Josip Idromeno

Josip Idromeno
Biography
Name	Josip Idromeno
Nationality	Kosovar Albanian
Birth	Prizren, former Yugoslavia. Currently Kosovo
Status	Player Determined
Age	48
Occupation	Paratrooper (formerly) Bodyguard (formerly)
History
Appearances	Far Cry 2
Attributes
Role	Player Character NPC Ally
Gender	Male
Hair Color	Grey
Eye Color	Brown
Companion Traits
Weapons	Homeland 37 SPAS-12
Real World
Played By	Bernard Bollet

«	A heavy drinker and smoker, it's taken a toll on his 48 year old frame. But still a bear of a man who can break you in two. Did his mandatory as a paratrooper before finding work as a bodyguard and enforcer in former Yugoslavia. Ran a small trucking company. Likes the high risk contracts, like here. Guess the money's better. He's supporting his family back in Europe.	»
Journal Description

Josip Idromeno is an Albanian who was born in Kosovo. He was a paratrooper in the Yugoslav People's Army, working as a bodyguard and partisan in the Kosovo Liberation Army, a paramilitary insurgent organization, and is now a veteran of the war that took place in Yugoslavia.

Far Cry 2 Prima Official Game Guide

"Josip was raised in the former Yugoslavia. The youngest of six children, he was drafted into the army in the late 1970s, choosing to serve as a paratrooper for better benefi ts.With the outbreak of the Yugoslav War in 1992, Josip took any work he could fi nd to provide for his family, often putting him in contact with unsavory individuals and organizations. For a year after the war’s end, he struggled to support his extended family through various criminal enterprises. He moved with his wife and children to Sofi a, Bulgaria, where he used his business contacts to establish a small trucking company. Concerned about the cost of sending his daughter to university in Germany, Josip took a number of lucrative overseas contracts in high-risk locations. Between 2002 and 2005 he ran various freight operations in the Gaza Strip, Northern Iraq, and Nigeria. It was while on an oil company contract in Nigeria that Josip seized an opportunity to branch out into industrial security."

Interactions

Josip can be chosen as the player character in Far Cry 2. If he is not chosen, he will appear as a buddy to the player character.

Missions

During the progress of the game, Josip may ask you to do a couple of favors for him:

• Go to the fuel depot and destroy the liquid propane tank
• Terminate the car salesman at Mokuba

Trivia

• He is the oldest playable character in Far Cry 2, and the oldest playable character in the franchise.
• His English is not very well-developed; it is notable when he speaks.
• Even though Josip is ethnically Albanian, as well as more than 92% of the Kosovo´s population (2020), his first name is a play on the late Yugoslavian leader, Josip Broz Tito's name.
• Josip carries either a Homeland 37 or SPAS-12 shotgun, determined randomly whenever he appears.
• "Idromeno" is very uncommon surname for an Albanian, this probably means that the developers got this surname from a specific person instead of giving him a generic surname, most likely someone famous. The only famous Albanian with such a surname was the Albanian painter Kolë Idromeno.

Gallery

Journal

Journal entry (rotated)

Concept art

Josip´s infos in the character selection at the beginning of the game

Josip dead after a shooting

Character sheet of Josip in the collector edition's book

1st Person