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TV TROPES FAR CRY 2 LICENSE

Also, it explains why the unnamed country is in such a bad state - by spreading around the diamonds the curse is extended to the entirety of the country, rather than just one person. This also explains why such valuable diamonds are being randomly found in the game, and why nobody else has already taken them (everybody except you knows about the curse). Because the player character is usually carrying around some of the diamonds, it explains why enemies are constantly shooting at him and coming after him in jeeps. Some time in the past, before you get there, some witch doctor or tribe chieftain scattered them around the entire country in obscure locations to spread out the curse's effects, (having ten or more of the briefcase diamonds in the same place might be enough to trigger an earthquake, or a drought for example.

That doesn't really mean anything concrete though, especially when WMG is in play.Īll the briefcase diamonds are cursedIt's like Tutankhamen's treasure - extremely valuable and unfortunately brings immensely bad luck to anybody near it.

But what if you DO blow up the TNT? Does Jackal simply become the dominant part of your personality? Either way there's a gunshot as Ruben's final picture at the end of the game shows up, implying that the main character did eventually kill himself.

This might explain the player character's ability to casually flip over two ton jeeps, and the fact you're unable to play as the 3 female mercs.

The split personalities might be a side effect as well. As for the Jack Carver part, your incredible fighting and survival capabilities could be caused by the mutant serum. You don't shoot yourself at the end, because that was just a trick from the Jackal side of your mind to try to take you down with it. At the end of the game you actually are able to detonate the bomb remotely, and by doing so you only "kill" the Jackal apart of your mind. Every time you see the Jackal it is actually just a hallucination and an internal conflict between the two personalities, which explains why neither of you are able to kill each other, and why the organization that sent you to kill him is never mentioned- it doesn't exist. No one recognizes you because no one has seen the Jackal, and Reubon's tapes where an interview of a fake that you hired to throw possible assassins of the trail.

Who might also be Jack CarverThroughout the game you play as a split personality of the Jackal who has no knowledge that the Jackal side is a part of him. I'm almost convinced someone at Crytek accidentally had their computer's date set to twenty years in the future, resulting in the game's title bar displaying an arbitrary date in 2025, and then some idiot playing a game in windowed mode for the first time a few years later took that as the game literally announcing when its events are set.

TV TROPES FAR CRY 2 LICENSE

We have one source on this, which is a single sentence of maybe a dozen words, half of which don't even make any sense (what the hell is an "action time on a license disk", and how is that relevant to the actual game?), on a wiki that has made up things before like Far Cry 4's Ajay Ghale being a retired Marine. Also, I don't buy Far Cry 1 being set in 2025.The creative director of the game has confirmed that The Jackal was indeed intended to be an older Jack Carver.Perhaps this is a side effect of the serum. The Jackal is implied to be dying of cancer.If Jack Carver is the Jackal, he's quite young-looking and nimble for a 70-year old. However, the Jackal is stated to be 53 years old while Jack Carver was 45. Far Cry 2 does take place before 1 2 is set in 2008 while 1 is set in 2025.Or possibly Far Cry 2 takes place before Far Cry 1, where the Jackal takes a new name and goes into hiding.Undisclosedistan, Africa just happened to be where he was when he snapped. Obviously Jack just had a longer shelf life than the others, since the Jackal doesn't make for a poster boy for having all his marbles. Also, in previous games, exposure to the super serums usually has a. The few times you show up in the aftermath of a Jackal attack (the brewery with the UFLL leader, the prison near the end) the scenery shows damage in excess of what you can inflict on it, as well as amounts of corpses you'd have trouble creating alone, possible showing that the Jackal has superhuman strength/endurance.

Think about it both are arms dealers, have unusual tastes in clothing (Jack's Hawaiian, Jackal's native shirt), and started off in the Navy.