Far Cry 2 (PC) - PC and Console Games (Ubisoft)

Customer Reviews of Far Cry 2 (PC)

Mrs. G. M. Grant
Pompey
3rd December 2008

Disappointment
Due to the fuss over the 5 installs only we shall not be purchasing the game as we like to play then go onto something else and go back to the game later. I think this "security" measure is stupid and we are therefore voting with our pockets!

J. Cotton
UK
2nd December 2008

DRM!!!!!!!!
Why can't they realise that their sales would be doubled or even tripled if they remove this "VIRUS"!!

Yet again the PC gamer gets a kick between the legs!!

N. Brett
Wiltshire, England
1st December 2008

It's a classic
Sadly I am too dumb to understand all the protection stuff, I bought this game because I loved FC 1 and this sounded interesting.

I am about half way through it and think that is sufficient to offer a view on if it is worth getting as it is a complex and surprisingly involving game. It is different from the original as it is a blend of FPS and role play set in a vast African landscape. You arrive to kill a gun dealer but things go wrong and you end up taking a variety of jobs to keep you in medicine and weapons until such time as you may get the chance to catch up with said gun dealer.

This is not a linear or structured game - you very much do what you want and when you want and that is the joy really. I started off not overly enjoying it and suddenly 'got' what it was all about and now I am addicted.

You need medicine and weapons to survive, diamonds are the currency of trade and you either find them hidden away on the vast map or you earn them through taking on a variety of missions, all of which allow you to build up the quality of your weapons and your reputation. You make friends (buddies) and if you help them, they might rescue you when you are in deep trouble. Weapons vary in quality, they might break or jam on you and you are going to need them because most people will shoot at you on sight. You can travel on foot, by vehicle/boat (there are loads all over the place) or bus. There are safe houses where you can recover (and save), there are gun dealers where you can upgrade weapons, it all feels very real and involving. Let me give you an example of where I am currently.
In order to buy better weapons I have taken a mission to kill a Police Chief. I could have tracked down his convoy and battled it out, but one of my buddies gave me a better option, so I am on my way to steal a ledger from the chief's brother which will scare the chief into hiding and make it easier to track him down and for my buddy to steal some weapons from him (and give me a share). So I am about to shoot up a village to get to the brother, then I will pinch some sort of transport to get over to where the chief is hiding, take him out, work with my buddy to share the spoils and then decide what to do next. And so on.

Minor gripes are the bad guys that re-spawn road-blocks, but now I understand that in the real world, road blocks would be re-manned and they are an opportunity to get ammo and vehicles.

The other point is that you actually start to care, when you do missions for no reason but to help people out, you feel good abouit it, when you rescue a buddy who needs help (or if they end up dying) it matters to you, they have become more then just characters.

So I think this is a classic, but this is not a game you play, it is a game you immerse yourself in.

joalem
Surrey, UK
29th November 2008

Why complain about DRM?
There's a pretty good reason for this. Amazon ships literally thousands of these games, so an extreme negative reaction on the review pages to the game's restrictive DRM is a necessary and deliberate way for consumers (that's US) to register their objections to any attempt to limit the installation of a fully-paid, properly licensed copy of the game. You wouldn't buy an CD or DVD that restricted the amount of times you could watch or listen to, would you?

Many of us will change PC's, re-install operating systems, buy laptops etc within a year of purchasing games for high-end machines. Why should we be mentally counting our installations to make sure we don't bust the DRM limit of just 5? And why should a condition of buying a game be an obligation to provide continuous back-door access and data-mining facilities to the license provider?

PC gamers should not have to accept these restrictive limitations, any more than console gamers, IPod users or anyone else. Emailing the companies concerned does nothing. Using one of their prime retail channels to hit them in the pocket does. It's a great game, but we should be able to enjoy it without SecuRom 7. THAT is the purpose of these reviews, and all of us should be willing to reject the product and wait for a new release with a more user-friendly, less invasive DRM product to go with it.

P. Freeland
U.K.
28th November 2008

I have actually played it and............don't like it
Even though I saw all the bad reviews about the activation and copy protection, I still bought it. I immediately ran into my 1st problem after succesfully activating it, the game would not load and run. So sent a analysis report Securom (to those idiots who created the DRM protection software). Next day they sent me a link to a new .exe file to download and install, so that wasted the 1st day.
I then wasted the second day playing the game, it is slow, the action us far from exiting, the missions you get are dull and uniteresting. There is absolutely nothing new in this game, and what they have got is done better by so many others. I am not even going to bother trying the multiplayer.

A complete waste of time and money!!!!