Comments on: Far Cry 2 - One of the greatest FPS games in gaming history?

By: Robothamster

Robothamster — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:26:34 +0000

Also, PLAY have Farcry 2 (and several other games) on offer in their Monday Madness deal for £17.99. Only for today though I believe…

By: fanpages

fanpages — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:13:08 +0000

FYI:
GAME Exclusive Collector’s Edition of “Far Cry 2″ [PS3] down to £32.99…

[ http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/285554/far-cry-2-ps3-game-exclusive-collec ]

BFN,

fp.

By: Obli

Obli — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:44:26 +0000

Played Gears of War 2 the other day. Wasn’t that impressed tbh. However, this game will never be for me. It’s all too false, American and OTT with these gruff space marines with jaws to put Coulthard’s to shame. I worry that Killzone 2 will be just like this too. It’s kid’s stuff, really.

Graphics good in places but everything is way too detailed in an unrealistic way - it’s all popping out with detail like a good artist didn’t know when to stop fiddling with his painting.

The gameplay was ok, nothing 10/10 special. Nice variety between the levels I played. An impressive number of enemies in the screen at once too - this surprised me.

Going to stop with my mini-review of GoW2 now, because I’m way off topic and really - who cares?

By: Robothamster

Robothamster — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:24:03 +0000

aaragorn, yeah I think COD5 is good, nice change of scenery & weapons from COD4, but not too different to annoy most fans. Treyarch have done a very good job.

By: Aragorn1001

Aragorn1001 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:48:54 +0000

@ 7,8&9

Yeah, sorry - it is 3rd person. I guess CoD4 then. Not played 5 yet. Any good? If Killzone one is anything to go by KZ2 will be awesome!

By: Mr.Monkey

Mr.Monkey — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:22:27 +0000

I love Gears 2, (on my second play-through) but its NOT a First person shooter, its 3rd person a different genre…
(& poor Dom)

Also Left4dead is amazing…
huge shame theres no Ps3 version…

By: Robothamster

Robothamster — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:53:30 +0000

Aragorn, that all depends on your point of view surely?

I am not a fan of Space Marine type games so don’t like Halo, Unreal, resistance etc as I like realism and real feeling guns.

To me the best shooters are Farcry2, Battlefield:BC and even COD. None of these are perfect, and COD4 is overated imo, but I still like them better than the sci-fi equivalents.

Hopefully Killzone2 will sway my opinion in a couple of months time…

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:08:27 +0000

Too bad its not on PS3 though…

By: Aragorn1001

Aragorn1001 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:41:44 +0000

I’m afraid it’s Gears of War 2, not FC2

By: Robothamster

Robothamster — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:35:11 +0000

Terry, I finished Farcry2 and saw this happen once in the whole game. However most of the time the guards seemed to have super human hearing / eyesight and you’d not be able to get near enough to do any sneaking.

As mentioned, the respawning spoiled this game, and it’s a very impressive one that could have been perfect with just a little more common sense.

Unfortunately, once I’d entered the final few missions, you can’t go back to do the side missions I found the hard way, and that stopped me feeling the urge to play any more in the single player.

The Multiplayer was excellent too, once you’d waited 5 mins to get into a game. Then you’d get kicked and have to search another 5 mins for another. Not sure if this was patched but the game has sat gathering dust for 3 weeks now and I’ve been playing others instead.

Conclusion, this is ALMOST the best FPS I’ve ever played, but a few silly little problems have let it down. Still I enjoyed every minute and would recommend it to any shooter fans that are sick of ‘on the rails’ type games. 9/10 from me despite it’s annoyances.