I have to be completely honest here, for the past 2 days, I barely have any recollection of what I have been doing. I know these few things: I have been playing Far Cry 2, I haven’t shut up about Far Cry 2 to anyone strange/unlucky enough to speak to me, I fucking love Far cry 2, I have been using the words far and cry and two, a little more than usual.
It seems that I have been so overloaded with ’stuff’ going on, that I’m struggling to remember how everything happened. I have the added problem that I don’t want to spoil anything for you peoples who have yet to get your hands on a delicious copy, so, instead of trying to patch everything together letting loose spoilers, I present you with a few cool/fun/fucking awesome things that have happened…in no particular order.
This one time, I am asked to take out a ammo cache, accompanied by a couple of guys in the desert for a reason I can’t remember. Josip, my bestest friend (but I disagree) tells me that I can make things easier if I can convince a guy to radio in some false co-ordinates to these people, making them move to somewhere easier. Ok bestest friend, lets go get the guy.
The guy in question is holed up in some house with plenty of guards…fuck. What I basically do here, is oh so eloquently, charge in firing guns at people. It’s not subtle, it’s not elegant or cool, it’s a fucking mess. I end up having to hide behind a fountain to pull a bullet out of my leg as two guys with shotguns continue in their eternal quest to kill me until I am dead. I take them out and shift into the house. It seems to be empty. Obviously everyone must have come to join the ruckas outside. I work my way upstairs and find the guy. He shoves his hands into the air and I pass him some documents. He follows the instructions and radios in. Thanks. He is looking at me funny though…no one looks at me funny. I shotgun him in the face and coolly walk out.
This other time, I receive a mission from someone with a distorted voice through my mobile. He asks me to go and kill a ‘target of opportunity’ at the airstrip. I duly oblige and make my way. On the way I spot some wildlife…and kill it. I’m just a murderous bastard. When I get close to the airstrip, I ditch my car and go it on foot. I’m armed with a Sniper rifle, a standard pistol, a rocket launcher and a machete. As I close in, I spot a sniper post, complete with resident sniper. I also spot a patrolling jeep making regular stops next to the post. Just as the jeep moves off, I move in swiftly but silently. The jeep isn’t on it’s return journey yet as I position directly behind the sniper, so I have plenty of time. I draw my machete and slit his throat. I make a comedy blunder though and he goes to the floor screaming. Oh the hilarity. I silence him by driving the machete through his chest. He’s quiet now…but I think the patrol heard him….yep they did. Before they got to me, I notice a Mac 10 on the floor (like an Uzi). I swap my pistol for this and take on the jeep. I take them out with relative ease, but I’m concerned the buildings in the distance, housing my target and lots of guards, might of heard.
I scout the place with my sniper rifle and notice one guy taking a leak against a wall. I guess they never heard then. After popping his head I pick off another straggler and make my way. I don’t think anyone heard the shots or saw the bodies, so I should be ok. I get to the building containing the target and pop my head around the corner. He sees me instantly and thinks it jolly good fun to fire bullets at me. This, needless to say, alerts all the other guards in the vicinity. It’s just me and my Mac 10 now. Bloodbath ensues.
Who could forget the time I had to kill the chief of police…inside the police station. I approach from the back and take out a sniper with a silenced pistol. As sneaky as Captain Sneaky McSneakerson of Sneakersville, I get inside the station through the back door without anyone noticing. I shoot the police chief square in the face. I notice a guard standing the the doorway for the front door, but facing the other way. He’s none the wiser, but just for the fuck of it, I shoot him and make a swift exit. Mission complete, no noise, no alarms.
I could go on like this for ages, but you get the point. So far, FC2 has done nothing but amaze and impress me. It’s also done something very special. It’s made me care about a character. Warren Clyde, my back up guy. I would fight to the end for him, it’s the least I owe him for saving my life so many times. He’s also completely mental. Seriously, he loves killing people and causing chaos…just what Far cry is suited to.
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Argh! It looks great! Unfortunately I’ve got PES 2009, Fable II, Saints Row 2, Midnight Club LA and Fallout 3 to get through first, plus the GTA4 DLC which is imminent and WWE Smackdown 2009, also i’m playing the orange box again so must finish that. This time of year is ridiculous!! My brain is fizzing with information overload. most of them are still sealed. Although I think after reading this Far Cry 2 may come out of its shrinkwrap faster than the others.
Take Pro evo, saints row, and midnight club back to the shop, cancel Smackdown, and put Fallout and Fable on hold until the drought in February.
Are you playing the Orange box on PC or another silly format?
i also have to be completley honast here. ;-)
so i think that your first SP has sold this game to me. Looks frikkin sweet, very pritty = me happy
honast, SP? what?
It’s prettier than crysis, but character models go to shit at a distance.
screen print ;-)
This game is awsome.. The little things are greate, eg you walk into a building and your “eye” adjust to the dimness.. and the way you can either, help, kill or abandon your best bud when they are injured is awsome.
However on a synister note, im having keyboard troubles… Every time I press esc to view the objectives my computer minimizes to desktop, this happens with all full screen apps, this minimization freezes FC2 and hence pisses me off… Any one got a Spare Keyboard, or a way to remap the esc key in vasta?
Ah, you bought it then? Congrats.
I had a quick google for you and only found one post on a WoW forum that had the same issue, but with no answers.
I don’t really have any suggestions, it’s a bit of a weird one.
[edit]Yes[/edit]. Yeah nothing seems to come up on the Esc issue.. happens to all full screen apps.. Might just have to run it windowed, which i havent actually tried yet.. might solve it.
Also do you find DX 10 runs quite slow? i tried it but get much better rates in dx 9.. and before you say it, my pc is more than capable of kicking this games ass on system req’s… Just seems slower with dx 10..
also what is with your site in IE? its all squished up.. not nice like in FF3
seems fine…
I wasn’t going to say anything because yes, I noticed the exact same thing. It runs far better in DX9, and that’s what I’m running it in.
I’m playing Orange Box on the PC, its natural habitat!
WASD + Mouse = Win.
I think Saints Row 2 will be on the PC as well. I’m off to play Far Cry 2 this afternoon. I’ve scheduled a “meeting” in Peterborough, but will actually be nipping off home as the missus who’s at home finishing her PhD has just texted me to say its arrived from Play. Fan-blummin-tastic.
Anyone looking forward to GTA:Chinatown Wars on the NDS?
(I took Vista Ultimate off my PC and replaced it with XP 64, it was driving me mad, and I also find the games run better in DX9, I think DX10 has multi threading/quad core issues.)
Oh and the screenshots are incredible, you’re doing a great job.
You’ll make me blush :D