artanis_neravar said:
To be fair, there was only one other Far Cry game so claiming it isn't a Far Cry game in the least is a little far fetched, that being said I wouldn't mind another Far Cry that was more like the original
Let's look at the list of Far Cry games pre-FC2
Far Cry
Far Cry Instincts
Far Cry Instincts Evolution
Far Cry Vengeance
Sure, Instincts and on was console oriented and quality took a significant drop with Evolution and Vengeance, but that's not very relevant to my point. All of the games had the idea of "get lost on island with beautiful undercover CIA agent, work with Doyle, find mutants, find big bad scientist, kill lots of bad guys". That was the basis of pretty much all of them, except Evolution and Vengeance were continuations of Instincts.
Far Cry 2, on the other hand, changed every little thing. There were no sci-fi ideas, no cheesy bad guys or mutants, or even a single remote reference to the original or its spin-offs. It was so far removed from the original idea that even the gameplay was completely different. Aside from the fact that both are FPS's, both take place in jungles, and both have bad guys with uber-accurate AK-47's and X-Ray vision, the games are completely different.
Besides, I don't think you'd ever catch Jack Carver with a case of Malaria, and if you did he'd just ballsy his way through it. Who needs pills?