Far Cry 2
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40 free Far Cry 2 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Far Cry 2 lets you start as any one of nine playable characters, each a hired gun with a dossier that reads like a thriller: ex-soldiers, smugglers, bodyguards and insurgents drawn from around the world. Whoever you leave unpicked turns up later as a Buddy, ready to bail you out of a firefight or pull you into a risky side job. This quiz covers who those mercenaries are and where they come from, then widens out to the rest of the game: the arms dealer you are sent to kill, the two factions tearing the country apart, the survival mechanics that made the game notorious, and the wildlife and long journeys of its open world. A few questions go behind the scenes to the studio, the research trip and the soundtrack. It is pitched at players who finished the game years ago and at newcomers wondering which character to pick. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will learn something from the ones you miss.
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Q 01Which disease strikes Far Cry 2's mercenary in regular fits, blurring his vision until treated?
Malaria
Malaria was added to give players a constant worry, and early builds were harsher still: during a fit the player lost control of the mercenary altogether.
Q 02Far Cry 2's director revealed the hunted arms dealer was meant to be which first-game character?
Jack Carver
Jack Carver, hero of the first game, was imagined as scarred by its events and turned into a major smuggler, though nothing on screen in Far Cry 2 ever says so.
Q 03Far Cry 2's team weighed settings as far-flung as the Arctic and which planet before choosing Africa?
Mars
Mars was floated in early planning, and Japan, the American West and the Australian outback were weighed too before Africa won for its variety of terrain.
Q 04Which gems, found in briefcases scattered around the country, serve as currency in Far Cry 2?
Diamonds
Diamonds are the only way to buy weapons and equipment, so the mercenary carries a locator that points towards hidden caches of them.
Q 05Which Joseph Conrad tale of a steamboat journey into colonial Africa inspired Far Cry 2's story?
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness gave the game its theme of how far people will go to survive, and its film version Apocalypse Now was an influence as well.
Q 06What happens to guns scavenged from enemies in Far Cry 2 as the mercenary keeps firing them?
They jam and break down
They jam and break down: a worn gun first sticks mid-fight and has to be cleared by hand, then fails for good and must be thrown away.
Q 07The string sections of Far Cry 2's score were recorded at which famous London studio?
Abbey Road
Abbey Road's Studio 3 hosted six string players from the composer's own orchestra, picked because they would attack their instruments ferociously.
Q 08Which German studio made the first Far Cry before Ubisoft Montreal took over with Far Cry 2?
Crytek
Crytek signed with Electronic Arts in 2004 and went on to make Crysis, so Ubisoft bought the Far Cry name and gave the sequel to its Montreal team.
Q 09Besides jeeps, buggies and boats, which unpowered aircraft can the mercenary fly in Far Cry 2?
Hang glider
Hang glider flight is quick and silent, and in several spots it is the only way to reach a case of gems that cannot be collected on foot.
Q 10Which playable mercenary in Far Cry 2 is a former US Marine, aged 28, who left the Corps for private security?
Marty Alencar
Marty Alencar was born in Brazil and moved to the United States at 14; he joined the Marines straight out of high school and later served at a naval station in Egypt.
Q 11Which former smuggler, aged 24, is the youngest of the nine playable mercenaries in Far Cry 2?
Xianyong Bai
Xianyong Bai trafficked goods between western China and Pakistan as a teenager, then used official credentials to move medical supplies into poor parts of Africa.
Q 12Which former paratrooper, aged 48, is the oldest of the nine playable mercenaries in Far Cry 2?
Josip Idromeno
Josip Idromeno, a Kosovo-born bear of a man who once ran a small trucking company, takes high-risk contracts to support his family back in Europe.
Q 13Quarbani Singh, a playable mercenary in Far Cry 2, spent 14 years policing which island nation?
Mauritius
Q 21Which Far Cry 2 network trades the mercenary's medicine for delivering passports to refugees?
The Underground
The Underground works to get refugees out of the country, and the more notorious the mercenary becomes, the less it trusts him and the harder the pills are to get.
Q 22The United Front for Liberation and Labour fights which rival faction in Far Cry 2's civil war?
Alliance for Popular Resistance
Alliance for Popular Resistance fighters, the APR, are no better than their UFLL rivals: both sides claim to speak for the people while preying on civilians.
Q 23Far Cry 2's mercenary never speaks, a blank slate modelled on which silent shooter hero?
Mauritius is where Singh rose to police superintendent before taking security contracts across Africa, and his file hints at a wife and children in Paris.
Q 14Paul Ferenc, a Budapest-born playable mercenary in Far Cry 2, did army service in which country?
Israel
Israel became his home when his family emigrated in the 1980s; he went missing from the army weeks before his discharge and later ran stolen cars through Turkey.
Q 15Frank Bilders, Far Cry 2's Northern Irish playable mercenary, was held in which notorious prison?
The Maze
The Maze held Bilders for three years of a five-year sentence, and an attack in its machine shop wrecked his knee, which is why he wears a leg brace.
Q 16Andre Hyppolite, playable in Far Cry 2, grew up in the capital of which Caribbean country?
Haiti
Haiti made him an insurgent, yet his file notes a conscience: he walked away at the last minute from a plot to kill the exiled president Aristide in Johannesburg.
Q 17Hakim Echebbi, playable in Far Cry 2, was a lieutenant commander in which country's navy?
Algeria
Algeria gave him command of a maritime counterinsurgency unit; after an attack that killed his sister he resigned and put a fortune into Dubai property.
Q 18Warren Clyde, playable in Far Cry 2, grew up on an Arapaho reservation in which US state?
Oklahoma
Oklahoma raised a football player who studied aeronautics at Tulane; an injury ended his army hopes, so he became a bodyguard and then a charter pilot.
Q 19Far Cry 2's developers camped on the savanna for two weeks in Tanzania and which neighbour?
Kenya
Kenya was the main model for the setting, and the trip showed the team they had got the look of the place badly wrong, so they reworked the game's world.
Q 20Reuben Oluwagembi, a civilian the mercenary helps early in Far Cry 2, works in which profession?
Journalist
Journalist Reuben is covering the civil war, and after the credits the press ignores his story, so he starts publishing it on his own blog.
Gordon Freeman
Gordon Freeman of Half-Life was the model, and for the same reason the mercenary's body stays out of view except in moments such as treating a wound.
Q 24Far Cry 2's Buddy system drew on the Girlfriends feature of which Rockstar crime game?
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas supplied the idea of relationships to keep up, mixed with XCOM's soldier management, and a Buddy who dies stays dead for the rest of the game.
Q 25On PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Far Cry 2 saves progress only at which captured locations?
Safe houses
Safe houses have to be taken from the enemy first, and the computer version dropped the limit, letting players save anywhere.
Q 26Far Cry 2's mercenary restores health with water bottles or which single-dose injectors?
Syrettes
Syrettes are carried in limited numbers, and once health turns critical the heal button instead plays a scene of the mercenary treating his own wounds by hand.
Q 27Which blade does Far Cry 2's mercenary carry for melee kills alongside thirty firearms?
Machete
Machete kills are the game's one melee option, and the Jackal drives a blade of his own into the wall just above the mercenary's head when they first meet.
Q 28Which public transport serves as the fast-travel network across Far Cry 2's open world?
Buses
Buses run fixed routes, and every other journey means driving, sailing or walking through country where any armed group in range will open fire.
Q 29Which engine was built for Far Cry 2 by gutting and rewriting nearly all of its predecessor's code?
Dunia
Dunia was built so that a square kilometre of terrain could be made in a day, and upgraded versions went on to power the later Far Cry games.
Q 30Which designer, fresh from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, directed Far Cry 2 and chose its setting?
Clint Hocking
Clint Hocking took the job as a break from Splinter Cell, and he added the forgiving rescue system because that series' harsh death penalties had frustrated him.