I played and beat Far Cry 2 about a week ago and really haven’t been able to put my thoughts together on it. On one side of the occasion it’s an interesting but fairly derivative shooter. Bit on the other side I think that’s why I played through the whole game. It’s an interesting title, part of my problem with it is it’s title Far Cry 2, it is in no way related to the original Far Cry, and it would have made a lot more sense to just slap a different title on it. But I guess for the sake of sales and attempting to catch unsuspecting customers off guard it works. Like I said it’s a derivative most missions consist of go here shoot guards, pick up briefcase or kill one specific guy. The only break in following the story line consists of helping out other mercenaries in the game, taking assassination missions from the phone towers, or helping the local gun shop so that he’ll give you more weapons to buy. Now that sounds all good and fun, but the problem is, helping out any mercenaries revolves around going to an area killing guards and either killing some guy or finding a briefcase. The upside to doing the buddy/merc missions is that your safe house gets upgraded in some way. Which is fine and good but really not all that helpful when ammo is pretty easy to find. The assassinations missions require you to go shoot some guy and then mow down any guards that come after you that you didn’t mow down in the first place. The local gun shop missions really the only must do in the game if you want decent weapons, but after awhile even those missions unfortunately become derivative with go to location watch trucks go around in an odd circle figure out best hiding spot, blow up trucks. The story in Far Cry 2 is maybe the best thing it has going for it, and while interesting is kind of predictable by the end of it. A good game thats good but nothing more, i’d give it a 7 out of 10.
