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Who's playing Far Cry 2? And how is it?
Slythe
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Installing it right now, is anyone else playing it?
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I'm torn between this and little big planet, let me know how u like it...cause I'll prolly buy it too for sure
Crap, is that out now too?
Will do. From the reviews I have read, people seem to like it a lot.
*Laserwolf - Yup it is.
I've only got about an hour of game time in it so far... maybe a bit less.
The UI has been consolefied... tremendously. Lots of windows, buttons to push, and poor menu system. As I said, clearly made with a console in mind rather than a PC. EDIT: oh, and the screen itself is very uncluttered. Very minimalist. This is good and bad, but mainly good. Also, the health system is kind of wierd and kind of hokey, as is the safe system that they appear to have installed for consoles but left in for the PC version (you can quick or hard save whenever you want on the PC version, so the console save mechanic is entirely redundant.)
The graphics are excellent and my framerate with a ATi 4870 and a decent system was very good. However, I have a widescreen monitor and they cropped the picture in order to shift from 4x3 to 16x9 (or 10). So, in 1920x1200 that I run with, I lose part of the top and bottom of the intended image. Also, it seems to give the image a "zoom" look. Honestly, I didn't understand why I was getting a tight feeling in my head after playing it: maybe that is why, maybe not.
Sound is good, but the VA is pretty dead pan, which seems to fit the environment well enough.
The plot is, well, kill an arms dealer. To do that, you have to do a lot of missions for various parties and stuff.
Game mechanics... unlocks. Yeah. Unlock gun abilities. Unlock safe houses. Unlock buddies who can tell you how to approach a mission from a different (better) method. Unlock this and unlock that. Bah. Consolish once again. Also, the weapons you find are not named, so it is hard to tell sometimes just what sort of weapon you'd swap to if you took it, and since you unlock benefits for certain types of weapons, that's good to do.
Overall, I'm pretty disappointed with the game so far. I didn't expect some of the aspects of the game to be so consolefied. I guess I thought it would be more like Crysis in that regard, which still has some consolefication to it, but not as much and, for me, a tolerable amount. It doesn't flow well, IMO. You drive around a lot between spots where you do actual missions. The AI is dumb as rocks. The plot is not enticing to me. And I started feeling a throbbing in my head after an hour or so of play (which may or may not have been due to the game).
I'm going to play it some more. I spent nearly $50 on it and don't want to write it off just yet, but I have to say that so far, I liked Far Cry 1 a whole lot better than this game. It was more fun, flowed better, and had a better AI, UI, and menu system, IMO.
Right now, if I had to rate it, I'd give it a 7/10.
Cool thanks for the review. I do hate when games that should be made for the PC get consolized. It's what killed Unreal Tournament 3 imo.
About your head, I guarantee it's motion sickness. From what I have seen, the game has killer motion blur. I recently installed Morrowind and played with the MGE (which has mition blur) and it almost made me sick after playing for a while. Like in this link - www.youtube.com/watch
And yet they go with the Xbox 360?lol
Guess they'll make money off the PS3 players ( until blu-ray burners/copiers become mainstream ).
The game is terrrible for a ubisoft game.
Id go into detail but i dont really much care to do so, web of shadows is better.
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Hmm. Thanks for the info. It might indeed be something due to the blur effect (which I don't like anyway). I'll try turning it off (if I can, I think it allows me to adjust it).
Crysis has different developers and publisher. Crysis has Crytek and EA. Far Cry 2 is developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
Also, Crysis has sold around 1.5 million copies... that's a lot more than most games. EA has also since reported they were happy with sales. Which they should be considering the somewhat limited marked due to very steep requirements.
Tuor17: I think turning down post processing will turn off blur.
Crysis sold 1.5 million copies in the first month.
It doesn't matter how pirated the game was, they made a ton of money.
Yes, I learned this after I bought the game. I was trying to figure out why it FC2 was so different than FC1. I blame myself, really: if I'd done my homework, I would've learned that FC2 had a different dev house than FC1, then I would've been more cautious about buying the game. For some reason, I thought FC2 would be much like FC1, but in Africa. So, my bad on that.
BTW, I think that Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow came out of Ubisoft Montreal. I hated that game. A lot. So, I guess it's no surprise that I'm not very happy with FC2, either.... Hmph. Looked it up and Pandora Tomorrow was developed by Ubisoft Shanghai, not Ubisoft Montreal.
Still feeling pretty disappointed. I'm kicking myself for not having researched this game more before buying it off Steam.
Yes, I learned this after I bought the game. I was trying to figure out why it FC2 was so different than FC1. I blame myself, really: if I'd done my homework, I would've learned that FC2 had a different dev house than FC1, then I would've been more cautious about buying the game. For some reason, I thought FC2 would be much like FC1, but in Africa. So, my bad on that.
BTW, I think that Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow came out of Ubisoft Montreal. I hated that game. A lot. So, I guess it's no surprise that I'm not very happy with FC2, either.... Hmph. Looked it up and Pandora Tomorrow was developed by Ubisoft Shanghai, not Ubisoft Montreal.
Still feeling pretty disappointed. I'm kicking myself for not having researched this game more before buying it off Steam.
I have to agree with you, Far Cry 2 has some good things going for it, but in the end it's just another repetitive first-person shooter with little substance. The missions basically consist of "Drive here, get ambushed by a mobile patrol here, stop at x, y, and z along the way and kill somebody. Then drive back to the town for another mission."
It's amazing how over time, games are just getting more and more shallow. What happened to games like Perfect Dark for the N64? Or the first James Bond game for the N64, I played that game so much 10 years ago it wasn't even funny. Now we get crap like Far Cry 2, which you couldn't pay me to keep playing anymore. The only game I have really liked that I have bought lately is Mass Effect, and even that game was way too short with way too many repetitive side missions.
So I would say to avoid Far Cry 2, it has absolutely nothing to do with the first Far Cry and it isn't half the game that it was. Get Dead Space instead, now that game is pretty fun and innovative.