
It's much darker than subsequent Far Cry games. This is all tied up in a story that has a good whiff of Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness. And you'll also want a strong will, as companion characters can permanently die as well. Treating injuries is also a grim animation that invokes cauterizing wounds with matches or picking out bullets with a knife you'll need a strong stomach here. And weapon degradation is shown visibly on guns, with them exploding or blowing up once they degrade to a point.

For example, to see your objective markers, you need to bring up an actual map there's no on-screen marker or tracker. The game did away with pretty much all user interface elements, instead integrating them into the environment of a game or popping up in contextually.

Far Cry 2 is the most serious and po-faced entry in the series, but also one that's arguably been underrated, despite being ahead of its time.
