You are a gun for hire, trapped in a war-torn African state, stricken with malaria and forced to make deals with corrupt warlords on both sides of the conflict in order to make this country your home. You must identify and exploit your enemies' weaknesses, neutralizing their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion,...
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Release Date: 22 Oct, 2008

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You are a gun for hire, trapped in a war-torn African state, stricken with malaria and forced to make deals with corrupt warlords on both sides of the conflict in order to make this country your home.
You must identify and exploit your enemies' weaknesses, neutralizing their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and of course brute force.
  • Fire — Feel the heat of the most realistic fire ever seen in a video game! Use wind and propagation to surround and trap your enemies. Grab your Molotov cocktails or flamethrowers to take out your enemies.
  • Destructible environment — No more obstacles: Everything is breakable and alterable, even in Multiplayer mode. The DUNIA engine's RealTree technology also delivers the most realistic nature deterioration system ever.
  • Open world — Experience real freedom while roaming in more than 50km2 without any loading. Choose your own path in this vast environment and explore a living African world.
  • A huge adventure — Fight for two rival factions, and make your way up to your primary target by any means necessary. Take on over 70 side missions to earn valuable information, new weapons and vehicles.
  • Non-scripted artificial intelligence — Medics will drag wounded soldiers to safety. Grunts will come to fear you. Your reputation and in-game actions will make enemies drop their guns and run for their lives. Feel the tension of never knowing just how an enemy will react.
  • MULTIPLAYER — Challenge your friends but watch your back—you never know who your true friends are and who might betray you! All the single player technical features are also present in multiplayer mode.
Far Cry 2: Fortune's Edition contains the full Far Cry 2 game, including all previously released patches and the Far Cry 2 Fortunes DLC with additional content listed below.

Single player additional content:
  • Three brand-new weapons: Silenced shotgun, Sawed-off shotgun, Crossbow
  • Two new vehicles: Unimog, Quad
Multiplayer additional content:
  • Additional weapons and four new exciting maps: Cheap Labor, Last Resort, Lake Smear, Fort Fury

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Supported OS: Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista (64 is supported)
    • Processor: Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better
    • Memory: 1 GB
    • Graphics: 256 MB, Shader Model 3 required, NVidia 6800 or ATI X1650 or better*
    • Hard Drive: 3.5 GB (Multiple saves and user created maps will increase the amount of needed hard disk space.)
    • *Supported Video cards: NVidia 6800, NVidia 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops. ATI X1650 – 1950 series , HD2000 series , HD3000 series , HD4000 series
    Recommended:
    • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD 64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 512 MB, NVidia 8600 GTS or better, ATI X1900 or better*
    • Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended
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Fanta
( 17.9 hrs on record )
Pre-Release Review
Posted: 14 August
prøv og kald ham for bette mand
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Shitlord Fuckface
( 4.4 hrs on record )
Posted: 13 August
Riding through the African Savannah, minding my own business
Accidentally drive near a very large enemy base
Shots from every direction
My car is disabled almost instantly
I dive out before it explodes
I pick myself up to see that I'm in the middle of a field with absolutely no form of cover nearby
I try running away
I fail
The enemies riddle me with bullets
Everything fades to black
I wake up to the sound of gunshots and see my best friend, Paul, dragging me away
Paul always has my back
Paul dives on top of me to protect me (no homo)
He pulls me to my feet and hands me a pistol
We return fire on the enemy
The fight is intense but we don't give up
A gunshot rings in my ears
It was a sniper
I look down and inspect myself
I'm ok
I look over at Paul
He's not ok
Paul falls to the ground
Angrily, I empty my rifle into the sniper
I run over to Paul
He's bleeding out
I check my first aid pouch
I'm all out of syringes
Paul looks at me with a pained expression
He begs me to kill him
I'm trying to convince the both of us that he's going to be fine
We both know he's not
I rise to my feet
I grip the pistol he gave me
I raise it
I point it
I pull the trigger
It jammed



10/10
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Wish You Were Gaz
( 0.8 hrs on record )
Posted: 13 August
Some People May Say,
Why Would You Pay,
Twenty Five Dollars For A Dried Up Old Game,
To Which I Would Reply With A Distant Far Cry,
Why Didnt Your Mother Abort You That Day?
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spyhunter
( 26.2 hrs on record )
Pre-Release Review
Posted: 12 August
http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2016/08/ubisoft-creative-director-implicated-in-dox-attempt-on-gamergate-supporter/9460/

Director at Ubisoft tried to dox (getting personal information for the sake of harassment) a Twitter user because she says stuff he doesn't agree with. ♥♥♥♥ Ubisoft and all their games from now on.
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The Emperor of Mankind
( 0.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 12 August
I ♥♥♥♥ing h8 malaria
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Bandigamer
( 33.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 11 August
This is a good game. It might not have some things that many newer FPS games have (such as weapon customization), but that does not really matter. It is fun to mess around with your loadout and become a god of death and destruction by the end of the game. I would recommend this game to any fan of FPS.
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The Patriot
( 12.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 11 August
wow, this game is really fun, and it looks great, Im enjoying the Hell out of it. it's very easy to get into, I like how you have a large amount of players you can pick in single player, now there aint much multiplayer severs but theres 1 or 2 severs that get 7 to 8 players on it. with me it's fun and I give it 3 1/2 stars out of 5. could of had 5 if multi player was more alive.
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☮WALKER
( 14.8 hrs on record )
Posted: 11 August
Freaking love it! :)
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Buccanatrix
( 140.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 10 August
Good game that I very much enjoyed. When I see discussions of it, though, the criticisms seem, to me, to be missing actual flaws in the game. Do the enemies respawn more quickly than in other games? Yes. Is it annoying to have your weapons degrade and blow up in your face in critical moments? Sure. But those speak to the realism of the game: when your weapons have seen 5 wars, they're bound to have problems. when you destroy an enemy post but don't occupy it, they'll put new people in it as fast as possible.

As this game is now legendary, I don't see any point going over the oh-so-well-known good points, but will give some criticisms (though I do still recommend this game regardless).

The character choice is purely cosmetic. You get to pick out of a short list of mercenaries, and the only thing that determines is that your choice won't appear as an NPC "buddy" in the game. Otherwise, there's really no difference between Qarbani and Paul and Marty and...

To that end, I was surprised that they didn't include a female choice of player. There are multiple female NPC buddies, but they apparently didn't want to animate even one set of arms for a female choice? This isn't like totally bad nor does it really hurt the game, but it is disappointing.

The story is that you're supposed to be a merc with a singular mission. You are to find and kill the weapons dealer known as "The Jackal". I would usually expect some sort of skiptracing element, where you're actually hunting down the Jackal rather than getting sidetracked and doing missions for the various faction leaders. I know what they were trying to get at... need to make friends with the people who know the Jackal to find his location. It just doesn't make sense. True profesionals would dog him until he's dead. Nothing else.

Driving is very, unbelivably tight and uniform between all cars/trucks. Sure, the bigger trucks go a bit slower, but they handle pretty much identically to the smaller sedan.

And finally, the search for diamond cases is very tedious and generally unncessary.

But still, with all of those flaws... play this game. It's better than FC4 and Primal. 8.5/10
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( 4.6 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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15 of 15 people (100%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
65.9 hrs on record
Posted: 31 July
Far Cry 2 is one of the most immersive games I've played. It's a game I've always considered vastly underrated. I would go as far as to say Far Cry 2 is one of my favorite sandbox games period.

Unlike most games Far Cry 2 tries to remain topical and relevant to current day events. The game takes place in an unnamed African country. The government has fallen and guns are worth more than human life. You play as one of several would be assassins sent to kill the Jackal, a notorious arms dealer.

What Far Cry 2 does probably the best out of most sandbox games is it makes you feel like you live in Africa. The game's hud is minimalistic, your health pickups are syrettes of morphene. You're infected with malaria and regularly come down with a fever requiring constant supplies of medicine to avoid dying from. Your guns visually decay and eventually break apart in your hands. The world beautiful, but is always extremely hostile to the player. With long stretches of open land requiring almost constant access to vehicles and guard checkpoints at every corner forcing the player to massacre their way through. I never feel like I'm ever safe or that I'm ever comfortable when playing this game, and it's something that always fascinates me when I play it. I always feel like I'm perpetually on the brink of death in every firefight and I need to just keep pressing on, keep moving forward, and keep my finger on the trigger.

There are hundreds of games that look like you're in a warzone, Far Cry 2 makes you feel like you're in one.
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10 of 10 people (100%) found this review helpful
2 people found this review funny
Recommended
101.6 hrs on record
Posted: 24 July
Give me FarCry 2 any day. Destroyable gas stations, respawning checkpoints (I have no idea why people hated these with so much passion. Park the truck, pull out a launcher and blow the ♥♥♥♥ up!!), diamond discoveries, different landscapes with unique terrain. FarCry 3 is like the hot supermodel that doesn't have all the intelligence that a normal girlfriend does: She's great to look at but the depth of conversation and the ability to draw you in are severely lacking. I have an extremely difficult time believing that the main character matured from no combat experience to wiping out an entire cartel.

This was my review for FC3 but I feel it also belongs here. I won't play FC4 and probably won't touch Primal either. FC and FC2 were by far and away the best of the series. What other games allow you to burn dry grasslands to draw out your enemies like the cocaine runners did in Crocodile Dundee 2? None. The AI is spot on in all their responses and for a game this old, they take cover really well. Landscape was incredibly well detailed to the point you would think it's a Bethesda title and this game made you WORK for victory. Shame on all you crybabies that ♥♥♥♥♥ed and moaned about Malaria or jamming guns or respawning guardposts. Y'all missed the damn point of the revolutionary gameplay that made you HUNT your enemy. I felt like a lethal predator sneaking around with my silenced handgun, silenced shotty (Anton Sigur, anyone?), and a flamethrower.

I also learned that the only tool you'll need in life to fix engine, radiator and body damage is a ratchet.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
24.7 hrs on record
Posted: 25 July
This game is all about the gunplay and I do mean ALL about the gunplay. The missions and the dialouge are highly repeteitive and it's only made worse by the long travel times between objectives interspersed with infinitely respawning enemies who make the long travel times even longer by shooting up your car.

And don't get me started on the story, mainly because there barely is none. It got to be that I started playing it as an RPG, creating my own character and motivations but at the end of the game you're only given two choices on what to do, neither of which fit the character I had created, basically nullifying my whole experience.

The game has its problems but the gunplay is its great redeemer and in this case it's enough.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
33.6 hrs on record
Posted: 22 July
I'm not going to say it's a better game than Far Cry 3, but it's DEFINITELY cooler. Especially now that Ubisoft has milked the FC3 formula so much. I *wish* it was the better game. FC2 is a unique game in a rough and dangerous feeling world.

Still worth a look if you can look past the enemies that constantly respawn at every outpost, the factions that have no impact on gameplay, the fact that you spend half the game driving...
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
31.9 hrs on record
Posted: 7 August
Best game series since Half-Life Universe!
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
4.6 hrs on record
Posted: 9 August
FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
74.5 hrs on record
Posted: 2 August
Only play this game on Infamous difficulty, and don't upgrade yourself too much, and the game will be consistently fun.
Buy the game when it's on sale.
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2 of 3 people (67%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
16.6 hrs on record
Posted: 27 July
Product received for free
A wonderful game. Not enough words to describe it.
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2 of 3 people (67%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
2.6 hrs on record
Posted: 2 August
awesome game buy it its worth it (the reson is malaria) you want that ♥♥♥♥
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3 of 5 people (60%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny