Far Cry

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $5.47

Features:

• Action shooter game set in South Pacific
• Hugely detailed environments and action sequences
• Cunning and complex AI tactics
• Nonlinear gameplay
• For one player

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Better on PC than on Xbox 360- Still the Best There Is! [Posted on 2008-01-14]
This game plays better on my 2.3ghz, 1g, Radeon 9550 graphics card. This game is bad-2-the-bone. Graphics are still better than anything including call of duty 4 on my xbox 360. The game play is addictive. In fact after playing cod4 on my 360 I still have time for a couple minutes of Far Cry. Nothing beats the precision of using a mouse. I also have Far Cry "Instincts" and "Predator" for 360 but its no comparison. My 5 year old PC with the amped up Graphics card and and 7 year old 17" LCD is better.

FarCry Rocks.......... Until FarCry 2 comes out!!! [Posted on 2008-02-19]
If you haven't tried FarCry yet, do yourself a favor and order it or buy NOW... The graphics, details, missions, weapons, are all first rate. Its no wonder it was the Game of the Year in 2004! I started with the easiest level and worked my way up to the most difficult level, I now only play the most difficult level and Never get tired of the missions,landscape,and vehicle operation and it is also Great that it is not so linear, You make the choices, and there are plenty of them, sneak in/around with stealth or go in- guns blazing, its all up to you.You can operate gunships,hang-gliders,and many types of armed vehicles, enough to satisfy anyone. Unlike Doom3 (dark and mostly takes place inside, I also love Doom 3/Quake4) FarCry takes you from beautiful tropical islands, to many structures with challenging competition from above average AI. I continue to play and replay this game and Never tire of it. See and play for yourself, but, be prepared to get addicted... The good news, FarCry2 is on the way... the bad news... not until late Oct/2008... Reload and play!!! If you crave action, excitement, and a first person shooter, say no more!

Most Overrated, Over-hyped Game Ever! [Posted on 2008-02-26]
This game is so famous and people have made such a big deal about it. I am half-way through the game so far. This not the tour-de-force that people claim it is. I don't know how all these people could think this game is so great. The graphics are crude and cheap compared to more recent games, like Doom III and Halo 3, Halo 2, and Halo 1. Even some other games from 2003/2004 (such as No One Lives Forever 2) had nicer graphics. I have a great computer with an Athlon X2 5600+ cpu and an EVGA 8800 GTX graphics card. I set the all the video settings to very high, and it still didn't look that good. A reviewer said Far Cry is very polished, but it is nowhere near as polished as Halo 1, 2, or 3, which are the most thoroughly polished games I've ever played. The enemies in Far Cry just have a small number of lines that they say over and over. You can play Halo 1 several times over and still hear new dialogue once in a while. The shadows in Far Cry are handled very badly. Sometimes the vehicles just start floating off uncontrollably while you are driving them, forcing you to quit the game and restart. Also the lighting is really bad. Oftentimes the interior areas are blindingly bright. I don't like excessive darkness in games but I don't like blinding brightness either! And oftentimes the colors are off-looking and the textures are cheap and crude. Although Far Cry has much better gameplay than Doom III, it still could use more polish and improvement. People act like this game has amazing AI, but it doesn't. It seems pretty ordinary to me! I played this game on "challenging," the middle difficulty level out of five levels of difficulty. I heard this game is very hard, so I decided just to play on the middle level. I usually play on the hardest or second hardest level in FPS games. For me, sometimes this game was rather easy, and other times I had to try over and over to beat a segment. This game uses the checkpoint system instead of letting you save anywhere. I didn't mind that in Halo, but in Far Cry it gets frustrating sometimes. Sometimes you have to win several difficult battles in a row beafore you can make it to the next checkpoint. One little mistake or surprise attack and you die and have to start over. So it's often a big relief in Far Cry to get the next checkpoint. This is a very long game. It gets a little monotonous sometimes. There's not that much variety in the gameplay. However it does have a few excellent puzzles. People have said this is an extremely smart game, but I found it to be nowhere near as smartly developed as people say it is. I think Far Cry goes in the right direction, but it needs a HUGE amount of improvement in graphics, polish, gameplay, etc. I hope they put that into the sequel. I guess I recommend Far Cry if you have an older computer. I want to find some newer games with better graphics and more polish for my new computer. Far Cry is very out of date now.

Wow. (Crazy) tough at times, but simply awesome. [Posted on 2008-04-13]
This was one of the best games I have purchased to date. The environments are simply stunning and wide open. The majority of the game can be conquered from various approaches and even after 20 large (some huge!) areas, you're still left hungry for more. I could go on and on, but this game is definitely worth grabbing. Considering the deeply discounted price, it's more than worth the money spent.

Pretty Lousy Game [Posted on 2008-05-03]
This game was supposed to be the 2004 Game of the Year?? It was difficult to load, difficult to play, and difficult to uninstall. My system meets or exceeds all the system requirements listed on the box. When I finally got this game installed, Which took about 3 tries and two hours...( it always hung up on the fifth disk during install )I got to play it for about 5 minutes before my firewall blocked the game from connecting to the internet, now mind you I was in single player mode...no reason for the game to try to access the internet....at this point I was frustrated to the point of uninstalling the game.( which was also a headache ) if you want a GOOD First Person Shooter, get Deus EX or Fallout, both games beat this game hands down!!!!! I was Very Very Unimpressed with this game, fortunately I didn't pay much for it !!!

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