Far Cry® 2: Fortune's Edition

I bought Far Cry 2 on day 1 at my local games store and what a big mistake it was. First of all the "superb" SECUROM drm was really annoying but, I can pass on that. First mission, repair a useless car, drive 10 minutes, kill a bunch of bad guys and drive back another 10 minutes to receive your reward. But wait be advised, on your way you'll be follow and attack by bad guys in cars constantly. Also in the game, the ennemies you killed respawn every 5 minutes or so. THEY ARE VAMPIRES! Take a look a this case that hapen quite often in the game : You go to the city, a guy from a faction give you a mission that is all over the map at 10-15 minutes ride and between point A and B you have 2 outposts. So, you must clear these outposts on go, you do your 1 minute mission but, you must clear again these outposts on your way back because they all respawned! Also, did i mention that you'll be attack by random dudes in cars ? -.- I mean the game had great graphics back that day... but the game mechanics was boring. Uninstall the game after 2 days, retried it 2 years later but uninstall it again 1 hour later.

Non-existent enemy variety, unsatisfying gunplay, horrible car handling, very repetitive gameplay, generic characters, an empty and bland open world with not much to do, uninspired story, a horrible color pallet that colors everything in a shade of their yellow or brown, etc. Farcry 2 is in a nutshell, a chore to play. Get Farcry 3 instead.

I have just completed the game with this GOG version. The games okay but the driving begins to drag a bit and the respawing at check points can get grating. The game worked fine but I set the game short cut so it ran at 60 FPS to stop the bouncing bugs, I followed the GOG tech article to do it. I did not use the unoffical fix so I got the Jackle Tape bug but I wasnt bothered about collecting them anyway. I also set the game to run at DirectX 9 after a man fell out of a tree in the intro taxi ride when I tried DirectX 10 mode.

Nostalgia at this point. ^_^

Best Far Cry. Seriously immersive.