Movement controls feel like driving a tank. Blatant console port feel. No lean control, no prone, (both of which are super important for an open-ended game that pushes tactics). Jumping on to a ledge requires about six attempts and there is no climbing function, even though that has been a must-have with such games for the past two years. At the very beginning of the game I was tasked with jumping on top of a tipped over cabinet. I tried about six times to do this and failed each one, until I decided to push the thing. Cabinet was not movable. WTF this is 2008 and this is the hyped FarCry 2 and I can't push a Cabinet?!. Eventually (10 tries?) I managed to sprint-jump over the cabinet.
Controls also show a lack of polish in other realms. For example, zooming in on the map is done with the Reload key (?!). How anyone could guess that is beyond me. If they were remotely sensible, they would have used the weapon change key (which is usually the mouse wheel).
I found that vehicles can be quite long-lived in this game if you fix them often enough. Basically the only way to break them is getting them stuck inside fences, which happens astoundingly often.
They push a "choose to attack by night or day" sort of thing here, but the purpose is entirely defeated by their junk AI. I can sneak up on a guy in broad daylight while standing in front of him. Darkness would only further the misery this pours upon me.
Trees are destructible. Cool! Tinkering ends there, however, as buildings are invincible. So basically there is no point for the trees being the way they are because the AI does not seem to react to
them and they won't break anything else.
My buddy told me to "look out for the fire!" that I lit, then proceeded to nearly kill herself in it because she had somehow become wedged between a tree and a fence while hovering in mid air.
I have encountered no zebras so far, but I did meet some chickens. I stood in their pen and they were motionless. Completely. Motionless. No clucking, no walking... Nothing.
The malaria thing is driving me crazy already.
Controls also show a lack of polish in other realms. For example, zooming in on the map is done with the Reload key (?!). How anyone could guess that is beyond me. If they were remotely sensible, they would have used the weapon change key (which is usually the mouse wheel).
I found that vehicles can be quite long-lived in this game if you fix them often enough. Basically the only way to break them is getting them stuck inside fences, which happens astoundingly often.
They push a "choose to attack by night or day" sort of thing here, but the purpose is entirely defeated by their junk AI. I can sneak up on a guy in broad daylight while standing in front of him. Darkness would only further the misery this pours upon me.
Trees are destructible. Cool! Tinkering ends there, however, as buildings are invincible. So basically there is no point for the trees being the way they are because the AI does not seem to react to
them and they won't break anything else.
My buddy told me to "look out for the fire!" that I lit, then proceeded to nearly kill herself in it because she had somehow become wedged between a tree and a fence while hovering in mid air.
I have encountered no zebras so far, but I did meet some chickens. I stood in their pen and they were motionless. Completely. Motionless. No clucking, no walking... Nothing.
The malaria thing is driving me crazy already.