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    Far Cry 2

    Game » consists of 16 releases. Released Oct 21, 2008

    The sequel to the original Far Cry dispenses with Jack Carver, and moves the action to a war-consumed Africa complete with an open-ended storyline involving civil war, several hours of missions, heated gunplay, and a slew of dynamic elements powered by a new engine.

    random_guy23's Far Cry 2 (PlayStation 3) review

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    Far Cry 2 is a solid action game, although it's not amazing.

    I started playing Far Cry 2 a couple of weeks now, and I have realised that for the six pounds that I paid for it was damn good value for money. This game is pretty huge, and you can invest over 10 hours playing this game. Far Cry 2 is an open world shooter with a lot of the game based on realism. For example, if you are driving around, and someone shoots at your car, you have to manually repair it. If you get shot up in the middle of combat, you have to literally perform battlefield surgery on yourself just to get you back to good health. These realistic set pieces work sometimes, but most of the time, they are pretty tedious. For example, the combat in the game is pretty weak. Once I found myself in front of a guy with an AK-47. He pulled off the whole clip into me, yet I still managed to survive. If this game try's to be as realistic as possible, why wasn't I killed right there? These strange things bugged me throughout the game. Also, the world in Far Cry 2 is big. It is really tedious getting from one spot to the other, becuase at every guard post scattered around the world, people shoot at you. It is really annoying and one of the things I really dislike about this game.
     
    On the positive side, Ubisoft's work on the Dunia engine seems to have paid off. The world really feels alive, with really nice textures, lighting, depth of field and all that sort of graphical nonsense. This game also features live animals that you can acutally shoot. When I shot my first zebra, I thought that due to the games realistic style that I could eat it or do something crazy with it. Sadly, I could only just kill it. Disappointing, I know. 
     
    Also, fire works really well in the game. You have a flamethrower as standard, which is really cool, so you can burn as much stuff as possible. The fire does propagate in the game, which is a nice touch. 
     
    So, overall, Far Cry 2 has it's ups and downs. Three stars.
     
    Graphics - 4/5
    Gameplay - 3/5
    Sound - 5/5
    Value - 3/5
     
    Overall - 3/5

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      Far Cry 2(PlayStation 3) by duke_lion on January 29, 2009

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      Far Cry 2(PlayStation 3) by thegamergeek on November 09, 2008

      Far Cry 1, needless to say was pretty freaking awesome and appealed to almost everybody. If you like blood and gore, it was for you, you like pretty graphic, it was for you, if you like man eating beasts' with a crazy sick disease, it was no doubt, for you. Far Cry2 is pretty much completely different from the first ones. There's no crazy rabid animal powers, your just a man, in war-torn Africa. But does that really hurt Far Cry 2?Short answer no, long answer, hell no. Far Cry 2 has a rather wea...

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