You cannot bring any of your buddies with you in free roam even if some of them are just freeloading at the bar doing nothing except giving you Buddy Missions (that they don't participate in and just simply point you to the target and expect you to do their jobs for them.

Annoying Videogame Helper: Ironically, your buddies will actually make the game harder instead of easier with how the system is implemented.

Frank Bilders was born in 1972 and is 36 years old at the time of the game), and the licensed Jeep Liberty and Wrangler vehicles are of the 2007-2008 model years. However, several other details point out that the game can't possibly take place any earlier than 2008 - the Jackal tapes are quite clearly stated to have been recorded in 2008, the listed years of birth and ages for the playable characters line up with that year (e.g. It would also make sense given the game's events are loosely based on the Sierra Leone Civil War, which occurred mostly in The '90s. If Longinus in Far Cry 4 really is Prosper Kouassi from Far Cry 2, that would support Far Cry 2 being set significantly before 2008, as Longinus appears to be at least a couple of decades older than Kouassi was.

Ambiguous Time Period: While it can be assumed the plot takes place in the same year the game was released (2008), you never see any technology that wasn't around in the late '80s or '90s, and the ending seems to imply the game is a recollection of events and actually takes place at least a few years before the current date.

The All-Seeing A.I.: Once one bad guy has spotted the player, every goon in the area instantly knows exactly where he is and can fire with pinpoint accuracy even when the player is crouched in head-high grass he himself is unable to see through.

However, the G3 and FAL are labelled as the wrong models ('G3KA4' and 'FAL Paratrooper,' versions which should have shorter barrels and, on the latter, a folding stock) and the AR-16 is basically a fictional AR-15 pattern rifle given the name of a highly obscure predecessor to the AR-18 to explain why it's sharing ammo with two battle rifles (see also Rare Guns below).

45'), and whatever the 'Homeland 37' is (named as if it's an Ithaca 37 but missing that weapon's distinctive lack of a separate ejection port).

A.K.A.-47: Mostly averted with real weapon names, save the Desert Eagle ('Eagle.

Far Cry 2 shows examples of the following tropes:

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