History YMMV / FarCry2

** Speaking of malaria, suffering from the said disease as your screen starts flashing yellow and [[HellIsThatNoise a deep, brooding noise]] playing in the background is pretty unsettling. Consider yourself lucky if you have any medication to treat the symptoms.

* ScrappyMechanic: The malaria mechanic forces the player to occasionally undertake a FetchQuest to get pills, as the attacks will happen during ''every 30-40 real-life minutes'''. Also, the respawning checkpoints. The game is divided into nine grid squares in each of the two maps, and only remembers what the player has done in the current grid to save RAM. Unfortunately, some checkpoints are right next to grid boundaries, so walking a short distance away will instantly respawn all the soldiers at the checkpoint, sometimes while they're still in sight of the player. Thankfully, there's a GameMod that delays the Malaria attacks to a rather realistic extent.

* ScrappyMechanic: The malaria mechanic forces the player to occasionally undertake a FetchQuest to get pills. Also, the respawning checkpoints. The game is divided into nine grid squares in each of the two maps, and only remembers what the player has done in the current grid to save RAM. Unfortunately, some checkpoints are right next to grid boundaries, so walking a short distance away will instantly respawn all the soldiers at the checkpoint, sometimes while they're still in sight of the player.

* GameBreaker: The M-97 Grenade Launcher. Very reliable, powerful, capable to kill multiple enemies in a single blow. While it can be used in a similar way to the Type 63 Mortar, the only drawback is it's reloading speed, though. It's cousin, MGL-140 can be this, specially for it's rate of fire and the ability to hold four grenades.

** While being the weakest sniper rifle in the game, the SVD Dragunov is an excellent choice while paired with a MAC-10/Uzi and any Special type weapon such as the PKM. It's high rate of fire can allow you to quickly dispatch enemies '''even at point-blank range''' thanks to it's quick sharpshooting capabilities.

* CrazyAwesome: '''You'''. Go ahead, carry an [[StuffBlowingUp M79 grenade launcher]]. As your sidearm.

* CriticalDissonance: The game was widely praised at the time of its release, but the general consensus today amongst the general gaming public seems to be that in hindsight it actually had significant flaws, especially in comparison to ''Far Cry 3'' and other open-world shooters like ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}''. However, a number of industry insiders cite the game and many elements of its interface and design as inspirational and a major influence on their own work.
** TrueArtIsAngsty: ''Far Cry 2'' seems to have a substantial amount of retroactive popularity amongst the "Games should be Art" faction, due to the relentlessly grim tone and the often cruel and ([[DeliberateFlawRetcon supposedly]]) deliberately frustrating gameplay mechanics that make it seem the game itself actively hates the player. This is largely based around imagining that everything in the game is intentional rather than compromises based on a too-early ship date and a ridiculously large map size.

* GoddamnedBats:
** The enemy jeeps spawned at checkpoints are relentless and fighting them quickly gets tedious.
** Hell, the checkpoints themselves.

** The "Good Night, Sweet Prince" achievement can be this, depending on how attached you are to your buddies.

** [[spoiler:Your buddies from Act I alongside your current best buddy will team up to steal the diamonds needed to save innocent lives for themselves by the end of Act III.]]

** If you crouch into a shallow part of a lake and slowly lose health, using the HealThyself button produces amusing results, such as your character setting a broken arm in three places to '''pulling rebar out of his torso'''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enb0zWbYUik Observe!]]

** By the end of the game, both sides decide to negotiate a ceasefire... [[spoiler:in order to massacre a fleeing population of would-be refugges.]]

* CrazyAwesome: '''You'''. Go ahead, carry a [[StuffBlowingUp M79 grenade launcher]]. As your sidearm.
* CriticalDissonance: The game was widely praised at the time of its release, but the general consensus today amongst the general gaming public seems to be that in hindsight it actually had significant flaws, especially in comparison to ''Far Cry 3'' and other open-world shooters like ''VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}'' and ''{{STALKER}}''. However, a number of industry insiders cite the game and many elements of its interface and design as inspirational and a major influence on their own work.
** TrueArtIsAngsty: ''Far Cry 2'' seems to have a substantial amount of retroactive popularity amongst the "Games should be Art" faction, due to the relentlessly grim tone and the often cruel and (supposedly) deliberately frustrating gameplay mechanics that make it seem the game itself actively hates the player. This is largely based around imagining that everything in the game is intentional rather than compromises based on a too-early ship date and a ridiculously large map size.

** It's rather amusing watching a bison walk head-first into an open car door and spontaneously drop dead.

* MoralEventHorizon: Everyone in the game commit or attempt one with the exception of Reuben and the Underground.

** By the end of the game, both sides decide to negociate a ceasefire... [[spoiler:in order to massacre a fleeing population of would-be refugges.]]

* OlderThanTheyThink: The "revolutionary" WideOpenSandbox gameworld of ''Far Cry 2'' was actually done a couple years earlier in ''VideoGame/BoilingPointRoadToHell'', a revolutionary game done in by a buggy pre-patch release and its non-big-name publisher/developer and their lack of publicity. There's also ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}: Shadow of Chernobyl''.

* ScrappyMechanic: The Malaria mechanic forces the player to occasionally undertake a FetchQuest to get pills. Also, the respawning checkpoints.
** To elaborate: the game is divided into nine grid squares in each of the two maps, and only remembers what the player has done in the current grid to save RAM. Unfortunately, some checkpoints are right next to grid boundaries, so walking a short distance away will instantly respawn all the soldiers at the checkpoint, sometimes while they're still in sight of the player.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The "revolutionary" WideOpenSandbox gameworld of ''Far Cry 2'' was actually done a couple years earlier in ''Boiling Point: Road to Hell'', a revolutionary game done in by a buggy pre-patch release and its non-big-name publisher/developer and their lack of publicity. There's also ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}: Shadow of Chernobyl''.

* HellIsThatNoise: When mooks start revving their engines, prepare to dive out of the way, or expect to be [[CarFu flattened]].

** TrueArtIsAngsty: ''Far Cry 2'' seems to have a substantial amount of retroactive popularity amongst the "Games should be Art" faction, due to the relentlessly grim tone and the often cruel and deliberately frustrating gameplay mechanics that make it seem the game itself actively hates the player. For many of the same reasons it is generally remembered poorly by the "Games should be Fun" faction.

** The "Good Night, Sweet Prince" achievement can be this, depending on how attached you are to your buddies.

** TrueArtIsAngsty: ''Far Cry 2'' seems to have a substantial amount of retroactive popularity amongst the "Games should be Art" faction, due to the relentlessly grim tone and the gameplay mechanics that make it seem the game itself actively hates the player. For many of the same reasons it is generally remembered poorly by the "Games should be Fun" faction.

** The "Good Night, Sweet Prince" achievement can be this, depending on how attached you are to your buddies.

* CriticalDissonance: The game was widely praised at the time of its release, but the general consensus today amongst the general gaming public seems to be that in hindsight it actually had significant flaws, especially in comparison to ''Far Cry 3'' and other open-world shooters like ''VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}'' and ''STALKER''. However, a number of industry insiders cite the game and many elements of its interface and design as inspirational and a major influence on their own work.

* GameBreakingBug: It's entirely possible that the game will forget that you've done a side-mission it wants you to go do, leaving you unable to progress any further in the game. It's also entirely possible that this will happen twenty or more hours in.

* TearJerker: ''"You are terminal... same as I am"''. Also, the ending, though it might also count as SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.

* {{Squick}}: Some of the ways you perform an emergency heal on yourself can be pretty gross, liking pulling a bullet out of your palm with pliers, or pushing a bullet out the other side of your arm, or resetting your arm with a loud cracking noise.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The "revolutionary" WideOpenSandbox gameworld of ''Far Cry 2'' was actually done a couple years earlier in ''Boiling Point: Road to Hell'', a revolutionary game done in by a buggy pre-patch release and its non-big-name publisher/developer and their lack of publicity. There's also ''{{STALKER}}: Shadow of Chernobyl''.

* TearJerker: ''"You are terminal... same as I am"''. Also, the ending, though it might also count as SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.