The characters also help to build atmosphere. A plane streaks across the sky, but you’re told that it’s the last one out of the country for a while. Travelling between towns is fraught with potential problems, and the settlements themselves bear various hallmarks of war: roads blockaded by gun-toting troops who shout abuse if you get too close, buildings half-destroyed, bullet-holes littering walls. Not that you need a reminder, as the game’s palpable atmosphere never lets up. It’s genuinely unnerving to be surrounded by lifelike flames and a reminder of just how atmospheric Far Cry 2 is. It’s all well and good using grenades to polish them off, but the game’s incredibly realistic fire will spread, engulfing the land around you and your car, too.
The open-ended gameplay is a joy: repair a car and take off to the nearest town, but run in to a checkpoint, full of rebel fighters, half-way there. Several of these will become your friends and can be found hanging out at bars, ready to give you side-missions and other tasks to complete that work well at distracting you from the main plot. The 50km squared of African savannah is littered with towns, villages and characters who you can talk and interact with. The beauty to this fantastic game is that you can do whatever you want. However, that’s not all there is to Far Cry 2.
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