Far Cry 2 even if it's a pretty new game series,it's growing up to
becoming a franchise.The first game,amazed us at it's launch.It featured
an entire island to explore,new game-play mechanics at the time and
fantastic visual design.It quickly became a fan favourite among FPS
players and has also become one of those games to witch all other FPS
were judged by.Nothing really came close to Far Cry .
Now Far Cry 2 is out.It's a different game,a different fish bait.It
doesn't feel like the original but it does seem to be a little special
in it's own way.It features a huge map to explore,dozens of enemies and
great graphics,but it doesn't even come close to it's predecessor.
Far Cry 2 takes place in a fictional African state.You get there and
receive some information about a certain someone who needs to be killed
in order for something to happen.Pretty ordinary stuff for a FPS.The
story isn't engaging,it doesn't suck you in or make you wonder what
happens next.This is just a standard free world FPS with pretty
graphics.The game gives however huge liberty to the player.The map is
very big,there are towns around the map connected by roads.You can
travel from one place to another by many sorts of transportation.You got
walking,driving a car,traveling with a bus,water travel on boats and
some crazy aeroplane,which I don't even know how it's called,which
basically flies.The map is very big and sometimes it can get really
difficult and frustrating to get to one point to another,especially with
no fast-travel option,you'll have to stick with these means of
transportation.This is one of the bad things in Far Cry 2.The map and
the way you use it.This game has most of the things the original had,but
they are not as good,and with nothing new this game doesn't succeed.
The worst part however are the enemies.With this brownish look the game
has because of the African landscape makes enemies usually very hard to
see,thus making aiming and shooting difficult.Besides that,there are on
some junctions some small camps full of enemies,who attack you as soon
as they see you.You have no idea why they are attacking you and what you
can do to stop them from attacking you.But even worst than this is that
even if you kill all the enemies from one of these mini camps,they will
respawn and you'll have to kill them again the next time you go by
that junction.This get's frustrating and can be a downside for the
game,many left Far Cry 2 aside because of this matter.
The good things in Far Cry 2 aren't that many.The graphics are good,but
not much compared to other games,games like Resistance 2,Gears of War
2,not to mention the perfect looking Crysis.The original game had the
best graphics of it's time.We all hoped this game to have them again,but
it doesn't.
The game-play is solid throughout but without many innovations,the game
fails as well.Weapons sometimes get jammed and you have to unjam
them,but that's about it.The driving is terrible.Fortunately the game
has almost no frame-rate drops at all.It looks good and keeps a steady
frame-rate.
The online play is pretty good.Besides the good old modes,there is a map
editor which gives this game a chance to live for many years.You can
create your own maps,starting from scratch,upload them and play on
them.The map editor is a pretty robust tool and works really well.The
choices are endless.
As a Far Cry fan,I have to say I am unhappy with this game.But for those
who haven't played the original before,they won't care,so it's a good
game.This game is worth buying just for online play and the map
editor,but with a single player campaign spawning around 30 hours,this
game is a good deal.
