Gameplayer has gone live with hands-on impression of highly anticpated sequel Far Cry 2, being developed by Ubisoft and not the original's creator Crytek (of Crysis fame). It includes four screenshots that may be new.
"Rivers are like highways in the game. You can use them to move quickly around the map and reach your objectives, but you're obviously quite exposed when you do it. When you're on the river you can spot zebra whose 'needs based' AI has deemed that they should get a drink. It's just a shame there are no predators in the game – we would've loved to see a crocodile whose 'needs based' AI has determined that they should eat a zebra. Or better yet, you. That would've been kinda cool. "Sorry we're late honey, traffic on the river was a bitch, and a crocodile was all up in my face and stuff…""
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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.
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.
It looks really promising.
I must be the only one who dont even remember the "original"
I think it will be better than the original, and may take up alot of peoples time on Live and PSN!
I don't know if I can support another FPS. I suppose I'd better start going to blockbuster and renting games.
Although i had my doubts with it no longer being under the wings of Crytek, i'm starting to come around to the fact that the game is sounding more promising the more and more i hear about it.
Simple things like taking the wind into account when using the flamethrower and how the flames spread, give the game that little extra appeal showing just how much thought was put into the development process.