Far Cry 2 Review

Everyone was anticipating the release of the new Far Cry 2, and trust me, it is no disappointment at all, and might I add, it would be a great christmas present. Multiplayer is even better than the single-player, and almost as realistic. The game takes place in Africa.

First, let’s go over the singe-player part of it all:

Brief Summary of Beginning:

You start the game off in the back of a taxi, you have the freedom to look around and admire the landscape, architecture, animals, environment, and more. You will notice a car cut you off and your guy protects himself by pushing off of the front seat cushion headrest and back into his seat. Further along, you get to see a heard of animals, people, and a wildfire. Eventually, after a long wait, you start having some weird attack, known as malaria, a disease transmitted by misquotes, that is very deadly. You wake up finding yourself tied to a wall, and facing a man talking, you find out later that his name is the Jackal, and he is known as the man who supplies ammo and weapons to both the APR and UFLL teams, which are in a war between each other. He talks about how he doesn’t need you, and more, and chucks a knife above you and into the wall. After his rant, he places a gun at the desk nearby you, and you go back into a heavy sleep… You wake up again, and hear gunshots, distant explosions, and then an explosion goes off in front of you, blasting a hole in the corner wall (escape). Your ears ring and your vision blurs, you get off the cot, grab the gun and knife, and head off to escape the mad town…

Features of Single-Player (Realistic):

1. Wind blows in different directions 
2. Fire grows in the direction of the wind
3. Fire grows on certain objects (grass, trees (leaves burn off), wood, explosives, etc.)
4. Ammo crates explode sending out bullets, Molotov’s (fire in a bottle), and grenades.
5. Enemies respond to fellow hurt enemies (but they take cover as they make their way over)
6. Enemies stay in the lighted areas at night time
7. You can chose what time to wake up at
8. You earn safe houses
9. There are live animals that you can kill
10. You have a map (you pull it out, instead of going to a menu, and you are still mobile, you can pull out a map in a car, or while on foot)
11. You collect diamonds to gain weapons or you kill enemies
12. Enemies do not hear silences weapons
13. Enemies can not hear or see from behind unless you make too much noise
14. No radar
15. There are vehicles (assault truck, buggy, glider, Jeeps, fishing boats (large and slow boats with turrets mounted on them), swamp boats (small and fast boats with guns mounted on them)
16. Whole game is free roam
17. You have a cell phone
18. You can have objectives
19. You have a buddy system (6 or so total, each one you can kill, but they will never come back, you can even put a buddy ‘out of his/her misery’ if he/she is dying, you could be almost any of the buddies you fight with, and buddies will save you if you get wounded)
20. You can snipe
21. You can be stealthy
22. You can use headlights of vehicles at night (only)
23. Fences are destructible
24. Bushes, shrubs, and plants in general can be chopped off by car or machete
25. Branches can fall off trees if shot by a gun
26. You can destroy guard posts and take over them
27. 50sq kilometers of land (all realistic, bigger than oblivion)
28. You have a health system: You have around 5-8 bars, and if you reach the last bar, it keeps going down until you heal yourself, you have needles (4) that heal you (adrenaline) in case you get hurt (it actually does the animation of you sticking a needle into your arm)
29. You can repair damages vehicles
30. Vehicles do explode