Nope, make sure you've got a save before the point of no return.

ok, so it seems I might be wrong about this game.

When it first came out it had the dubious honour of being the only game I've ever taken back to the shop after hating the early levels. But, after the chat about it last week, with a few of you whose game judgement I trust having very fond memories, I decided to pick it up again.

It is excellent.

First time round I was playing it "wrong". Playing it like a GTA style game, attempting to zoom from mission to mission in a hail of gunfire and explosions. But this plays much much better if you slow it down and play it as a RPG in many ways.

A lone man stuck in a warzone has to be more careful - I only operate at night. I avoid confrontation. It can be so tense, but this makes it awesome. And the graphics and setting are truly wonderous.

So, er, yes, I was wrong.

Glad you're enjoying it, Carbon, it take an entirely different mindset than normal sandbox efforts to get mucho satisfaction out of this.

J1m1 wrote:

For anyone playing on the PC, there are some excellent mods that alter AI abilities. Usually they make them less aware and less like bullet sponges.

Funny you should mention that last one, I picked it up again last week too and the enemy take a startling amount of bullets from the car machine guns before they go down.

As an aside I noticed that the enemy couldn't get out of cars unless they did it through the sunroof, a glitch I hadn't noticed on my previous copy of the game.

There's nothing else like this game, however you feel about it. I want to go back in, think I'm about half way through. It's quite daunting though.

Try the 'realistic' difficulty setting. Enemies dies very easily, but so do you. Double the tension

I also feel I should maybe give it another go (pc this time, with mods). But I'm just not sure I have the energy!

Likewise, Far Cry 3 and GTA V are the only games that I have high anticipation for.

I'm playing it on Hardcore (or whatever it's called) what are the difficulty levels in Far Cry 2?

Sniper rifle? But that just gives your position away. I prefer the dart gun thing. Silent and deadly. Only stuns them I think but there is sadistic joy to be had in darting an entire base from afar and then walking through it putting pistol shots to the heads of comatosed enemies.

I need to play this game again.

Realistic difficulty is nails, brilliant though. Sniper rifles, silenced weapons and stealth tactics become essential.

A game that demands your inventiveness and rewards you exponentially.

Nick wrote:

There's nothing else like this game, however you feel about it. I want to go back in, think I'm about half way through. It's quite daunting though.

I will never go back to this game again and I think a lot of the design is poorly thought out and implemented, but when it works, it really works. I remember a couple of phenomenal sequences during my rather brief dalliance with the game.

As you say, there really isn't anything else quite like it.

Some great stuff and some jarring stuff.  What was that accent, Austra-South African?  Also, that tiger was a bit manky.  Had a failed taxidermy look about it.  I'll play it.

Promise not to unintentionally spoil this one for Noxy or anyone else.

beano wrote:

Promise not to unintentionally spoil this one for Noxy or anyone else.

Me or you?