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| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  189 reviews
Sales Rank: 698
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: shooter_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 68408
Model: 68408
UPC: 008888684084
EAN: 0008888684084
ASIN: B000X9FV5M
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | First-person shooter for Windows Vista/XP gives players an open-ended gameplaying experience | | • | Roam the beautifully detailed jungles and savannah of Africa | | • | Pick up a wide range of weapons and hop into different vehicles | | • | Dynamic environment, including day-night cycles and fire propagation | | • | Online multiplayer supports up to 16 players |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Far Cry 2 by Ubisoft is the anticipated sequel to the award-winning original that brings players into the beautiful and hostile world of Africa. Far Cry 2 for Windows Vista/XP features open-ended gameplay that allows you to play the game whichever way you choose, with the choices you make affecting where the game leads you.  | Far Cry 2
Players:
Offline: 1
Online: 16
Multiplayer Modes:
Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Diamond, Uprising
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Native 720p high-definition output. |  | | 
Far Cry 2 brings you to Africa where you'll explore the savannah and the jungle. View larger. | 
Features real-time night-and-day cycles and smart enemy AI. View larger. | Outstanding Graphics
Ubisoft developed the Dunia Engine specifically for Far Cry 2. Among other things, the Dunia Engine delivers realistic, interactive environments, special effects, real-time night-and-day cycles, and smart enemy AI. Expansive, Realistic Environment
Far Cry 2 is set in a fictional region of Africa where you are caught between two rival factions at war. The Ubisoft team spent a lot of time filming and photographing in Africa to get all the details of the landscape and native wildlife. The result is a huge gameplay area that is 50 square kilometers, taking players into and out of the jungle and savannah. Wild animals such as zebras, buffalo, gazelle are encountered during the game, with both players and enemies allowed to interact with them. Far Cry 2 features an incredible level of detail and realism, with a minimal in-game interface to detract from immersion. For example, players will need to navigate the world using an in-game map and navigation system, weapons will disintegrate over time, and fires will spread and propagate. Each of the actions a player takes is reflected in the environment and changes the content of the game. To fulfill your mission, you need to play the enemies against each other, using both strategy and skill. Huge Range of Weapons and Vehicles
Far Cry 2 offers gamers a wide range of weapons, from a machete for hand-to-hand combat, to a sniper rifle that can stealthily pluck off enemies from afar. As weapons disintegrate over time, they might jam or even explode in your hand. There are also a large range of vehicles such as gliders, trucks, cars, and boats that will let you fly, drive, slide, and hover over the open landscapes. Multiplayer Options for up to 16 Players
Far Cry 2 supports up to 16 players and has four gameplay modes: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Diamond, and Uprising. Players can choose from six different classes in multiplayer, each with its own set of pros and cons. Just as in the single-player mode, multiplayer games will feature dynamic elements, making each session unique.
| System Requirements | | | Minimum | Recommended | | Operating System | Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista | | CPU | Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, Intel Pentium D 2.66 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better | Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD 64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better | | Memory | 1 GB | 2 GB | | Hard Drive Space | 12 GB of free space | | Graphics Hardware | NVidia 6800 or ATI X1650 or better; must support Pixel Shader 3.0 | Nidia 8600 GTS or better, ATI X1900 or better |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 184 more reviews...
 Drive here do this...Drive here do this...Driver here do this. January 7, 2009
Mern (Four dimensional space)
I was looking forward to this game but it's a "Farcry" from anything I was expecting (I know, probably the 100th time that was used).
Do you want to know what this entire game is? Get a mission, drive across the map, kill. Get a mission, drive across the map, kill. Okay, okay...Sometimes you gotta blow something up, after you get done killing. And most of the time you gotta kill guards at check points to get to your mission...The same guards you just killed on the last mission. And the driving blows after a while, boring.
Thing is, it's the same thing over and over and over and over and....You get the point.
You are supposed to be hunting this arms dealer named the "Jackle" to STOP him from arming two factions so they stop killing each other right? So what do your missions entail? Simple, you get a mission from one faction, and it's to kill the other and viseversa. Wait, I thought I was supposed to help them to stop killing each other...But to do so, I gotta kill them? Hundreds of them?!?!
I don't think I'm gonna finish this one because I already know the ending and here it goes. The Jackle ends up in the unemployment line and on food stamps because he has no one to sell guns to anymore because I freakin killed them all! At least thats how I assume its going to end.
Now, for the positve. The graphic are pretty dam impressive at max settings. The physics are great and attention to detail is very cool. But see this is the problem...You have AWESOME programmers and HORRIBLE writers.
The writers really need to be replaced with people better suited to dream up games...It's like a hot rod with every thing under the hood to blow every one away, but the driver is a doof. Can't blame the mechanics.
And want to dominate this game? Use the Spas12, get in close and you will annihilate every one. Why? Because 20 rounds from an AK-47 into the chest of a tank-top wearing bad guy isn't enough to bring them down. Can you say "WTF"?
*OR*...this game was built as an multiplayer "Unreal/Quake" game with solo play as an after thought? I don't know, it just sugz.
Save your money...I'm glad I got mine free with my video card.
 Far Cry 2 - not top FPS but good value for $$ single play January 7, 2009
William J. Dinehart (Gainesville, Florida)
Far Cry 2 - Over all good game....8/10 - not the best in the class but much better than playing your others over again. Very good value for money in terms of $$ per hour of play.
I have played all the FPS shooters to come along over the years (All PC) and love the Genre. I Bought FC2 along with Fallout 3 and Call of Duty WaW ...Far Cry won the toss and got installed first. I was a little hesitant about it at first as I thought I might be put off by the role play element in the game, but it turned out not a true worry. The role play on the whole adds to the immersion and gives you some structure in a non-linear game. The big drum of marketing for Far Cry 2 was the open landscape - you are in a small African country under civil unrest and you can fight for yourself, either side, the resistance, or all of the above as you see fit.
World: Yes it is open to a large degree as you have the whole country to play in at your leisure....but no more so than Crysis or Fall Out 3. I never felt overly restricted by linier FPS games (Doom, quake, COD4, Half-life, et. al.) so the openness was not all that revolutionary to me...and it does have a down side....redundancy. You spend a lot of time retracing your steps and covering (fighting over) the same ground. Not a bad thing necessarily...but a trade off. Weather was a nice touch - wind, rain storms, etc. as was the time movement....the days move along as you play and you get day, sunset, night, and then sun rise as you play through.
Graphics: Good but not stunning. Better than Half-life, not as good as Crysis or COD4. Crysis had a nock of being a load for the system...not so, I ran it just fine...FarCry2 actually was harder to run with full everything.
Quality: Glitches etc....The auto update feature has issues and needs to be "aborted" to play most days, the game loads really slowly, and hangs often requiring a system reboot (win non vista), also hangs on "load game", several times on load - the graphics engine had issues...clipping, sheets, lines, what looked like twenty feet high wads of colored paper(?) requiring a game restart to clear. When it loaded, and ran, it was good.
Game Play: AI, etc. I am not typical for this space as I like single play as much as online...and most new games short change the single player to wow everyone with the online play. This was VERY good play for the money. COD4MW was 8 hours tops before you were into online games....FarCry2 is at 30hrs and I have still not found everything and completed every mission. The play is pretty good, lots of action - and you can manage the redundancy (after you figure out what is going on as the manual and help sucks - as is usual for these games) with travel by armed Jeep, then bus, then water, and different mission selection to add variance. Or you can just fight your way across the land repeatedly and enjoy the heck out of killing as much as you like. Once you clear a safe house it is yours, but expect towns, checkpoints, etc to get reinforced with new troops if you are gone for very long. The AI is good but not great...if you need more go online and fight people. The AI was mid pack...as in most of these games easy to figure out what the bad guys will do and then set them up for failure (better than Quake, equal to Crysis or COD4mw as I remember it). The bad guys (everyone you see really) are very aggressive....you may well lose "running in guns blazing" unless you are a top player...if you sneak, snipe, funnel, and ambush you will handle them pretty easily.
 Ok game play, but disappointing graphics January 6, 2009
K. Hsu (Boston, MA)
The game play on this was ok.
It tries to be a RPG FPS, but fails in the role playing part.
As a first person shooter, the game was fine.
The quest game play tries to be open and tries to let you do what you want, but he quests eventually run out and the game becomes linear again (which doesn't take long).
It took me longer than normal to finish this game. If you do all the quests and look for all the Easter Eggs, the game becomes very extensive.
The biggest disappointment was the graphics.
They may have been trying to do a style of graphics, but it just didn't work out for me. It felt the graphics was from 2000'ish, and took a step backwards from Farcry 1.
I picked up the game for $18 on a Black Friday deal, and for $18 it was entertaining. I would not buy this game at full price.
KH,
Boston
What a let down! January 6, 2009
z33k3r (Washington, USA)
Purchased this game when it was on sale for $20. There were tons of reviews all over the internet saying what a great game this is and how it lived up to the hype that it had built.
After playing this game, I have come to the conclusion that there is no point in playing the game! Once you start playing, you'll eventually have to shoot somebody. Once you shoot one person, the entire country has it out for you and you end up just killing EVERYBODY. That would be fun if that is what this game was designed for, but it's not...
The story line is very basic. There is a evil war lord that needs to be shot. Do it. ...Yeah, that's it. You feel like there is no reason to play the game. You never really get engaged.
Oh, and they give you malaria just to piss you off in middle of fire fights...
Horrible story line, average graphics (IMO) and frustrating amounts of 'back-and-forth'.
Btw: The daylight engine is fricken sweet! Doesn't make up for the game though...
Like Playing the Movie Blood Diamond January 6, 2009
K. Grubb
To start, this is not a direct sequel to the original game. It has some similar mechanics, but beyond that, it is its own game.
You pick a mercenary and enter a world beyond the law, where EVERYONE who moves is fair game to be killed. Rarely does one have to practice target identification. To be short, it's a fun game with fun weapons, really cool fps animations, interesting characters and beautiful Africa as a setting.
Two bad things:
The game crashes after 30-45 min of play. I have 32 bit Vista and apparently this is a memory dump issue that may or may not be patched in the future. Until then, save often and make multiple saves, but be careful, this game also has a nasty habit of corrupting save games. This is frustrating, but hopefully patchable.
Some of the audio seems rushed and unnatural. Pretty annoying when the antagonist is speaking a million words a minute. Not very awesome...
Securom is a non-issue in my book, but to each his own.
Recommended, but admittedly, I got this game on Black Friday when it was $18.95, so buy it when the price drops and another patch comes out.
Cheers!
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