After meeting the Jackal up the road, he reveals his plan: he wants to bribe the border guards with the diamonds so the civilian population is able to flee the country and escape the conflict once and for all.
Anyway, after the mercenary and Jackal meet at the prison - again, with no witnesses - the mercenary goes off to kill the rest of the faction leaders and then recover a briefcase full of diamonds. It seems likely that the mercenary is really the one who caused the uprising - namely, by gunning down all the guards during his escape. After escaping, he kills a few more leaders and a journalist tells him that the Jackal has organized an uprising at a nearby prison - the same prison you busted out of. The Jackal doesn't want the two sides to call a truce because they'd only be doing it to escape global scrutiny while they continue their conflict in secret.Īnyway, the player gets knocked out and ends up in a prison. When the player is sent by one of the faction leaders to deliver a peace settlement, he finds the leader's dead body and the Jackal standing over him. The mercenary, bouncing back between jobs for the two factions, ends up killing many of their leaders but eventually the two sides sue for peace. The Jackal/mercenary supplies each side with weapons to fuel their conflict and push them toward destroying each other. Like the main character in Fight Club, the disconnect between what he wants to do and what he actually does becomes so great that he develops a split personality that's willing to do what he doesn't - namely, stop the bloodshed. However, he's a mercenary so he comes to accept it. After years of serving as a gun for hire and spreading chaos wherever he goes, the mercenary has become distraught about the endless cycle of violence in Africa. My theory is that the mercenary sent to kill the Jackal (the player) and the Jackal are one and the same. Both were enough to make me suspicious as to whether this was a real person.
What struck me about this and the other encounters with the Jackal is that A) his dialogue always sounds like the voice of your own conscience, and B) no one ever sees him except for you. He gives the player the first of many moralizing speechs and then slips out cleanly even though there's a huge gunfight raging. The main character wakes up in a hospital bed (he's got a bad case of malaria) to find the Jackal rummaging through his belongings. I first started to wonder whether the Jackal was my own Tyler Durden during our first encounter. The following contains a lot of spoilers for Far Cry 2 and Fight Club.Īt the end of the book/movie Fight Club, the protagonist finds out that his friend and later enemy Tyler Durden is actually his split personality.