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HoloDust on 27 November 2020
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GrahfsLament said:
HoloDust said:

It was OK. Probably better than I remember it.

Crysis was actually spiritual successor to FarCry 1 and way closer to its design than actual Ubisoft FarCry 2 (still being best Ubi FarCry to date

I just played through FarCry 2 this year, and, yeah, wholeheartedly agree it is the best Ubisoft entry (and I also liked it better than FarCry). I had some of the most exhilarating emergent gameplay I think I've ever had in a game playing FarCry 2. 2 examples which I had to recount in texts to friends (had it not been on the PS3, I would have saved the videos).

  1. I threw a grenade at two boats with people on the turrets. It blew up both boats, the occupants, and felled a couple trees...one of which crushed another enemy.
  2. I was being pursued by 2 jeeps with turrets. I hopped out of my still moving buggy, which ran over the guy in front me, then crouched in the tall grass so that they lost sight of me. I then threw a grenade under one jeep, causing it to explode and kill it's two occupants while also flipping over in the air and crushing another enemy only to then have the fire from the wreckage light up the foliage in real-time so that it all burned away, surrounding and engulfing the last enemy.

Awesome.

Yeah, things like that are one of the major reasons I liked FC2 so much and still think it's best Ubi's FC (they regressed after FC2 IMO, though both FC3 and FC4 were somewhat fun to play). As for FC1...completely different game, mostly linear wide with lot of freedom to tackle objectives, but not open-world like Ubi's FC's (which somewhat reminded me of Boiling Point when FC2 launched). I find FC1 to be excellent in what it's doing, especially if played on harder levels.