Far Cry 2 (PC Games, 2008)

This game sucks, there's no other way to put it. You can already see used games popping up and it's been barely out for a day. The graphics are horrible - the game could have been a hit four or five years ago. The textures are primitive and can't compare to either Crysis or Call of Duty 4. The entire game folder is half the size of either Crysis or COD4, so this should give you some idea of the size and quality of the objects and textures. If you're thinking open-world environment like Crysis(at least the first half-of the game) or Crysis Warhead, you're in for a rude awakening. Yes, you can move about freely, as long as you don't veer of the mission area, or you will collapse of malaria and return to the last waypoint. The "destructible" environment is very selective, the window shutters must be built from some really hard exotic African wood, because they are totally impervious to any bullet damage, as are many of the buildings, in general. The coffee plants or whatever it is that grows in the fields are also resistant to fire damage, unlike the grass and some of the trees which are simply replaced by a darkened texture patch after the silly animated fire subsides. I watched a fire burn through the the green leaves of a tree and watch the tree transform to a blackened, pointy skeleton that looked like it's been build from ten polygons. Lob a grenade in the vegetation and watch it sway rubber-like long after the explosion. The blood splatter animation reminds me of Bioshock, totally exaggerated and unnatural just like any other fluid physics in the game. Forgive me if I'm too harsh but considering the hype and the high standard set by Crytek, the developer of the original Farcry, this game is a major disappointment.