Far Cry 2 for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

good; best shadows and foliage ever, lots of weapons, living world filled with lots of environments and ecosystems, fire is amazing and works like real fire, jackals character was the only thing that kept me playing, beautiful engine/tech demo, weapon deg was cool but a little extreme at times picking up a weapon which had just been used by enemy perfectly then having it jam within one clip, buddies dying permanently draws comparison to the real finality of death not looked at by most games, good ending and ending missions,

bad; 70% of game is grueling travel between mission objectives having to fight any and every enemy everywhere you go non-stop, artificially lengthened by making you do missions for: arms dealers to guns you can actually use and force you to spend your diamonds which is the only thing you can use them for/ doctors to maintain a supply of mal meds. Enemies take too much to kill, bullets never have feeling of impact or mass, enemies have huge agro radious bigger than the console can render sometimes, enemies can shoot and even machine gun snipe you even when they are not viable and you appear not to be visible and/or hidden, must fight every visible enemy all the time, even those driving by in civilian looking vehicles, factions are always hostile even while you are doing missions for them, enemies will not die even when hit mult times in chest with assault rifles, and light machine guns, sometimes enemies will flank magically or even just pop behind you, can't play at night, fast travel system needs to be bigger, buddies are worst fighters in the game, artillery will hit you even when out of their line of sight and moving, where fire is coming from is difficult to find sometimes especially when enemy moves magically to extreme flacks

final thoughts: when it's good, it's great, and could have been a great game. When it is bad though, which is 90% of the time, this game is a nightmare, grueling, frustrating, needlessly meandering and difficult