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Do you wanta have fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was rated as the best of it's game class for the year. It played very interesting with a lot of appeal. I liked all aspects of this game with a minor few exceptions. I am use to LOOT being gathered from my previous games as a minor feel good reward to me for doing good. There is no inventory section within Far Cry to store this loot, supplies and extra weapons. But this is only a minor detail that does not impact any the fun and challenge presented by this game. It is like "Location, Location, Location" = This game is "Buy, Buy, Buy".

Not The Best

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's not great. Perhaps in its time it was but not anymore. Save your money.

STILL THE BEST FPS IN THE LAST 4 YEARS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

2004 was a good year for FPS games. Both HALF LIFE 2 and FAR CRY were released. Whereas DOOM III and QUAKE IV came and went - (not exactly unnoticed but does anyone play them today?), these two were here to stay. Nevertheless, whereas HL2 eventually got to my nerves with the whole STEAMed-permission-to-play-for-30-minutes blunder, FAR CRY was the game I loved the most and replayed again and again.

The graphics are just amazing! HL2 may have crisp and clear textures too, however, FAR CRY's are also realistic and detailed even at maximum resolution. The controls are intuitive and remapable - and take the character (Jack Carver) precisely where you want him. Running is fast and crawling is effectively silent. When greater distances are to be covered, vehicles are available to commandeer.

The weapons are beautiful: a mix of real and futuristic improvements. Ammo is never really a problem (well, with the exception of the Sniper rifle bullets and the RPG loads when they would really tip the balance in your favor) and, most importantly, the damage they inflict is TRULY BALANCED: both enemies and player go down with about the same amount of damage (you would be surprised on how many games this is not true - STALKLER for one...).

The story is interesting, the locales truly breathtaking and the horizon the further you have ever seen in any game! True free roaming is not actually available (try to round an island with a speedboat to circumvent same stubborn enemies and a black helicopter will chop you to pieces), however the taste is at the tip of your tongue the whole time.

The sounds and music have been worked on with care and they maximize the gaming experience.

My only (minor) objection focuses on the battles with the mutants: FAR CRY features one of the best enemy AI ever encountered. I truly savored battling human AI - but was apprehensive when another mutant segment was coming up. Then again, the game never lets you get bored.

I am not an easy costumer (feel free to browse through the rest of my reviews, you will see what I mean...); nevertheless,

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Excellent graphics, excellent game play. Highly recommend

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I didn't know what this game was when I first got it, but I installed it out of curiosity (it had RAVE reviews). After several hours of "tip-toeing through it and getting killed over and over again, before FINALLY finding "THE SOLUTION" to each problem, I was hooked!
WOW! This game was well-thought out.
My ONLY complaint is that the game is so tough (< not a bad thing), that I finally (after a week of frustration), had to find and download some CHEATS just to make the game PLAYABLE. But WARNING: The CHEATS only make it marginally "more playable."

Dated but good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Didn't actually buy the game, as I am a member of Gametap and this was added to their lineup several months ago (you can also get it from Fileplanet as a download for less than $10, and no doubt there are used copies going for that or less on Amazon). I enjoyed the game, even though the graphics are now a little dated. Not a great game, but if you can get it cheap, it's definitely worthwhile.

Pretty Lousy Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: May 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was supposed to be the 2004 Game of the Year?? It was difficult to load, difficult to play, and difficult to uninstall. My system meets or exceeds all the system requirements listed on the box. When I finally got this game installed, Which took about 3 tries and two hours...( it always hung up on the fifth disk during install )I got to play it for about 5 minutes before my firewall blocked the game from connecting to the internet, now mind you I was in single player mode...no reason for the game to try to access the internet....at this point I was frustrated to the point of uninstalling the game.( which was also a headache ) if you want a GOOD First Person Shooter, get Deus EX or Fallout, both games beat this game hands down!!!!! I was Very Very Unimpressed with this game, fortunately I didn't pay much for it !!!

Wow. (Crazy) tough at times, but simply awesome.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was one of the best games I have purchased to date. The environments are simply stunning and wide open. The majority of the game can be conquered from various approaches and even after 20 large (some huge!) areas, you're still left hungry for more. I could go on and on, but this game is definitely worth grabbing. Considering the deeply discounted price, it's more than worth the money spent.

Wow... and Wow again. This game rocks.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was one of the best games I have purchased to date. The environments are simply stunning and wide open. The majority of the game can be conquered from various approaches and even after 20 large (some huge!) areas, you're still left hungry for more. I could go on and on, but this game is definitely worth grabbing. Considering the deeply discounted price, it's more than worth the money spent.

Excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

One of the best FPS games of it's time. Graphics are still great when compared to current games... One of the best features is that you can hide in jungles without being seen through the grass like in many other games.

Most Overrated, Over-hyped Game Ever!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: February 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is so famous and people have made such a big deal about it. I am half-way through the game so far. This not the tour-de-force that people claim it is. I don't know how all these people could think this game is so great. The graphics are crude and cheap compared to more recent games, like Doom III and Halo 3, Halo 2, and Halo 1. Even some other games from 2003/2004 (such as No One Lives Forever 2) had nicer graphics. I have a great computer with an Athlon X2 5600+ cpu and an EVGA 8800 GTX graphics card. I set the all the video settings to very high, and it still didn't look that good. A reviewer said Far Cry is very polished, but it is nowhere near as polished as Halo 1, 2, or 3, which are the most thoroughly polished games I've ever played. The enemies in Far Cry just have a small number of lines that they say over and over. You can play Halo 1 several times over and still hear new dialogue once in a while. The shadows in Far Cry are handled very badly. Sometimes the vehicles just start floating off uncontrollably while you are driving them, forcing you to quit the game and restart. Also the lighting is really bad. Oftentimes the interior areas are blindingly bright. I don't like excessive darkness in games but I don't like blinding brightness either! And oftentimes the colors are off-looking and the textures are cheap and crude. Although Far Cry has much better gameplay than Doom III, it still could use more polish and improvement. People act like this game has amazing AI, but it doesn't. It seems pretty ordinary to me! I played this game on "challenging," the middle difficulty level out of five levels of difficulty. I heard this game is very hard, so I decided just to play on the middle level. I usually play on the hardest or second hardest level in FPS games. For me, sometimes this game was rather easy, and other times I had to try over and over to beat a segment. This game uses the checkpoint system instead of letting you save anywhere. I didn't mind that in Halo, but in Far Cry it gets frustrating sometimes. Sometimes you have to win several difficult battles in a row beafore you can make it to the next checkpoint. One little mistake or surprise attack and you die and have to start over. So it's often a big relief in Far Cry to get the next checkpoint. This is a very long game. It gets a little monotonous sometimes. There's not that much variety in the gameplay. However it does have a few excellent puzzles. People have said this is an extremely smart game, but I found it to be nowhere near as smartly developed as people say it is. I think Far Cry goes in the right direction, but it needs a HUGE amount of improvement in graphics, polish, gameplay, etc. I hope they put that into the sequel. I guess I recommend Far Cry if you have an older computer. I want to find some newer games with better graphics and more polish for my new computer. Far Cry is very out of date now.

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