Well your mission is simple go to Africa and kill a guy named the Jackal that is providing weapons to the many African's there causing a lot of violent things. When you get there you get Malaria....yay! Thus the game begins...The game takes place around 2 waring factions the APR and the UFLL. Getting around will be fun at first with how massive the map is. There are various cars and Jeeps with machine guns all over the place but you will be attacked...A LOT. Enemies are every where around the map. Diamonds are the currency in the game you get them by beating missions but there are also 221 diamond cases spread across the world containing 1-3 diamonds in each....getting them all can be a real pain though. There is bus transportation but they only take you to the outskirts of the map. You will also meet a bunch of buddies along the way that will also give you missions as well. Buddies can rescue you if it says there buddy-ready but if they are injured you can do either 1 of 2 things save them with a Syringe(that's how you heal but ill get to that next) or switch to their side arm and kill them with it to ease the pain. As I was sayign you use syringes that are full of morphine to heal you. When you are down to critical health and start bleeding to death you press the same button that you use to heal with the syringe to stop whatever is causing the pain, it is a cool animation that usually involve you pulling a bullet out of your arm or fixing your broken hand.
There are a total of 28 weapons in the game and you can upgrade all of them. You can carry 3 at a time a Primary, Secondary and a Special, you also have a machete on you at all times as well. The controls are excellent being the same as Call of Duty 4 except that there are no special grenades.
Online is 16 players with the basic game types. Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Diamond(Flag), and Uprising(which is a mix of Halo 3's Land Grab and VIP). Uprising is probably the most unique(actually the only unique game type) out of all of them, The object of the game is to kill the other teams captain. To do this you have to take 3 spots on the map, which the other team can take back, then you are able to kill the other teams captain and win the game (The captain can die as many times before all 3 are captured) also the only people that can capture the key points are the captains themselves, the only real downside to the game mode is that the captain NEVER changes who ever is captain at the start is always the captain. I don't know if this is a downside but, if neither captain is killed for good before the game ends, no matter how many key spots one team holds its always a draw.
Now on the reason why you will probably by this game. The Map editor you can make a map out of everything its almost like photo shop how in depth it is. You can control everything to how cloudy it is, to how many trees or what time of day it is. There is no multiplayer simultaneous editing though like Halo but its understandable to how much stuff you can interact with in the game. You can also download other users maps that people upload also.
There are some major downsides to the game in general
-The A.I. Its stupid. Really stupid. The only time they are dangerous is when there in insane numbers.
-Multiplayer is a complete knock off of COD4. With less customization.
-The story is Average
Overall its a great game but don't expect an amazing Story or multiplayer.
[N4G Edit]: This review was originally posted on my Gamespot profile on November 1st 2008. Also I don't have my 360 anymore if I didn't state it before.
GF365: "There are some games with extraordinary visuals that impress us to this day. Here are old games with outstanding graphics."
Same as Killzone 2 and 3, uncharted 2 and 3, Infamous 2, Heavy Rain, Resistance 3
I wish this was entirely true, but you might want to load up Killzone 2 and Resistance 3 again.
@jason I watched some gameplay videos of KZ2 and R3 on my full screen. They are on par or succeed graphically to the first person shooters mentioned in the article that also launched on the seventh generation of consoles. Try the same and see what you think
Killzone 3 was super impressive! I could not believe the graphics back then as I was regularly pausing the game to stand in awe looking at the surroundings! Resistance however did not impress me that much. Heavy rain is also another amazing graphically speaking game. It almost felt next gen
I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.
They did for their day. I recently played gears judgement with on the 360 and the draw distance was so blurry. The characters up close look great though
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
Since the first game was released in 2004, Far Cry has set the standard on fantastic open-world shooters.
I would put 5 above 6 but agree with the other ratings. Though 6 has more refined gameplay compared to 5 it's lack of a compelling story really does hurt it imo but if you are a gameplay fiend and don't really care about story it makes sense.
Faceless Gaming's Greg Segal writes: Why Far Cry 2 is Still the Superior Game of the Franchise.
The game was pretty amazing. I remember the random unscripted nature of the game, I was driving away from bad guys then got malaria attack, crashed into a tree. Hid, took my pills. Shot, fixed my car and drive away before more bad guys showed up. It was intense, to make sure u did missions to get the pills while completing the main game. Remember taking down a huge enemy gas tank from a mile away with tons of enemies at the fort. Shot a rocket and they all mobilized to my position. But I just drove off before they could. This kind of game you make your own memories, too many games now a days script everything. Just cause is also great in the same regard
Definitely not. Remove your nostalgia glasses and replay it to see why. It did a lot right, but what it did wrong truly ruined the experience that you definitely can get with a few of the others since then.
I replayed literally last week and to me at least, is still my favourite, the atmosphere does it for me the most
Is it really that fricking hard to respect someone else's opinion? Or at least if you won't respect it, then at least give valid arguments instead of just hating for no reason.
All it had to do was tone down the malaria episodes and enemy respawns. Seems like some pretty minor inconveniences when it made for the most immersive and atmospheric far cry still to date. What has the newest far crys offered? A pot burning mission to some raggae with terribly stupid ai? Gimme more of that far cry 2 vibe
The handling of respawns is not a minor inconvenience. It's a core element of the gameplay that affected every aspect of the game. It's also my biggest gripe with Far Cry 6, which isn't as bad as Far Cry 2. It's insanely stupid to stop one medical vehicle and then to see them continually spawn new enemy vehicles one after the other. It doesn't add to the story, doesn't make it more challenging, it just wastes time, and does it in the laziest of fashions.
Don't get me started on the insane respawn on certain areas, such as the airport, if you go there outside of the story to collect chests. In a game that preaches exploration, to put up respawn silliness as a barrier makes no sense.
Agreed.
The fire burning and Africa was cool, but the outpost system was horrendous and enemies litterally respawned by just doing a 360 in place.
Also gun jamming was cool for like the first 10 minutes.
Definitely the highpoint of the series. You were completely immersed in the environment and there was no pausing the game to look at the map or to instantly fast travel to anywhere. But hey - Far Cry 3 had Vaas who you fought as a quicktime event in a FPS, Texas holdem, and the ability to hunt animals to craft a backpack to hold more animal skins so you could craft a holster instead of just taking one off of the many people you kill.
Far Cry 3 was the best game in the series and the last game I enjoyed. After that the franchise went downhill.
Same goes for Assassin’s Creed. I enjoyed the series up until Black Flag. After that it’s just more of the same and not interesting anymore.
True. The last good Ubisoft AAA game I've played was probably Watch Dogs 2. Tried the demo for Legion and it seems like an abysmal, soulless shell of a game, like most Ubisoft franchises nowadays.
AC2 Revelations though? That was hot garbage. And Syndicate and Origins were way better than Black Flag.
I agree, not with the Far Cry part because I didn't play 3, but with the Assassin's creed part.
AC 3 was not a masterpiece, it had flaws but Ubisoft fixed that in Black Flag, then Rogue came and it was the same as Black Flag, it only had small differences. Maybe Syndicate and Unity were also good, mainly because of the movements, but it kept the essence. But in Origins and Odyssey the franchise was extremely different, it didn't feel like an AC game at all.
3 did some stuff better, but also some stuff worse. Playing it made me miss the relentless AI, weapon degradation, interactive map, buddy system, extensive player animation set, and environmental destruction of 2. Also wasn't a fan of 3's end game where if you clear out all the enemy outposts you're pretty much stuck only fighting animals, boring.
The atmosphere was certainly the best in far cry 2 the world was much more harsh gun jamming brutal animations death at every corner compared to 6 where after three hours I was a one man army.
But checkpoint respawns really killed it for me and made it a huge chore.
You forget to take the repetitive factor into it. Some games repetitiveness completely removes all things that are actually good about it.