Product Description

Far Cry 2 by Ubisoft is the anticipated sequel to the award-winning original that brings players into the beautiful and hostile world of Africa. Far Cry 2 for Windows Vista/XP features open-ended gameplay that allows you to play the game whichever way you choose, with the choices you make affecting where the game leads you.

• First-person shooter for Windows Vista/XP gives players an open-ended gameplaying experience
• Roam the beautifully detailed jungles and savannah of Africa
• Pick up a wide range of weapons and hop into different vehicles
• Dynamic environment, including day-night cycles and fire propagation
• Online multiplayer supports up to 16 players

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #940 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2008-10-24
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• ESRB Rating: Rating Pending
• Platform: Windows XP
• Original language: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
• Dimensions: .35 pounds

Amazon.co.uk
Exploring 20 square miles of African savannah and jungle is never an easy task. But when you’re up against an army of highly trained mercenaries, the danger becomes unimaginable. Welcome to the world of Far Cry 2.

Far Cry 2 has some of the best explosions in the business

Vehicles are great for cover as well as transport

It’s best to keep some of the game’s factions on your side

The environmental graphics are both stunning and highly varied

It’s been over four years since the release of the first Far Cry, and Far Cry 2 has almost nothing in common with it beyond being a first-person shooter with excellent graphics and advanced artificial intelligence. It’s by a different developer, and you now play one of eight different mercenary characters out to catch an arms dealer nicknamed “The Jackal.”

The sci-fi enemies have also been jettisoned in favour of a much more realistic game where survival skills are just as important as a good aim. The rules of engagement--either by stealth or all guns blazing--are entirely up to you.

Key Features

• Virtual safari: The game features 20 square miles of terrain for you to travel, filled with realistic fauna and flora and fully destructible trees and buildings.
• Fiery realism: With an all-new graphics engine created just for the game, fire moves and propagates exactly as in real-life, with vegetation breaking and snapping realistically.
• The coming storm: A dynamic weather system changes to reflect your mood, with the sky turning dark and stormy during bad times.
• Jungle survival: Highly realistic weapons degrade with use, bullets need to be dug out of your body, and vehicles break down if pushed beyond their limits.
• Buying friends: Meet and co-operate with fellow mercenaries as you pit different factions against one another in a war-torn African state.

About the Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Ubisoft’s huge development studio in Canada has created many of the French publisher’s biggest hits, including the Splinter Cell,/i> series, the modern Prince of Persia games, Rainbow Six: Vegas, Assassin’s Creed, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja and the Far Cry sequels and spin-offs.

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Customer Reviews

Fun at the beginning then trails off to utter boredom.
This game starts off well with fantastic scenery and the game play appears well defined, but then suddenly, something happens, it starts to become repetitive. I was always waiting for something to happen and eventually it didn't!! I spent most of your time driving round the map looking for things to do, when I found a campaign, it was just like the last one; maybe there is something I'm missing, but I don't think so. This game is in no way engaging as Farcry or Crysis. The recent drop in price of this game reflects this problem.

Nice engine, shame about the bodywork!
I have just finished FC2 and agree with most other reviews about the repetitive game play.

I had no problems with running the game and it looked beautiful gliding along with an Invidia 9800gt card and duo core processor. The trouble is, it's like putting a Lamborgini Diablo engine in a Fiat Panda body, runs like a dream but doesn't quite fit somehow.

Blistering explosions, beautiful scenery and solid weaponry all wasted on a very repetitive and unimaginative game. So much potential unrealised!

So, come on Ubisoft, I hope you take note of all these comments so next time you bring a game out with and engine like the Dunia one...fill it up with some creativity so we can put our foot to the floor and really burn some serious rubber!!!!!!

Boring, repetative gameplay
LOL - the reviewers who have said this game is best played in chunks of an hour or so at a time are right, but what they fail to point out is that the reason for that is that if you play it flat out as you would any other action game, this one is just plain boring. Each mission is a case of drive or sail somewhere to GET the mission, then drive or sail somewhere to execute the mission, then repeat over and over and over again. That's it. There is no more. Tedious in the extreme!