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.

[Mr E]

I quite liked it.

[Altrezia]

I played about 2 hours, then got totally fed up with the respawing guards, and rubbish 50million hits to kill each enemy, and gave up.

[Bullett]

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.

[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?

[Arese]

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

[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.

[Steve Evil]

Main problem I found was how repetitive it was, combine that with the slog between missions that are drawn out due to the vast number of checkpoints you either have to go out of your way to avoid or fight through and it feels like you're doing the same thing over and over for hours. Hence why I can only stomach it in short bursts of an hour or so before getting bored.

[MX-Si]

I must be a bit odd then as I really enjoyed this! Yes, trying to kill the bad guys is a bit hit and miss but when you realize that you can kill them in other ways (exploding cars, gas bottles, petrol pumps and wildfires) rather than plain old shooting it becomes more fun. Plus you also have the option of doing alternative missions for cold hard cash which can then be used to buy better weapons. I found that the more weapons I had the better it was to complete the missions. I was quite disappointed when I eventually finished the game, the ending was good too.

[Arese]

rhinochopig said:

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.

I've got a few hours tonight so let's see. I loved the first game.

Plus, it'll probably be better on the PS3 than on the XBox. <ducks>

[Bullett]

Steve Evil said:

Main problem I found was how repetitive it was, combine that with the slog between missions that are drawn out due to the vast number of checkpoints you either have to go out of your way to avoid or fight through and it feels like you're doing the same thing over and over for hours. Hence why I can only stomach it in short bursts of an hour or so before getting bored.

This was my main problem with it. I had a bad week I also got Assassins Creed with is even more repetative.

[boomboompow]

This man speakith the truth and he's yet to make a video review that doesn't make me laugh out loud.

Edit to say: I actually quite enjoyed playing it the second time around after I'd got to grips with the bugs/flaws.

Edited by boomboompow on Monday 23 November 17:36

[toasty]

I liked it. It appealed to my love of all things monotonous and not too taxing (Thinking RPGs here). Playing over Christmas just after coming back from Africa helped too.

The best bit was getting 95% of the way through the story only to find a critical door that wouldn't open.

Thankfully there was a bug within the bug and eventually I managed to get inside and finish the game.

I'm now playing Red Faction Guerilla which has the same level of monotony but is far more taxing.

Edited by toasty on Monday 23 November 16:34

[james_gt3rs]

It was an excellent idea, and the gameplay was quite good, except for the strange bugs and combat and having to drive everywhere, which nearly spoiled it.

It's good before the novelty wears off though.

[T89 Callan]

As a game it's not great but it does have awesome enemy AI.

If you whack it up to Hard difficulty and remove the Auto Aim every battle is really hard, probably the best single player combat I have ever played.

One of the few games that has actually made me a better gamer.

[Spiritual_Beggar]

had the makings of a Brilliant game.

All the ingredients are there. Yet, the delivery was crap.



Gameplay gets very repetitive very soon.


Looks good, but that's about it.

[jackal]

deeply flawed but also amazing and i loved it


some of the best battles/gunfights I have ever had in any game (and ive been playing since Caterpillar on the Commodore Vic 20)

true freeform fighting... play it exactly how you like it

and the engine and sense of a world and sense of exploration was a rare treat

[Daston]

I thought it was typical "next gen" crap and not worth the Far Cry name.

Graphics look pretty content pretty crap.

AI all seem to have Aimbot and can hit you through trees miles away. Each chap seems to take a full mag to go down. If you hit someone with a 50 cal rifle round they fall on the floor and roll about (dispite the that the round would rip you in half).

Content seems to have around 3 hours gameplay however this is just repeated again and again with simular looking locations.

[Gnits]

Yahtzee reviews are bloody great - every Wednesday I am waiting for the latest.

FarCry was bloody good. I also enjoyed FarCary2 although do appreciate the respawning of people was really weak! that was the only thing that really bugged me though. I did stop trying to get diamonds though as loads of them seemed to be out of reach and take half an hour of jumping around to get onto the rock they were inevitably on.

...then I found Fallout3

[Killer2005]

I bought this on PS3 for £12 a couple of weeks ago but so far I must have only played on it for 1 hour or so, got a bit bored with driving everywhere and then found MW2