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Horrible Next-Gen Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: April 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I played through and beat the original Far Cry for the first X-Box and loved it. The game was very fun and had some new cool new ideas for the very-populated FPS crowd. This new version just doesn't have the same effect. In this new era of console gaming, games must go the extra step to survive and the 2nd Far Cry just doesn't.

From the minute I plugged the disc into my machine, things turned ugly. Someone at Ubisoft had the genius idea to block the Far Cry: Evolutions story-line (the sequel game) until you beat the Far Cry: Instincts story-line (the original). That is horrible news to any and all of us that have already beaten the original and want to know what happens next in the life of Jack Carver. Fortunately, this problem can be corrected by going on-line and finding the appropriate cheat code. But still, a cheat code shouldn't be needed to unlock the game you just bought.

The next disappointment I noticed were the graphics. They are, for the 360 console, bland and subpar. Although improved, they don't standout. Compared to the X-Box version, the graphics are greatly improved and shine but once they are compared with other 360 games, they obviously fall short of the mark. I was greatly sadened by this, especially after hearing and reading all the hype surrounding the game and it's "awesome graphics."

The last pit-fall I found in the game is actual gameplay. The story-lines are both very short and can be beaten in only a day or two. And beyond this, the actual handling of the charcter feels somewhat sloppy, almost sluggish. Jack doesn't handle on-screen with precision like 360 gamers have come to be used too; instead movements all feel delayed a split-second, leading to very frustrating enemy encounters where that split-second means life or death.

Overall, I was extremely disappointed with this next step in the Far Cry world. The graphics aren't anyhere near 360 standards, the gameplay is sluggish and short, and, even if you've beaten the original before, you hafta beat Instincts again to play the new Far Cry game. This one is a rental, at best, for hard-core FPS fans.

XBOX title? comon now....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: August 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This was a waste of money. I personally enjoy First person shooters but this is an extreemly weak implementation of that. After playing the firts couple of leveles you realize how repeditive this game becomes. Aplications of the new Xbox technology have apperantly been ignored. Graphics are clear yes, but they could be better. The concept of the game overall is good but the carry out in design has been horrible. I am not pleased with this game at all.

Pretend You Still Have the Old Xbox!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When you purchased your 360, I'll bet one of your first thoughts was, "I wonder if they have any games that look like it's 2002 again." Well the answer is a resounding YES!

First there was "Far Cry." Then "Far Cry:Instincts." Then obviously there was the need for "Far Cry:Instincts:Predator." There is actually nothing wrong with that name that couldn't be fixed by changing it to "Far Cry:Yes This Really Is That Same Game From Before:No Really I'm Not Kidding."

Anyway, you played this game on your old Xbox, and THE GRAPHICS HAVE NOT CHANGED AT ALL. So you get to relive all that low-polygon goodness, not to mention sluggish and unresponsive control. I remember this game being a lot of fun on the original Xbox.

What else... Oh yeah, there's apparently TWO games on the disc, the original, and a new one which is very.... similar. (Apparently the games don't require, you know, all that much room on the disc.) They made sure to retain all the same awkward character animations and interminable cut scenes, because you don't mess with the what works.

Kills Any Fun It Creates

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There is much to like about this game, but it's all smashed to giblets by the things it does wrong.

The good things include a fun storyline, attractive (if sub par for next-gen) graphics, and cool animalistic powers.

Now, the bad.

I got my X360 about a year ago. This game was the first I bought. I have yet to finish it, because each time I've tried to play through, I've been utterly frustrated in short order and inspired to pick up something else.

Since I began Far Cry, I have completed Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3 (all several times, on normal and hard difficulties), Dark Watch, Gun, BioShock, Red Dead Revolver, Viva Pinata, Overlord, God of War, God of War 2, The Simpsons Game, Crackdown, Prey, Dead or Alive 2, 3, and 4, Guild Wars, Half Life 2 (my second time, on hard), Conan, Kameo, James Bond Nightfire, Tomb Raider Legend, and a fair amount of World of Warcraft.

My latest attempt at Far Cry just ended, and is likely my last.

I'm playing at normal difficulty (Hunter), but the game is too hard for several reasons:

First, there is no quick save feature and the game relies on automatic save points. That in itself isn't bad (the Halos use auto-saves to good effect, for example), but in Far Cry the saves are too far apart, and there's no way of predicting where the next one will be. So if you play a while, but need to stop soon, odds are you'll need to quit before hitting the next save, and may well lose all you've accomplished in that session. Also, all too frequently, I've spent a good deal of time getting through a treacherous area, only to have a moment of bad luck which kills me and puts me right back where I started, at the last save. I've lost up to a couple hours progress to this nonsense at times.

Next, the clunky controls all by themselves can create those moments of bad luck. Maybe you accidentally throw a grenade when trying to hold your breath for a tricky sniper shot. Maybe you inadvertently leap to your feet from a stealthy crawl, in plain site of the enemy, simply because you brushed up against a weird angle in the ground. Maybe you tried to use one of the various vehicles in the game, which have the sloppiest freaking controls I've ever used for vehicles in a game, and which are usually a sure ride to your death.

As noted by many reviews, the AI is unpredictable, often stupid and not very aware, but sometimes eagle-eyed and more aware of their surroundings than is humanly possible. You're left with no true sense of what you can and can't do in approaching and dealing with the enemies, or what tactics will be effective.

Worst of all, the game CHEATS. You're presented with an illusion of choice in where you go and how you approach challenges, but in fact you're very obviously herded along on rails, straight into forced confrontations in which you are funneled by the landscape into inescapable fights with the enemy. Sure, we're all used to that, and even the best of games often play that way. But in this game, you're in a jungle, on a large island, and to be stealing along through the leafy wood only to suddenly find that there's a wall of leaves to one side that looks no different than the growth you've been moving through, mirrored by a similar leafy wall a short distance to the other side, is really destructive to immersion, becoming bluntly frustrating as both invisible walls grow closer and closer, funneling you directly into your enemies.

And don't bother scouting out where the enemies are with the binoculars and sniper scope the game gives you, or making cool tactical plans on how to approach these dangerous situations, because you'll just get annoyed when the time and effort turns out to be pointless. This is the kind of game in which you can locate all the mercs in an encampment, kill them all, and then be attacked as you move through the camp by a fresh horde of them springing from absolutely nowhere. It's like looking in a closet as you search a room, finding it empty, then suddenly being attacked by five bad guys who leap out of the closet. It's ridiculous, and it makes your strategies and tactics completely moot and a waste of time.

I wish I could play through this game. I'm intrigued by the story, and I want to play more with the feral powers. But, alas, no; life is way too short.

Far Cry Instincts Predator could have been great, as I understand its PC predecessor to be. But the developers designed it to constantly kill any sense of fun the game might manage to create. Go to a game store and throw a rock in any direction and you'll probably hit a better game.

the same thing better graphics

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

look at the rating, i got it and then returned it and exchanged it for Call of Duty 2, much much better

Blehh Get the Original FC for PC.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I must say that when i downloaded the demo for this game i was HIGHLY dissapointed, where are the beautiful water effects, the awesome folige, awesome sunny skys, and even realistic looking weapons. None of these things are to be found here, i could not believe this came out for something with one of the best ATI chipsets in the world runninng it, this looked more like a 800X600 resolution game for a PC with some old Nvidia X4000 card in it. My advice stay away from this one and get the original PC version and if your PC can handle it crank it up and see paradise.

On the fun side it was on par with the first but the AI was still pretty crappy. I think Far Cry Instincts on regular Xbox was much much better than this.

bla

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

CONS: graphically not that impressive. achievements that aren't really that easy. half-life style vehicle driving, but worse. repetitive gameplay. shoot a helicopter a million times and it won't die unless the game agrees it's the helicopter's time to go. far too easy to get killed a million times by someone/something you can't even see. 2 steps to the left, the screen fills with red and you're dead instantly - why? what killed me? oh it was a sniper i can't even see in the dark, again, for the 29th time. better checkpoints could have helped that, but no luck, so you'll be repeating the same stupid thing over and over and over and over and over again. really no different than any other average shooter out there.

PROS: the disc spins in the tray. the game loads and works.

FCIP isn't all that spectacular...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: August 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well Far Cry Instincts lets us take control of Jack Carver, a former US Navy Commando-now turned-fishing boat captain who is on the run from his past. Eventually, after having his boat annihilated, Jack finds himself battling for his life on this island against pirates, mercanaries, and a mad doctor named Kreiger. Soon enough this Kreiger fellow gets a hold of you and injects you with some virus that transforms you into a lethal killing machine with abilities such as smelling people, seeing in the dark, super strength & speed, and the ability to jump great distances. Anyway, you basically have to kill Kreiger and the leader of the Mercanaries named Crowe and escape the island.

In Evolution, we find that Jack has been spending his time basically getting drunk when this young dame hires him as a muscle during a weapons sale between her and some local militia. Just as the sale is about to go down, some rebels come and obliterate the militia - and after you kill them - it looks like everyone is poiting the blame on you for the death of the militia. Anyway, your trying to escape from this new island when you get assaulted by people who have the same kind of powers as you, and the big cheese known as Sereum (or something like that) tries killing you and that dame from early... so naturally you want vengenace.... especialyl after he kills your man Doyle from Instincts.

Though different stories, both games play exactly a like. Through Jack's eyes you get a lot of weapons from assault rifles, shotguns, .50 caliber machine guns you can rip out of the ground, sniper rifles, and others to destroy numerous enemies - though you can only carry 3 types of weapons, most of the smaller ones can be duel wield. You can also use your animal moves which can be entertaining like when you punch a pirate 100 miles away. There are a lot of vehicles to drive such as hummers, ATVs, hand gliders (that was cool), various types of boats, trucks, and many more.. though there are no tanks. In both games you can set traps, which include laying claymore mines into the ground or tying up branches so when enemies walk near them the branch whips back scoring you an instant kill. It was pretty cool, but got pretty useless later on.

There is a multiplayer and it is pretty fun. There are many types of game modes ranging from mere deathmatches & capture the flag games to "Predator" games where one person becomes feral and stalks other players. There is also a map editor where you can make your own stages with any kind of box, vehicle, emplacement, or anything which is a really cool feature. Great for X-Box Live.

Lets talk difficulty. Far Cry Predator is a pretty hard game for a few reasons: You'll be fighting ALOT of enemies at one time (both in air and on ground), the weapons seem sort of weak when you're using them, and your health depletes WAYYY too fast - for instance you'll get shot like twice with an assault rifle and you're almost dead. However, the boss fights are pretty simplistic and just require you to slash at them with your claws for a few moments.. so its a win-lose situation: It's hard to get up to the boss, but the boss is easy.

Graphics are kinda subpar figuring they just used the normal X-Box mechanics, but they still look pretty good. The white beaches, dense jungles, dark caves, and crystal clear water look beautiful... the character models look a little lame and boxy, but one quick glance at the enviroments and you can easily forget about them.

Almost all of the sounds were great. The music was really thumbs up and helped add a bit of lonliness & freakyness to the atmosphere. The guns sounded great, and the voice acting was awesome - Jack Carver is the man. He curses, is sarcastic, tough... he has a lot of personality that is shown through his dialouge.

Now for endings. Instincts was boring - you beat Crowe, Kreiger gets killed by some mutants, Doyle & Cortez pick you up in a helicopter. You say, "Cortez - you owe me a damned boat!" and Doyle gives you a suitcase full of money. You grin and fly away.. thats it. In Evolution, after you beat the leader of the new Feral people (Sereum), you meet the dame who hired you and tried to kill you near the end of the game, and she starts freaking out because..well...she tried to kill you and you survived. You throw her money at her and she says," There was nothing else I could do Jack." and your character looks at her and goes, "There was a time when I used to think like that too." and kicks open a door to reveal a way off the island. Thats it.... sadly, Doyle dies. Sort of lackluster, but every game's ending has been bad so far.

To finish it up Far Cry is a pretty run of the mill FPS with only a FEW qualities that make it stand out slightly. Sure its intense, and sure the multiplayer is good but the game is kinda short, the ending doesn't feel rewarding, and when your done with the stoy (and don't have X-Box Live) then there really isn't much reason to play Predator again. Rent it first.

Ok but needs some work

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

over all i was very impressed with this game but the graphics are not what they should be for the xbox 360 and i think that there should be more options in the map editor like the ablity to create caves. Over all it is alot of fun online and there is a ton of game play. The map editor is hard to use at first but you get the hang of it quickly. If you are looking for a game that you will play campaign for about 24 hours and a fun always different multiplayer then you should get this. But be warned if you lag in this game it means a ton of unfun.

Small improvements here and there but still a great game....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: March 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

..okay this is my review of Far cry instincts pred., first of all this game contains "Far cry instincts and Far cry evouloution" two games that were released seperatley for xbox but this one contains both on one disc with enhanced graphics for Xbox 360, now that I got that out of the way let me countin ue.

Pros

Wide open eviorments to play in.
Graphics upgraded [espicially the water]
map editor has benn upgraded
excellent live support [no lag]
contains two games in one
Can choose between predator or survivor diffuculties

Cons

some character models are slightly undetailed
some lagging during single player campaign
two feral ablities are mapped to the same button [controler diffuculties]

All in all a execllent game, one that should be added to any 360 owners collection.

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