Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island. A week ago Valerie, a brash newspaper reporter, offered him an incredible sum of cash to sail her to this unspoiled paradise; but shortly after docking he was greeted by artillery fire from a mysterious militia group swarming over the island. With his boat destroyed, his money gone, and Valerie suddenly missing, Jack now finds himself facing an army of mercenaries amidst the wilds of the island with nothing but a gun and his wits to help him survive. And the further he pushes into the lush jungle canopy, the stranger things become...
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My most favourite game ever
Pretty fun, game had better graphics than the cutscenes XD
Great graphics, gameplay is awesome, you must play this game!
Game with outstanding combat dynamics, as well as some good looking environments, that unfortunately does offer nothing beyond a good first impression, but it could be worth it to play for the combat alone.
A great game that is sadly pretty underrated these days because of some issues I will address. First things first, PATCH THIS GAME!!
If you get this game off Steam or even GOG and play it on Windows 10 the game is BROKE!. The stealth aspect of the game is completely broken if you do not patch it. Enemies can spot you instantly, and you can not use anything like bushes to hide from them.
You also will not be able to use the HDR graphics either. Once the game is patched, everything works as intended and the game works well.
The stealth in this game often gets called broken, but that is simply because people are actually playing a broken game. Once that is out of the way, you will be able to stealth through big chunks of the levels (if you want to) because the stealth works fine.
The game was very very pretty and graphically demanding when it was released back in 2004 and still looks pretty nice even now maxed out with the HDR turned on. Far cry pushed gaming PCs to melting point and was a big turning point for how good games could look on PCs. The levels are very vibrant and detailed, and there are physics also. You can roll barrels down hills and rag doll the enemies. You really do feel like you are moving through a dense jungle being hunted at times. This was a big deal because back then there were plenty of games that did jungles, but none quite as good as they were done here in Far cry. Games simply could not render that many trees, and plants, but Far cry made it look effortless. I often take screenshots in game because of how beautiful the environments still are.
The water in Far cry is honestly better than some games even released today, it's that beautiful, full of reflections and bubbles and even fish swimming around. The levels are highly detailed full of dense foliage and the levels are open and are pretty large with many different paths for the player to use. All impressive stuff for 2004. Far cry would likely have been the best looking game in 2004 if Doom 3 and Half life 2 did not release that very same year. Far cry also has a great atmosphere a mix of tense stealth, action and even horror.
In many ways, this really was Crysis before Crysis. The game is not perfect, however it's very difficult, at times it's even been called one of the most challenging FPS games ever released the last parts of the game will make you want to scream with frustration. The Trigen are VERY frustrating at times.The voice acting is pretty bad and the story is very B movie. The AI is pretty good most of the time, but can be iffy at times also.
But when everything works and comes together, it's a really fun game. It's a great feeling to be able to choose how you want to play a level. Want to go in guns blazing? Well you can, you want to use a hang glider or a car or even a boat ? You can or do you wanna play in a stealthy way and get through the whole level undedicated ? Because you can. Or just combine all of this.
There are a lot of weapons in the game, and they are all modelled well and sound great. It's really fun to use the sniper in this game especially when playing in a stealthy way. One of my favourite ways to play is simply using crouch or go into the prone position to move through the bushes and simply pick off the enemies with a silenced machine gun head shoting them before they knew what hit them (you can only do this is the game is fixed and patched)
Please patch the damn game and have a great time playing Crysis before Crysis. Far cry really could use a decent remaster, so it works straight off of Steam and GOG, so people stop playing a broken game.
Classic!
Old but Gold, amazing Game
An impressive game for it's time, truly way ahead of it's time !
Awesome game!!!
Good.