Getting through all those holiday games can be so damn time-consuming... especially when they're as fun as Far Cry 2. This time around, GameLemon gives their take on the Africa-based shooter and all of its glorious killing and machete-swining action.

What Far Cry 2 does really, really well is the sort of desperate, bloodthirsty combat that the sci-fi shooter brigade couldn't come up with even if you gave them a hundred years on the Planet of Persistent Inspiration, three wishes, and a conversation with the deity of their choice. Vehicles explode under RPG fire. Grass burns in scorching, blistering waves. And as the echoes of another short, brutal gun battle die away, you go through the smoldering wreckage, machete in hand, to administer the coup de grace to the groaning wounded. It's truly frightening just how routine this sort of savagery becomes, and how enjoyable it is at the same time.

GLDarthziggy via gamelemon.com »