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: #681 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.

this is something different...give it a go!!!
I loved farcry and I'm not talking about that instincts rubbish but the pc one. I bought it when my laptop could handle those amazing jungle graphics and it blew me away. Well now I've got this on my xbox and my laptop is hardly used.An xbox 360 to me is a pc in a can. And what does the pc do best but fps's. Same here for the 360 and I am in heaven. So here is farcry2 and my initial impression was good graphics but the story is a bit pants. I became annoyed when my gunned jammed...again and whats with all the driving around. So I went off and had a think. I need to play this one differently and the results are astounding. Think of this game as gta4 in fps form based in africa. Then approach each mission carefully....slowly...be precise and clinical. Will you attack in the early day or go to a safe house and have a kip before you venture off to to that high ground you scouted earlier on. How did you know about that sneeky path or sniper point? You did some intel and you recruited some help from your other merc mates. He did owe me as I've saved his life on a number of occassions. As have my merc mates. Yep in the heat of battle when my broken body couldnt take anymore I have been saved by them. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. You are trying to scratch a living while you are trailing an arms dealer called the Jackal so if a faction wants someone blownaway then...for a price its up to you.I love the animations when your charecter takes his meds or seals a gunshot wound with a book of lit matches.He even at times uses a pair of plyers to rip the bullet out!.To sum up the 1 player experience must be viewed as something different or you will not see this games true qualities. It is NOT cod4...you are not rambo. You are a merc in a large sandbox game trying to survive during an african civil war.Enjoy!!
Multiplayer....
Again this is not cod. Ive only tryed team deathmatch and a capture the flag style game that envolves conflict diamonds. The loads outs are the usual affair.....well balanced and can be improved with experience points.The cars and trucks and allot of the enviroments are like the film black hawk down. Jeeps with 50 cals bolted on the back etc...no american might here. Like the one player every person has the potential to heal by digging the bullets out etc but in a gun battle it aint easy. When you are wounded badly a timer counts down allowing your team to try and get to you....nice animations again when you get picked up.As well as killing this gets you points aswell. All the charecters look like irregular soilders and its fantastic. Again imagine black hawk down but with out the americans in it....Its civil war...
Slow start in 1 player but take your time and the same with the multiplayer. approach this with an open mind. Im Rodent28 online and I will see you there.
update....1 player is crap...multiplayer cant stand up to others that are out....i traded it in ...eventally

Flawed Diamond
Well this is overall a pretty good game, but has a few nagging flaws.

The Plusses:

1. Graphics are fantastic

2. There is a great selection of weapons, which are upgradable.

3. There is an open sandbox style of play, you get various missions and sidequests, but these can be done in a variety of ways.

4. Weapons degrade, which makes purchasing new ones a sought after incentive. Plus also allows use of some 2nd hand guns that you wont unlock till later at the arms dealers.It makes refreshing change to include this variable.

5. AI is fairly good. Guys will sneak up on you, flank you and shout for help

6. The missions can be quite interesting, though more so from chapter 2 onwards.

7. I liked the graphical healing. No just walking over a medpack. Stopping to prise bullets from my leg with pliers in the middle of a firefight was much more gritty.

The minuses:

1. When travelling, you constantly get attacked by enemy vehicles and have to deal with roadblocks. You have to fight your way to locations, which at first is ok, but soon gets repetitive. You have to rinse and repeat these fights to get anywhere, but especially by road.

2. Pretty much everyone is your enemy. Both the two factions soldiers will shoot you on sight, as your missions for them are considered secret. It would have been better to have more factions and a friendly status score (As used in mercenaries 2) to dictate how they react to you.

3. The story is pretty weak. You are sent to kill the Jackal arms dealer, who is perpetuating the war. However, he spares your life several times, and it seems hard to criticise his warmongering, when you are blasting your way through thousands of goons constantly. Any sane man would have got out of the country with a haul of diamonds, rather than stay, spending them on more guns.

4. The missions in chapter 1 aren't as interesting as the ones from Chapter 2 onwards. I nearly gave up on the game initially, as it was repetative. However, the gameplay got much more interesting from Chapter 2 onwards, with missions including defending a barge, a prison break and dropping a bomb from a bridge onto a boat underneath. Also by this time, I had access to much more interesting weapons and gear.

5. There are only a couple of silenced guns in the game. It would have been nicer to have silencer upgrades (Maybe at the cost of fire rate or range) on more weapons (A silenced sniper rifle was sorely missing, the dart rifle came close but was very slow).

6. It would have been nice to have upgraded one off weapons that you could pick up from the dead bosses and top targets. These could have been new models not available in the arms shop. Or existing ones with better accuracy, rate of fire, capacity or decoration than the normal models. This would have given an added incentive to some missions and sidequests. Maybe they could have also had some hidden around like Easter Eggs in the game, a bit like some weapons in Fallout 3.

7. The malaria factor was pretty annoying. It went against the sandbox idea, as you had little choice than have to hunt down more medicine. One mission included blowing up kilns for a malaria vaccine. This seemed crazy, that you wouldn't get the vaccine first before blowing them. This conflicted with the malaria idea totally.


All in all a good game, worth sticking with to get past dull Chapter 1
The great graphics, weapon choice and durability, and sandbox enviroment make it a great gameplay experience, that moves away from most on the rails fps's around. I predict if certain flaws are sorted out, then the next game Farcry 3 will be a gaming classic.