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| Far Cry 2 (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (232 reviews)
Sales Rank: 97
Platform: Windows Xp
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 68408
EAN: 3307210410641
ASIN: B0010DX5L2
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk
Exploring 20 square miles of African savannah and jungle is never an easy task. But when you?re up against an army of highly trained mercenaries, the danger becomes unimaginable. Welcome to the world of Far Cry 2.
 Far Cry 2 has some of the best explosions in the business |  Vehicles are great for cover as well as transport |  It?s best to keep some of the game?s factions on your side |  The environmental graphics are both stunning and highly varied | It?s been over four years since the release of the first Far Cry, and Far Cry 2 has almost nothing in common with it beyond being a first-person shooter with excellent graphics and advanced artificial intelligence. It?s by a different developer, and you now play one of eight different mercenary characters out to catch an arms dealer nicknamed ?The Jackal.? The sci-fi enemies have also been jettisoned in favour of a much more realistic game where survival skills are just as important as a good aim. The rules of engagement--either by stealth or all guns blazing--are entirely up to you. Key Features - Virtual safari: The game features 20 square miles of terrain for you to travel, filled with realistic fauna and flora and fully destructible trees and buildings.
- Fiery realism: With an all-new graphics engine created just for the game, fire moves and propagates exactly as in real-life, with vegetation breaking and snapping realistically.
- The coming storm: A dynamic weather system changes to reflect your mood, with the sky turning dark and stormy during bad times.
- Jungle survival: Highly realistic weapons degrade with use, bullets need to be dug out of your body, and vehicles break down if pushed beyond their limits.
- Buying friends: Meet and co-operate with fellow mercenaries as you pit different factions against one another in a war-torn African state.
About the Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Ubisoft?s huge development studio in Canada has created many of the French publisher?s biggest hits, including the Splinter Cell,/i> series, the modern Prince of Persia games, Rainbow Six: Vegas, Assassin?s Creed, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja and the Far Cry sequels and spin-offs.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 227 more reviews...
 A Legend is Born January 8, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the most polished, original and beautiful game I have ever had the pleasure to play.
It ranks up there with the best because it is such fun, but it's also very intelligent. The gameplay and combat is definitely the best ever, the enemy are smart, unpredictable and when played on hard, they are really hard.
There is still room for improvement however - the diamond hunt is a little dull - if that had been replaced by a trading system to make cash I think it could have been the best game ever.
I bought, installed and played this without giving any thought to copyright issues.
It plays like a dream on my rig, the DX10 features are mindblowing.
Feel the Heat January 8, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I only upgrade my PC every three or four years and I never sell my old games, so the protection features of this game don't bother me.
When I first started playing Far Cry 2, I thought it might be a bit slow. The battles were small skirmishes in comparison to Call of Duty games. However, after the initial tutorial, I found I had freedom to go anywhere on a vast map and take on a variety of jobs and interact with other characters. This totally changed my view. I had to throw aside my morals and became absorbed in the shady world of a Hired Gun in Africa. I was hooked.
The graphics are excellent. I read that the team visited Africa to gain experience. It was evidently worth it. I really felt the heat and humidity as I travelled about. I felt the rain. I hesitated before wading through bogs.
The beauty of the game is the freedom of choice. The battles, although small, are very challenging because of the excellent AI of the enemy. There is no set way to do anything.
As you earn enough to buy new weapons, you can choose your style of combat. You want to be stealthy? OK...Take a sniper rifle, and silenced pistol. You want to make big explosions (the best I've ever seen)? ... OK... Take a grenade launcher and rocket launcher! You want both?...OK... snipe a propane canister, causing a huge explosion and watch the enemy run around like headless chickens while you pick them off!
I found myself "saving up" for tasty weapons!
I loved the role play part. I got to know a host of characters, both good and bad. It became important for me to improve my status with them (how sad is that?)
It gave me hours and hours of gameplay (80+). There were quite a few surprises along the way, too. I couldn't put it down. I rate it as one of the best games I've ever played.
Buy it! It's wonderful! It's a bargain!
 Souless January 6, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The game lacks atmosphere, missions are repetitive, and generally I find myself wishing I was playing STALKER.
The characters are poorly developed, and kind of, not interesting. The dumbest character in STALKER has more to say than some of the lead roles in Far Cry 2.
The "vast open spaces" also disappoint - you are consistently barred from hilltops, which means that action is chanelled entirely through valleys... somehow missing the whole point of the promised freedom of movement.
There is scope for plenty of variation in styles of gameplay, and I've had some fun experimenting with stealth attacks and a more explosive approach.
Some of the environments are cool as well, the jungle fringed scrap heap is great. And that's kind of the point. Think of this as a set of multiplayer maps linked together by valleys patrolled by the enemy, and you've about described the "vast open space" of Far Cry 2.
And ultimately it is depressing to drive around killing Africans locked into a pointless civil war. And if that's the whole point, its not worth playing the game, is it?
 Pretty... but pretty rubbish January 5, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Doing the shopping is boring. You get in the car, drive to Tesco, do your shopping, queue at the till for twenty minutes, get back in your car and drive home.
Well, Far Cry 2 is exactly the same, except the other shoppers have guns and the till is made of petrol.
It manages to make everything a chore. The long drives are dull - but don't worry, because every blasted other person in the world wants to kill you to death. So you drive for twenty seconds, get shot up in a gunfight against the dumbest enemies I've seen since Quake, drive for twenty seconds... lather, rinse, repeat.
There just is no variation in the missions. There's no benefit to siding with one faction over the other; "Oh, and this is a secret mission," the bosses say before every mission, "our guys will try to kill you too." Secret missions are fine - but are they secret missions, or could the developers just not be bothered to include proper alignment code?
The graphics are pretty enough, but nowhere near what was promised. The much-vaunted fire physics are simplistic and, once you get over the "oooh", not very realistic. And how many bush fires die out after twenty seconds?
Then there's the story. "Adaptive storyline," they said - but it's just one linear story with a few names shuffled about. There are no substantive changes, and the "dramatic climax" is really just a simple choice between two very similar fates.
All in all, a remarkable waste of potential. A massive disappointment.
And oh yeah, it has Securom. That makes everything all right, eh?
 Good graphics, good game play (shame on the DRM) January 5, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been playing Far Cry 2 now for a week or so and it has to be the most enjoyable game I have played in ages. Graphics are extremely good, and the game play is really good fun. I agree with other reviers that the DRM is a shame and I must admit to thinking twice before purchasing (personally I believe all forms of DRM should be stopped as it discourages people who legitmately purchases music / games and has no effect on those that pirate). But, the game is superb. I have had no issues with the DRM. My advice is that if you are thinking of buying it, do.
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