Far Cry2 - what's your view?

[rhinochopig]

I bought this as it was only a tenner and it had some good reviews when it came out. I have to say, although I'm enjoying bits of it, I cannot for the life of me see how it scored so highly as its just so buggy and flawed.

Examples include:

• Firing the truck mounted heavy machine gun at someone point blank and them for several seconds before they'll die. Yet dismounted you can dispatch them with the basic pistol in a couple of shots.

• Getting gently tapped by a randomly appearing trucks which kill you, yet surviving a direct burst of machine gun fire from a soldier.

• Getting stuck in scenery.

• Having to drive for bloody miles where every person in the world is trying to kill you - it's tedious.

• Randomly appearing trucks

• Missing people that you need to kill to unlock outposts.

• Weapons that are not balanced properly.

• Stealth upgrades that aren't

• Enemies that can see through bushes that you can't - handy when the world is full of bushes!

It has some enjoyable bits, but it's bloody tedious when you've got to fight your way half away across a map just to be told your mission is back where you've just come from - even using the buses it's still a ball ache.

[rhinochopig]

Bullett said:

rhinochopig said:

* Firing the truck mounted heavy machine gun at someone point blank and them for several seconds before they'll die. Yet dismounted you can dispatch them with the basic pistol in a couple of shots.

Yup, some of the guns are terrible.

rhinochopig said:

* Getting gently tapped by a randomly appearing trucks which kill you, yet surviving a direct burst of machine gun fire from a soldier.

Depressing

rhinochopig said:

* Getting stuck in scenery.

Again

rhinochopig said:

* Having to drive for bloody miles where every person in the world is trying to kill you - it's tedious.

This is what killed the game for me. Clearing a camp then 2 minutes later its got 10 guys back. Don't also forget that they don't shoot you on sight in town (for some reason)

rhinochopig said:

* Randomly appearing trucks

• Missing people that you need to kill to unlock outposts.

Who then appear behind you and kill you.

rhinochopig said:

* Weapons that are not balanced properly.

• Stealth upgrades that aren't

• Enemies that can see through bushes that you can't - handy when the world is full of bushes!

Enemy A.I. baddy 1 can see you through trees from 5 miles away. Baddy 2 just stands there after you have sniped his mate stood next to him.

It just doesn't engage you. I didn't see much point to most of the missions, didn't like the characters and there wan't much of a story that I could find anyway.

I'm glad it's not just me then.

A couple of others:

• The mortar / missile goons that shoot you from miles away without a hope of you ever seeing them except by chance.

• The guns/upgrades that you buy not having any stats associated with them so you've no idea whether they are better than what they are replacing.

One question. In the bar when you have to defend your mates on the first map. Is that winnable or do you have to get shot into unconsciousness to progress to the next map?

[rhinochopig]

Arese said:

I was going to play this tonight for the first time. But it sounds wk.

I found I wanted to burn it and then throw it and the xbox out of the window after the first half an hour of play. It does get better when you become aware of some of the bugs and work around them. Give it a go and see what you think - persevere a bit though.