For every minor victory you achieve in Far Cry 2, the game makes you crawl through a river of sh*t.īUT… all this commitment to harsh realism does make this African open-world super rewarding. Head into a firefight with a loyal sidekick… then revive them every 17 seconds because they constantly keep getting shot in the spleen. Barely survive one of dozens of highly guarded roadside outposts, only for your rickety jeep’s engine to stall after you’ve gunned down half a dozen tooled-up guerrillas. Moreau monster-slaying action of the original game, this brutally gritty sequel is a shooter that loves to make you suffer.Ĭontract malaria, then gobble down pills every 15 minutes to avoid a game-ending blackout. Well over a decade on, F ar Cry 2 attracts a cult following unlike any other entry in the series. Far Cry 2Īh yes, the one with all the fire. While Primal’s bows and clubs are perfectly satisfying, no other game in the series nails animal assaults quite like this bold prequel. Primal may not give you shotguns or AK47s, but who needs automatic weapons when you can command a chorus line of ancient feral beasts to murder your enemies at the drop of a prehistoric hat? Tame wolves, bears, leopards, and even sabre tooth tigers, then set them on your cavemen foes with all the precision of furry, heat-seeking missiles. Shunting players into the fury toga of a surprisingly talkative neanderthal, Far Cry Primal channels the prehistoric spirit that the first Far Cry initially aimed to tap into - turns out, the 2004 Crytek shooter was originally going to involve dinosaurs, not slightly disappointing mutant murder. This caveman detour remains the most experimental of all of the series’ mainline entries.

Perhaps the ultimate expression of Far Cry’s obsession with animal sidekicks.

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