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An impressive game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I got the demo of this game a few weeks back, and was amazed by the intelligent ai, awesome visuals and powerful weapons. More so, the game was a challenge. Even on easy, it took me a few tries before i could beat the demo. Once the game came out, i promptly went out and bought it. I haven't stopped playing since. The AI is probably the smartest AI in any game today. They will react to you, and for example, if you snipe one in a group, the others will begin to look for you, based on where the shot came from. They also have excellent dialoge, which adds to the games realism. Occasionally, though, they say things that don't make sense. In one part of the game, you blow a gaping hole in a wall. If you wait a few minutes, the guards will say "oh well, i guess it was just my imagination". Kinda amusing.
The story, which involves a mad scientist, a girl and some mercs is kinda cliched, but still amusing. Jack's sarcastic wit, along with Doyle's instructions keep the game intersting.

I would highly recomend this game to anyone with a good PC who like FPS games. My system is a p4, 3.2 with a gig of ram, and a 9800XT. The game look spectacular. However, with a lower end system, it might not look as good. Be warned though, this game is hard. One hit on easy might take your health down half way, and the health packs are scarce. This game on easy makes halo on heroic look like a cake walk. Also, watch out when the Tridgens come. They hurt... a lot.
This game is not without it's downsides. In some missions, you must work with val, your ai counterpart. A word of warning, she is as dumb as a rock. She will get stuck behind things, forcing you to replay whole sequences, or she will shoot at an enemy for five minutes, and hit nothing but air. However smart the enemy ai is, val is the exact opposite. If it wasn't for her stupidity, and the stuff when you have to replay sequences because of her inability to pathfind, i would give this game five stars.

A Great Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

PROS:
This game is tons of fun..the plot line and voice talent is a little lacking but your not playing this for the beautiful character arcs, you wanna blow stuff up, and this game is one of the best FPS/Action/Shooters out there today. Great graphics, large, highly explorable, environments and pretty decent A.I. will keep this game fun and exciting every time you play.

CONS:
No coop feature to speak of. However, I did find a user created mod that allows Multiplayer Coop but it is still really buggy and doesn't work all the time...

OVERALL:
Buy this game you wont regret it...unless you are looking for a Coop specific game.

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

multiplayer isnt much fun, but as for the AI and the singleplayer alone its an awesome game. I would recommend this to anyone.

can't save games but it is fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Biggest draw back, you cannot save your game, you have to finish a check point. I don't mind so much as some of the other reviewers (and I am a time strapped parent too).
The graphics are cool BUT the shades and color are unrealistic in many areas (the inside of the carrier, and the caves look fake).

The AI is neat but the dialogue is stupid!

I enjoy the weapons and vehicles. I am not finished playing but like the game.

May be the best fps ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The only possible gripe with this game is that it takes a few moments to load up initially. It has a great story and best of all, great gameplay. It is the only game that, upon completing, I immediately started over at a higher level of difficulty. Challenging without becoming frustrating.

Far Cry--Another Great Shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hello Everybody!

Ive heard so much about Far Cry, that I finally had to give it a shot. I was a bit skeptical, and I thought it might be another Half-Life or Chronicles of Riddick: That is, it might be a decent game but not everything it was cracked up to be.

Well for once, the pundits were right! Far Cry is a real piece of work. The levels are amazing, and its the shooter thats the next best thing to being there. Theyre not just for show either because the different parts of these levels can be effectively used to battle and sneak your way through your missions. It features one suspenseful firefight after another, and when youre not gunning youre using stealth to nail your next victim. I believe this is the only shooter I know of that actually gets stealth right. Theres a seamless blend of action and stealth, and you can easily switch from one to the other to finish the mission.

Like anything else, Far Cry is by no means perfect. For one thing its HARD! On many of the missions Im loading in the last save point again and again. The fact that you cant save anywhere doesnt help either, and youll probably end up replaying much of these tougher levels ad infinitum. Interestingly enough, the difficulty actually seems rather reasonable, though, and in some sense it actually adds to the games enjoyment because you feel a real high of triumph once youve finally made it through.

Far Cry also has some technical glitches, and the sound of a weapon sometimes keeps going off after you have killed its former possessor. For some reason I cannot control the sound volume with the control on my keyboard, and even the sliders in the sound options menu wont work properly. Also, the game often locks up when Im in the process of shooting my first grunt which is a real problem when Im in the thick of combat.

Nevertheless, I must call Far Cry a great game, warts and all. Its good parts are so good that they overshadow the games imperfections. Its been a long time coming for me because the last time I found shooters I thought were great was way back in 2002 when I discovered Aliens v. Predator II and Soldier of Fortune II. Doom III was good, and Half-Life II was very good, but Far Cry really sets a precedent. So move over Unreal and Unreal Tournament, Quake II and Wolfenstein 3Dtheres a new inductee into my personal computer game hall of fame. Far Cry is a great shooter, and someday I might need to say that its the best ever. If I do, then I wont be surprised.

Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Far Cry is an excellent game wich i dont mind playing over and over even though i've beaten it. I find that there are ne areas I can explore and different way to go about accomplishing the missions every time.

I like the beginnig of the game alot. Around the middle it gets a little muddled down with the Monsters. I know that is an important part of the game but I think they could have been toned down a little. I enjoyed fighting the Mercs much better. I would rather there be fewer monsters and the Merc difficulty level raised and new kinds of mercs to defeat.
I liked that there were parts where it was more focused on the Mercs after the monsters were introduced.

The environment is great. I love the tropical island setting and exploing the different areas. That was a big part of what made this game good for me. The environment in Half-Life 2, which I compared to this game mostly as I played them at the same time, was alot more depressing and dull. I supposed they wanted t to look scary but it was ut kind of tiersome after a while. But Far Cry had a great lush environment and it was vibrant. I liked it alot. I can't wait to play Crysis.

Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is my favorite game ever. It looks amazing, in fact its the best looking game i've ever seen. The AI is amazingly smart. They are very hard to kill at times which makes it more fun I think. The sound is great but the voicovers suck. I don't realy care about the voiceovers though so they don't detract from the gameplay. The weapons are great. The controls are not too great to start off with, but they are fully customizable, so I made them just how I like them. It is really fun to drive the vehicles in this game. It is a very fun game, but definately challenging. I like challenging games so I was fine with it. When I say challenging I mean replaying one area up to 20 times before beating it. The infrequent savings also add to the challenge. It took me a long time to beat this game though, because I am not a serious gamer, I just play when I have ntohing else to do. The best thing about the game is the nonlinear game play. You can go anywhere and do just about anything. By going anywhere, I mean if you see an island a mile off in the distance, you can swim there, walk there, drive there, hang glide there, or just not go there and go somewhere else. There are neverending ways to beat the levels and the game. The one thing I didn't like was the ending. The ending was anticlimactic. The fights leading up to the battle were nearly impossible, but the final battle took about 5 seconds. BUY THIS GAME! IT'S AMAZING!

This is a new part to my review: I just played and beat half life 2. Yes. Half life 2 has better graphics. Yes. Half life 2 has better sound. Yes. Half life 2 has a better story. BUT!!!, Far cry is much more fun! I still love the nonlinear gameplay of far cry. I would still give half life 2 5 stars, but it had a completely linear gameplay, so you could only do one thing to beat a level. In far cry you could do anything, anywhere, to anyone, whenever you wanted. That is what made it great. It is still my favorite game because of that. You should still BUY THIS GAME! IT'S AMAZING!!!

A Great First Person Shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off, I have a CD-R drive and the game loaded fine. It was a long load (5 discs, almost 30 minutes to load in), and it did get stuck at one point halfway through, but it eventually loaded fine.

If you like first person shooters, FAR CRY is a great game. The graphics are stunning, the sound is just as good.

There is some variety to the missions. From stealth, to fighting, to driving. Even on easy, some of the levels are quite tough.

While you can't save at any point, as soon as you get to the next part of the level, the game automatically saves. This isn't that big of a problem as each save point is only a couple minutes apart.

The only thing keeping this from a five star review is, it isn't as addictive as a lot of other computer games. I can put the game aside for a couple days, and not feel like I want to play it constantly. I guess that is a good thing though, as it keeps me away from playing the game all the time.

A great game. Especially for the current price, it is well worth picking up.

Excellent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my husband, after reading previous reviews about it, and now my husband won't play any other game. He loves the graphics, and the whole concept of the game.

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