It just came out!

That means it uses Steamworks, like Last Remanant, DoW II, etc...

So? Can still get plenty of good discounts with careful shopping, can often get new games on ebay or some online shops quite cheap

really? fc2 had good scores? I thought most people hated it, and to me it was still quite good.

That game wasn't bad, but the scores ranged from mediocre to good. Nothing fan-tastic.

Amen. I hated Far Cry 2. That whole Malaria thing killed it for me. Also, it got annoying as hell to fight enemies at every intersection, even when the guys guarding that checkpoint are the ones you're doing a mission for (they use a stupid excuse, saying you're on a covert mission so no one else will know you're on it).
This is why games should have demos as soon as they come out. Had I been smart, I would've waited for one. At least you guys know now to stay far away from it, but there goes $50.

what? I spent $15.

Oh, sorry. I was talking about Velvet Assassin on that last paragraph, not Far Cry 2. I am terrible at segways.

leisure suit larry!

Aww and I was looking forward to this. Although I have to say that the morphine bit is a bit ridiculous because how would a person in a coma alter or even take a dosage of a drug? Or maybe I am just reading your post wrong.
And you say the sneaking mechanics are bad? Like how bad exacly? Does she have the same tap dancing shoes that Garret did?

The Leisure Suit Larry games are quite excellent.

There is a sneak button, and you hold it down to crouch and sneak around. You sneak up behind a guy and press a button to kill. It's extremely easy to get lost, and you die after being shot twice. There are no checkpoints you make yourself, so when you die, you better hope to Jesus that you restart somewhere somewhat close to where you were. They also aren't clear enough to let you know where you can hide, and how far the enemy's eyesight goes. At one part in the first level the game told me that bushes were a good place to hide. Little did I know that I was hiding in the wrong bushes (?), because my little silhouette health bar didn't go dark, and I was ventilated.
The Morphine basically "alters" your memories for ten seconds. What that means is that you change into a skimpy nightgown, the screen is surrounded by white, only letting you see what's right in front of you, and you can run up to a person and kill him without the worry of him seeing you. It makes no sense to the story, because you're in a coma, and you're finding morphine in your flashback dream that somehow makes your flashback dream easier, when you obviously didn't have this useful tool when you were doing this all in real life. Also, her changing into her hospital nightie is ridiculous, because I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be aware of the clothes you were wearing in real life, since they normally change you into that stuff when YOU'RE IN A COMA.
I reached a small hub, where the game promptly gave me a fetch quest to open a door. That's about when I had enough.

Except for when they started to make them 3D. Box Office Bust is by far the most broken current-gen game I've ever seen. GameTrailers has a review that highlights just how awful this game can be.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/48468.html

He is talking about old Larry games I think.

Like I said, the older ones are just fine.
I'm slowly getting farther in Velvet Assassin, and have come to the conclusion that the sneaking, when it's not completely broken, is allright. I have the same problem IGN does, where sometimes they can see you just fine when you're in the dark and they're far away, and when I restart from the checkpoint, it works without a hitch. Even when it does work, though, it's not that exciting. The best part is, without a doubt, the kill animations. Seeing your character creep up behind a Nazi and rip their gas mask off can be fun to see.