I've realized that I don't like reading reviews anymore prior to a video game or movie's release. Infact, It's often more compelling to watch movies without having read any reviews and just checking out sites for the synopsis and, perhaps, the concensus of the movie. Recently, Far Cry 2(a video game) came out and it had been hyped up to the point of biblical proportions. I don't know what to say really, except that I was thoroughly disappointed with the game. The parts that are good are great. I haven't played much of it, so I won't review it; however, what I can, and will, say is that if I hadn't fallen into the hype-of-shit, I would probably have liked the game a lot more.

The graphics aren't amazing, but they'll get the job done; the gameplay--aside from a few outstanding features, is rather trite. Perhaps if I was into the story, it'd have become more compelling, but I am not. They had so much potential to work with, and instead of working on making the game great, they simply worked on a few features and then said, "fuck it". It's like looking at a relatively nice house, then walking in through the front door, just to see a toilet in the middle of a fully-furnished livingroom. My point is that it has a lot of niceties, but has such glaring issues that can't be ignored. The gun controls suck; reminds me of brothers in arms, and that's not a good thing. When I kill someone, I don't feel invigorated, but rather unsatisfied.

What really compounds these issues is that even the user reviews on gamespot, where people give it a 2/10--which is ridiculous enough--cite the exact same reasons as I just did, so it's difficult to argue with it. Overall, a colossal disappointment from what I thought would be a revolutionary installment to the FPS genre.

That being said, fuck the world!