I'm sorry, but I must ask: Why is this here? This game is not old (Well, a few years but not old enough to "qualify") and to be honest not very good. I've played this game enough, on both Xbox 360 and Steam, to say that I have a very love / hate relationship with Far Cry 2. I love the concept: A mercenary stuck in Africa during a civil war, looking for the warlord that supplies both sides? A huge open world, with jungles, swamps, deserts, towns, everything you'd find in an African continent? Great! I also love the map editor: it allows the user to create high quality maps, arguably better maps than the prepackaged ones, with ease. My complaints are really the same ones that you'd hear from everyone else: Travelling between missions is tedious, with nothing else to do other than find diamonds or get harassed by random patrols and respawning enemy checkpoints. It all feels a little sluggish and slow, with the movement speed ranging from walking, jogging to a full on sprint (a very short sprint thanks to your MC's case of Malaria). The healing system is interesting, it works but... the animations themselves don't work. I know this doesn't sound like a real complaint, but when you get shot or accidentally spend too much time underwater, and you see your character's hand pull a metal rod out of his stomach, the illusion is lost. I can't say much about the multiplayer, because I've yet to play it online on PC, but I have put more than enough hours into it on Xbox 360, so all I can say is: It's the same general gameplay, features the typical game modes (Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Fla - er, Diamonds, and more), and uses a level system for unlocking weapons. Overall, I'd say the gameplay and mechanics bring down Far Cry 2 from being a good game, to simply being a "Meh" game. It only fits one of the 3 requirements fro being on GOG. I'd give it 2.5 Stars, but I'll have to settle with 3.
