Far Cry 2

So for the past few days I have been playing FarCry 2 for the PS3. Let me warn all of you ahead of time, DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME! This has to be one of the worst titles I have ever played in my 10+ years of video gaming. I had high hopes of this game being the complete package after playing the first FarCry but sadly this was probably one of the biggest disappointments in Ubisoft history.

There are MANY problems with this game so lets start with the single player. You start off in a taxi with a man that is able to drive through the map freely without being shot at with you in the back seat. Out of nowhere you have malaria and you have to escape a warzone right in the middle of town. Now as you start moving about the map, EVERYONE is out to kill you and it doesn't make any sense. You can be standing next to a river doing absolutely nothing and a Jeep will come out of nowhere and just open fire! Basically if you are not in the "Cease-fire Zones," which there are only two very small zones in the entire game, you will be shot at from everyone.

The AI is absolutely terrible. Don't bother buying silenced weapons or the camouflage because both do absolutely nothing to stay hidden. I have quietly killed a man by sneaking up behind him with the knife knowing no one was around, then moving through brush to the other side of the camp I am randomly surrounded by 10 guys that knew my exact location somehow. What the heck are you thinking Ubisoft? Why are we using AI from the 90's?

Not only are the weapons pointless but you have to unlock them by doing side missions for the arms dealers. And these missions are the highlight of the game but that is not saying much. They are the same thing over and over again. You have to destroy convoys (one truck) to unlock the weapons and these trucks just drive around in circles.

After destroying the trucks you have to then buy the guns to use them which brings us to our next problem with the game. Buying the guns would be fine and dandy if you were paid enough money for the missions you do...but no, that would be too easy. Instead there are diamonds spread all throughout the map. 221 to be exact, and the only way to know where they are is a little green light flickers on your personal radar when you get close to one. So you are pulling out your map/radar every ten seconds to see if you are close to any of them which gets very annoying, very quickly.

The map/radar that you use probably 50% of the time covers more than half the screen depending whether you are driving or not and you will be driving more than 75% of the game which is the worst part in my opinion. Seriously the game in a nutshell is as follows: Drive 10 minutes to the location to receive mission. Take 5 minutes to listen to what you need to do for your mission. Drive 10-15 minutes to the location site (getting shot at by EVERYONE along the way). Take 5 minutes to complete the mission, then start the cycle over again. It is sad but it is true, there is no break from the repetition and it will drive you nuts after the first 2 or 3 missions.

The mini radar you get on the vehicle will show you about 200 feet on all sides of you which is WAY too small of a region to know where you are going so you end up pulling this huge map out while driving/running just to know where to go. I don't even think Ubisoft tested this game to be honest. How could they seriously create this crap without noticing?

Now onto the online game play. All I can really say is "wow." I was hoping I could escape the nightmare from the campaign and "pwn noobs" online but I literally only find one good thing to say about the entire online part of the game and that is the create your own map mode that allows you to create a map and upload it to the FarCry server that can then be played in the online game modes as long as it meets the requirements.

There are just too many bad things to say about the online which takes away from its only map creator plus side. The aiming is God awful with a touchy sensitivity that makes it almost impossible to hit a moving target and that is only when your standing still, I don't even think it is possible to hit a moving target while you are moving yourself.

On top of that, depending on the gun choice, it may take an entire clip to the upper torso/face to actually kill someone. The only game modes to choose from are Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Diamond (capture the flag knock-off), and Uprising which is a game based on three checkpoints and a team leader has to go around capturing these points while his team mates protect him which never happens. This game mode usually turns into a team deathmatch.

The lobbies are set up so that the host starts the game. Everyone has a button to select to show the host that they are ready and a little green light shows up on the right side. This feature is completely pointless because ultimately the game won't start until the host says so. If you are not ready he/she can "force start" the match. I have sat in lobbies before with 16 people (max) and everyone's light has been except for the host that refuses to start the game. Sometimes these lobbies will set in a stall for hours.

On top of that, the host has the ability to ban anyone from the lobby. I have joined a match before and not 2 seconds went by of me being in the lobby and I got kicked out. This is very frustrating and I usually create my own lobby so that I have that power to kick people and start the games whenever I choose but even then you will find disappointment because for some reason when players create matches nobody ever joins the player matches. So you can set in a created lobbies for extended periods of time and nobody will show up.

Well that is all I can think of now, but I know I am missing a lot. I wish there was some way to get my money back because this game BLOWS. My rating = 4/10