Posted on: July 28, 2015

sabaton

Games: 342 Reviews: 6

Great Graphics, but impossibly hard

I'm not sure how people can give this game a good review. Yes, it has good graphics, for its time, but it is literally impossible to play without dying a million times. I had to resort to GOD mode, which keeps track of how many times you die. It's A LOT! It wouldn't be so bad if you could actually SNEAK. But, nope, sneaking is virtually useless. And once you have been found, EVERYBODY in that area knows where you're at, no matter where you go. Enemies can shoot you through solid objects or from a cliff half a mile away. Horrible game. I only gave it 2 stars because of the graphics, but it really is a piece of crap. Not being able to save is also a big issue. And it can sometimes be difficult to figure out where you are supposed to go. I hope Far Cry 2 is better!

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Posted on: August 14, 2022

DonWallace3

Verified owner

Games: 106 Reviews: 85

Fun but Difficult, I Cheated

I enjoyed this game a lot but it was very difficult and I had to cheat. You can't change the difficulty level after you start. I picked Normal (should have picked Easy). I could not get past the early Carrier level. Enemies hit hard, spawn behind you, the screen will freeze occasionaly usually resulting in you dead, and save points are very far apart. I was ready to quit in frustration but some things saved my game. Manual Save: Press tilda ~ to enter command screen. Type "\save_game name" no quotes. Press ~ again. On Line Guides: Very helpful in getting past hard parts. Tells you where secret ammo and health are. My favorite was https://www.gamespot.com/articles/far-cry-walkthrough/1100-6094321/ With all that I still could not beat Krieger and his 4 goons. I had to do devmode and god mode for that 1 fight. The best description for this is here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1194232992 Note for devmode using COG it doesn't work from the desktop shortcut, you have to find the Launch Far Cry shorcut in COG_Galaxy\Games\Far Cry folder and apply it there.

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Posted on: January 7, 2023

Wolfinston85

Verified owner

Games: 543 Reviews: 63

Best version you can get, but...

This game hasn't aged well at all, it's almost a tech demo for what Crytek had in store a couple of years after with Crysis, the graphics are incredible for the time, but the story and the gameplay all suffer from a severely unbalanced difficulty curve, I'm personally into challenging games, love some contemporaries like From Soft games & Vampire Survivors -just to give some examples-, but this game doesn't handle difficulty balancing well in the least. Your health doesn't regenerate which would be fine, but the health pickups are scattered in a terribly paced way throughout the levels, at times it also relies heavily in a supremely archaic stealth system that doesn't really work as well as the developers might've thought. Then there's the fact that the game doesn't have manual saving, it relies on checkpoints which are thankfully plentyful, but that don't contribute to how poorly paced and balanced the whole experience becomes because of poor, poor difficulty balancing. It's a shame because the GOG version is easily the best way to play this game, about the only issue it has is that the vsync option doesn't work, but pcgamingwiki has a patch to fix this, however, this version does fix the known "tent bug" which makes it so enemies can shoot you through tents (as if the game wasn't tedious enough), plus it also has native widescreen support; it works out of the box! Just wish it was a better game.

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Posted on: December 14, 2023

wardenunit

Verified owner

Games: 123 Reviews: 43

masterpiece

A classic shooter from the golden age of modern gaming. There is enough comedy in those dialogs and music ( oh the combat music) to get you through the whole game. It may seem difficuly at first but it grows on you.

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Posted on: October 19, 2013

Comosicus

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Games: 313 Reviews: 1

Frustrating Checkpoint Saving System

The only thing I hate about this game is the checkpoint saving system. I don't understand the reason for a PC game to have such a console feature. It's most annoying at times having to remake a section over and over again because some creep got a lucky shot at you.

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