Far Cry
Game Description
Welcome to Destination Far Cry. You are Jack Carver, running your own boat charter business in beautiful Micronesia. With a past best left behind you, you’ll be focusing on your present assignment: escorting an ambitious journalist named Valerie Cortez to the island of Cabatu. It seems like a piece of cake, but you’ll soon learn: paradise can be hell.
Feel the Far Cry Engine:
The meticulously designed next-generation Cry Engine pushes the threshold of action gaming with proprietary Polybump mapping, advanced environment physics, destructible terrain, dynamic lighting, motion-captured animation, and total surround sound.
Astonishingly Tension-filled Non-linear Experience:
Unique game design encourages a combination of pure reflex shooting as well as intelligent stealth. Draw out your enemies or perform a full-on assault. It’s up to you to use the vast environment to your own advantage.
Cunning and Complex A.I. Tactics:
Autonomous A.I. make realistic decisions based on observations of the current state of the world. These highly trained mercenaries are designed to utilize environmental features, attack in groups, divide and conquer, respond to player actions, and call in reinforcements from air, land, or sea.
Heart-Pounding Atmosphere:
Unique proprietary physics and lighting, adaptive audio, weather effects, and day/night cycles provide a tropical setting so real you’ll never want to leave. What You See Is What You Play.
Game Review
It’s not often that an upstart developer comes out with a new engine along with an incredibly polished game. Far Cry, though, is not only notable for being the first entry by Crytek into the crowded PC first-person shooter market ? it is quite possibly the best one-player, action-intensive shooter ever. Yes, the multiplayer is good, but the true strength of this title is in the solo experience.
Of all the incredible things I could bring up about the offline experience, the enemy AI is my absolute favorite ? the best I’ve ever seen by a long shot. They react realistically to seeing or hearing things, use cover better than most human players, and call in backup when they’re in trouble. To top it all off, different bad guys have distinct AI ? there’s nothing so awesome (and frustrating) as coming up against better-trained troops who know just how to counter the tactics you’ve been using to great effect against the grunts.
The variety to be found as you progress through the approximately 20-hour campaign is another unparalleled achievement on Crytek’s part. Not once, even for a moment, did I feel that it was a chore to tackle whatever challenge was in front of me. Whether it’s the environment, the weapons and gadgets available, new enemies to defeat, or nonstandard objectives to accomplish, Far Cry continually innovates ? even after ten hours into the quest, something new was constantly causing my jw to drop in awe. The vehicles integrate seamlessly into the action, whether you’re flying across a crystal-clear bay in a speedboat (with a mounted minigun, of course) or evading enemy choppers trying to hunt you down. Additionally, all of the weapons (and the several different grenades) react nicely, including their reload times, rate of fire, and accuracy.
Graphically, Far Cry is right up there with the triple-A titles coming out. The most impressive thing, though, is the draw distance. You can literally see the trees on an island a kilometer away, and fully animated water out to the horizon. Also, lighting is very nice (mottled sunlight filtering through foliage is my new favorite graphical effect), and shadows are quite detailed. The icing on the cake is the incidental effects, which will continually surprise you as you go on. For instance, take a big hit and your vision and hearing will momentarily get all funky.
Between three multiplayer modes and 11 maps, as well as a choice of three kits with weapon choices within those, there’s quite a bit of fragalicious fun to be had playing with friends, but the real draw is in the solo play. If you have any desire at all for nigh-perfect solo action, Far Cry is for you. — Rated: 9.25 out of 10 by Adam Biessener
Minimum System Requirements:
- Supported OS: Windows 98SE/2000/XP[I Have It Running On Vista With No Probs.]
- AMD Athlon 1 GHz Processor or Pentium 3 Processor 1 GHz-256MB of RAM
- Video Card: 64 MB DirectX 9.0b
- Compatible graphics card
- Sound Card: DirectX 9.0b-compatible PCI card
- DirectX 9.0b (also comes on disc)
- CD-ROM: 4x DVD or 16x CD-ROM
- 4 GB of free Harddrive space
- Multiplayer: Broadband with 64 Kbps upstream to play (512 Kbpsupstream to host 8 players)
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