It’s all well and good using grenades to polish them off, but the game’s incredibly realistic fire will spread, engulfing the land around you and your car, too. The open-ended gameplay is a joy: repair a car and take off to the nearest town, but run in to a checkpoint, full of rebel fighters, half-way there. Several of these will become your friends and can be found hanging out at bars, ready to give you side-missions and other tasks to complete that work well at distracting you from the main plot. The 50km squared of African savannah is littered with towns, villages and characters who you can talk and interact with. The beauty to this fantastic game is that you can do whatever you want. However, that’s not all there is to Far Cry 2.