How do I install Far Cry 2 without a DVD drive?

The Far Cry disk is a DVD-ROM and my DVD drive screwed up on me, I cant buy a new one at the moment. Is there any way to install Far Cry 2 without a DVD drive? Any way at all? It sucks so much to have a new game and not be able to play it

EDIT: I have a spare CD-RW drive if that maters. Just throwing that out there, maybe there's a way to emulate DVD drives?

Download a pirate copy via torrent(only around 4GB), don't seed. Mount it using MagicDisk, install, apply any cracks and make sure to do an antivirus scan of it.

1)You get a copy for youself which is fair seeing as you own it.
2)You waste the seeders bandwidth and prevent it being used for someone who wants a copy who hasn't bought it.

Once you get a new DVD drive you can remove the crack.

Far Cry 2 is not a game you want to buy twice.

or this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6827106288
for dvd-ram support, as well $26

You could torrent the game. Then put in the CD key that came with game.
And it wouldn't be stealing because you already bought the game.

hmm, by scripted physics, do you mean that when something explodes, it's always the same way each time for each particle expelled out of the explosions?

Crysis had an independent physic system, right?

Yeah I wouldn't purchase Far Cry 2 over Steam if you already bought the game.

For future purposes, I'd honestly suggest you just buy a DVD-ROM or DVD-RW drive for your computer. You're going to need one for just about every game you'll ever buy in the future. Not many games come on multiple CD-ROM disks anymore.

Truth be told, you can buy a DVD-RW drive online for cheaper than you can buy Far Cry 2.

As an example, here's an HP drive at NewEgg.com. I'm not saying to buy this specific drive, but using it as an example:

HP DVD+R/RW $24.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6827140030

No, that only works with a few games. Far Cry 2 is not one of them.

that sucks... I mean, i tried to do the same thing with Crysis, cause i figured Steam has Crysis for download. But, it didn't work.

Or is it that my copy was one of the earlier ones made in 2007?

http://btjunkie.org/torrent/PC-Far [...] 25792380ad
Just download utorrent first and download this copy of far cry 2. you will also need the download win rar which can extract the files. right click on the file, open with win rar, select extract to specific folder, pick the folder that you want to extract to, then just wait the 5-15 minutes, and the game will be installed, you might need to click on fc2-vista, if you have windows Vista, or fc2-xp if you have windows xp, let it finish until it say to press escape. then when it is done you can enter your cd key for online, that is when you start the game up, and to the online section.
****************!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Torrent download time will vary from 1-4 days.!!!!!!!!!!!!!************

initially its fun, but seriously, the amount of time spent travelling from place to place will start grating on your nerves. Don't get me wrong the game is visually beautiful. great landscapes etc. The actual game play on the other hand leaves something to be desired. I cant elaborate enough on how repetative and generic the missions are. No matter what the "story" is behind a mission 90 percent of them are go here, kill some guy, and the only thing thats really different about those missions, is the little story that accompanies the mission, like "A weapons dealer is hiding out..." or "A drug smuggler operates here..." you can friggin interchange the mission details for them all and it wouldnt make a difference.

It may sound fun, but going there and killing some guy really gets annoying when you have to travel real time distances to get there. There are some "fast travel areas" but you still have to do a great deal of the foot work. Just wait till you are in the middle of nowhere and accidentally blow up your car and you have to friggin walk it. (fortunately cars seem to be laying all over the place)

Its a game world full of respawning enemies at certain points, in fact if a mission involves killing someone and you clear out an entire enemy base, a game day or so later they are all back. I never finished the game, and from what i understand im not missing anything with the ending. It really just got too tedious to play and was not having fun.

My biggest problem with it is the lack of prone...

If that could be added it would make it so much better.