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Say, "Cheese!"

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In all honesty, I couldn't even get past the terrible graphics in the opening sequence. Even the worst computer games of 1993 didn't look this bad!!!

The mouth movements didn't sync with the audio. And what is the deal with all of the terrible fake accents???

All of this was way too much for me, since I had a stack of other Wii games that were far better executed. I popped this disc out and put the game up on ebay.

Well...the deathmatch concept is cool!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this game today. I anticipated it's release eagerly. And now that I own it, if there's one thing I can say above all else: rent this game before you buy it. There's a good chance you won't feel it's worth the money.

Without doubt, the first thing you'll notice in this game, before you notice the clumsy (at first) controls, before you notice how dumb the enemies are, before you notice how the music and sound effects cut in and out poorly, the first thing you'll notice in this game is: the graphics. They are BAD. They're stunningly bad. They're mindbogglingly, laughably bad. Now of course anyone that knows the next-gen understands that games for the Wii aren't trying to set the standard for graphics, the machine simply doesn't have that kind of processing power. But this particular title...it looks like a GameCube title. In fact, it's on par with Time
Splitters 2, a game that came out 4 years ago...and even THEN the graphics weren't cutting edge. It is impossible to ignore how poor this game looks.

That being said, the next thing you'll probably notice after spouting out a few expletives about how the games looks would be: the controls. They're awkward...but if you can get past the graphics, don't worry, you'll warm up to the controls after an hour or two of playing. The jumping feels good, the grenade throw feels good, and the aiming is pretty good. They feel more intuitive than Red Steel's, which still feel a little ineffective to me. However, there are problems with the controls too. If you sit any further than about 4 or 5 feet away from the Wii sensor bar, the gameplay stops and a message pops up telling you to wiggle in closer. No other game for the Wii has this short range and it's annoying to have to adjust my living room just for it. The other problem I had was the zoom/scope, which is used by shoving your Wii-mote forward or backwards to zoom in or out respectively. It just doesn't make sense to me and feels weird. If anything, if it were trying to be realistic, you would have to pull your Wii-mote gun close to your shoulder to zoom in, like one would do with a rifle to see through the scope. Instead you shove out your controller, and that will never make sense to me. I feel there should just be a button for zoom for ease.

Enough critiquing though right? On to the good! There was one thing that kept me from kicking myself for buying this game, one thing that made me smile like the Nintendo-loving kid I used to be. The deathmatch! You can play standard ho-hum shoot-at-each-other deathmatch, OR you can play predator mode. In predator mode, one person gets to play as the standard, gun-wielding character in the game, and one player gets to be his scary-looking, biological-experiment-gone-bad alter ego, the predator. The predator can't wear armor or heal, but he moves twice as fast, jumps twice as far, and can maul you to death with one bloody swipe of his claws. Also, the predator is just plain scary to defend against. When you manage to shoot down your predator opponent, you become the predator and he becomes the gun-wielding guy, running around frantically trying to escape the wrath of the predator. It is incredibly fun to be the predator and chase down your bullet-spraying buddies and intensely scary to be the hunted. I played this for a few hours tonight with a friend and we were fully entertained. I can assuredly see myself playing the deathmatch quite a bit, even though graphically, it makes me sad.

My final thoughts: this game was either rushed into production, or not given enough attention/money by the developer Ubisoft to make it a Wii-worthy title. Sure, the deathmatch is a lot of fun and the controls are the best for a Wii first-person-shooter so far, (come on Metroid, impress me!) but there are scores of GameCube titles that look a lot better than this, and that's inexcusable. Put this title back in the oven Ubisoft, it's not even close to being done.

Just terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Where do I start..... Some of the worst graphics this side of the PS1. The repitition of the maps make for one boring game. Controls are bad. The cut scenes are goofy and once again the graphics ruin them. Game is constantly saving itself making for jumpy game play. I can't think of one positive thing to say about this game. Thank God that it was a free rental! Try Resident Evil 4 or the Godfather which are both fantastic games.

HOLY GOD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: December 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is literally terrible. I have played the PC version and the Xbox version, and I literally can't believe how badly this pales in comparison, even to the version on a previous gen system. If you put this next to Gears of War, I mean, its like a cruel joke on Wii owners. Gears of War actually, seriously, mops the floor with this game. It's actually somewhat funny how badly the other FPS games out there right now just utterly demolish this game in every way. This game looks like something on N64 at BEST, I am NOT exaggerating.

Anyone who could possibly say this game has any redeeming quality is literally kidding themselves and is just trying to defend the Wii for some ungodly reason. I own a Wii, obviously, and this game makes me want to sell the whole thing. It's a joke.

game of blood

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 25
Date: April 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game is about blood . i really like the part where the giant chickenm comes and you have 1 gun and a tank i would shoot the chickenms feet but it it has a force field on his feet. so you have to shoot his nose . this is a fun game.

Stay Away

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Avoid this game. It is not even worth a rental. I paid 10 bucks in a discount bin, and I feel robbed. As everyone else has said the graphics are abominable. Even with turning sensitivity cranked all the way up it felt like it took WAAY to long to turn to face my enemies. I beat the first level and felt dirty.

They should have employees hiding near the discount bins in stores ready to knock-you out if you pick up this game... Just do yourself the favor and dust off the N64 and wax nostalgic on some Goldeneye.

PLEASE DON'T BUY IT!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrible. The graphics are appalling, even going by GameCube standards. At times, some of the environments make it feel like an N64 game: sparce, flat, pixelated land hemmed in bluntly and artificially by foliage with dull-looking buildings composed with only a handful of textures. The AI is terrible. Don't expect exciting gun fights unless this is maybe your first shooter. The enemy will often just stand there and shoot until dead or get caught on a building or props. Fact is, I would probably be impressed (though maybe a little annoyed) with this game as an N64 or PSX effort. Playing on those consoles is the last time I remember shooting vaguely in the direction of a misshapen lump of pixels, realizing that that's how the game represents a far-off enemy. As one of the first Wii shooters, I can respect its position as an early example of the potential the console has to become a great 1st person shooter machine, but little else beyond that.
It seems like most every motion-oriented gameplay element they tried to implement they just did wrong. The grenade throwing feels kind of nice, but that's easy. For some reason, the developers decided that to zoom you should jerk the remote horizontally forward or backward. Of course it is not implemented in a way that makes it possible to do this effectively without completely loosing your place on the screen with your reticle, so forget about shooting at an enemy that may be running away then zooming in to make a satisfying kill. Situating the zoom like that makes zooming feel less like a helpful shooting tool and more like an altogether separate shooting mode which you must decide wether or not it is safe to be in at the time. Also, you are supposed to "attack" by doing some sort of side-swiping forward slash. This feels alright, but again disrupts your reticle which, if it travels close to the edge of the screen, will start turning you, often causing you to miss your target in CLOSE-RANGE COMBAT! "Broken" is the only way to describe that.
It's games like this that really make me worry about the console. It always seems like we're getting good games for Wii when in actuality, this is what turns out. Hopefully in the future, Wii developers will stop dumping this excrement on the public in lieu of developing an actual video game. But the more people buy these atrocious games without spending some time finding out if they are worth buying, the more of these games the developers turn out because they know they can make an easy buck on the game's initial release, then an extra buck from bargain-bin sales.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

To anyone considering the purchase of Far Cry: Vengeance be warned: IT IS HORRIBLE! I bought it used for $7 bucks and it was the biggest waste of money that I have EVER experienced with ANY game or accessory PERIOD. Check out the past reviews rating this as a 1 star and take them all to heart. This game is a true turkey in all respects. Graphics, game play, sound, etc. were all bottom of the barrel and UBI Soft should hide their heads in shame for releasing such garbage. If creating pig excrement on CD was a category at the game awards, then UBI should get a gold medal! As I type this the wretched game sits collecting dust until I remember to turn it in to GameStop for a few bucks credit. Either that or be a humanitarian and break it so that nobody else falls prey to the financial waste that I experienced...

Absolutely Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There aren't too many ways to say this is one of the worst games I have ever played, definitely the worst game on Wii.

BAD....very bad

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok the graphics on this game look like something from the nintendo 64 system.... really really really bad. Find and enemy up ahead??? Great, just shoot ANYPLACE in the general area and you will kill him. If you want feel free to just walk up to them, they wount shoot at you (they just stand around.) I found the way you interact with the game to be the only "cool" feature. The game is so easy and boring to look at, I lost interest and went back to WII sports instead.

Buy the pc version of this game instead. Not only does it have nice graphics, but it plays like a GAME with a story you care about beating.

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