Far Cry®

There are already many reviews praising the game's graphics, when I play a game, I don't care if it has the best graphics in the world, although it helps a bit sometimes, but the gameplay in this game is so infuriating and so random that even the prettiest of the graphics won't have a redeeming factor. The story is pretty silly, the voices are nothing short of laughable and a cardboard box has more personality than the characters of this game. The game starts out being a bit interesting enough and the action is a bit hectic sometimes... if you're not dealing with snipers. Seriously, you'll want to punch a baby seal if you're still playing the game after you've dealt with a tower of snipers. The game maintains to be decent enough as you progress and it may actually start to grow on you, until you reach certain point where you no longer have to fight humans... seriously, the new enemies you'll encounter are some of the cheapest and most infuriating of any game. I've never actually finished this game, but I just wanted the pain to stop. I actually bought this game in retail disc and I literally threw it to the garbage and I never looked back. Avoid at all costs, you'll never be able to remove this game from your GOG library. Ever.

Far cry doesn't pretend to be anything else than an FPS game. Story plays like a B-movie. Sound is OK. Soundtrack is nothing special. But what it does nail down is gameplay. Instead of being able to quick-save and quick-load all the time like any game out there. There is checkpoints, usually around where your current objective is. This is what makes Far cry shine. It actually get difficult. It's actually hard! In some points (3-5?) you will get 'stuck'. Usually it's many enemies you have to combat at the same time. But every time you get that last kill using the last round in your rifle... It's damn gratifying. But Far cry is no means a have to play game or a classic. Recommended to anyone that enjoys FPS-games.

If you have butterfingers or don't like the "save only at checkpoints" design decision, you can simply run the game in developper mode (by editing the icon properties once i.e. right click the icon, select properties and add < -devmode> AFTER the final quote of the path/filename without the '<' and '>') after having edited the .../Far Cry/DevMode.lua file by adding the two lines Input:BindCommandToKey("#Game:Save('Quicksave')","f5",1); Input:BindCommandToKey("#Game:Load('Quicksave')","f9",1); Choose the f-keys and filename you like and add the lines after any previous definitions for those keys. Drawback : in DevMode the game will give you access to all levels, even the ones you have not yet reached - but you will be reasonable :-). For me this greatly improves an already great game.

Far Cry is a game that really brings out the good in Crytek of 2004, easy on the eyes, voice acting at it's best, and that character you play as, that makes you feel in his shoes. Now you may be wondering; "But Quantum, It's an FPS, you shape the character!1!1!" But no, if you need a good FPS to shape your character go look for a Telltale game or Far Cry 3. In Far Cry 1, Jack Carver shaped you. In Far Cry 2, the environment shaped you. In Far Cry 3, you shaped Jason Brody In Far Cry 4, you became Ajay Ghale In Far Cry Primal, You went back in time and experienced the beginning of their world. Over all, 9/10, good for modding, good for a hard time, good for an FPS adventure, good to complete your Far Cry collection.

The AI is fun to play against. Years ago when I first played I wasn't used to the AI actually reacting to my actions. I thought I was being all sneaky and I was going to get in the vehicle with the two enemies, eliminate them, and drive off. Instead while I was sneaking up on them I heard a vehicle drive up behind me but before I could do anything else I got run over. Somewhere a security team saw me and the AI decided it would be best instead of shooting me to drive really fast towards me. Another time I was hiding in the jungle listening to a conversation two guards were having. They started talking about how they were going to, "Fix his little red wagon..." when they find me. I busted up. And then I shot them.