If Longinus in Far Cry 4 really is Prosper Kouassi from Far Cry 2, that would support Far Cry 2 being set significantly before 2008, as Longinus appears to be at least a couple of decades older than Kouassi was.

Ambiguous Time Period: While it can be assumed the plot takes place in the same year the game was released (2008), you never see any technology that wasn't around in the late '80s or '90s, and the ending seems to imply the game is a recollection of events and actually takes place at least a few years before the current date.

The All-Seeing A.I.: Once one bad guy has spotted the player, every goon in the area instantly knows exactly where he is and can fire with pinpoint accuracy even when the player is crouched in head-high grass he himself is unable to see through.

However, the G3 and FAL are labelled as the wrong models ('G3KA4' and 'FAL Paratrooper,' versions which should have shorter barrels and, on the latter, a folding stock) and the AR-16 is basically a fictional AR-15 pattern rifle given the name of a highly obscure predecessor to the AR-18 to explain why it's sharing ammo with two battle rifles (see also Rare Guns below). 45'), and whatever the 'Homeland 37' is (named as if it's an Ithaca 37 but missing that weapon's distinctive lack of a separate ejection port).

A.K.A.-47: Mostly averted with real weapon names, save the Desert Eagle ('Eagle.

Far Cry 2 shows examples of the following tropes:

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