Far Cry 2 has gone down in history as an awkward and awkward game that was the first modern open-world shooter and a darling of academics. Yet with each passing year, the gap between it and other tourist FPS games grew wider, not so much in technology as in design and experience. In this video, I try to understand its legacy and explain what both its critics and the academics who studied it missed, how Far Cry 2 became almost the only anti-war shooter, and how it surpasses Bioshock. #farcry #videogames #videoreview Support the channel on Boosty: https://boosty.to/j_calavera Telegram about games: https://t.me/hyperduh Telegram about everything else: https://t.me/pan_meditat​ Twitter: / panmeditat Buy the book "Architecture of Video Game Worlds": https://www.litres.ru/book/artemiy-ko... https://www.labirint.ru/books/959971/ https://www.ozon.ru/product/arhitektu... Links to the works of tramdrey, the author of the cover of this video: https://www.artstation.com/tramdrey https://t.me/tramdrey_art Video about the cut content of Devil May Cry, which I worked on: • Devil May Cry's Cut and Early Content... Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro: games and tourism 00:02:20 - Far Cry — tourist shooter 00:06:20 — Far Cry 2 — the first modern openworld shooter 00:10:20 — Designed inconvenience: checkpoints, malaria, weapons, interface 00:27:00 — Fire, chaos and the weapon triad 00:32:00 — The influence of the choice of weapons on the perception of the world 00:36:40 — True history: diamonds and wars 00:47:15 — Rational egoism 00:57:00 — The materialism of weapons and diamonds 01:05:12 — Procedural narrative and moral cynicism 01:22:01 — The importance of meaningless choice 01:35:20 — True ludonarrative dissonance and how Far Cry 2 is smarter than Bioshock. 01:42:26 — Announcements and Credits Video Context Lewis Gordon's article on Far Cry 2 with developer commentary: https://www.theringer.com/video-games... Shadow World Documentary - Inside the Global Arms Trade • Video Blood Diamonds Documentary: • Blood Diamonds - Documentary “Firestone and the Warlord” Documentary: Iconic Tire Company's History in Liberia: • “Firestone and the Warlord”: Iconic T... Clint Hawking Interview, Part 1: https://www.idlethumbs.net/designerno... Clint Hawking Interview, Part 2: https://www.idlethumbs.net/designerno... Hawking's Post on Bioshock and Ludonarrative Dissonance: https://clicknothing.typepad.com/clic... Hawking's Well Played Article on Bioshock: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/180603... Anthony Birch's article Half-Baked Nihilism: https://www.destructoid.com/heart-of-... AK47: The Story of the People's Gun: / 2539799 References Blood Diamonds Documentary: • Blood Diamonds - Documentary “Firestone and the Warlord” Documentary: Iconic Tire Company's History in Liberia: • “Firestone and the Warlord”: Iconic T... Daikatana: • Daikatana (aka John Romero's Daikatan... Graphical Evolution of Ultima (1979-2013): • Graphical Evolution of Ultima (1979-2... Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone: • Diamond Mining in Sierra Leone Charles Taylor sheds tears while being interviewed by ChannelsTV CEO Pt.V: • Charles Taylor sheds tears while being... Grand Theft Auto III (PS2 Classic) [PS4] Free-Roam Gameplay: • Grand Theft Auto III (PS2 Classic) [P... SIERRA LEONE: REBELS LOYAL TO OLD REGIME STILL FIGHTING ECOMOG: • SIERRA LEONE: REBELS LOYAL TO OLD REG... LIBERIA: MONROVIA: WARRING FACTIONS CONTINUE TO FIGHT: • LIBERIA: MONROVIA: WARRING FACTIONS C...