Fast travel was very limited, and there was no constant onscreen mini map. The way these systems mix makes for a fun sand box.īoth are great games, but Far Cry 2 was far more immersive. Buddies rescue you from certain death(game over sceens) only to die in the process. Fun stuff, like malaria and weapons jamming and getting run over by SUVs. There's a bunch of clever mechanics at work there. They didn't just plop an open world sandbox in a first person shooter and call it a day. This seems like a small point, but such a majority of shooters give you little incentive to switch from the stock weapon these days, unless you're switching from an absolutely worse to a better version of the same thing. They feel great and all play differently, with the pacing the open world style lends, you get a chance to really plan and think of the combinations before heading out on missions. A great selection and implementation of weapons. Oh yea, then you get to the middle of the game and it doubles in size. A huge, open world with a fantastic setting. I haven't played 3 yet, but Far Cry 2 is one of the most interesting fist person shooters on this generation of hardware. Alternatively throw the serious pretenses out of the window and instead mix FC3's polish and variety with the insanity of JC2 (which also got old because of no stealth/flanking) for the ultimate sandbox. I'd like a mix of the two games with yet more improvements, the somewhat more serious tone of the 2nd (no magic powers like x-ray vision) and the variety and polish of the 3rd. Stealth wasn't very viable in 2 and in a firefight the AI was like COD, not enemies that actually have to track you & can be fooled. I didn't care about the story in either but I guess for some of the main missions it's more in your face in FC3 and therefor more of an annoyance there but eh, there's not that much of it in the end and the bulk of the gameplay is roaming the island and this time not getting constantly shot at by respawned enemies at the checkpoints but instead taking them over for good with any badass approach you see fit. Both are flawed games in some of the same ways but FC3 is just way more fun and versatile in its gameplay.

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