Tag Archives: far cry 2

Nov
17
2008

Mechanics 7: Heart of Darkness (Far Cry 2)

I just got another mission from the unnaturally quick-speaking warlord of the African UFL — one of two warring factions in Far Cry 2 — when one of my buddies gave me a call on my cell phone telling me to meet them if I wanted to make my mission take twice as long as [...]

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Oct
27
2008

Mechanics 4: Integrating User Interfaces

Interfaces of all sorts are one of the most game-specific features of any entertainment medium; there’s never an ammo counter on-screen when watching John McClane do Die Hard thing or a health indicator attached to Forrest Gump’s forehead in his movie — that would be ridiculous. Yet throughout the history of the gaming industry UIs [...]

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Oct
23
2008

Video Games

Fable 2 and Far Cry 2 were both released this week and, of the year’s releases, these two are amongst the top three games that I was looking forward to playing. Having them both at the same time is fantastically confusing. I started off the evening continuing my Fable 2 game because I wasn’t happy [...]

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