Far Cry 2
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Blood,Drug Reference,Intense Violence,Sexual Violence,Strong Language
Publisher: UbiSoft Genre(s): Action, Shooting Home Page: http://www.farcrygame.com/
Multiplayer? Sneaking around in Team Deathmatch. Far Cry 2 also includes online multiplayer, but due to tight review schedule I could only scratch the surface. Modes include Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag (well, diamond) and Uprising. Standard stuff with Uprising being a "Capture Map Objectives" mode where only team captains can actually do captures and a win requires you to kill the captain of the opposing team. You can choose from several classes - Commando, Sharpshooter, Guerilla, Rebel, Gunner or Saboteur - each with their own selection of weapons. You also gain XP, ranks and unlocks as you play. Visually multiplayer maps look a lot simpler than the singleplayer game and gameplay that was "okay" and "realistic" in single player feels a bit stiff for deathmatches. I'm not really qualified to say much, but my initial impression was that the gameplay felt a lot like America's Army - moving is slow, it's easy to die and surprise is 90% of the kill. Multiplayer is console-style in that the maximum number of players is 16 and there is no proper server browser, but at least the PC version includes a dedicated server (Windows only). Ambitious, but... Far Cry 2 - covered with shiny things, but with a hollow core. Overall, Far Cry 2 is a very ambitious game that falls just a tad short of what it tries to accomplish. The initial intro sequence and your introductory steps in Africa support the intended atmosphere well, but once you are let loose to do what you want in the open world, the limitations and faults become painfully obvious. The play area feels too much like a game level and not enough like a real living, breathing world. In open world games like this you always have to give up on absolute realism to a degree, but Far Cry 2 does it wrong - on the one hand it tries to be ultra-realistic, going to great lengths to immerse you in the world while taking the easy road with the sandbox world with many obvious shortcuts and simplifications. Wacky AI, uninteresting missions and lack of civilians makes the whole thing feel like a 2-bit shoot-em-up instead of the intended open world adventure set in Africa. The engine is remarkable, performance is good and the visuals are very impressive, so potentially there is room for user-created mods and maps (a map editor is included), but as a stand-alone single player game Far Cry 2 falls short. It tries hard to be realistic, fails and ultimately once the novelty and bling wears off, the underlying gameplay just isn't that much fun. Summary of YouGamers Hardware TestingThe publisher of this game state the following specifications for their minimum and recommended requirements:
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Retail boxed version of Far Cry 2 uses a version of SecuROM DRM that goes the extra mile to annoy the user. It requires online activation to control the number of installs (5 activations on 3 separate systems, with uninstalls refunding activations) and requires you to keep the game disc in the drive. Digital download versions (eg. Steam and Direct2Drive) contain the same SecuROM activation, but obviously drop the requirement for the game disc.
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