Product Description

The long awaited sequel to the popular first-person shooter Far Cry. More than just a visual and technological achievement, Far Cry 2 immerses players in an entirely new kind of gaming experience, featuring a custom-made video game engine built from the ground up. Players will discover a true open world gameplay set in one of the most beautiful environments in the world, Africa, brought to life by high-definition next-gen technology.

• Dunia Engine: The award winning Ubisoft Montreal dev team has tailor-made this new engine for Far Cry 2. It delivers the most realistic destructible environments, amazing special effects such as dynamic fire and storm effects, real-time day and night cycle, dynamic music system, non-scripted enemy A.I. and much more.
• Destructible Environment: No more thinking about obstacles, everything is breakable and alterable, even in Multiplayer mode! The DUNIA engine's RealTree technology also delivers the most realistic nature deterioration system ever.
• Weapons Of Choice: Choose from a plethora of weapons to make your way to your primary target. Meet the fight head-on with your machine gun, go berserk with you machete or make stealth kill as a Sniper.
• Open World: Experience real freedom while roaming in more than 50km2 without any loading. Never a game has given you so much liberty! Discover Africa as if you were there thanks to amazing artistic research supported by next-gen technology to make it come to life!
• A Huge Adventure & Hours Of Side Quests: Discover war in its rawest form! Fight for two rival factions, choose your own path and make your way up to your primary target by any means necessary. Feel free to explore this gigantic world and play over 70 side quests to earn help, new weapons and vehicles!
• Non-Scripted Artificial Intelligence: Next-gen technology brings a brand new experience to Far Cry 2. Be su

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #923 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2008-10-24
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Original language: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
• Dimensions: .35 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

Savour the calm before the storm, then go in with your flame thrower and grenades.
Farcry 2 is a very enjoyable game. I played the first on my computer, and I feel that this certainly lives up to the quality. The beginning may be a little slow, and I had to turn the sensitivity on the joystick down, but you soon get the hang of it, and the controls are much the same as COD4 and Battlefield Bad Company.

The thing that struck me most of all was the realistic nature of the game. This is in more ways than the graphics, which are excellent, and the sun effects are brilliant, but in the game play itself. I was beginning to get the sense of GTA with the large open map, getting lost and checking your map, but then the effect of never leaving your characters eyes really comes into it's own.

The dedication of this effect sets the game apart; Jumping into a van to leg it away from a raid, getting the map out on your lap to check the way, while trying to run people over, and not crash into a tree are rare occasions in games, and makes this one seem even more realistic.
The map is beautifully done, and it gives you a sense of the claustrophobic atmosphere of jungles, and deep river ravines, and, on the edges of the maps, the openness to drive around chasing zebra.

I would not judge the online element of the game yet, as it is so new and does not have the online basis of bad company (which had many of the same problems when that was new) and COD 4. But the single player campaign is surprisingly long, and when other games like COD4 would have finished, this gives you a whole new map to explore. Which also means that: like a real traveller, you are never completely sure what is around the corner, or indeed where you are, or which way is home, and sometimes even what time it is. Lol

The buddy system is cool, and I did feel a little remorse when I had to mercy kill my best mate. But when push came to shove, I decided that this was the life they had chose, and so went to save the innocents in the church.

Play this game. And don't listen to the feedback left by people who have only played the demo, or haven't bothered to get past the first mission before moaning about anything and nothing here, it is raising the bar for games, and I hope more games try to match it.

Excellent- But has to be given time.
I was going to review this game after owning it for less than 24 hours and give it a luke-warm oppinion. However now I have played the game a bit more, I have to say that it is the most enjoyable game I have played in years and years. After initially being sceptical of the sandbox free roaming style of the game i have now realised that it offers a much more engaging and encompassing game play experience that puts you in the control seat. At times i have found the driving to diffent missions tiresome, especially when you get killed just trying to GET to the mission, but i love the way this means it is not all just SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT like in most FPS but the action comes and goes making it more tense and exciting and giving you more time and room to plan your attacks.
To me the graphics seem excellent and the IA is, by a modern day standard, superb, the enermy movements don't seem as scripted as in other games. The sound and music is brilliant also. As for the map editor, well its fantastic and should add a lot of shelf life to an already superb game. However after spending maybe 10 hours designing my map i couldn't get anyone to play on it, I suppose there are more maps put there than people who want to play on then, or most players are choosing the highest rated or pre-desined maps to play on. Frustrating, but hardly the games fault i suppose.
Overall a intelligent and addictive shooter that does require some time and patience but rewards you greatly in return.

A good game but not great
There's no doubt a lot of thought has gone into Far Cry 2 and no one can argue that the game looks superb. So why are there some amazing simple flaws with this game.

I too have found myself taking major detours on the map as I am fed up with a fire fight everytime you pass a checkpoint. If there wasn't any respawning you'd soon end up with an empty map so it's a necessary evil but perhaps certain areas could have been cleared once and for all.

The AI is pretty poor, using the beds to advance to night makes very little difference for a 'stealth' raid as the enemies always catch on to you. Combine that with enemies that will run right pass you and not fire a shot and you have to ask questions.

Finally this is the first game i've played where a headshot does not guarantee a kill. The amount of ammo needed to down some enemies is just insane and there seems to be very little difference where you shoot these guys. I thought Big Daddies were a pain in Bioshock but it's amazing what a cotton vest can deflect.

All that aside FarCry is a fantastic game and it's bugs shouldn't put you off. With any luck UBI will release an update to sort out some of the common complaints.