Far Cry 2: The Antithesis of Fun 

- No climbing towers to reveal more of the map - No loading screens for entering buildings or missions - All cutscenes are seamless and you’re always in control of your character - You don’t have to pause the game to open the map - Stealth where you don’t see people through walls or lure them with rocks, so it genuinely requires strategy. - Actually smart companions who can die if you’re not careful - A map that’s small enough where you don’t have to fast travel everywhere - No stealth bar, the only way you know you’re seen is with a bullet - Outposts get taken back by enemies and don’t just stagnate (there is also a story explanation) - No racing or fishing minigames: it’s a total warzone. I’d argue this is the ONLY good Far Cry game. All future games abandoned what made 2 so great.

This game was great back in the day. I remember sinking many hours into it when I was a kid and having a blast.

With the buddy system, when they saved you, it was interesting how they dragged you to a safe location but also nearby. I dunno how that was done but it was very cool and realistic.

FarCry2 felt state-of-the-art when I got the console version in 2009. Its visuals and artstyle still look great after 15+ years. I run a new savefile every year just to relive it, can't say that about any other game.

Part of me wants a remake of Far Cry 2 but I don't have much faith that Ubisoft would stick to the original vision.

The only other FPS game I think that captures the loneliness and survival aspects of Far Cry 2 is the stalker series and the mod packs for that franchise. I really really do wish the far cry series would tap back into what made this game so great Simple, minimalistic, difficult and unforgiving at times but when you're immersed you get lost in the world and it's not a checklist collect-a-thon.

I'm noticing a pattern lately. In-depth game analyzers mostly tend to have a sophisticated accent. _Just a thought._

You can use the range finder on the sniper rifle scope to guage distance for the mortar. Once i figured that out it became surprisingly usable! I dont think the game ever told you that though. I did enjoy it at the time but the constant traversal of the map can become a slog. Especially bumping into a checkpoint ever 2 minutes

There was so many things I liked about this game but my god those respawning check points just sapped my enjoyment and I couldn't bring myself to keep playing it when I picked it up. Shout out to games with minimal huds though.

Far Cry 2 is an example of a game that becomes godlike if you get past X hours. After a while, you go from being hunted to being a complete slaughtering machine. You know all the routes, and you know the map.

Loved the gun jamming and degredation, hated the malaria.

I have been waiting a long time for an analytical video about this legendary game. Thank you very much ... Waiting for analysis of SpecOps The Line and more !!!

I played the FC1 and it was ok. When I saw the trailer for FC2 I had to play it and I loved it. Then I saw the trailer for FC3 and played that and loved it. All three games are different and I'm ok with that. All the games after FC3 feel like dlcs of FC3.

Modern Far Cry has sunk further and further into “Ubislop” territory, feeling more and more formulaic with each new entry. I think Far Cry 2 holds up very well because of how un-formulaic it is. It’s flawed for sure but I feel like Ubisoft or perhaps some other studio should look to this game as a source of inspiration going forward.

Far Cry 2, man. IMO, it's one of the most surprisingly improved followups of all time and a perfect balance between "satisfying" and "stress inducing".

something funny about this game that others might get a giggle from, this game killed my last pc. yeah strait up, just playing it caused my rig to die. ok it was an old rig but what a way to go. a great game all round

This was the game that made me fall in love with the SVD rifle. Semi automatic and learning how to use the range finder - I use the SVD in any game that has it now.

keep it up man, that's a really good video...

The multi-player from Far Cry 2 was great, chaotic, crazy, great map editor, too, fun gunfights where each one felt fair. Sadly, you can't find online matches anymore atleast on Xbox

A small correction to the ending… At this point in the game your character is suffering from advanced malaria sickness (which you can confirm during this part of the game) even with the pills you’ve been taking, you will die. This is way the Jackel calls you a “terminal case…same as me”. Likewise the jackel is also suffering from a brain cancer that will also kill him. So the Jackel knows that the both of you are dead men walking, but you can choose to do one last act of good to help others.

Hell yeah, my favorite Far Cry! Screw all those menus and " interface upgrades", mission objectives, just give me gun, map and i will be going

'Fun' is the wrong word. A game only needs to be compelling. There are people who enjoy Kaizo mario games that are almost sadistic mechanically. They just happen to find that sort of challenge compelling. People who like games a bit more grounded will enjoy FC2. And it could be argued that it is the FC with the most interesting and unique ideas.

Great video. Even greater channel picture (I love Samara).

I miss having ths *Feral* Abilities. Like leaping through the air. Or attacking people with my hands like a lion.

I didn't play 1, but I did 2 and 3. 2 was the best overall experience, while 3 had an engaging villain but other than that... Eh...

Ah! This time it doesnt seem broken. I like your retrospective!

Always happy to watch another Far Cry 2 analysis

Good video, makes me want to play this now

This is one of my favorite games ever. I loved it since its release and I often re-play it with the high difficulty mod. In my humble opinion it could have been a perfect game for my personal taste with some add ons like civilians around the place (with the player's freedom to shoot them or not), more animals (the few animals in the game have no blood, it kills realism) and stuff like that. My god how I love this game. I still love almost all the others of the franchise, but this one is just something different and not purely commercial.

If Far Cry 2 had the GPS system like the one in current Far Cry titles, I would play it again

I use to play this quite a bit on xbox 360 and I enjoyed it, I feel it really gives the feeling of trying to survive a warzone

Best in the series. Not even nostalgia. You feel alone, you are alone. Running through the jungle never felt so good.

Great video, Svikters man. Far Cry 2 really is an experience like no other. Recommend to any fan of a good FPS with good sims gameplay. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

*this game saved me back in 2010 when I was bored with gaming 🙌 the vibe, the jungles, the desert, the guns, the brush fires, hunting diamonds, how tough the enemies were....it was just a very realistic and cool experience 👍 Far Cry 5 is the only game in the franchise that compares to 2 IMO* 🕵

You did an awesome job with this, man. Far cry 2 hardly gets the love it deserves. Would love to collaborate if you're ever interested

This game was something new at the time. Guns and cars that break down(AND CAN BE FIXED), spreading fire, option to be a sniper and stealthy. Open vast environment in AFRICA, awesome.

One of my favorite video games back in the day, this retrospect/analyst was fantastic

Every time I see somebody mention respawning outposts, it annoys the crap out of me because it proves they never even considered the option of going around them. That's also why your guns jammed so often. If you don't jump into every fight that you don't have to, they last so much longer.

fantastic review!

you don't have to have the map in hand while driving. The signs on the crossroads are colored to which marker they lead and they change accordingly(blue yellow red...).

This is one of the gew games that make me feel that i am in a dangerous environment, you think before getting in a shootout, i usually avoid the ones i didn't prepare before because all could turn into shit in a moment

If you want to play a game where you have a bad time in Africa, it's Far Cry 2 or nothing. Such a unique experience.

I don’t agree Jackal is an overlooked Far Cry villain. I say most in the fandom don’t even see Jackal as a villain to begin with.

Thank you for pointing out ALL of the good things of this game. This is the best part of the circle that Ubisoft is looping... but skipping past everytime.

We need a remaster of this game

You don’t need to spam the reload button to unjam your gun you can just press it.

There is a theory that the Jackal is Carver from FC1.

wait there is no crosshair in far cry 2? I've played this game when it came out and i never noticed it. i do play on PC and always aim down the sight when i play an FPS.

This game is my favorite out of all of them no questions about it.

whether or not a dev has designed a game to be fun has very little impact on whether or not i found a game fun except ofc the very very extreme cases , i completed far cry 2 with barely 10km driven and some 50km walked (rougly cause it could be more but its been a year since then) stalking the enemy in the tall grass (and yes the stealth works perfectly fine) mostly avoided confrontation and just scouted the outposts from afar and i got like 80% of the diamonds in the game and i had fun every step of the way

You don't know what I think. Also Far Cry 2 was my first Far Cry game and I've never played the third one nor do I want to. Far Cry 2 is the reason I like survival games. I wanted more of the struggle and mundane.

(sniff sniff) "He's around here, i can smell his shit".

I love Far Cry 2 immersion and atmosphere but the combat and mechanics are really clunky so i didnt finish. Im a Far Cry 3 stealth master, so when i i saw that you couldnt do stealth takedowns i was pissed. If they make a remake with newer Far Cry mechanics it would be be perfect cuz the ambiance for me is the best of the series

I started playing a couple of days ago, I've completed 20% of the main storyline and I have absolutely no idea what the story is about, how the world works, what's the point of the missions I've done - I don't even know how I'm progressing the main storyline, I only notice when the percentage goes up but I have no idea what happened and how the story moved forward. And the worst part is that the game doesn't give you a reason to care about any of that, 90% of the time I'm just staring at the map trying to figure out how to get wherever the hell I need to go even though I have no idea why I'm even going there. Who am I serving? I don't know - and I don't care. How do I meet new buddies? I don't know - and I don't care. What are the buddies even good for? I don't know - and I don't care. What do I get by purchasing weapon crates? I don't know - and I don't care. Why is my gun jamming even though I purchased it? Is it because it's gotten old, or I accidentally swapped it for a second-hand one, how do I get a new one that doesn't jam? I don't know - and I don't care, I'll just press that R button and soldier on. The game just doesn't give you a reason to care about anything or to explore any new locations or learn the mechanics of the world. Hell, I don't even care about my own character! Yeah, Jack Carver (or whatever) in FC1 was cheesy af but at least I knew who he was, what he was doing, what his character was like, etc. Elder Scrolls games for example allow you to "give character to your character" by giving you options to play in different ways by joining different factions and guilds - you can be an assassin, a thief, a warrior, xenophobic, racist, imperialist, multiculturalist, etc. you can choose what kind of person you want your character to be. In FC2 you're a nobody, you never speak, you don't know where you are, what you're doing or why you're doing it. Sorry for the rent, I really want to like this game but it's so damn hard x)

It was my first online game on the 360, but I found it so tedious that FC2 took me like a year to finish because I always got sick after 1-2 missions, and the respawning camps + long driving distances in-between missions. Maybe I should replay it someday, now that I am not some impatient ~18 y.o anymore

While i hate many things about this game (piss poor story, pointless friends, no real factions, respawning checkpoints, way too fast weapon degradation and the fact that on the other hand you have unlimmited supply of them at your shop, repetitive mission design, pointless alternative missions given by friend, fake malaria mechanics and so on), i have to say the combat and stealth are awesome. Stealth here is realistic, and enemies don't forget about you after a minute, also their AI is decent. Combat is balanced really well (maybe apart from a bit too short shotgun range and overpowered explosive bolts), driving mechanics are fun, physical map is great just as every other first person animation, graphics aged so good becasue of great art design, and i really like the weapon limmit and how it forces you to create certain loadouts that are never perfect. Combat is without a doubt the best in the series (every next FC game has wierd shooting mechanics and AI is horrible in latter games with enemies that behave like lemmings). Overall a decent 6-7 out of 10 game, but mostly a case of unrealised potential. Oh and the atmosphere is just one of a kind.

besides malaria the only thing that was actively bothering me was "this is a secret op so don't expect any help from our boys" like that's the only thing that happens in the game they are at war but outside of 2 scripted events they don't fight they are at fight yet they don't react to taking losses i'm not saying i'd want it to turn to call of duty but come on "hey guys i blew up the trainyard and they are massing for attack" so you go and join the fight on either side not much but makes the game and entire war aspect more like raging war also lack of actual fights between factions after 2020 for a white man shooting black people in africa there is only one response - MORE who were they supposed to shoot in africa? pink fairies? chinese? they ruin entire games with anti white racism claiming that "majority of population in this city is black" so we go to africa where majority indeed is black and what suddenly it's bad? it wasn't enought that they weren't really people, they were infected mutants with parasite virus but no, ign and other brainedead terrorist organizations just had to play the race card for something that doesn't even concern them

Farcry 2 is my absolute favorite game in the series

3:51 Technically they did bring Jack back. However, like the rest of the story, they don't say out right that he's the Jackal. There's only the similar clothing and a few lines about how he used to be a military man. Ubisoft "confirmed" that this is Jack Carver 10 years later and he's "broke bad". you say the Jackal's dialogue is "so-so" are you also referring to the Jackal tapes? They're not much, but they are interesting to listen to. 11:49 "You think you can hit a guy in a fast car?" The devs knew what they were doing. 😂

2 and 3 PEAK

The map complaint isn’t really valid considering you don’t have to drive with your map out because there’s a GPS on every vehicle with an arrow pointing to the objective and signs at crossroads change colors depending on where the map marker is to help direct you

camp respawn was the single issue that at the time made it unplayable to me.

If you escape the town in the start then you get saved by someone i dont remember who

If you're spending too much time looking at the map rather than the game world, or hell what's on the road ... that's on you.

Just watching 5 minutes of this made me start back playing Far cry 2 again

hardcore = better Game has to make you feel dont need another game, you cant have every game to be on go, easy to play if you re tired, as people-- i mean, gamers say, these are the ones it feel like a ritual, or whatever you call your special moment.

You used Risen I soundtrack, didn’t you? I will recognize it everywhere.

This was the first dark souls shooter

One thing you kinda skipped over but Jack carver from the first game IS in far cry 2. One of the people who made the game came out and confirmed that Jack carver is the Jackal. Hense the name JACKal and his great sense of fashion lmao. Also the first game mentioned he was a mercenary and has sold arms which are both mentioned by the Jackal as well.

i remember the feeling this game gave me when my second buddied died in battle after saving my ass, i shot my last four styptics into his heart and and there i had to ole yeller him in the african bush

I would love Unisoft to port this onto the current gen console with a fps increase. Though I hope a indie developer will make a spiritual successor to this game.

This game changed the world

Should have been able to pick the female mercenaries. But it was 2008

Far Cry 2 needs a remake!

I loved this game.

2 was the best game theyve not topped it since

After playing stalker, far cry 2 and stalker are similar in a way

How dare you diss my boy, Jack Carver.

wouldn't mind a remake of it or a anther setting in africa

the best farycry !!!!!!!!!!!

Campaign wise far cry 2 is my favorite.. you’re just some dude dying in the jungle taking whoever you can with you.

No subtitle ?

Your accent screams ikea 08a

far cry 2 is the best one

Far Cry 2 gives S.T.A.L.K.E.R vibes

Did people just play the last few minutes of TLOU2? There’s a lot more going on than “revenge bad”

Far cry 2 has more details than Far cry 6 trash

in sviiden

Hardcore not realistic lmao

Far Cry 2 needs a modernized "remaster" (a remake, really) that gets rid of the outdated jank. Africa is a perfect setting for a Far Cry game and an ideal backdrop for a serious, gritty reboot of the series.

pff there is only 1 Far Cry , the Original PC game the rest are beyond terrible

When Ubicrap bought the franchise they kill the magic of the only good farcry 1!

this is my favorite game of all time