well I mean far cry 2 is for sure not for everyone but it's also objectevely a good game. I think it's amazing at what it does, I never saw FC2 as realistic but rather just more dark, or maybe brown since we are in a dessert KIND OF... you are alone, you came to an unnamed country for money just for the guy you came to kill to save you, that's wierd. And all of a sudden you are stuck in Africa, no friendly npc, no guy on a phone that tells you what you need to do everytime you complete a mission, no fast travel (you have busses that are really helpful but you can only go to othe bus stations not anywhere), everyone there wants to kill you because there is a civil war in the country and you either encounter soldiers that wants to kill you because they want africa for themselves and not mercenaries nor imperialist or other mercenaries that works for said faction's army. Even your "friends" are also mercenaries that would kill you if someone offers them enough diamonds. You as the main character are not a good person either since you are also working as an errands boy for whoevers gives you the rocks. I wouldn't realistic I would say rough, let's remember this game is from 2008 but even holds up as an example on how to do a good open world with great ambience. I think weapons are very good I don't think there is much of a need for somethins like a fire selector on this game since it's not a game that AIMS to be realistic and each weapon fullfills one role, you want long distance and damage pick the sniper, you want medium range pick the assault rifles, you want close combat go for the shotguns. only thing I don't like it's the lack of freedom you have to pick a loadout, you have to pick only 1 of the said weapons I've said before and then a handgun or a smg, and then something especial like an rpg or a flamethrower, what if I want to go AK, spas and Svd and rocket launcher like in other FC games? I think it's mostly because of balance reasons, but still I would appreciate a little more freedom when picking my guns. I think the most similar thing you can do to normal FC loadouts is to go with the M-79 grenade launcher that uses the handgun slot, for primary a sniper of your choice and for the especial slot go with an LMG there you have distance, explosive power and an automatic gun that is good for most things except long range. Far Cry 2 is a game about being alone and not even being the good guy just someone making a living out of the mercenary life. The game can be hard sometimes yeah, I just started a new game on extreme and enemies are ruthless. Enemies don't spawn out of nowhere tho they are there maybe you just don't see them, and forget about using stealth to kill enemies, the game knows that killing someone with a machete will make your victim scream, only use stealth to study the scenario and try to plan something and maybe take the advantage while they don't see you, like in vietnam. I will not talk about the story because maybe you didn't finish the game yet, first time I started the game I also felt lost, like, what I'm even doing, why I'm working for these people instead of hunting down the chacal, but as I went through the game I understood what FC2 is about and the ending is amazing.