Today, Ubisoft announced
Far Cry 2 has sold one million units in a mere three weeks since hitting retailers worldwide. This marks a monumental achievement and it deserves to be celebrated with candy, cake, confetti, and prostitutes. I wasn’t able to ask Ubisoft Montreal (the game’s developer) about a party or prostitutes, but it doesn’t stop me from saying it needs to happen.
In terms of
Far Cry 2 deserving the landmark sales, I believe it does. When I played it for
review I found it to be a great mix of action and exploration. It also has quite the multiplayer component, which is being overlooked right now because of other behemoth titles like
Resistance 2 and
LittleBigPlanet sporting larger or more interactive experiences.
What do you guys think about
FarCry 2? If you didn’t get it quite yet, do you think you will at some point or will the rest of the holiday releases dominate your time and money?
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Overall, I think it's a solid game, fun in short bursts that could have been much better.
The multi-player is something else. It felt a bit random. The first level I played was full of exploding barrels and propane tanks. If one of those barrels respawned I shot it and blew up half of the map. A bit too much fire and explosions. Not very realistic (compared to the rest of the game) but fun to play.
Also shoot the top of of one of those propane tanks. The most fun I've had in a FPS. They'll become unpredictable missiles. Watched one shoot into the air as unpredictable as they are it suddenly came down and exploded on my head. I was amazed. And dead.
I'll go back to it after Fallout 3 and Gears 2
That feeling was stripped entirely and turned to pure anger and frustration when i realized i had to clear the fucking checkpoints every god damn time. There are certainly lots of interesting things to do in the game but having to kill the same guys over and over again just gets in the way. I cant play the game for more than 20 min or so.
Why wouldn't you beef up the story and dramatic pacing if you have put so much work into the other parts of the game?
Also, I lost interest when my feat of exploration rewarded me with '1 of 221 diamond briefcases'. The other thing I hated about Assassin's Creed. I'm sure there must be someone who LOVES hunting down these fantastical lost trinkets, and the search for the final missing one must basically climax once he finally gets it be dammit all... the guy isn't me.
Actually Far Cry 2 and Assassins Creed have a lot in common, they're both boring games that rely on you to repeat the same missions over and over and over. Since the game review web sites around the web are sellouts (PC Gamer, IGN, Gamespot) They gave this garbage 9/10 type scores. Shameful. This game gets a 5/10 from me.