Far Cry® 2: Fortune's Edition

I ran into a game progress stopping bug twenty minutes in after sitting through the interminable unskippable intro. Boo!

Played it with Dylan's mod and Real Africa SweetFX . The gameplay mechanics are pretty awesome and destructible physics are some of the best I've seen in any game. The quests get repetetive after while, and the voice acting is not very good. For whatever reason everyone talks very fast in a monotone voice. It's quite jarring and it breaks the immersion. The environments are very nicely done and the game looks good even today. Play it if you like the far cry formula and definitely play it with Dylan's mod.

Far Cry lead to two game series: Crysis and Far Cry 2 (and the games that didn't happen after it) and at this time, in 2019, I assert that you only needed to play two games related to the original title. They are this game and Crysis. Far Cry 2 is a game of great menace, hardship, heat and atmosphere. You are unleashed in the malaria-ridden jungles of a central african nation and asked to navigate your own sort of spin off the great 'Blood Diamond' film from a couple of years earlier. Your survival is not a foregone conclusion. The jungle shade and undergrowth aids stealth. The rusting, deteriorating guns fight you even as you fight others with them. Basically every NPC with whom you cooperate wants something in return from you, the ones who are genuinely kind to you are few and far between. The whole feel of the game is convincingly dire and savage to an almost mythological extent. Completing the story-line is by no means central to experiencing the game. Play this game if you have a hankering for being alone and quite hapless, with only the scratchiest of weaponry, crouching around in the middle of a hostile, primordial environment and simply trying to survive at the cost of dozens of lives. (you can play the game some other way, a more gung-ho way, if you want, but that isn't my style) I found it all to be really fun and atmospheric. I sunk deep into it.

Game frequently crashes

This game recreates Africa. The colors, the landscape and the vegetation, the weather and the ambient sound make you feel as if you are there. The dilapidated buildings, the litter and the constant sense of imminent doom evoke the feelings one really has, when travelling one of the failed states of the continent. The story deals with a problem that is even more serious today than when the game was made: how evil people with guns destroy civil society and make life in a country almost impossible. How fighting for power destroys everything worth fighting for. It is not a nice story, but only too realistic; the background could be taken from recent events in Sudan. You don't play a hero. You just try to get by with what you can do, until you realise that you are part of the problem and not of the solution. It is a grown up game. Don't play it to have fun. Play it for the atmosphere it creates. Play it for the catharsis that comes with tragedy. Play it to remember the real people who have to live in real countries like this. Play it for the unique political statement it makes. Definitely play it.