This is a pretty grisly process to watch, and it takes time too – leaving the enemy plenty of time to close in on your spot. There are no magical health packs here: if you get shot up but don’t die, you’ll have to find some cover and use LB/L1 to dig the bullets out of your flesh using a penknife.
Two or three rounds will be enough to put you on the ground – combat is certainly closer to the deadly firefights of COD4 or Counterstrike than it is to the Halo series, where a brief retreat will give you enough time to recharge your shield. Indeed, you’ll soon discover that death is easy to find in a Far Cry 2 deathmatch. Now malfunctions are only likely if you’ve been alive for quite some time, so dodgy hardware will only be a major consideration for the best players. Weapons still degrade over time, but they do so at a much reduced rate Ubisoft told us that early deathmatch builds featured the same degree of jamming as the single-player game, and that this resulted in matches full of pissed-off mercenaries toting guns that didn’t work. The first thing you should note now is that many of these tricks are also present in multiplayer, albeit in a slightly reworked style. If you’re one of the many people waiting for Far Cry 2, you’ll probably be fairly clued up about the game’s little spins and quirks on the standard FPS format.
In any case, we have no qualms about saying that Ubisoft Montreal has totally delivered the goods. What is it, exactly, that makes Far Cry 2’s multiplayer mode so much fun? Is it the class system, a carefully designed structure that encourages you to develop your skills along set styles of play? Is it the injury mechanics, the lack of easy healing that makes combat a brutally swift affair? Is it simply the engaging African setting – or perhaps the little details, like the deliciously wet ‘thwack!’ that accompanies someone getting shot? Perhaps it’s all these things.
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