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
The map was designed badly and an absolute pain to navigate from what I can remember too. You ended up having to go to the same few places all the time and there was a huge inaccessible area between them that you had to go around.
It definitely had the best physics system of the entire franchise, but a lot of the mechanics took the enjoyment out of it.
I'd say it was their most ambitious and had the best setting to date next to the original island.
But gameplay wise it was clunky and maybe it was released to early if the teams had modern systems to build it on the game would have been much better less corridors more open and less gaurd outposts that auto regen
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.
Far Cry 2 is nowhere near the series peak, absolutely not even in the top 3 of the Ubi numbered series; Far Cry 5 > Far Cry 3 > Far Cry 4 > Far Cry 2/6 - IMO.
Game had some of the weirdest, idiotic design ideas, thankfully most didn't return.
Lol people complain about FC2 and say the later ones were better, but they turn around and can't understand why so many games are getting dumbed down and easier.
Not at all, the things it did was just trash; Mission structure Malaria mechanic Weapon mechanic - please find me a D.Eagle/AK that will go from prestige off-the-shelf new to junkyard bound in 60 rounds. Diamond hunting GPS system
Game was terrible on so many levels, and the colour pallet was also grim.
The only fast travel was at a couple of points on the entire map, where if I remember correctly, a train line was in operation. Not like in 3 where you can teleport instantly.
Jamming guns were frustrating but meant that you never felt overpowed because regardless of your loadout a random tiger attack out of nowhere could kill you.
That's been my problem with the series since 3. It's become way too easy to the point they're a mundane chore to play. Far Cry 2 was a bit rough in some areas, but far more fun to play with how relentless the world was; it doesn't hold your hand constantly. You've got to actually think about how you approach an area, what resources you have, the state of your weapon, etc.
I'm playing Far Cry 3 Classic Edition at the moment and it was only yesterday I was thinking I'd love a tweaked remaster of Far Cry 2.
I never had much of a problem ,ith guns jamming as I seem to remember there is a way to clean them.
For 3, it's fun but far from perfect. There are only about 10 lines of pirate dialogue. 'I should have used a rubber' wasn't funny the first time, let alone the 100th time.
Also, reading some of the detail you get when stealing memory cards from laptops, it's like they assigned that writing to the 16 year old intern.
Far Cry 2 definitely was the high point of the series, before the complete Ubification of the game. Far Cry 3 introduced tower unlocks, unlimited fast travel, crafting, skill points, pointless minigames, even more pointless collectibles, and QTE boss fights.
But Far Cry 3 had Vaas (one of the dumbest villains ever), tits, and Texas Hold'em so gamers loved it.
Far cry 2 is easily the game I want to love the most from the franchise. But when I play it I find it hard to overlook some of its flaws like constantly respawning gaurd outposts and fairly bad driving mechanics and lots of long corridors.
I really love that the modding community are still working so hard to bring this game up to scratch.
In my opinion it has the best setting, premise and ideas in the franchise. It's a Shame that some of those ideas just don't work.
However it feels like a game that was aiming above what it was actually capable of in the later half of the 2000s.
If the game was built now on modern platforms it would be a drastically different game. The "open world" was really more a series of branching corridors into a hub city I imagine that wouldn't be the case on a modern game and we would get a true open world Africa.
Far Cry 2 where your guns never ever jammed until you got into a gunfight is their best? I disagree.
Love Far Cry 2 on Infamous difficulty.
This should be an opinion piece. Not news.
Blood Dragon is much better.
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.