De eerste Far Cry 2 PC review is die van PCgamer. Op FarCry2World is de complete review te lezen (scans). De reviewer is werkelijk onder de indruk van de game en geeft aan na het spelen van Far Cry 2 niet meer terug te willen naar standaard First Person Shooters. Hij plaats echter tevens een paar kritische kanttekeningen..

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“ The basis of Far Cry 2's story telling: Characters and situations are swapped via a software author, its responding to choices made by you the player. Its something that's been on the cards for some time - mostly in research projects - but this is the first high-profile game to use it.
Its nothing less than a revelation. What makes this procedural storytelling cool isn't that you get to play the game lots of times, and see new things happen, or do things in new ways, Its not even that it gives you stories to share, situations to compare with your friends. Its that the game just works and responds to your successes, failures and fuckups. If you don't like what a guy is asking you to do, then don't do it... If you really like one of your buddies, you stick with him. When the situations force choices on you...
By God, its incredible! „