I wanted to love this game because the premise sounded interesting and people told me it's hardcore. They built an expansive & pretty nice looking world but failed to populate it with anything more than barebones 'here's something for you to shoot' busywork/placeholder breadcrumbs and there's nothing to tie any of it together in a meaningful manner.

It's clear they went for quantity way over quality.

To design an interesting scenario, it takes more than dropping a couple dozen guys scattered around some complex. it's just a repetitive chore, nothing interesting really happens, it's all the same for what, 50 hours? Honestly even the missions aren't much better than taking out random outposts. Once you figure out how to take them out, there's nothing hardcore about it. It's just a dull sandbox with enemies dropped here and there. But I eventually got bored to death with FC2 and never finished it. The only difficult thing about Far Cry 2 is mustering the patience to deal with all the busywork it forces you to do, like endless driving, fighting the same enemies you've killed 100 times before, replacing your guns, getting new pills, all so you can play gameplay that's just a lesser Far Cry 1 with most of its depth removed.ĮDIT: Also, any of the immersion and world detail stuff are all deeply unimpressive when Crysis came out the year before and still blows it out of the water, plus because Far Cry 2 was designed with consoles in mind, the resources devoted to adding all these little details is also what makes Far Cry 2 feel so empty and repetitive.Ĭlarry: I don't want or need flashing arrows. In fact, dealing with the checkpoints becomes easier as you get better gear and upgrade your safehouse. The respawning checkpoints are a nuisance, not some great threat that makes it feel like an accomplishment to survive. You die quicker in Far Cry 1 as well, and health and armor pickups are actually quite rare. There are no Trigen, no helicopters, no heavily armored mercs that can take multiple shotgun rounds to the face, so the game never ramps up its opposition enough to truly feel overwhelming and require a ton of planning to overcome. The enemies I deal with are the lowest tier, easy enemies in Far Cry 1. Now *that's* a game that will kick your ass and laugh at your broken corpse.įar Cry 2 isn't a game that's difficult. I always find it hilarious that people claim Far Cry 2 is some kind of super difficult, hardcore experience when it's hilariously easy in comparison to Far Cry 1.

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