The first Far Cry was an immense environment where you really felt you could go anywhere and anyplace anytime. Don't feel like fighting the enemy on the ship, go boating or driving around and look for trouble. The AI was intelligent and therefore gave you a run for the money. Who wants to hunt down diamonds and run around with jeeps and such trying to do odd jobs for the denizens of Africa. Why couldnt they just let you know what the problem is and take on the bad guys without having to stop and communicate with everybody there. Boring and exhausting it dosent measure up. Its a scavenger hunt with some fighting and all the camps and towns look the same. Shine it on.
Its a great radioactive environment, but then the missions all start feeling the same. Kill guys at mappoint x, dont die of radioactivity, pick up this and that supply to help you. And pretty much its all outdoors like one of the Deer Hunting Games. The environments are a discount Fallout Las Vegas except no real story just missions. No satisfaction after a couple days playing.
Eidos like so many of the smaller companies with creative talent had shut its doors, so though this somewhat retains the atmosphere of the first two games its actually more like Duke Nukem Forever has become to DN Atomic Edition, or if you like all Terminator movies without Cameron behind the camera
Dont ask me what a reticulating spline is but thats what gal who talks as you start off the Game say along with other gobbedly goop. Ahh memories of one of the greatest city builders around. Arcologies? and all sorts of neat stuff that version 3 and 4 lacked. With Sim Helicopter you could build a city and then fly right thru it though allowances had to be made for the tech at the time so if you built a zoo, it would look like farm animals in a pasture. But you owned this world thru and thru. I still have my originals with Streets of Sim City, a real letdown, SimCopter and all the thick guides that Maxis use to be famous for. If mine dosent work when I dust off the box I may have to download this here to replace the original CD.
In the first Call to Power you had space flight which was kind of cool since Civilization and Call2P2 stopped before you got to space.
