Slightly off topic... Far Cry 2 any good? Just picked up a copy for a tenner on a whim.
It has a wonderfully crafted environment, with a great eye for immersion when interacting with the world around you and it takes a brilliantly open-ended approach to the gameplay.
It does however suffer significantly from 2 - minor sounding I know - flaws.
1) Bullet sponge enemies. Ok so a bang-on headshot usually does the trick, but for a game which works so hard to seem immersion and realistic to allow yer standard shirt-wearing bad-guy to take 5 or 6 shots dead centre to the body and still get up and start shooting at you again...
2) Overly aggressive respawns combined with psychic enemies: each time you clear one of the random check-points, you can walk about 300 metres away, wait 2 minutes and then return and all the bad-guys miraculously re-appear. They also hate you so much that they shoot on sight, even when you are just mooching about minding your own business. Cars
continually fly out of the jungle with 3 guys on board, all desperate to end you - how the fuck do they know you are an enemy??
If this was a Serious Sam style game, I would have no issue with the above, but these things are really glaring errors in a game which tries to put you (and succeeds for the most part) in a fully realised, immersive and "real-world" environment. It sort of destroys your ability to take a slow, sneaky and methodical approach to the game ( should you want to) when that is the approach that the early game seems to positively encourage.
It is nothing that a mod wouldn't fix and indeed, turn a near miss into a stone-cold classic, but Ubisoft have refused to unlock the thing for modding so far...
). bioshock doesn't deserve to be on the list because it simply isn't very good.
