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Far Cry 2 is a gorgeous first-person shooter that specializes in complete immersion. The quintessential HUD is stripped away and the player is allowed to freely roam around 50 square kilometres of rugged African outback on a quest to kill a mysterious gunrunner known as 'The Jackal'. A wide array of weapons, completely open-ended gameplay and spectacular graphics make for a PC gaming experience that is in a league of its own.

After noticing that most Crysis videos on Youtube were concerned with performance, benchmarking and/or showing off some spectacular new kajillion dollar rig running Crysis with all the settings maxed out, I started thinking, "Hey! What about the game! Is anybody actually playing the game?" Hence, this web comic. Enjoy! :o)

I wrote this review before I played Far Cry 2 so at the time, it was indeed the best new PC video game I had ever played with regards to photorealistic graphics and open-ended gameplay. And Crysis is, in my humble opinion, the true conceptual sequel to the original Far Cry...

Bioshock was the first game I played on my 'old' new PC (AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core 5600+, GeForce 9600GT, 2GB RAM) and I have to say that when I first booted it up, I was simply astounded by the graphics and gameplay although I highly recommend that you install the patch. Here's my review...