Far Cry® 2: Fortune's Edition

What sounded like first preson GTA in the Savannah turned out to not work well. There was a horrible glitch which made gras which is everywhere have white edges when playing on Windows 7. Tried to play it on Linux with wine and surprise: no visual glitches. Usually it is the other way round. Graphics and sounds of the weapons are convincing. However the gameplay is really horrible. You get not attached at all to the story. Enemies are not really a challenge, but more annoying as they pop-up randomly while you get out of save house or try to find a new mission. Every scenery looks identical so I found myself driving with the full map enabled all the time. Features like grabbing diamonds or upgrading weapons seem like rushed ways to somehow motivate the player to get through this repetitive mess. It did not work for me. Uninstalled it immediately. Should have tried a demo first instead of wasting my money here.

I'm gonna keep this as short as possible since my other review was too long for GOG so I will try to hit everything you should know about the game quickly. Controls: No melee attack, any key designated as the action/use command other than the "E" key will cause a glitch and you will not be able to let go of tripod based machine guns......ever, you can't run and strafe at the same time, the map system is a complete abomination with no ability to select a way point. Graphics: Amazing Sound: Guns sound amazing, music sucks Gameplay: Frustrating, respawning enemies that you can't ignore because they will chase you down, no stealth due to no melee attack or silenced weapons, constantly having to repair your vehicle, guns jam constantly, Malaria, every objective and side job is "kill that guy", the only thing you collect is diamonds to buy stuff, driving doesn't feel like driving. Bottom line, don't buy this game. Buy Far Cry, Far Cry 3, and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. Buy this game only if you like to look at pretty graphics and destructible and flammable environments.

The game is great, big maps, lots of weaponry to choose from, almost infinite ways to finish any mission . But ther is one huge flaw. The game is repetitive, which affect the gamplay greatly.

This game in its original version includes Spanish audio, but the gog version doesnt include . If I had known, I would not have bought

Despite all of its cons, I was amazed by its pros: - Beautiful and immersive world. It's a game that feels like you really are in a world of its own. Not just a "place" (like Deus Ex or BioShock locales), but a real, wide and surprising world. You could roam around and just soak in all the beauty and details. - Options. Yes, missions are all similar (not to mention the never-ending checkpoints), but you are mostly free to tackle them the way you want. SInce it's not script-based, no event ever plays in the same way: you could try to tackle a mission ten times, and it would develop differently every time. - Combat options. The above it's true for combat as well: you have many weapons to choose from, but you have to compromise (due to its three-slots system). So you have to choose your combat style and choose the weapons accordingly, forcing you to adapt your combat style to the resources available. Save for trying a different weapons setup later, and invent a different approach. Almost limitless combinations. I won't go into the negatives here, because they have already been discussed a lot. I just add that, despite the hours of fun I had (I think 60 hours of gameplay), this game left me with a sense of sadness in the end. Maybe it was because the final part is mostly linear (and after all the previous freedom it feels oppressive); maybe because it felt like all my previous efforts - in the end - amounted to nothing. I don't know. I mostly had a blast playing it (with the occasional frustration), but it left me with this tinge of sadness - so I don't know if I want to play it again (like I thought I would, while playing it). Anyway it was a hell of a ride, and I'm truly grateful for this experience :-)