Well i recieved far cry 2 this morning, two days early from shopto.net 
so i going to do a little mini review of what i think so far
Gameplay: so far ive been bundled into a harsh hostile environment, where if you leave the ceasfire zone your going to get shot at. You find missions by finding certain factions and doing missions that involve aassasination,theft and destruction.
Guns seem less accurate than in for example call of duty 4 or crysis, but ive only had the crappy ones so far, 1-2 shots in the head seem to bring people down, wheres it takes around 3 to the body with an G3-AK47
guns also jam, a little too much for my liking, guns you buy from the shop new are reliable whereas the ones you pick up of dead enemies jam up after a couple of clips you can unjam them but it takes some time and youll probably be dead by the time your charachter manages to unjam the weapon
Graphics:
im running it on highest settings with 2aa 1680x1050 and it looks great i was never really a fan of the graphics on crysis it looked all too colourful and bright but they seem to have got the colours right and there is a fair amount of detail too, 24 hour day night cycle is another excellent aspect and the weather changes alot from heat to rainstorms which is really cool
For highest settings the system you might need would be an quad core >2.4ghz or something like an C2D E8400, 2GB of RAM and a ATI 4850/NV 9800gtx i get around 35-50fps on my system
Animations:
ubisoft have really tried to push this as an integral part of far cry 2, for example if i raid an enemy checkpoint there is always stuff to blow up and burn, i can set the bush on fire and it will cause everything to set on fire from grass to car engines and cause an inferno moving across the dry grass if your car is damaged you have to repair it, if you get hit you have to heal yourself which is a nice little feature
here a screenshot of car repair
apart from blowing up stuff gets thrown around alot in expolsions and with a good helping of blood and gore when you shoot the crap out of someone :)
you see savvanna animals too, which i really like such as zebra gazelle and eagles i think other animals such as lion are in but ive not seen one yet
AI: the AI seem more intelligent than your regular shooter but havent shown advanced tactics to me yet, for example if a gunshot goes off in the vacinity they will talk to each other and say something like 'do you see anything' 'i think i see four people' and will comb an area looking for you they will retreat and find cover, they will run from granades and bush fires, the AI will also chase you relentlessley in nearby vehicles if your trying to drive away
Thats great and all but the icing on the cake would have been if the AI always worked as a unit than indiduals (F.E.A.R springs to mind for excellent AI) in F.E.A.R some will scout while others cover their back ive not seen any of this so far, maybe this is because there not military just untrained militia and it is probably too early to tell and i have not tried it on the hardest difficulty but so far the AI is good and challenging without being brutally effective
ill maybe update this to a full review when i finish the game, and please give me your thoughts, they are very much appreciated
so i going to do a little mini review of what i think so far Gameplay: so far ive been bundled into a harsh hostile environment, where if you leave the ceasfire zone your going to get shot at. You find missions by finding certain factions and doing missions that involve aassasination,theft and destruction.
Guns seem less accurate than in for example call of duty 4 or crysis, but ive only had the crappy ones so far, 1-2 shots in the head seem to bring people down, wheres it takes around 3 to the body with an G3-AK47
guns also jam, a little too much for my liking, guns you buy from the shop new are reliable whereas the ones you pick up of dead enemies jam up after a couple of clips you can unjam them but it takes some time and youll probably be dead by the time your charachter manages to unjam the weapon
Graphics:
im running it on highest settings with 2aa 1680x1050 and it looks great i was never really a fan of the graphics on crysis it looked all too colourful and bright but they seem to have got the colours right and there is a fair amount of detail too, 24 hour day night cycle is another excellent aspect and the weather changes alot from heat to rainstorms which is really cool
For highest settings the system you might need would be an quad core >2.4ghz or something like an C2D E8400, 2GB of RAM and a ATI 4850/NV 9800gtx i get around 35-50fps on my system
Animations:
ubisoft have really tried to push this as an integral part of far cry 2, for example if i raid an enemy checkpoint there is always stuff to blow up and burn, i can set the bush on fire and it will cause everything to set on fire from grass to car engines and cause an inferno moving across the dry grass if your car is damaged you have to repair it, if you get hit you have to heal yourself which is a nice little feature
here a screenshot of car repair
apart from blowing up stuff gets thrown around alot in expolsions and with a good helping of blood and gore when you shoot the crap out of someone :)
you see savvanna animals too, which i really like such as zebra gazelle and eagles i think other animals such as lion are in but ive not seen one yet
AI: the AI seem more intelligent than your regular shooter but havent shown advanced tactics to me yet, for example if a gunshot goes off in the vacinity they will talk to each other and say something like 'do you see anything' 'i think i see four people' and will comb an area looking for you they will retreat and find cover, they will run from granades and bush fires, the AI will also chase you relentlessley in nearby vehicles if your trying to drive away
Thats great and all but the icing on the cake would have been if the AI always worked as a unit than indiduals (F.E.A.R springs to mind for excellent AI) in F.E.A.R some will scout while others cover their back ive not seen any of this so far, maybe this is because there not military just untrained militia and it is probably too early to tell and i have not tried it on the hardest difficulty but so far the AI is good and challenging without being brutally effective
ill maybe update this to a full review when i finish the game, and please give me your thoughts, they are very much appreciated
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