looks good in stills, but, tbh, not as good in motion as crysis. Runs on my pc better though, everything very high 4xAA and at a decent clip.

couldn't tell the difference between dx10 and dx9, although dx10 doesnt have the option for HDR lighting, only bloom.

can't comment on the gameplay, haven't given it enough of a go, though i have been in a few skirmishes already and survived! whoop! not like me

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Looking nice from this I can see.
But I will wait till u tell us your opinion on gameplay

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i'll get my dad to install it on his pc and make some screenies with everything maxed out.

looks nice though

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that is screesies with everything maxed, except 4xaa not 8xaa @1680x1050

did it in dx9 with hdr and bloom turned on.

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And is the game good J!m?

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dunno, only had chance to play for 40 mins or so maj. seems alright so far, but havent got into any of the story ar decisions effecting future missions bit of it yet.

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i thought you couldn't even choose the max settings in dx9 :/

something to do with dx9 not supporting occlusion/parralax mapping like dx10 does. difference would be minimal ingame, but very very noticable in screenies. (rock textures at mid range, "godrays", etc.)

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no options for all that that i saw........

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You can get Very High on DX9 with this. Just played it all maxed with no AA @ 40fps which is more than enough tbh!

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Free Hax:

kk J!m will get it then via torrents to try it out

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i can only play this at MAX...........low settings....

and heres an example of fugly far cry 2

screws down my fps to 15 fps to 7 fps



haxs and slash



getting freaky O_O

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You guys should check out secuROM DRM that comes with it ppl are sayin it amounts to spyware and there are legal actions goin on about it atm.

LOL

I don't see difference

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maybe because it all based at night maybe i should use day time ones just to show how ugly i have to play this







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some intresting finds

far cry 2 realism

strangely enough thats the lake where the ufl or what ever get their fresh water from O_O


bah you can find j!m trade marks even offline


fell down somewhere dunno what happened was skipping along on some giant boulders near a river
hmm so the sun stil exist after it sets

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I just ordered it 4 ma 360. Get here this week whoot whoot!

Looks nice though^

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oops, my mistake, there are some options that can go from "very high" to "ultra high" though not all of them.

I put everything up to ultra that could, and then put it back into dx10 with 8xAA and i get an average of 31 fps in the benchmarking tool it comes with.

woot

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From the newsletter of GameShadow:


Of course I entered...
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I got that newsletter about 2 hrs ago...

Hehehe...
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alex'banana wrote ...

I got banned around a year ago and what happened is i went to the loo and came back and i was banned.

Yes...we don't take that much crap here....

d'oh

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fc2 goatse?

here's one i made while having some fun with the machete, guard post yoga or what? (it's waaaay too big for the webby, i think. linked.)

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you make 'm bend over backwards...

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alex'banana wrote ...

I got banned around a year ago and what happened is i went to the loo and came back and i was banned.

Yes...we don't take that much crap here....

i only found out what goatse was yesterday.

i curse the person that mentioned it and then told me to not look it up.

of course im going to look it up if you've told me not to!

lost my breakfast and an eye exploded.

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btw, which dood is everyone playing as? i chose the fat yugoslavian for my speedrun, and playing it properly with the algerian navy commander now.

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marty i think.

mcfly!!!!!!!!

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i love the game the gfx looks amazing i turned my down to very high instead of ultra as it plays alot smoother ...game play amazing i aint done many missions yet im hunting diamonds and having fun learn game then ill get my frick on

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i got it just after it came out =P I'm the irish bloke. I love it!

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I am 73% addicted to Counterstrike.
Steam: Lord_Mof
Xfire: inferno646

DON\'T FORGET TO SAY THANK YOU!!!

Need Something Made on Photoshop??? I\'m your man!

completed it on normal mode with the chinese bloke and completed it on infamous mode with paul now im just doing eveything i can on single player with marty except getting all the diamonds...

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Im that first dude. 4got wat u call him

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didn't come with mine. *artful dodge*



don't get me wrong here. i buy as many games as i can, but i simply refuse to buy games with securom. securom protection basically means that you can only install the game a few times, and with the amount of upgrades and formats that i do, that'd mean i'd have to rebuy the game every month or crack it, voiding any warranty the game had.

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I'm the 3rd guy, with the grey hair and moustache n stuff. Started on normal, thought it was too easy, tried Infamous, was a lil bit too tough on certain bits. Doing it Hardcore style now

As far as the graphics go on my pc (everything on medium, too bad) it still even looks quite nice. The thing though I'm very surprised of is the ridiculously low hard drive space it takes. Less then 4 gigs! while on the box it says you need 12 gig free

Now, here comes a big wall of text, talking about the game play. These are my opinions, and perhaps not all of them are entirely correct since I haven't finished the game yet, but this is what I've encountered so far. (50% on Hardcore)

First impression: Awesome! although when u play it a little bit longer imo there are some crappy things about it.

First of all, from the information I gathered from previews n movies n such, you would be able to really choose a side of the UFLL or APR.
How it is? you start with the UFLL, can do missions from both sides, and still are treated indifferently. Then you murder the boss from the UFLL in the northern district (at least in my game), and still are welcomed warmly by the UFLL in the south, after u killed the APR northern boss.... Like, WTF?
Then in the southern district, it goes the exact same way! As if nothing has happened in the north!

2nd, the guard posts. You can murder the entire guard post, or oasis, or whatever part or area as many times as you want, can burn it completely, shoot it into a million pieces or blow it up with a thousand explosives, if you return 10 minutes later, you will find everything in the original state.... Again, WTF?

3rd, the missions themself, and here are multiple parts.
The missions from the UFLL and APR are allright, mostly different, nice objectives. However, they ALLWAYS say you are on you're own, the ppl from the faction you are doing the mission for will be hostile to you aswell as the one from the opposing faction. There is not a single mission where you have allies except from your buddies. WHY!? Again this is the problem of a side. From what i've heard before the game, i'd suggested you'd pick a side, and become an ally for that faction. Instead of that, you just are a freelancer, hostile to everybody except those in the city and you're buddies. They don't even talk to you about all the ppl you've murdered from their factions.
And thats imo one of the biggest flaws in the game. Never you encounter ppl who are friendly to you, everybody shoots at you. And next to that, where are the frikkin civilians of the entire area!?!?!? Every person you encounter is either from the UFLL or APR, and if its not in the city, you will be shot (except from the underground ppl, which leads me to the next thing)

Then there are the underground missions for medicine. Any variation please? Every single underground mission is exactly the same, even the various huts have the exact same ppl in it who say the exact same thing, require the exact same thing, and give you the exact same thing to do. Go there, give the passports to them, kill the APR / UFLL peeps around their house, and ull get ur medicine. WTF? they became lazy with the thinking of missions? did they make the underground missions last?
And the same is with the missions from the weapon shops. Every time its to blow up a truck from a convoy, which is said to carry a large amount of weapons which need to be destroyed. Some variation here wouldn't be harmful. Next to that, have you ever seen only a single box on those trucks? Like, what the heck are they moving anyway?
Then the missions from the telephone poles. Ok, its just an assassination mission, i accept that, but some variation in how they are given. As if you are talking to a [censored] robot....

Then the last thing, and they say it to be the best part of Far Cry 2. Fire.
The fire is nice, it burns, true. But why the [censored] does it go out so [censored] fast!?!?!?! Take a piece of grassland, burn it, and in no time it'll go out! You end up with a circle of charred grass. WHERE THE [censored] ARE THE SQUARE KILOMETERS OF FOREST ENGULFED IN FLAMES!? I just don't take the trouble of burning a camp to the ground to kill the ppl, just because it won't work anyway. As i just said, the fire goes out way too fast, it hardly gets to the camp and its gone already, and second, you can't see where the wind is coming from! You have to put something on fire for that in the first place. Grass always points in a direction, based on YOUR view point. It always goes to the right. So, are you looking north, the wind comes from the west. Are you looking south, the wind comes from the east. WTF?

Then there's the weapon jamming system. I like it. It's simply genius. But. The weapons you pick off from dead guys are mostly the ones that jam or go boom in your face, right? Now, have you EVER seen any of THOSE weapons jam or go boom in the hands of those guys? BIG FLAW! (imo)


Don't get me wrong, its a cool game, i like it, i keep playing it, but it could have been sooooo much more.



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