As time passes by the technology behind Far Cry grows old but the question is: how does the game hold up today? Far Cry is a really difficult game. I've playing FPS games for almost 20 years so I know what I'm doing. There is no healing factor, only a bar of health and a bar of armor. You replenish them by picking up health packs (which you can't carry with you) and armor packs so it's really old school when it comes to that. You can't take a lot of hits before you drop dead. The challenge of the game is steep but you get a real feeling of accomplishment when you reach a checkpoint (no quick save option) and you still have enough health to go on. The only real problem with the game is mainly the second half of the game when mutants appear. Introducing new types of enemies is a good thing but it gets a bit insane when "trained" mutants with rocket launchers attack you from all sides and you die from one hit (2/5 setting on the difficulty scale, the mutants, of course, take a few rockets to the head before they hit the ground). The story is not really brilliant and you won't really care much about it. The graphics and sound are still quite good, considering the game's age but the effect is nowhere near what it was when it first came out (it was, by far, the most graphically advanced game of the time, coming out before Doom 3 and Half-Life 2). All in all it's still a great game well worth your money and time, especially if you like a good challenge!
