Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #321 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2008-07-11
• Platform: Windows XP

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Far Cry 2 finds you caught between two rival factions in war-torn Africa. You're sent to take out "The Jackal," a mysterious character who has rekindled the conflict between the warlords, jeopardizing thousands of lives. In order to fulfill your mission you will have to play the factions against each other, identify and exploit their weaknesses, and neutralize their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and, of course, brute force.

Built specifically for Far Cry 2 by the award-winning Ubisoft Montreal development team, the Dunia Engine delivers the most realistic destructible environments, special effects, such as dynamic fire propagation and storm effects, real-time night-and-day cycle, dynamic music system and non-scripted enemy A.I. You can explore 50 kilometers of rendered African landscape. Far Cry 2 also boasts real-time immersion. Real-time story telling, systemic auto-healing, and minimal in-game interface are just few of the features that will make you feel the tension of being alone against barbarous warlords that threaten thousands of innocent lives.

With your choice of a wide selection of weapons, you'll meet the fight head-on with your machine-gun, go berserk with your machete, or make stealth kills as a sniper. If you feel that the atmosphere is not warm enough, light up your flame-thrower and let your enemies and everything around them feel the heat. With your glider, trucks, cars, and boats, you'll fly, run, drive, slide and hover over this huge

Customer Reviews

Expectations
How can anyone judge a game they haven't played yet its ludicrous especially if they are giving it 5 out of 5 and so many people have done this. I remember I was eagerly anticipating Crysis and all the features it boasted and I was terribly disappointed. It wasn't free roam as promised, the story line was as if it had been made up in a spare lunch break they had and lastly the suit wasn't as exciting as it could have been. It was a skin deep game. I'm doing this to warn you not to get overly eager in case it is a terrible let down. Looking back at Crysis the game was probably ok but I had higher expectations from the hype that was given before it was released and as a consequence didn't enjoy the game as much as I could have. Setting up such high expectations may just lead you to a further fall so make your assumptions about the game once you have played it not before.

Brilliant (if it's as good or better than Far Cry was)
I agree with other reviewers to some extent, but what is even more unfathomable than why Amazon allow people to write reviews before release, AND the people who write the reviews of games they haven't yet played, is perhaps the people who read the reviews of people who haven't played, in order to decide whether or not they should play them (when they are er.. playable). But read on....

Having said this, Far Cry was probably one of the best games I've played, and so, Far Cry 2 might well be one of the best games I haven't yet played.

Seriously, for it's day Far Cry was outrageously pretty to look at (even better with modern graphics cards), taxing to play (the lack of quicksave really kept you on your toes and made it edgey), the AI was good (for it's time) and often unpredictable, there was an element of humour and an interesting story, but best of all you could complete most of the levels in very different ways free of the shoe-horned play of most games of the time, which made it very replayable (seeing which tactics were best). If FC2 carries on from its groundbreaking precursor, then with the advances in graphics, engines and AI that we should expect, this should really be a great game. If you've waited all those long years since Far Cry for a follow up, you'll probably want to have this as soon as it becomes available. I know I will.

Anyway, if you're thinking of buying Far Cry 2, and haven't played Far Cry 1, then I suggest you buy that right now and enjoy it while you're waiting for 2 to be released. If you have played and enjoyed Far Cry 1, then you probably didn't need to read this review to decide whether you should buy Far Cry 2, you will just buy it.

hmm
people complaining about people writing reviews for a game thats not released but they themselves are writing about the reviewers - seems like a crazy circle to me... oh nooo.. im one of them guys.

Ive got high hopes for this game though - FC1 was my favourite game in the past.

onCe yOu gO bLAcK, yOu nEVer gO bAcK!!