Far Cry 2 - First Impressions

[rubicon]

I've chucked up a quick "first impressions" review on my blogsite:

Rubi's Reviews

In a nutshell... worth buying.

[Ned]

top review!

so when's your first map release

[Spectre8]

First impression - underwhelmed.

Had issues trying to get it to run well - turns out I really needed new drivers for my card, now all is fine. When I got it running, wasn't too impressed with how many shots it takes to down someone - these guys are in t-shirts remember. However, I'm very happy that it takes only one shot to the head to down anyone - even from a distance with the mounted .50cal's Joy!

I had some pathing issues during the tutorial phase - you really need to do things exactly as it tells you - try anything else and it just wont work. Trying to guess what and who to talk to next became an ordeal - but I'm very pleased to say, get past that point, and it's MUCH better!

Still too early to get into the nitty gritty of it - but it's looking really promising for me so far. AI seems pretty poor, and there's a major issue with my audio that's keeping me from really liking it - seems I have to point an ear at someone to be able to hear them at all - and with no sound options to play with - I just don't know what to do... I'll figure it out though

[Ulric]

First impressions here....

After battling the Securerom issue I got the game on Steam. Turns out to be a little cheaper than you would get for the CD version here.

I must say that the eye candy is great. I am getting through the tutorial phase and gaining an understanding of the overall single player game play. I agree that the AI is good.

I then decided to give Multi-Player a go.

WHAT A CROCK. The game joining is console like. Once the system finds a game for you to play (it decides) you are then left waiting for everyone to ready up. This leads to frustration and kick votes being initiated.

Once in game the aforementioned lack of stopping power of the weapons you get when you start lead to significant frustration when you put half a clip into someone only to be killed by a shot from a pistol.

I was really looking forward to this game, especially the multi-player aspect. I must say that this is a game that will only get single player from my perspective.

Given the game joining aspects, I am not sure if this will work for clan play.
(this is unless I missed out on something)

I am hoping that I am not disappointed in spending my $80.

[Spectre8]

I've yet to be able to get the MP to work - totally screwy system to force you to create a login from the web - not in-game. So for me, I've already registered my nick/account previously - and now that I want to log-in with it, I get no online activation code or whatever, so it can't find any servers...

I'm really starting to feel that this is another bastardisation of console over PC. Controlling everything possible with three keys feels exceedingly simplistic - the ability to only carry one type of weapon (per class) and the enemy AI feel like a dodgy port to me. Very sad to see.

From all I've heard of the MP side - it's real potential is in the mods - but it's a real shame to see developers almost counting on others to do their work for them. Also, what the hell is with a max of 16 players?? For gods sake - PC does not equal console! Just because PS3's and Xbox's have a net cap for 16 players doesn't mean PC does! We've got a world of 50 square k's, and we'll be limited to a console-centric MP experience.... Maybe I'm jumping the gun here... We'll see.

On a positive note - I was in a gun fight with a dozen blokes and saw someone fall off a walkway into the river - poor pathing I thought, but when the bloke started splashing around screaming for help - and eventually drowned, I was most pleased!

Oh yeah, so far I've done three jobs - and they've all been the same job at different locations...

[Ulric]

Spec, if you have a UBI account, you just use that as the login and use the CD key that came with the game for online activation.

Now here is the tricky bit.... I found that the number keys above the alpha numeric would not work (Yep, they would not work on that field ONLY) you had to use the number pad for the numerics and the minus sign in the cd key. (Talk about completely stuffed programming).

So here we go with a product that is a bastard port to PC.

Will play a bit again tomorrow and see how it goes. Single player looks good, multi is a failure for me.

[Ned]

Patches could save things! The original Far Cry patches really did improve things DRAMATICALLY, especially for the MP. I don't have the game yet but the joining MP games thing sounds bad.

Is there no actual server browser ?
Can you direct join to a specific IP ?

[Drac]

Here's some of my screens with everything maxxed, 4xAA 1920x1200:

Drac's FarCry 2 Screenshots

p.s. My monitor is really really bright so I have the gamma set quite low. On my crappy work PC these look rather dark and unsaturated/washed out.

[wHiTeRaSTa]

Some of the scenery reminds me of bits and pieces of Call of Juarez.

Enjoying the game though......

[ratfink]

hmmm ,,,,been waiting to get this, but after what you lads are saying i mite wait till the patches come out..