Will Far Cry 2 make you cry for more, or cry in pain?

I chose to write this review because it would be a challenge. Not like actually playing the game, in which you drive around Africa popping headshots faster than an obsessive compulsive man pops bubble rap. No, this is a challenge because it's hard to score. I'm going to mention all the major aspects of the game, and state the pros and cons. To start, the moment you get out of the intro sequence, you will notice that you are standing in a BEAUTIFUL world, big, expansive, and accessible. It's even got foliage and water, neither of which can hide you in combat, oddly. The graphics are amazing in this game, for the guns, cars, animals, people, and landscape. However, with the possible exception of the guns, you'll be seeing the same landscape, animals, cars, and even PEOPLE over and over and over again. Variety is to this game what a fur coat is to an animals rights activist. Another thing is the combat. EVERY MISSION YOU DO WILL HAVE YOU KILLING SOMETHING. Whether you're blowing up a convoy for the black market, assassinating someone for the evil-sounding guy at the end of the phone, or taking story missions, you're killing and blowing up things. With no friendly A.I. I'm serious! You're alone for the entire f***ing game! Even in the survival horror games of today, I fell less lonely than when I'm playing this game! All the humans you meet, you're either getting bossed around by, delivering fake passports to, shooting in the face, being shot by in the face, or being told to eff off before they shoot you in the face (cease-fire zones only). Actually, that's not true. You do get friendly A.I. when the UNfriendly A.I. kills you. Usually, then you have to save them from harm, or, if harm finds them, you decide whether to return the favor and bring them back to fighting status, or put the tip of your pistol on your best friend's throat, and, while looking away and listening to their moans of pain, kill them. So, whenever there's friendly A.I., either you're bad at the game or the game wants to see just how kill-happy you are. Back to the combat, though, it is very satisfying and intense. You have not played a game with combat like it... unless you've played an FPS before. Never mind, it's good! And you've got a wide range of guns and toys you can play with, like bombs, dart rifles, and generic assault rifles, shotguns, and RPGs. But, once you peel away the layers of assault rifles that basically to the same "Point end of gun at man and shoot" job and other, more interesting weapons and locales, you'll realize that you're doing the same thing over and over again. You shoot people, heal, and repeat. Then, once you're either fleeing or standing on a pile of bodies big and brutal enough to shame Tiananmen Square, you'll realize that you've accomplished... exactly what you had accomplished earlier. You spend the whole game killing people. I'll have to cut this review a bit short, because, well, I never finished the game. I liked it when I played it, but I couldn't be bothered to finish it because the story just doesn't do it for me. I spent my time having fun with it, as should you. Rent before you buy. A 3 out of 5.