Eurogamer TV writes: "We take a trip to the land of moose, lumberjacking and government-subsidised game development to see what's cooking under the lid of Ubisoft Montreal's pot of delights. Far Cry 2, Shaun White's Snowboarding and Prince of Persia all await you within."
If you’re new to this long-running franchise, we’ve got you covered.
2 and 3, pretty much the only ones i really enjoyed. 1 was amazing for the time but aged quite poorly. 4 has the elephant gun, all i can praise from any entry after 3 lol
Ummmm 3 than stop.
Okay maybe two as well. But yeah probably 3 and then move on.
Far Cry 2. People constantly rant about games now being too easy, holding your hand, having too many unnecessary RPG-lite leveling features, etc. People specifically complain about open world games being too focused on tons of collectibles and "checkmarks" that just waste time.
Far Cry 2 is an answer to all of those complaints. It was made by Ubisoft before they fell into all the traps discussed above (and before they started inserting towers into their games to defog the map). It has respawning enemies, weapons that degrade, and the collectible diamonds are very useful in the game (which you find in a similar way to the way you find shrines in BOTW with a radar system). The map you have is an in game item you pull out while playing, not a pause menu that is unnecessarily detailed. Also the enemy AI and physics are much better than later entries in the series.
It has a mixed reputation because people at the time said it was too hard, the weapon degradation was annoying, and then respawning enemies were annoying. FC2 came out in 2008, so this was before games like Dark Souls and BOTW had come out and made it cool to like these types of features.
GF365: "There are some games with extraordinary visuals that impress us to this day. Here are old games with outstanding graphics."
I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.
Far Cry 2 was awesome. In addition to having demonstrably better physics and AI than later games in the series, it had a lot of design decisions that, criticized at the time, have since been praised in games like BOTW and Dark Souls.
It might not be super amazing by today's standard but I thought Mgs3 looked really good
The Far Cry series’ best game – not Far Cry 6 – just got more brutal and realistic thanks a mod than revamps and remakes the classic Ubisoft open-world FPS
Far Cry 2 where your guns never ever jammed until you got into a gunfight is their best? I disagree.
Far Cry 2 may certainly not be the most "fun" game in the series but from a narrative standpoint it definitely is the most interesting of the bunch. FC2 couldn't be further away from the pointless fragfests that the following episodes turned out to be.
EG: So what do you guys think of your next-gen performance so far?
Ubi: Man have we sucked. We can't seem to make a fully functional next-gen game. AC liked to freeze and have all of its environments just kinda dissapear. Jade said it was an easter egg or something like that to put the game into gold status. I don't think that was the case looking back at it now...
EG: What do you think was your biggest next-gen failure thus far?
Ubi: Geez, there's been a lot. Rainbow Six Vegas 2 was horrible...AC was truly a technical mess, and our other published titles like Haze and Enchanted Arms certainly haven't done too well with gamers or critics...that said, look out for Far Cry 2 on console! It will diffenitely be the biggest dissapointment yet!
EG: You mean, Far Cry 2 will be bad?
Ubi: Oh we certainly don't want it to be, but our lack of developer talent will almost certainly ensure that the game will be garbage. On console at least, especially the PS3! We can't develop for that thing at all!
EG: Well....uh....thanks for the interview...
Ubi: Oh no worries! It was my pleasure.
thats my city
go habs go