The Far Cry series has had a short but colourful history. The first game on PC came out in early 2004 preceding the likes of Half Life 2 and Doom 3, boasting a huge and gorgeous tropical island gameworld and some incredible technology, even if the finished product was rather heavily flawed. Developed by those German graphics wizards over at Crytek and published by Ubisoft, the two companies parted ways shortly after when Crytek joined with EA to make new games. Ubisoft continued to licence out the franchise from Crytek, and brought us increasingly average titles such as Far Cry Instincts and Far Cry Instincts: Predator.
Ubisoft then bought the rights entirely from Crytek in 2006, before releasing the critically abhorred Far Cry Vengeance for the Wii's launch. Since then it's all been quiet on the series' front (not counting Uwe Boll's movie adaptation), until the not-so surprising confirmation last year that Far Cry 2 was in development for PC (the PS3 and 360 versions were confirmed earlier this year). It is being developed by Ubisoft's famed Montréal studio - by the team who developed the average console iterations - and is due to land around this autumn. History aside, it would be true to say there's a lot riding on this game, but from what Ubisoft have shown so far, it is definitely looking up to the task.
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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.
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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.
This article gets a few points wrong, that may lead one to think more negatively about Far Cry 2 than he should. Ubisoft Montreal, the developers of this game, were the makers of most of the console iterations, EXCEPT they did not make the worst one (Far Cry: Vengeance). Also, Far Cry: Instincts got a lot of critical acclaim and high scores when it came out; certainly, it shouldn't be considered average.
There might still be reasons to be somewhat skeptical about Far Cry 2, but not for the aforementioned ones.
surprise many. in a good way.