Farcry 2: Holy Hell This Game Sucks!
Let me start off by saying, yes I know Farcry 2 is not a MMO and yes I realize I’m reviewing a FPS on a MMO blog. However I do play games other than MMO’s and while normally I would refrain from posting about them here, I just could not resist considering how hyped up Farcry 2 was and how horrible the game acutally is.
Here’s a quick introduction to what the game is like. Drive 5 mins to a mission point, spend 5 mins getting your mission, spend 5-10 mins driving to your mission, spend 5-15 mins completing the mission and finally spend 5-10 mins driving to the next area to get another mission. Rinse and repeat for the rest of the game. Think of it as GTA except driving around is not fun at all, it’s the worst part of the game and you’ll spend about 50% of your time doing it. Then think of having to do basically the same mission over and over, with almost zero variation. What fun!
To make things ever better, you need to buy all your own weapons, which are mostly pointless. Here’s a great example. I used a “silenced” pistol to shoot a guard, before anyone saw or heard me, I ran behind a mountain and made my way to the back of the base. Without so much as a peep from me I had about 10 guards running to my exact location. WTF Ubisoft? Is there no AI at all? Does buying a silienced gun even matter if the comp knows exactly where I am regardless of how stealthly I’ve been? But what I like even better is when I’m outside a building with no windows and the guys on the inside shoot me through the wall even though they should have no clue that I’m there. No it’s ok, I doing mind playing a game with AI from 1995.
Moving on to the game map. This is a map you’ll use a lot and the best part is that it covers about 45-55% of the screen depending if you’re driving (45%) or walking(55%). No mini map at all unless you’re driving. However the minimap in cars is pretty much useless as it only shows about 200 yards around you, so you’ll have the main map open anyway and have about 1/3 the road blocked by the map.
Next up are diamonds, the currency that you’ll need to use to buy shit. You can either get diamonds by completing missions or by finding breifcases randomly thrown about the map. To finds a breifcase you need to use a radar that will beep green when you’re near a case. Best part here is you only have the radar if your map is open. WoooHooo! Why there is no radar on the UI is beyond me. I think developers goal here is to frustrate the gamer to a point that they take their mouse and shove it into their eye. So as a fun mini-game you’ll be opening and closing the main map about ever 10 seconds you’re walking to see if there are any diamonds near by.
Gun shops are by far the best mission givers in the game. There’s a handfull of these places around the map and guess what? Every mission is EXACTLY the same which you have to do in order to open up new weapons. Seriously it’s the same exact mission over and over again! I did 4 or 5 of them before deciding I would just use the weapons that are currently available. I couldn’t stand doing the mission again, it was that boring.
Jeeze, this list is getting long. Next we have the game animations. There’s basically an animation for everything, which you HAVE to watch. Off the top of my head there’s knocking on a door, opening a door, sitting down, standing up, getting padded down, healing yourself, fixing a vehicle, even a dying animation which is about 30-40 seconds long that cannot be skipped! The fact that you’re constantly doing all these things and have to watch a 1-2 second animation every single time takes some getting used to. While I love games that are realistic, please cut the crap that makes gamers bored as F@#K. I don’t mind the animations that are 1-2 secs, I can live with that. But when I die and have to sit there for 30-40 seconds as I watch my character fall to the ground, black out, get rescued, watch as they stand back up and get ready to fight again, it makes be want to quit playing the game. At least put in a skip button.
Finally you have everyone in the entire country trying to kill you regardless of what you’re doing. You start the game in a taxi who magically is able to drive around without being fired upon, however as soon as you try it everyone shoots first and asks questions later. It doesn’t matter what time of day, where you are or what you’re doing. You could be on a cliff viewing the wildlife and randomly a jeep will pull up and open fire. This is the most ridiculous attempt at trying to break up the boring and tediousness of driving around. Good job Ubisoft. Also thank you for making quick saves not actual save files. I very much enjoyed it the first time when I exited the game and came back the next day only to find out the last hr and half was not saved. ..|..
Being a huge fan of Farcry this game was the biggest disappointment in 2008. An absolute pile of shit, I only wish I could get my money back. On another note I see PC Gamer gave this game a 94%. Having been subscriber for 8 yrs going, I can only assume a huge pile of money was dropped on the table to get that score. To be very very kind, I would give the game a 60% tops.
Seriously… Ive been a gamer for a couple of years now and for realz ive played crappy games… And with “crappy” i mean shitty games like super mario factory.. But for realz. ubisoft WTF!!!!!!! Even Cod4 would totally spank ubi’s ass for reealz!… AI on FC2 is just pathetic
i agree with you all i have win 7 64-bit with a i7 920 overclocked to 4.0G and crossfire ati 4890′s i can run it smoothly at 120 FPS on DX10 all maxed out and everything it looks absolutley Amazing things LOOK so lifelike but the actual gameplay on it sucks on another level i mean did they even try?? its like they put 20 hours into designing the gameplay and weeks designing the graphics screw everything and start making blue-ray game s so you can put around 50 Gigs worth of stuff and not be limited to a 10 Gig dvd
The map you have there in your screenshot is actually a ZOOMED IN version of the entire map. The actual map of the entire area covers about 3 times as much land as the one in your screenshot.
Amen Mike AMEN! A 60% is a generous score! I like the last part you mentioned. So true. I dunno HOW MANY TIMES I got ready for a mission only to be killed again and again on the way there by random guys that would drive up and shoot at me. And I like how you can get shot and spend 15 minutes trying to figure out where in the HELL it is coming from. The fact that people were giving this scores in the 80% range is beyond me. The thing that really irks me is the developers knew how broken this game was yet they kept hyping it up so it would sell for $60. I wouldn’t give you $10 for it.
This game is about the biggest piece of crap I have ever had the displeasure of owning. I keep dying of malaria in the game and really have no idea why. Game play sucks monkey butt compared to FarCry. You can’t skip the tutorials even if you have seen them a hundred times and there is no AI that I can see. Everything is the same crappy game play every time I die. It is very monotonous and gets very boring quickly. I really regret purchasing this game. I feel like I was ripped off. I agree with Cornellius, I wouldn’t pay $10 for it.
Obviously you all suck at this game. the map is not at all annoying. you use it for a quick reference. if your getting lost without it kill yourself cause you wont make it from your house to the grocer.
the AI cant see you any and everywhere, you all just need to practice your stealth tactics for fps obviously (silenced pistols don’t matter if the enemies friends clearly see their friend get shot from 5 feet to his left).
The death scene doesn’t take 30-40 seconds. hahaha this is the part in the game when a friend you have selected to watch your back comes and helps you if you get K.O. if you just get killed that’s it, you dead.
I cant be assed scrolling up to see what other crap you guys wrote. learn to FPS if your going to post this shit on your crappy MMO site. go stand in a room online and wait for your expansions.
you all fail
Just bought this game yesterday for $9.99 and i want my money back. This game sux, and I have know idea why anyone can give this as high a rating they gave. All i say is I feel sorry for all those who paid $60 for it. I wouldnt even waste my time taking it to trade in, I would rather use it as a coffee cup coaster.
Totally. It is the most boring game I have ever played. I only made it half through and feel so sorry about wasted time.
you all must really suck at gaming if you think this is a really bad game or you are just mmo nerds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rd4YAezfFQ&hd=1
this is a real review about far cry maybe you will learn from them how to write a decent review
I 100% agree, complete and utter shit. I just rented the game, and within 10 minutes I ejected it. It’s fucking awful.
I just finished playing the PC version 1.03. After a little into Act 2 I couldn’t take it anymore. I ended up getting the Mega Trainer(not the vs. you pay for) and tore through the game rather quickly in hopes the end might start to move faster and get more interesting. It didn’t.
The game was obviously made by Ubisoft Montreal’s “C” team; a bunch of junior devs and a newly promoted producer who thought he was the @#!$. While its “A” team was making Assassin’s Creed 1 and maybe starting 2.
I do love how the game allows me to be a pyromaniac. But that’s where the fun stops.
I am still feeling nauseous from Far Cry 2′s ending. I think Far Cry 2 at that point would have caused me tears of regret and angrer should I have bought it. Though I am sorry for my friend who bought this POS the month it came out who let me borrow it last week. He said it was it was ok but never finished it. Said I could keep it. Seriously, its going into the garbage. The multilayer aspect is just as much a let down.
The game does need a lot more work put into it. Missions and gameplay are boring and repetitive to the extreme. The only variation is location and weapons. They could of added a fast travel option like oblivion or something. Only 5 bus stations throughout the entire map is a joke. I used them maybe 3 times in 20 hours of gameplay, and I still had to drive a lot to get where I wanted to go. It wouldn’t be so bad if everyone wasn’t hostile towards you. You basically have to stop every 5 mins to kill a jeep and its machine gunner on top. Same for using the rivers to get around.
I dont understand the point of a buddy system when your buddy doesnt actually help you. Ok that one of them comes out of no where to revive you but the others dont follow you around or help you in any way. Instead you just go to their location and help him kill a few stragglers, over and over again.
This is yet another case of Ubi overhyping a game to get sales and releasing just eye candy. Yea, good job, the game looks amazing but everything else is horrible I want to kill myself after playing for 10 mins.
The Aiming system sucks man!! It’s very unstable. It feels like fallout 3 when you aim with the iron sights.
Yep this game was complete crap.
& To the fanboy who wrote: “that all who hated FC2 were mmo nerds” is a big pile of shit aswell.
See, I also play World of Warcraft so you can tell me I am a nerd if you want. But fact his before playing WoW I’ve played for years CS, COD, War3, Splinter Cell and other normal games. Lately I’ve been completting games I didn’t buy earlier due to their money cost, I’ve completted in a few weeks crysis1, warhead, and and many other games of many types & styles, I did 2% of FC2 and I can’t play it anymore it just sucks balls. To start with the game as nothing to do with Far Cry 1, they just used the name FARCRY because the first title was SICK and AWESOME. I repeat, FC2 isn’t worth 1cent and I am happy I’ve downloaded it instead of buying because it’s JUST PURE BULLSHIT BULLSHIT! It doesn’t have a story, it’s not fun, it’s repetitive and AI is just retarded. Oh y and the map thing & diamonds too. Pokemon for gameboy beats this Farcry 2 shit.
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so here’s mine. well when i first bought the game i was eager to get my self into the game. eventually i did.. first the game was quite exiting, as things were realistic. i enjoyed a when i played then. and there’s nothin wrong with the AI but when i came across like 20% of the game, it started to bore like hell. this game could make anyone to lose there tolerance. conclusion- the developers made a real mess out of a great deal.
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I’ve just started this. When am I going to stop being driven around? Why are the Save and Load buttons diagonally opposite the choice – so I’ve got to travel the mouse the greatest possible screen distance? Why am I left looking at people looking at me when I’ve found the bloody blue box, and saved the thing. Nothing. Nothing happens. This is the pits.
This was in a dumper in PC World, and the blurb from PC Gamer gave it 94%. Duh – the reviewer is clearly being paid. Wish I’d waited to read some reviews.
Very, very poor.
i agreed with lol.this game is really realistic.i am a hardcore gamer and play this games in hardcore mode.i play cod in veteran mode and it needs only 2 or 3 shoots to die.comparing with it far cry 2 is easy.u all asshole learn how to click your mouse first.i bet you will die before watching me if you play multiplayer against me in counter strike.
The AI can recognize you even when you shot the enemy with a silenced rifle and ran because of the noise you make while running!. All of you who think fc-2 is a pile of shit are turds. This is one brilliant immersive game .
Yep this game was complete crap.
Yep, this game was under rated. It’s not about doing the objective, it’s also about getting to it. It’s all about planning your approach, planning the shortest path with the least checkpoints.
The AI is more brilliant than it seems at first. Silenced weapons won’t work if there’s another guy close by, he’ll hear the thud of your victim collapsing to the ground, and go check it out. Wound a guy, get out of sight, and one of his team mates will come to drag him to safety when he deems it safe. The way they communicate with each other during fights is also great.
It’s not more repetitive than the player is, I guess people have gotten so used to only doing objective after objective, so they focus only on that.
Seriously the game gives you all these tools to have fun and everyone is calling it repetitive. I hope you’re all happy with all your scripted-scene-by-scripted-scene singleplayer games ala Call of Duty, where every mission will play the same. Because you don’t know how to make your own “action movie” moments when you have the opportunity. Gotta put hero in quotation, everything you do is destructive, there’s only bad and worse. Which I guess is what the game is trying to show the player. Humans are destructive.
I will admit the first time I tried the game, I got bored after the first hour, and didn’t touch it for a while. I then revisited it, this time knowing what I was in for. I’ve since when had so many moments I’ve shared with other Far Cry 2 players, and that’s what makes the game unique. Something a scripted game won’t give you.
It’s far from perfect, enemies sometimes feel like bullet-sponges, no friendly AI ever, every driver who sees you will chase you and are always faster than your vehicle, driving mechanics are kinda odd. And only recently did someone get the game cracked open for community modding. This is a game that could’ve lived for much longer if they hadn’t locked it up.
All time favorite game for me.
this is old, but… i couldn’t resist all this crap.
1) FarCry2 SUCKS!
2) What damn strategy are FC2 defenders talking about? is always the same, drive through wherever checkpoint you want, kill the bastard, come back to recive another same mission over and over again. You want strategy FPS? PLAY Thief.
3) AI it’s ok, the problem is, you never die! wtf? plus this game is way too easy. All combat is the same, really… what strategy are they talking about?
4) Superb graphics don’t worth shit without a good plot, and FC2 plot may be out of tipical but is boring, TOO BORING.
Conclusion:
Really nice graphics and stunning landscape. That’s the only 2 good things it has.
the bad? all the rest: shity gameplay, boring plot, repetitive missions (really repetitive), too easy to beat and it won’t require you to plan or think anything, just go shoot kill. No music at all :S… so imagine spend the 30 hours developers said it will took to beat the game doing
(a) get misson
(b) kill guards and finally the boss
(c) go back to get another mission equal to the one you did before
damn, i lost my money with FC2, tetris is a lot more worth playing than this (at least you use your brain in tetris)
omg and i got this game installed since 2010 damn! I thought some day i’ll return and beat it, hell no! Uninstalling and throwing away the dvd, anyone want it? i’ll give it for free.
The game was actually a waste of money i only completed 40% of the main story and then just gave up. The aiming was stiff. I couldn’t get to my destination without being chased by another jeep, i couldn’t hide in the jungle while shooting with my silencer as they would be able to spot me after one shot. If you get out of your jeep there are AI magically spawn behind you and run you over and the health the AI have is incredible they can take about 7-10 bullets from a 50 cali mounted on a jeep. I have just been pissed with myself for wasting money.