Far Cry 2 and the Search for Gaming's Heart of Darkness

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Canada The Game Overanalyser
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Heart of Darkness (1998)
Duration: 10:52
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Far Cry 2 is a game that has generated much critical discussion over the years, owing to its immersive design, harrowing themes and narrative ambition. Its primary goal though, was to create our mediums equivalent of Heart of Darkness, a novel that has been studied more than any other, and examined themes like complicity, evil and the nature of humanity. This video examines the design and critical discussion surrounding far cry 2, and why it has been so polarizing, with some saying it illustrates a new avenue of video game storytelling, whereas other suggest it falls short of its ambitions. To peer into our heart of darkness.

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Sources

-Dynamics, Clint Hocking GDC talk
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014597/Dynamics-The-State-of-the

- Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad

- Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Howard Bloom
https://books.google.ca/books?id=q1Ua05fPsSAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

- Click Nothing , Clint Hocking's Blog
https://www.clicknothing.com/click_nothing/

-Africa Wins Again: Far Cry 2’s literary approach to narrative , Tom Armitage
https://infovore.org/archives/2008/12/22/africa-wins-again/

- FAR CRY 2’S ABUSES OF BODY AND STORY Justin Keever
https://virtualnarrative.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/playlist-far-cry-2s-abuses-of-body-and-soul/#more-245

- Extra Lives , Tom Bissell

-Unintended Consequences: Malaria and Orientalist Discourse in Far Cry 2
Well Played, Carnegie Mellon University's ETC Press, Volume 5, Number 1 (page 85),

- Permadeath, Ben Abraham
https://drgamelove.blogspot.com/2009/12/permanent-death-complete-saga.html

- Shooter
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