NOW PLAYING: Far Cry 2, Mass Effect 2
Two things happen- MW2 had reached the end of it’s playlife in my household (at least for the time being), but I also need a PC game to play at work during lunch. So number two was Far Cry 2 was cheap on Steam last week.
Some things are never cheap enough. Far Cry 2 is one of those things.
When I went to E3 for the first time in 2003, Ubisoft showed the most games I wanted to play. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Rainbow Six 3 on the Xbox, XIII, Rayman 3, Beyond Good and Evil and of course the original Far Cry. Before the next E3 was upon us, I had bought all of those games. Far Cry (on PC) was the last one I bought and I originally wasn’t going to bother. It was cheap on Direct 2 Drive and so I picked it up in one of my early forays into digital distribution. It was ok but I only played for a few hours before getting a bit restless. It was decent but not all that compelling. A year or so later came Ubisoft Montreal taking over the reigns for a port top the Xbox. Far Cry: Instincts was so much more fun and I loved playing that apart from a glitch where the final boss caught himself of the collision mesh and got stuck after I had pumped 50, 000 rounds into him. So while I feel I beat the game, technically I didn’t.
Far Cry 2 came out in late 2008 as one of UbiMon’s big releases for that year (along with the ordinary Prince of Persia reboot). I avoided it for whatever reason and the Focus Test we recorded didn’t change my mind. I was tempted when the 360 version was a $10 buy from Play Asia last year but I didn’t bite. But the steam sale and the need for a cheap PC game came at the right time so I bit.
The game sucks.
So I’ve also been playing Mass Effect 2 on the comfy couch and it is glorious. My save game says I’ve been playing for about 15 hours and have spent much of that time scanning planets for minerals. Gee, I hope these things come in handy because I’m going all Rio Tinto BHP Biliton (or whatever the fuck they call themselves these days) on these planet’s asses. I’m waiting for a Greenpeace’s Space Shepherd (sic) to come and attack me.
Here’s my Shepard. He was the character from Mass Effect 1 imported into the new game and I think his rat-like look goes well with the almost 50′s sounding voice the male Shepard has. He’s got that look because he never got any in the first game. This time he’s starting with his Yeoman, then going after the chick with the tats and then after the girl from Chuck.
So who is your Shepard banging first in ME2?
