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During the annual Far Cry binge, I felt it necessary to try one of the only games I hadn't played. This was a mistake. This game is bad, and not in a "newer games" elitist sorta way. It's just a bad game.

To put it simply, there's a reason Far Cry 3 was considered such a massive leap for the franchise. I'm just going to list out my grievances, in no particular order:

- There are no animals to hunt (in Africa!), which means no crafting. That was the most fun for me in FC3 and 4.
- There are no skill trees. Nothing to add a bit more oomph to the combat.
- The guns you do have can't have accessories. Or at least I didn't get far enough. You can upgrade your weapons, but I have no idea what that entails.
- The outposts are pitiful. They are literally just a hut with two dudes to kill and a save station.
- The game is ugly, even by old game standards. A victim of the late 2000s desaturation trend. Words I would describe this game would be desaturated, dehydrated, and desolate.
- Stealth seems to be not an option. Killed a guy point blank with a silenced shotty and the entire guard station knew exactly where I was.
- The HUD is basically non-existant. There's hardly anything to let you know you just got a new objective, or that your old one changed. The only way you can tell is by listening to dialogue...
- ...which, btw, is probably some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard. It's like Ubisoft hired random people off the streets and got them for one session to read off a teleprompter as quickly as they could. It's like they've never heard of a comma. No upward or downward inflections in the voices, no pausing for a breath, just rippity dippity rippity dippity. Awful dialogue. At least when games are dated they still can have funny characters or AI like an Oblivion or something. Far Cry 2 was released in 2008... it's downright sad.

TL;DR if you're someone like me who played all of the "main" FC games and wanted to give the older ones a fair shot, don't waste your time. If a game looks like poo, sounds like poo, and feels like poo to play, you're probably playing with a turd.