What can get repetitive is driving around the map and eliminating checkpoints which immediately respawn their guards, but I found it repetitive only in the early stages. The diamond mine requires a different tactical solution than the post office or the airport or the fort. While the specific mission objectives themselves are somewhat repetitive, the saving grace is the varied terrain: only a few missions, at least in my first playthrough, took place in an area more than once.

Your 'buddies', NPC's you meet along the way, offer you secondary objectives, but these usually fall into one of the aforementioned categories. Attack this, kill this person, grab this case of something or other, wash, rinse, repeat. The missions are varied, but not by much. While the original Far Cry had only the faintest notion of, well, coherent plot, FC2 has a fairly rigid if open-ended mission structure.

What this game is definitely not is a direct sequel to the original Far Cry in this game, there are no mutants, no cartoonish villains, no faux-open-world gaming. Once arriving the fictional African nation of Port Selao, your mission quickly goes sour waylaid by malaria and without a job, you quickly find yourself running missions for the warring parties, the UFLL and APR. In the game, you play a mercenary sent by, presumably, the CIA to eliminate a troublesome arms dealer, known only as The Jackal. It does so with more than a modicum of success, and more than a little bit of frustration. This is Far Cry 2.įar Cry is an FPS whose chief ambition is to transcend the FPS genre, in terms of storytelling, design, and level of immersion. As you prepare to act, you hear an engine screaming toward you, bullets zipping by as an enemy vehicle barrels off the road, its grill yearning for your face. Easing up over the tall grass, you spot the guards, you spot the machine gun nest, assess your chances. The drums are tense but low as you make your way to the crest of the hill.

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