Far Cry® 2: Fortune's Edition

Great game! It's really tough to fight enemies. One of the best survival games!

A lot of people will whine about this game. That certain things i.e Weapon Jam is unfair , enemy respawn rates are harsh , that the vehicles are easily breakable and generally that the higher the difficult the more impossible it seems. I remember booting this game out the day I got it 5 years ago. What greeted me was one of the Single Best FPS for people that don't want to be rail road tracked like COD or any on the rails shooter. The vast amount of ways you can take out enemies is limited only by yourself. I have taken out a whole base of guards before with 1 flare and a molotov on some of the harder difficulties. The difficulty in raising funds and ensuring that both you and your buddys stay alive and as healthy as possible added in a factor that you'll never see FarCry produce again. Fighting off both Malaria and gun jams was what made this game all the more enjoyable as you constantly had to ensure you were ready for the next batch of Explosions , gun fire and close quarters executions. While the plot does seem to be uninteresting at points it is actually quite fun to compare what the Jackal states and tries to teach your charecter through the tapes and with his interactions with the modern world. Is the Jackal a good person? No but even he has his limits and wants to see an end to both of the facist and corrupt regimes plauging the nation. Pair all this alongside assasination missions , taking out arms dealers , aiding your friends and smuggling documents for the Underground and you have yourself a game that is highly replayable and highly enjoyable. To this day I am yet to do a playthrough in which I find all the diamond cases in a single run as most of the time you can generate the cash you need by doing the odd random side quest. TLDR - Don't let other people rag down this game because it doesnt play like (Insert game here). If you are a fan of open world challenging shooters then i'd say give this one a go. You never know you might have fun.

This game rips me a new ass every time I play it but I keep coming back to it and wasting my time because of what it could be, not what it is. It is definitely failed potential. It's slow paced, enemies are overly aggressive and seem to appear out of thin air at times. It could definitely use a more robust fast travel system- I will say that the game definitely lives up to it's reputation of being "Far Drive." It's mind-numbing, frustrating and exhausting to play. Just the same actions over and over again- like washing dishes or sweeping the floor. The gunplay itself feels very clunky. On the upside, it definitely looks pretty for a game that's over ten years old.

There are several annoying things about this game that other reviews have covered. Back in the day, these things were annoying as well, but the freedom was so great, I could overlook a lot. If you come to this from a newer game, you'll probably be disappointed. I used to love the multiplayer. Too bad that's long dead.

I never played Far Cry 1 but I have played every other Far Cry. This game sucks. The graphics and fire physics were ahead of it's time but that's about the only nice thing I can say. The world is so incredibly dead. This is in Africa yet there is basically no wild life at all. In any of the sequels the wild life will attack each other, npcs and you. That is nowhere to be found here. There are also no npcs in this dead world. The excuse is that the civillians were all evacuated but that's just a cover up because they didn't feel like adding them. If you evacuate in real life some people will stay behind and remain at their home. It's you and all enemies that's literally it. No Friendly NPCs, wild life, civillians, NOTHING. The game is open world yet it is so incredibly linear in design. They could have created lush jungle, savannahs, deserts, praries. It just feels like an empty forest. The weapons degrade extremely fast and jam, terrible and unfun feature. Speaking of terrible and unfun features your character has malaria. You constantly need to find medicine. That's probably the worst design decision in the history of gaming. Not to worry though, I modded it out and the game still sucks balls. There are check points everywhere. You clear them out, drive 25 feet, turn around and everybody has already respawned like nothing has happened. The Villain is also incredibly forgettable which is Far Cry's strong suit. The gunplay also lacks here too and enemies are bullet spongey. Do yourself a favor and skip this one.