I’ve been moving. So I have a house full of stuff, little time to do much with the stuff, and a lot of the remaining free time being used to get through house acquisition paperwork. On the bright side, soon the acquisition part will be over. I close in a week and a half, and nearly all the utilities are in my name. So it’s going well. On the not as bright side, I’ve barely touched any of my game systems, and right when things are starting to get interesting. Which means I’m a fair bit behind, but so be it. In any case, I did finally snag some time last weekend, and managed to finish off a game that I had (all unbeknownst to me) been only an hour or so from finishing when I last set it aside, a few months ago. Which makes it nice that the controls were simple to pick up. For example, I dread picking up Oblivion again just because of having to relearn how everything works.

Anyway, this was the second part of a two-part game that I played through the first part of some months ago. Farcry: Predator picks up some months after the first game left off. Jack Carver has been kicking around the South Pacific with his newly rebuilt charter business and learning to live with his new biological advantages, mostly thanks to the assistance of a steady supply of alcohol. Unfortunately, history repeats itself, and before he knows it another beautiful woman has gotten him caught in an internecine war, this time between a band of local pirates and some natives who seem to be the basis for Krieger’s research into human enhancement. And sure enough, the CIA is still keeping an eye on things just around the corner.

To me, that plot doesn’t sound so bad. Nevertheless, it turned into a thoroughly lackluster story. On the bright side, Farcry continues to have good gameplay and lush landscapes, so I didn’t have any complaints while I was playing. Still, there also wasn’t really anything new added to the mix in that arena as well. Thusly, I got to the end and was left thinking, “So, that’s it?” This is somewhat unfair, in that I’ve gotten two reviews and a solid number of hours of gameplay out of the disc. Still, though. There are plenty of games that don’t leave me feeling like that, so there you go.