Nope, thank goodness.

WRONG!

The XFPS

You missed the other possibility:

That would've been funnier without the idiot-proof description at the bottom.

Further irritations:

Malaria. Seriously, who thought that would be a fun game mechanic.

Weapons jamming. See: Malaria.

Excessive road checkpoints. See: Malaria.

Which respawn enemies stupidly quickly. If I return a minute later, I expect it to still be empty.

That everyone has an obsession with killing you. Pass a car on the road, and it will turn around and come after you all guns blazing. And yet you can travel around by bus unmolested.

Oh yes: Not a game designed for people who hate needles.

I agree with Mr Dave..

I've just got on to act 2 and I'm loving the game loads! I still don't think I've equiped myself with the best weapons as I struggle to keep up with the names of them and what they do but my trusted Uzi is doing me proud! I need to be able to carry more hand grenades though as I find they do wonders for scaring people out of jeeps as they're trying to run me down.

When FC2 is good, it's very, very good. It does feel that there should be a layer of extra complexity sitting on top of what we have.

See: The decision whether to subvert the main missions is a no-brainer.There are absolutely no drawbacks to doing what your buddy says, and no advantages to not doing so. You are paid up front for everything, and your buddy upgrades your safehouses.

It feels like there should be a reputation system there, where if you get in with one faction, checkpoints aligned to that faction wave you through and you don't get attacked by randoms on that side. If you subvert the missions, you don't get rep.

When FC2 is good, it's very, very good. It does feel that there should be a layer of extra complexity sitting on top of what we have.

See: The decision whether to subvert the main missions is a no-brainer.There are absolutely no drawbacks to doing what your buddy says, and no advantages to not doing so. You are paid up front for everything, and your buddy upgrades your safehouses.

It feels like there should be a reputation system there, where if you get in with one faction, checkpoints aligned to that faction wave you through and you don't get attacked by randoms on that side. If you subvert the missions, you don't get rep.

At the end of act one..
I went to Mikes bar and watched as my buddies died... Did you? I would have thought that going to the church would have just meant that I would have been killed on the way into town.

But either way, I would have thought that the story would have carried on the same as it currently is in act two.

I've just found a golden AK-47. What does that do?

I've given this 6 hours or so over the last 2 days, and I agree with pretty much everything Dave's said so far. It is STUPID that you get attacked by every frigger who even glances at you, which makes every journey a tedious slog of 'drive 200 yards-stop-shoot-repair' rinse and repeat. Nice having some stuff to collect and tick off a list though. Plus respawning guards within a couple of minutes from their deaths? Bastards.

So let me say: Myoptika is a cheese raping twat.

Gentlemen, I am having issues with this game. I am currently in the far Northwest of the map after completing a mission of blowing up a train or something, and I'm finding that the thought of loading the game up again to slog through the checkpoint/random car infested map to get back to Pala... sickening.

Catch the bus?

It's strange. I found getting from place to place in FC2 infinitely more varied fun than the interminable slog around the city in GTA4.

Interesting point, but only valid if you do the following: Make every pedestrian in GTA have a gun. Not only have a gun, but also psychotic tendencies. Not only psychotic tendencies, but also a vast loathing of you. Not only a vast loathing of you, but the will to act upon it as soon as they catch a glimpse of you, or even suspect you may be in the vicinity. Not only ("all that" - Ed), but they also never attack each other. THEN you may get a little closer to my vast frustration with this game.

You're a (massively resented) mercenary in a foreign country who is killing loads of people... you expect them to roll out the red carpet?

Woah woah woah. so you're saying that each of these guard posts have a fax machine where they're given photos of your face to memorise, so that when they see a leaf move 200 yards away they can recognise that it's you?