Lately, I’ve been playing Far Cry 2. The game is fun, but it is far from perfect.
Right now, I’m about 60% done with the game. Some of the good things:
- Graphics — The graphics are pretty good. Although, I’m probably rating them a little higher than they deserve since this is the first game that I’ve played on my new computer, and as a result, I am easily impressed.
- Environment — More than polygon counts, lighting , shadows, and the other various video-card-stressing bits of graphical goodness, I am enjoying the design of the world, which is sprawling, interesting, and full of attention to detail.
- Sniping — I love the sniper rifles. It gives a nice sense of satisfaction to cap a bad guy from hundreds of yards a way. Also, the game mechanics work nicely for sniping. If you stay in the same place for more than a couple shots, the bad guys will find you. But if you move around in the brush, behind rocks and trees, you can stealthily snipe everyone in an outpost, which is fun.
Some of the not so good things:
- Travel time — On route to the missions, you often have to fight through check points and random patrols. This is fine up to a point, but definitely grows old the further you advance in the game. These encounters of sometimes challenging, but more often than not, they are just a bother. Though to be fair, their are options to avoid the fights. You can try to move stealthily past a camp, and you can use rivers instead of roads, but these still take time, but at least you can save ammo.
- Plot – The story is passable, which is to say that it serves up missions, but it isn’t particularly interesting or compelling.
This game came bundled with my video card. I’m enjoying it, but I’m probably glad I didn’t go buy it for full retail price.
I still have a ways to go before I beat the game — and kill the Jackal, the bastard that armed both factions in the countries civil war! (I told you the plot was meh…) I hope the remaining missions will become a little harder and that the game has a few surprises left.
If I had to give it an in-progress grade: B+.
sneaky
