In addition, the player character manages to contract malaria during the opening cinematic. Cutscene Incompetence: The Jackal always gets the drop on you.

What's worse is that you're then forced to kill all your friends and allies after they decide that their lives are more important than defenseless refugees. It's also impossible to carry out your initial mission and kill The Jackal you're forced to join up with him. But Thou Must!: It's impossible, despite claims in some reviews, to pick a side once you've done all one faction's missions in an area, the plot is on hold until you've done the other faction's.One of the reasons there are so many of them is so you'll have someone to fall back on if your current buddy gets killed. during subversion missions or when showing up to rescue you from being downed-but-not-out. Anyone Can Die: Your merc buddies can be killed at any time they take to the field with you, i.e.Each of them has a shady background, the worst of which, arguably is Frank Bilders, an ex-IRA man who was rather fond of Knee Capping people. It depends on which Player Character you select. Although with your Morality Pet buddies missions you can do things like stopping a human trafficking unit, stop a drug syndication from selling a drug meant for children, and with the ending mission sacrifice your life to save a group of refugees. Anti-Hero: Played with, as while your character never commits any super-dickery onscreen without your input, he is obviously using the war to his advantage, and does whatever the person paying him tells him to do.

Far cry 2 character selection