- Far Cry 2 review (2008) - 12 April 2026
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- Far Cry 2 is the best game in the entire series, and you can get it for $3 - 14 April 2025
Far Cry 3 gets all the plaudits, but in hindsight, it marks a regrettable turning point in Ubisoft's outdoors FPS series - if the bloatedness, wackiness, and directionlessness of Far Cry 6 finally proved too much for people, it all started with FC3, a game of contradictory ideas and empty, junk 'content.' After a rough couple of years, thanks to Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ubisoft's fortunes might finally be turning around, but I still sense that the studio's best days are in the past. Released 17 years ago, Far Cry 2 , easily the greatest game in the series, and one of Ubi's finest works is yours for less than $3. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Grab the best Far Cry game right now for less than $3 Snag Far Cry 6 and the rest of Ubisoft's series dirt cheap right now The best Far Cry game is 70% off right now
- Grab the best Far Cry game right now for less than $3 - 11 March 2024
The first Far Cry game was something of a blank slate. Created by Crytek, the studio that would go on to make the Crysis series and Hunt: Showdown, 2004's Far Cry was more of a proof of concept than anything else. Far Cry 2 , the sequel from Ubisoft Montreal, ended up a much more confident game when it launched in 2008, outlining a future identity for the long-running action series while also establishing a grimy anti-war vision of its own that none of the subsequent entries have quite been able to match. If you've missed playing it and are curious to try it for yourself to see what we mean, now's a great time. Far Cry 2 is currently on sale for the price of a cup of coffee over on GOG. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Snag Far Cry 6 and the rest of Ubisoft's series dirt cheap right now The best Far Cry game is 70% off right now Far Cry's best game gets even better with swee…
- Snag Far Cry 6 and the rest of Ubisoft's series dirt cheap right now - 16 September 2023
The best Far Cry games can be yours for next to nothing right now, as the entire series goes dirt cheap with discounts offering up to 85% off. From the very first game to the modern Far Cry 6 , Ubisoft's series has something for everyone who enjoys open-world FPS games , and you can grab whichever of them takes your fancy without breaking the bank thanks to a big Steam sale . Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Far Cry's decade-old tent bug officially gets a fan-made fix
- The best Far Cry game is 70% off right now - 4 June 2023
There's something about Far Cry 2 that I just can't shake. It's a special kind of magic, a game that isn't afraid to make your life awkward in service of true immersion. The open-world playgrounds of Ubisoft's various Far Cry games are something I've long delighted in, with the FPS games always having incredible gameplay at their core even when the likes of Far Cry 6 fell a little short elsewhere. If, however, you're a player who missed out on the early entries then this Far Cry 2 Steam sale is a perfect opportunity to find out what makes it so beloved. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Far Cry's best game gets even better with sweeping mod for Ubisoft FPS Some of the best PC games ever are dirt cheap on GOG, but not for long Far Cry's best game gets brutally realistic as mod remakes Ubisoft FPS
- Far Cry's best game gets even better with sweeping mod for Ubisoft FPS - 11 January 2023
Far Cry 2, still the pinnacle of Ubisoft's gritty, realistic, open-world FPS game , has somehow been made even better thanks to an ambitious new mod that addresses its mission structure, guard AI, and visual performance, a perfect solution for anyone who wants to return to the PC classic, or those of us disappointed by the middling Far Cry 6. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Some of the best PC games ever are dirt cheap on GOG, but not for long Far Cry's best game gets brutally realistic as mod remakes Ubisoft FPS Far Cry 2 director Clint Hocking returns to Ubisoft for new project: "It's good to be back"
- Far Cry's best game gets brutally realistic as mod remakes Ubisoft FPS - 27 September 2022
The best Far Cry game - no, not Far Cry 3, and definitely not Far Cry 6 - is more brutal, tough, violent, and realistic than ever thanks a transformative new mod that remakes and remasters the Ubisoft open-world FPS into something closer to The Day Before or the upcoming Road to Vostok. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Far Cry 2 director Clint Hocking returns to Ubisoft for new project: "It's good to be back" Looking back: why it's time to return to Far Cry 2
- Taking a vacation in Far Cry 2 is easier said than done - 12 April 2022
You emerge from the iron shack into a luminous dawn, a blue hour vision of crushed darks and saturated colours to the susurrating of strings, pregnant with tension. Before you, a stretch of scrubland that peters out into the gleaming desert at the reddening horizon. But in front of that is a car... Read more.
- Great moments in PC gaming: Watching fire spread in Far Cry 2 - 14 July 2019
Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories.  I'm glad Sea of Thieves finally came along to conclusively win the battle that has raged on in gaming for years. Which game has the best water? That's over now. That's done. Sea of Thieves wins by containing what I assume is some sort of magic that permits a real ocean to exist inside it. But alongside the water war, there was the fire war, and that was won years ago by Far Cry 2. And then won again by Far Cry 3. And Far Cry 4. And so on. The Far Cry games do fire gud , and the first time I experienced it in Far Cry 2 it was like witnessing a real fire: It was alarming and fascinating and almost immediately out of control. Far Cry 2's fictional African country was the perfect setting for a great fire propagation system. It was sun-bleached and arid, dry and dusty, wi…
- 6 games that are surprisingly great for permadeath runs - 10 April 2019
I love permadeath in games. (Also in reality, too, I guess, but one thing at a time.) Permadeath imbues every decision with consequence. It makes every HP loss a terrifying proposition. It can turn some games into dramatic, terrifying, exhilarating adventures. It can lead to soul-crushing defeat, or fist-pumping jubilation. It’s why XCOM, Spelunky, and Invisible, Inc. are three of my favorite games of all time. There are many other games that don't use capital-P Permadeath as a core aspect of their design but still manage to create immensely satisfying experiences when played with self-imposed permadeath rules (and maybe a few other restrictions).  Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Self-imposed restrictions: Minimal upgrades. You can only purchase Execution, Impact, Strike from Above, Poison, Brutalize, Detonate, and Wraith Stun. Shadow of Mordor is a fantastic game by any…
- Far Cry 2's daring open world design is still paying off 10 years later - 21 October 2018
There are games like Doom that forever change their genres. Then there are games that don’t necessarily come to mind on a day-to-day basis, but which constantly re-enter the conversation when developers get together and talk. Far Cry 2 is a real developer's game: an imperfect gem to be sure, but one that changed the industry by changing how people thought about games. Most of the time, you re honestly of little consequence. Far Cry 2's central genius is that it’s an open world that doesn’t exist to glorify you, the player. At best, you’re a villain. Most of the time, you’re honestly of little consequence. The intro sets the scene with you as the world’s least prepared mercenary, visiting Africa on the hunt for a wanted weapons dealer called The Jackal. It goes poorly. Before you can even begin the hunt, you catch malaria, end up bed-ri…
- The pinnacle of pyromania: the best flames and flamethrowers in PC gaming - 31 July 2018
Deep down, I think we've all wanted to burn down a house. Not out of vengeance, or a half-baked insurance scam, or to send a message to a crosstown mob boss. To me, pyromania is simply the most relatable form of gleeful mass destruction. Who isn't a little bit entranced by a towering inferno? Of course, in real life you can't work out your emotional baggage through incendiary therapy without getting the cops called on you, but videogames fill the void. If we're being honest, games have only recently really helped us get in touch with our latent pyromaniac instincts. It was difficult to program inspiring flames on a Commodore 64, and the less said about Doom's pepperoni pizza take on lava the better. But that started to change in 2008, with the release of Far Cry 2 and its unprecedented wildfire mechanics. "To me really nailed how fire should feel and I loved how…
- An ode to the sniper rifle - 28 November 2017
A rustle. A breath. A bang. Everything about a good videogame sniper rifle is sexy, sleek, and dangerous, from the look of a long steel barrel to the echoing crack of gunfire heard for miles around. We love playing games with great sniper rifles not because of how they look or sound, though, but because of something much deeper and darker: we want to play god. The allure of the sniper rifle is the allure of the divine power to reach out—way, way out into the distance—and snuff out a life. It’s twisted, but that really is the heart of it. For proof, compare the sniper rifle to its Big Boomstick cousin, the shotgun . Both are typically slow to shoot, but they hit hard when they do. Both are loud. Both make explosions of fire and gore. But a sniper rifle is unusual because its entire purpose is to make a fight unfair . We want to see the enemy without being seen. We lo…
- The best incidental animations in games - 14 November 2017
It’s when you notice the little details in games that they really come alive. Those little things that hint at some sort of existence outside your control or awareness. They could be art props made to suggest who lived in the spaces you’re romping through, or little room layout details that show how the world works, but some of the touches that bring games to life the most come through animation. This is a celebration of incidental animations that don't help you win or make you lose or do much of anything important. They just happen, and you probably don’t even notice them, or think about how much work they actually took. There’s a madness to incidental animation, that so much effort has been lavished into producing something so ancillary, something which many players might never come across. But it can make the difference between a game feeling right an…
- How collectibles, stealth and climbing came to define the Ubisoft open world game - 21 September 2017
Once upon a time, Ubisoft's library was simple: it made platformers starring terrifying mascots with no limbs , and roughly 17,000 Tom Clancy tie-ins. But over the last decade, Ubi has muscled in on the genre that GTA made famous, building huge worlds spanning radically different time periods. Regardless of whether you’re controlling a historical hitman or a coma-bound cop, though, Ubisoft’s sandboxes love to borrow mechanics from other Ubi games. Join us as we look back at the history of the Ubisoft's open world games, to see just how these sprawling sandboxes have evolved (and grown more and more alike). A stealthy start Ubisoft first began to dabble in the sandbox space with 2007’s Assassin’s Creed. Skip back a decade, and you’d never guess the seismic scope the franchise would reach. Before the 2D spin-offs, books, and shitty Michael Fass…
- The Far Cry games ranked from worst to best - 11 August 2017
Ranking the games in the Far Cry series isn't an especially easy task given that for the most part it's been a widely varied collection of shooters: Far Cry 1, 2, and 3 were all distinctly different from one another, and while Far Cry 4, Far Cry 5, and Blood Dragon were quite similar to Far Cry 3, Primal threw us a curve and plopped us in the Stone Age. Another issue with ranking them: the Far Cry games are all pretty good! There are no stinkers in the series, meaning there's no one to really dump on. This makes things harder. But just because something isn't easy doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. Below we've cobbled together a highly-unscientific ranking of the Far Cry series (sans Instincts, which only appeared on console). As with all of our rankings, this list is iron-clad and inarguable, so we expect nothing but collective head-nods of sycophanti…
- Games I Was Wrong About: Part Two - 19 January 2016
Last week , in the wake of MGSV opening my eyes to a series I’d long disdained, I shared a quartet of games I now feel I either dismissed out of hand or unreasonably feted. Here’s the rest of that list, though I suspect if I sat down and went through every review I ever wrote over the last 15 years, I’d find quite a few more. I’m not going to do that, because making me read 15 years of my own writing is pretty much the worst thing anyone could ever do to me). …
- Clint Hocking Has Left Amazon Game Studios - 18 August 2015
Clint Hocking has been cursed by a witch and is now doomed to travel the games industry, joining new developers and then leaving before releasing a single game. In the last five years, the Far Cry 2 designer has joined and left LucasArts, joined and left Valve, and as of yesterday, joined and left Amazon Games Studios. …
- Have You Played Far Cry 2? - 10 August 2015
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. I don’t have a single favourite FPS and find such conversation boring but if someone asks and I want to test their mettle, I’ll tell them it’s Far Cry 2 . If they say they prefer Far Cry 3 , I know they – as a person – are wrong. Far Cry 2 is a game about plans and contingency plans, then desperate makeshift plans when those both go wrong, then finally, after a crucial grenade rolls back down a hill towards you, hoping that your buddy will come pull you out the fire – and that you can cover them. “Far Cry 3 is for babies,” I’d probably declare, because I’m like that. …
- The 50 Best FPS Ever Made - 13 May 2015
Gathering together the best shooters is no easy task, but if you’re looking for a new PC FPS to play, look no further. Your favourite game is at number 51. …
