compare to bioshock 2.

  • Play STALKER instead. It came out earlier and does pretty much everything better. Just patch it first.

  • @MrAlqa3da Exactly what I was thinking.

  • wait this game has malaria???

    Wow.

  • Far Drive 2 was an overrated shooter that ended up amounting to nothing more but wasted potential. None of the key selling features Ubisoft promised ended up making the final build other than the fact it took place in Africa.

  • the game was really good and open. Only the respawning enemy patrols were a pain. completed the game twice.

  • I hate this game, it could have been amazing but the patrols were annoying. If I could save anywhere I would have loved it.

  • This is wrong, Boner Town!

  • YES! YES! YES! I felt like such a crazy person for defending this game for these reasons. Funny thing is that on my second play through I knew that they were going to kill me so I did the stringing along and then kiiled them. Also, I think that this is one of the very few true non-linear games. The mostly terrible voice acting and the shallow choice system took me back a bit but other than that, I think this is the type of game you wanted to see from the Character Empathy video.

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  • wow that was the most balanced video game review i have ever seen. I personally didn't like the game due to it's repetitive nature and the annoying things you mentioned but i've given it a 5/5 for a well balanced, well thought out video review.

  • anyone know what punisher game idea he's referring to at the 5:00 minute mark?

  • i think he talks about it on his "true nonlinearity" rant

  • This made me go out and but the game.

  • Says the guy with the JudgeDredd profile pic, he actually provided a good argument.

    What have you done instead of just calling it; "pure waffle" or "unintelligible mess" without coming with a valid argument?

  • My profile pic is irrelivent, so why mention it!?

    FarCry is a landmark title, nobody would deny that, but t isn't a 2008 release ttle! He could just as well have said Doom was the most important game of 2008, and it would have made as much sense. Kinda' off topic, but in my opinion Doom is way up there with Elite, Space Invaders, Super Mario Bros, Gran Turismo etc.

    Whether I made a counter argument or not, it still doesn't change the fact that this is for the most part pure waffle.

  • Your profile pic reminds me of Judge Dredd The Movie!, that film haunted me for years.... I've never read the comic book.

    BTW, he was talking about Far Cry 2 which was released in 2008 and made by UbiSoft.

    The original Far Cry was released in 2004 which was developed by Crytek.

  • Well thanks for confirming the name of the game, as I can't recall him even mentioning it in his comments. That explains a lot! lol. I briefly played FarCry 2 but thought it was a bit crap compared to the original, so I didn't recognise it from the vid, just assumed it was the original FarCry.

    Yeah, Judge Dredd the movie was a bit poo, and kinda shafted the Dredd mythos and messed with the characters, the comic book is very good though, you should check it out ;-)

  • I liked josip

  • just got it

    BECAUSE OF YOU.

    it's OK so far, hopefully gonna get better later on

  • Fc2 was cool but they really dropped the ball on the wild life. Why not put aligators in the water and lions walking around. I want to hit a giraffe with my car :D.

    But the guard post shit really sucks that is what stopped me playing this game. In the cutscene in the beginning you stop at a guard post and i thought; whoa this is cool. but in the actual game they just shoot everything that moves? makes no sense

  • STALKER SoC is simply better in every way.

  • im addicted to the online in this game :(

  • I've really wanted to play this game for a while, but I just got BioShock, so I'm not gonna buy anything else for a while. But I agree anyway 200%!

  • Also online play-always a different map. I think I'm going to go play right now actually. >_>

  • Good 'reviewer', I personally hate the driving and find it irritating to fix your car every 5min, even if you drive perfect.

  • this game is awsome, much better than that cod crap

  • oh destructoid, no wonder

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  • good point. in addition to the whole guard points bullshit which became a burden later on.

    still, this game had its moments and charm and good action and techniques, and after watching this video im gonna pick it up again and give it a serious shot.

    lets try to look beyond the few things that totally suck ass, shall we ?

  • Holy Shit dude, u speak much truth from your mouth. FarCry 2 was a truly awesome experience and I agree withe everything u said 120%. Very well spoken.

  • I don't think Far Cry worked well with the linear storyline that it had. That kind of game would have benefited from an almost MMO type of thesis - just personal progression, along the lines of being a warlord and building power and land. The buddies really did add enough emotional attachment for the game itself to have no real storyline, but instead you get pushed along this crappy narrative thread.

  • This game is great. I am replaying it.

  • This game has a huge mix of criticism.  Some love this game and others think its torture to play it.

  • Praying for a sequel? You and me both.

    one thing, You mentioned the randomness and the unscripted nature of the game, but one thing you didn't mention really got me.

    It was when my friend got wounded, I tried to fix him up with morphine, but it didn't help, he just kept asking for more. to ease the pain, I kept giving and giving until he just died. that hit me hard.  these guys are just as fragile as you, they risk their lives for you, and sometimes you're powerless to do help them.

  • totally agree, my buddy died and he was asking me to shoot him and I was like," no!"and did what I could to save him and I couldn't, then he died and I felt heartbroken =[

  • Awesome game.

  • That's what Ubisoft does best; create games with amazing potential bursting to the seam with new ideas that always find a way to fail. Hopefully, other developers will see where Ubi went wrong and capitalize on their mistakes.

  • great game IMO

  • I hated this game with a passion

  • Hey Ant, thanks for this video, I bought far cry 2 of eBay like 5 minutes after it, thanks for making me do that :D

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  • well you are going to regret that in a few days.

    and you cant play the game the way you want. can i go in like solid snake? no, the knife doesnt kill silently

  • You have convinced me to check this game out. I ignored it when it came out because of a lackluster reception. Although maybe thats just people playing it wrong, not seeing how deep it is. From your description you make it sound important, too bad the important games arent always the best ones.

  • This guy has some great points, he's right on every one.

    Subscribed.

  • I think a lot of people complain about the missions being repetitive because they expect to be given a very specific set of tools to do the job at each point, i.e. the sniper mission, the rocket mission, the stealth-based C4 mission, and FarCry 2 for the most part doesn't do this. It gives you a huge set of tools to do each mission how you like, and that is where it succeeds for me. Some good points Rev, and an interesting view on a game I liked a lot more than I thought I would.

  • Oh my. I don't see how anyone could like this game. Honestly, the game is terrible and I didn't like it at all.

  • Horrible, horrible video.

  • Eh, not that good.

    Got monotonous after doing basically the same mission, over and over.

    Graphics were alright, and the buddy system was alright, if you really paid a lot of attention to what those little shit heads did for you.

  • Played this game for an hour.

    The brown burned out my eyes.

  • I'm glad I came into the game with zero expectations, because for the most part, Far Cry 2 blew me away. I agree with almost everything positive and negative in this rant (except the buddy system...maybe I'm just an unempathetic SOB). Although I could never get myself to play more than an hour at a time, it managed to do its fundamental shooting so well, I ended up using the game as a sort of 'blow off steam after work' game.

  • u could make crappy games sound good lol but farcry imo wasnt as good as it promised...

  • I found myself in a world where battling ad infinitum became boring through its' meaninglessness. I'd have fun for a while then want a break from the game. After a rest the battles became fun again. The fights never built towards anything or had a permanent change. It's a creepy world where you shoot people dead and they're back next time you visit, a sort of hell.

    I'd do the main storyline's missions b/c something novel would be shown for each one but hated the main story too much to finish.

  • Man Rev it seems sacrifice is the concept you find most compelling for a story.

    I was really disappointed by Far Cry 2. I saw earlier trailers where the designers said you'd be able to hunt the Jackal any way you wanted, building up your reputation through the factions, and got excited. "Finally!" I thought: a game w/a living world you interact w/to reach your goals instead of a funhouse you run through activating analog mechanics. But the game came no where near delivering.

  • This was one of the ONLY FPS's I couldn't bring myself to play for more than 2 hours. I found this game and the design choices they made awful. EVERY single person that inst a story giver hates you, tries to kill you on sight, and will follow you for 5 miles through the jungle shooting at you. Shitty shitty game.

  • OMG REV YOU ARE WRONG BECAUSE I READ IGN AND THEY DONT AGREE WTIH YOU

    <3 king

  • it's a step in the right direction, which should not be forgotten

  • I actually wish I liked this game as much as you did. I played FC 2 for about 2-4 hours and got sick of it. I thought it was actually TOO open ended and took forever to get anywhere. But the mechanics were great.

  • As dissapointing as FC2 is - He does make a lot of good points

  • I loved Far Cry 2 since it was straight up shooting suckers in the face with your .50 caliber sniper and nothing else. The missions were dumb and the buddy system was repetitive, but I didn't care because I liked shooting stuff in that game. I'm surprised you liked this so much, since I know you hate actually playing games.

  • IMMERSION:

    i played the pc version of FC2 and the instant save/load system totally nullifies the concept of safehouses and need for having buddies.

    OPEN WORLD:

    driving is a chore: drive past guardpost, get chased, shoot'em up, take their car. repeat every 2 min.

    SIDE MISSIONS

    that were supposed unlock new guns and diamonds - well the guns unlock automaticly when you progress in the main story arc (witch rewards you with diamonds)

    i plowed to the uninspired end, wept and returned to crysis.

  • I literally just stopped playing it after noticing how it accomplished so little except for tuning up parts of other games.

  • I think that STALKER series has allot more immersion although some really annoying bugs, but I think Anthony never heard of Boiling Point or wasn't that amazed by that game although it did some stuff allot better than Far Cry 2: more vehicles, RPG elements, open ended environment, airplanes, factions. Oh and the thing that makes Far Cry 2 the most UNREAL is the enemies have infinite ammo and their weapons don't jam. That really ruined my gaming experience. Some steps were already made by other.

  • Try STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl.

  • I couldnt get over all the cheap deaths in FC2...example: walking around in the middle of nowhere. SUDDENLY Loud revving sounds behind me, and BAM dead in 1 hit from some random car

  • needs more PERSONS

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  • Far Cry 2 isn't on the wii

  • And thank god for that.

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  • You told me to watch a video about Far Cry Vengeance, nice job.

    As I said before, Far Cry 2 isn't on the wii

  • I have played Far Cry 2 and yeah it's big but it just gets boring. And the map creator is amazing.

  • I was playing Far Cry 2 today and I do understand where you coming from but It's good to have great rungs for your ladder that work better that any other ladder but you need the poles. Far Cry 2 is missing that core element of enjoyment and all due respect to you, but Far Cry 2 isn't a game I can sit down and play. It almost seem to be me like a task I have to do not to enjoy

  • I have not played FarCry 2, but it seems its everything I wanted in a game. Replay value in first person shooters is a rarity, let alone the open ended game play.

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