Far Cry 2 (2008)
Best: Difficult But Rewarding Open World: While Far Cry on PC was basically an open-world game, it wasn’t until Far Cry 2, set in Africa, that the series truly embraced the genre. Now your map was covered with places to visit, side missions, checkpoints, and enemy bases. Exploring and surviving in this open world was tough, too. But that challenge helped elevate Far Cry 2 and made it a fan favorite.
Worst: Kind Of A Slog: While Far Cry 2’s difficulty and intense world is still fun to revisit, I also find some of it to be the wrong kind of slog. Respawning enemy checkpoints, guns breaking all the time, a lack of movement options as the player, and the overall grungy look of FC2 make it hard for me to come back to this entry as often as others.
