Its first, and most vital goal, is that of Ludonarrative Coherence. They will be addressed individually until it is inconvenient to do so, in descending order of importance – an importance not decided by me, but by the hierarchy that the game establishes itself. To my mind, there are three projects at the heart of Far Cry 2. It is an ambitious game whose core fault is a lack of ambition, a deeply subversive game in all the ways except for the ones that truly matter. It inspires little more than detached appreciation.
I’ve gone from earnest interest, to boredom born out of frustration with the ways the game is unlike other open world games, to seething hatred, to genuine appreciation, to boredom born out of frustration with the ways the game is exactly like other open world games, and finally landed on an unremarkable conclusion: Far Cry 2 is okay. I’ve had a difficult relationship with Far Cry 2 – over the course of the 5-6 years in which I’ve attempted to play the game completion. To write about Far Cry 2 is to fall into a pernicious trap, insofar as it’s very difficult to honestly address what the game does well without overselling its achievements, and equally difficult to address what the game does poorly without sounding dismissive of the entire canon of popular videogame criticism. My Summer Playlist Project: Every time I finish a game, I write at least 500 words about it.
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