
However, the way the game world is set up makes traveling from location to location extremely frustrating. Several levels of zoom and perfect integration with gameplay make it one of the most useful maps I've ever used in a video game. With such a huge game world, it can be very easy to get lost, and thankfully, Far Cry 2 delivers an almost magical map system that makes sure you always know exactly where you are and where you need to be. You're given a location on your map where there are a lot of enemies ? or a specific person ?to kill, or there's an item to take or destroy. While the missions are delivered in a variety of ways, the missions themselves are structured in very similar ways. Scattered around the map are missions you can accept from gun dealers, your war buddies, factions and radio towers. For a game in which you're supposed to be able to go anywhere and do anything, there's not very much to do. The implementation isn't particularly good, and the medicine-finding missions end up feeling like an artificial way of extending the game's already-lengthy campaign.Īfter a tutorial that introduces you to the game mechanics, you're thrown into the world and let loose. The only element of the story that carries into gameplay is the malaria, which requires you to frequently find medicine to deal with the random attacks. You're back in the same world that you were in before, except with a new cluster of enemies at a map location. If there's anything story-related going on, it's in a safe room, and as soon as you exit, so does the story. Unfortunately, the story and gameplay are almost completely separate from one another. In Far Cry 2, you are a nameless mercenary who enters a war-torn African country with the goal of killing an arms dealer named "The Jackal." Things go terribly wrong within the first 10 minutes of the game, and your character ends up with a bad case of malaria and is forced to work with the two warring factions. Far Cry 2 ends up feeling like something that more closely resembles a "lite" version of Grand Theft Auto from a first-person perspective, and it doesn't work nearly as well as I would've hoped. Gone are Jack Carver and the supernatural element of the story and gameplay, and in their place, you have a moderately realistic political setting in Africa.


Building on the open level design established in Far Cry seemed like a fantastic idea, but the end result is something that doesn't have very much in common with the original Far Cry. The idea of being let loose in an African country in the middle of a civil war and being given a single vague objective sounded like it could be a fantastic game experience. Thanks to an intense story and striking graphics, you will spend hours glued to the computer screen trying to escape from your kidnappers and solve the mysteries the surround the plot.Far Cry 2 is a game that I really wanted to like. If you are into tactical action games, Far Cry will not disappoint you.

Offers a multiplayer mode with different playing modes.Everything changes when a group of mercenaries take control of the sailboat and capture both crew members. Jack Carver, a businessman in charge of boat rental business with a dark past, receives the order to take Valerie Constantine to a mysterious and unexplored island. The strategy and tactics you use will be the key to fulfil with success the missions you are entrusted. Far Cry is a first person tactical action game with stunning graphics that is developed in an idyllic and delightful location of the South Pacific.
