#FAR CRY 2 BUDDY DEATH UPDATE#

Watching the target blip on the map and timing my race across the dirt-tracks to collide with him so precisely was fantastic. The missions seem to be all combat, but that's fine by me: the first instance of ramming a Jeep convoy off the road at a junction, leaping out and gunning down every member of the party couldn't have been more thrilling. I found that something of a shame - having more human life to the world would have been great. The towns are essential abandoned: just home to militias and criminals now. Anyway, the areas in which you *aren't* involved in a sprawling, endless firefight, are superb, with surly, suspicious faces everywhere, and believable understated characters lurking about, or offering you mercenary fare. Nothing seems over-complicated, but there's enough on offer for this to be a shooter that has some depth.Д«eing hunted by both factions seems to be freaking out a large number of people: as if they didn't expect to shoot and be shot at by large numbers of people in this, a first-person shooter? Odd. The game is boldly functional: the ultra-minimal GUI and general world interactions definitely demonstrate that. There's a lot that you can say that about in this game: it's not exactly genius, but it really works. It definitely lacks the charm of Stalker, or even Boiling Point, and I'm unconvinced by the African setting as a whole, but it works. The rolling, rumbling soundtrack bolsters that. It's really selling the idea that this is a seething, hatred-filled place of violence, de-sensitized by war and greed. There's a kind of continuous tension in the game world, and not least because you yourself are fighting illness, and being hunted by both factions in this wartorn realm. It's real-world, and kind of ugly and organic. If feels very low-key, gritty even, when compared to just about any other shooter I can think of. The one thing that no one seems to have taken much time to mention yet is the general ambience of the game setting. The action is smooth, and the world detailed. Not quite comparable with Crysis, perhaps, but that really doesn't matter: it pulls of the dense, jungled African valleys impeccably. That said, even with my updating laziness, the game runs fantastically on my 8800 with everything maxed.

#FAR CRY 2 BUDDY DEATH UPDATE#

That said, I have ignored the game's pleas to update both Vista and my Nvidia drivers, so I'm probably partly to blame for technical difficulties. Firstly, it pains me to have to quit out of the game to blog about it, which is a good sign, but also a bad sign. So I'm a few hours into Far Cry 2 and I'm going to just quickly report my impressions of it so far.

Far cry 2 buddy death