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I'd say buy them both.
Farcry was awesome and I played it through twice. I liked that it didn't really seem that linear and the levels were huge. You would beach your raft on one side of an island and there were 15 different ways to get to your objective 2 islands away... all on the same level with no "loading...." sign to distract you. Oh and it has !awesome! visuals!!! At the expense of your smoking gaming computer.
In Half life 2 I'm past the airboat level and progressing. I like it... and it is beautiful in it's own dirty atmosphere kind of way. But the levels between "loading..." seem tiny. I can't believe it's "loading..." so soon again after playing for only 5-10 minutes in a level. Also I feel like I'm on a "path" that I'm not allowed to deviate from. That gets annoying. All this and there is widely reported glitches in video that I myself have experienced. I'm running a gig of ram on an AMD 2500 with an ATI 9800 pro card, which should more than handle the game.
With all that said. I am enjoying both immensely. I just don't think Half Life 2 is all that people hype it up to be.
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