booo because I reposted, even though I searched. Whats up with that?

Unexcited due to the bad Amazon Review

Gamespot review gives it an 8.5

mausdmchl said:I have to admit that it gets pretty monotonous after a while. As mentioned, it really boils down to getting from point A to point B - feels kinda like stripped down fallout 3 except its in Africa, no RPG elements and definitely no fast travel

But hey, it's decent eyecandy though if you have a good enough rig.

well for this game, you dont even need high spec pc.

I run everything at absolute max (except shadow on medium) only with my 8800gs @ 1680x1050 and with the new Nvidia drivers I am getting 35~45fps average.

It has alot of potential for mods but the current game itself is quite dissapointing. I would suggest Left4dead or new Tomb Raider.

I am looking to get a dead space.

Johneverd said:Gamespot review gives it an 8.5

but the review is only one person's opinion. It carries no more weight than yours or mine.

it's a boring repetitive game. and i see it is now in the near-bargain bin.

Drunken Monkey Game Review gives this a 5.5, and I agree with it.

havent people noticed that game scoring is like gymnastics?. the baseline for any big hyped game from a major game company always gets at least an 8. 8 is like 0. you have to look at whats after the 8.

best place to see the disconnect between the game reviews of the gaming sites and real peoples opinion is to check metacritic.com.

and agreed, FC2 is mostly a slog from one end of the map to the other with all those lame checkpoints that respawn within a few minutes. so go one way, fight thru them all, then do the mission(which often takes less time than getting thru a single checkpoint) then turn around and fight your way back thru them again.

its a good engine, just need to wait for someone to put an actual game around it.

i said this in a prev post - just wait another month and it'll be in the $10 bargain bin.

For $18? I'm in. Thanks OP!

From Amazon review (confirmed by some gamespot reviewers):

"DRM this game installs broke the Burn feature of Windows Media Player on my PC. Buyer Beware.

SecuRom has a program on their website that will allow you to remove their DRM from your machine. However, it will be reinstalled - without warning or notification - the very next time you play a game with SecuRom DRM. If - like me - you have issues with burning CDs after installing one of these game, you pretty much have to uninstall the DRM anytime you want to burn. Convenient, huh?"

I finished it in 38 addictive hours. At some point during the game I realized that using the bus has no drawbacks so I ended up doing most traveling with the bus. Once you do that things get quicker and more interesting. Game is very open-ended and realistic but indeed can be boring at times, probably the main insight of a realistic game is that reality is rather boring .