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Far Cry 2 (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy New: £23.00
You Save: £11.99 (34%)
New (15) Used (4) from £19.99
Rating:  137 reviews
Sales Rank: 214
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: espionage-action-games
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 68408
EAN: 3307210410641
ASIN: B0010DX5L2
Release Date: October 24, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk
Exploring 20 square miles of African savannah and jungle is never an easy task. But when you’re up against an army of highly trained mercenaries, the danger becomes unimaginable. Welcome to the world of Far Cry 2.
 Far Cry 2 has some of the best explosions in the business |  Vehicles are great for cover as well as transport |  It’s best to keep some of the game’s factions on your side |  The environmental graphics are both stunning and highly varied | It’s been over four years since the release of the first Far Cry, and Far Cry 2 has almost nothing in common with it beyond being a first-person shooter with excellent graphics and advanced artificial intelligence. It’s by a different developer, and you now play one of eight different mercenary characters out to catch an arms dealer nicknamed “The Jackal.” The sci-fi enemies have also been jettisoned in favour of a much more realistic game where survival skills are just as important as a good aim. The rules of engagement--either by stealth or all guns blazing--are entirely up to you. Key Features - Virtual safari: The game features 20 square miles of terrain for you to travel, filled with realistic fauna and flora and fully destructible trees and buildings.
- Fiery realism: With an all-new graphics engine created just for the game, fire moves and propagates exactly as in real-life, with vegetation breaking and snapping realistically.
- The coming storm: A dynamic weather system changes to reflect your mood, with the sky turning dark and stormy during bad times.
- Jungle survival: Highly realistic weapons degrade with use, bullets need to be dug out of your body, and vehicles break down if pushed beyond their limits.
- Buying friends: Meet and co-operate with fellow mercenaries as you pit different factions against one another in a war-torn African state.
About the Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Ubisoft’s huge development studio in Canada has created many of the French publisher’s biggest hits, including the Splinter Cell,/i> series, the modern Prince of Persia games, Rainbow Six: Vegas, Assassin’s Creed, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja and the Far Cry sequels and spin-offs.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 132 more reviews...
 GREAT GAME! October 26, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The DRM scheme on Farcry 2 is NOTHING like the DRM on Spore/Bioshock/Mass Effect because when you uninstall Farcry 2 from your PC it actually gives you back one of your FIVE installation quota that you get. So that means as long as you uninstall properly you are still able to use your copy on other machines or lend to friends etc. And Ubisoft have a duty to support this scheme so the authentication servers will still be up in 5 years time don't worry. I must admit I don't like DRM but this one seems fairer than the one on Spore and if its a way of saving the PC games industry thats good right? I'd rather this than be forced to get a console to play games.
(About the game!) This is a great game that is very scalable and runs a lot better than Crysis on lower end machines as it is well optimised. I have a Core 2 Duo e6750@2.66, 2GB DDR2 667, Radeon 3870 and I run on mostly very high settings. The game is huge and immersive and is supposed to take some 50 hours to complete. The included map editor is so easy to use I have had fun creating some challenging multiplayer maps.
If you have a decent enough PC get this because i've seen the Xbox 360 version and its quite laggy.
Amazing game October 25, 2008
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
As per usual these days there are a lot of people out there wanting to rant and rave about DRM issues, and while they have a valid point lets not forget what the point of a review is, to review the game after playing it. If you havent played it and written a review, then its utterly worthless.
This game is amazing. The graphics are outstanding, the game area is huuuge, the sound is great, it runs like a dream, well basically its an amazing game that belongs in your game collection.
I have been playing the game for about 6 hours now and have been completely immersed. Apparently it will take around 20 hours of gameplay to complete the story, plus there are other missions to do also. So this is going to last you for a while.
I will concede that at times the long distances your forced to travel to complete a mision can be a chore, but on the way your always guaranteed a firefight and they are usually good fun. If you really do hate the drives then you can always catch a bus to the area then its not far to travel. My preference is to use the boats
Also the side missions do get a little repetitive, but there arent many of them and they can be fun if you set up ambushes with explosives.
So many people bitched about the DRM in Crysis Warhead, but the game was awesome and needs to be played, the same is true here.
Perhaps this system leaves a lot to be desired and the publishers of the games that use them really ought to rethink their strategy as its clearly not working. this game was available to download 2 days before it was released and had a working crack. So in short the pirates have no worries about DRM, its the legitimate people who pay for it that are punished. I am in no way defending this strategy of theirs, but that does not make this game worth only 1 star as in some reviews, this is an amazing game, just remember that.
Plus there will be a huge modding community for this game and there will endless mods available in the future, just as with the original
Very nice game indeed October 25, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Well, people are complaining about DRM etc, but to be honest, I've never had a problem with ANY games that have DRM in the past, and unless you're one of those anally retentive types who format their hard drive every few months, this is NOT going to be an issue.
Importantly: the game.
I was a bit worried that my PC wouldn't be able to take the strain, but I've been pleasantly surprised. I'm running it with an E2160 @ 3GHz, 2GB RAM and an 8800GTS 320MB that has, unfortunately, lost its overclocking power (512 at default.. used to be able to get 650, but no more).
If you don't have a super-duper rig, the best thing to do to make it look good and run smooth is the old Oblivion trick i.e. turn the shadows off and watch the fps go through the roof. Everything on Ultra High, and the bizarre HD AND Bloom options on.. just set the shadows to absolute minimum, and it'll run great.
The game itself is fantastic! You start off doing little missions just to get acquainted with the lay of the land and how things work, and it's a pretty effective way of incorporating a tutorial. Once you're past this though, it does get pretty tricky, which is something that I like.. I always thought FarCry was a bit too easy, even on the hardest setting, whereas this is challenging on normal setting. I have to add that the combat is very similar to S.T.A.L.K.E.R., so if you're familiar with that, then you'll settle into this straight away.
The game does remind me in a roundabout way of the Commodore Amiga classic, Hunter, where you had to zip around a big island doing missions and what not. But yes, it looks good and plays good and the story is as deep and involving as you'd expect from a game with guns and explosions. Thankfully there's no mutants in this one as well; it's all nicely grounded.
The only minor annoyance: the whole malaria thing. I'm sure somebody thought that it would be a great little extra challenge, but I don't like to have to save every so often in readiness for my character spazzing out and looking for tablets in the seconds after being jumped by some Afrikaaner mercenaries in their gun-jeep. It detracts from the immersion.
Malaria aside: This is a great game, lots of fun and challenging.
Ignore all this nonsense about DRM. I can see where people are coming from when they complain about it, but it's just the reality of commerce. And I bet half the whingers would never have bought it even if it hadn't have had DRM anyway; they're probably just invoking a bit of self-justification for heading over to a torrent site, so shame on them. I hope they never have their work stolen from them.
Great Game October 23, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Just loaded this game and its great, runs well on an 8800 GTX. 1440x900 resolution... i really do not understand why everybody is complaining... support the industry, buy the game, then download a no CD patch after.... simple, simple, simple
IF YOU HAVE A DRM ISSUE READ THIS October 29, 2008
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
I'm sorry but the amount of computer illiterate people on here sobbing about DRM being a spyware and how it will 'kill your computer to the point of undeniable death' is starting to annoy me. So, THIS is the solution to ALL people who have a DRM problem or are a bit :/ over whether to buy this product because of it.
First things first, Far Cry 2 is an UNBELIEVABLE game, I love every moment of it and I'm playing through the career again to do bits I missed. It's awesome, can't fault the game.
Now to the DRM, yes, I'm not going to lie, it's a pain in the George Bush. But it only comes with legal copies of the game right? So if you have this problem then you must of already purchased the game, therefore providing EA with profit and a turnover. So why would they then complain if you, 'edited', the DRM?
Go to any, (of the many), pirate torrent websites. Download a Far Cry 2 crack. Replace the factory version of Far Cry 2.exe with this cracked version and hey presto! No more limited installations, no more backdoor malware. You can do this before you initially try and run the game, or after you've first started it up for the first time. The only difference is that if you do it after you'll have to hope that the serial number is accepted.
So there we are all you DRM worriers and condemners. Why complain about having DRM in your computer, when you can just replace it after LEGALLY purchasing the software? Best of both worlds! :)
Hope this helps anyone stuck with DRM or anyone looking into buying this product, it truly is an unbelievable game. I can't describe how unbelievable it is.
**update**
After re-reading through my review I realised I haven't an important point clear at all!
No, what I'm suggesting you do isn't legal by any stretch of the imagination. But there is no law that enables the company to prosecute the consumer for changing files in a software that they paid for. Not in the UK government anyway, I don't know about anywhere else, sorry :S.
Which means, unless EA have added a loophole to any particular law in the Terms and Conditions, (which to be honest they probably have but it's still worth checking out), then you can change the factory .exe with a cracked one and be immune from illegal games copying or whatever the law is called in the UK. From experience American laws are a bit wackier and a hell of a lot stricter, so this probably won't apply to you guys over yonder pond.
But there we are! I'm not promoting illegal activities, but if anyone is like me and just wants to play this game so bad but doesn't want to pirate it because it's so good and are only concerned about the DRM.
That's the way out. :)
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