The gameplay is actually good, too bad everything else is either bland or AI to the point of being distracting.
All dialogue is in the MCU "That just happened"/"He's right behind me, isn't he?" style.
It simply lacks all the bravado it should have and the AI stuff makes it feel even cheaper than it is.

Their feedback form also *requires* a lot of personal info, which is weird.

Rogue Trader is everything that I don't hate about video game writing. Character writing and dialogue are genuinely great and most quests find interesting ways to use the 40k lore and IP. The Rogue Trader's retinue will end up being very varied and colorful if you let it blossom.

The combat and leveling are fun, but the difficulty is very strange even if still enjoyable. I played on Daring since they game was very insistent that the higher difficulties would be genuinely difficult, so a step above Normal was probably alright, but the game gets easier and easier the longer it goes on where at the end you don't really think about what's happening outside of some fun gimmick fights. I feel like Normal and below would be unbearably boring.

It's good, but It's also buggy. It seems to run into a lot of trigger and flag errors. You may get nonsensical dialogue options at points. I had a companion die in the game, then mysteriously reappear hours later with no explanation, and in the epilogue they both lived and died at the same time. Some side content would seemingly softlock itself as well and in a 130h game you probably don't want to go back to figure out when something broke, because quests can span multiple chapters. I had no issues with the main quest ever softlocking, but it feels pretty bad when a dlc (Void shadows) just never gets resolved because some trigger broke only for you to realize it hours later.

The only Far Cry worth playing (with the Redux mod and on the highest difficulty).
There's no other game I can compare Far Cry 2 to. Very unique, even today, as the sequels might have some surface level similarities, but they don't have the heart of Far Cry 2. It's not a game for everyone, nor should it be. Ubisoft of today couldn't even dream of adding weapon jamming and malaria to the next Far Cry games, yet the willingness to take risks and make something interesting was what made me even play it.

FC2's jank is mostly endearing, besides a few issues. The rare crashes, which personally only seemed to happen after the midway point of the game. The game doesn't really enjoy being streamed, screenshotted or even alt-tabbed out of. The installation process is also mysterious as you can only install it on your main drive, and trying to start the game while it's installed anywhere else will make it crash instantly. Figuring that out was pretty hellish.

Jackal is a fun antagonist. His physical appearances are cartoonish. When you first meet he will enter your room, quote Nietzsche (Will to Power) and leave. The next time you meet he will jump out of a window in such a swift and smooth fashion to make one laugh. The tapes on the other hand are genuinely good... "You can't break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. The harder you beat, the taller he stands." Generally speaking FC2 has a very strong sense of time and place, even if that place is more of an idea than an actual place on earth. It really does make you feel like mercenary scum.

I'll end the review with my favorite Jackal tape:
I'll tell you what's sick. People in the UK, US, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Canada, Sweden. They pay their taxes and some remote piloted drone fires a missile into a public market to hit some warlord. Yeah so maybe war doesn't happen for another six months, and the price of their gluten-free sorghum bread stays low. It's not sick to arm people, it's sick to bump off their crooks and dictators in protection of our interest and then call it international justice. These people don't have remote piloted drones guarding their interests ten thousand miles away, they don't have a war machine paid for with taxes, where I am they usually don't even have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ government. The drone is the oppressor, the gluten-free sorghum bread is the oppressor, the AK-47 is the great equalizer. I empower these people.