Forward Observer
05-28-2004, 06:14
I just finished FarCry last night, and I would have to rank this impressive game in the top 2 or 3 FPS's I have ever played. (Bear in mind I have never played Halflife)
This is an FPS that you will not finish in a couple of evenings like Call of Duty or Max Payne, so at only $40 it is really a much better value.
I got my copy on sale at Sam's Club for only $34.96 which was even better.
The graphics are absoulutely superb, the effects and physics outstanding, and the A.I. is some of the best I have seen in such a game.
It is set on a series of tropical South Pacific jungled and mountainous islands, and the maps are huge. The water, the sky, the jungle, and the mountain vistas are just gorgeous and make you almost forget that you are playing a game. Many times I stopped playing the game and found myself just walking around like an awe struck tourist. Of course this kind of lolly-gagging will usually get you killed pretty quickly.
Without giving the plot away you are fighting lots of mercenaries working for an evil geneticist who has created some pretty nasty creatures that you also will eventually have to confront and deal with on many levels.
Besides the usual pistols, grenades, rifles, shotguns, machine guns, and rocket launchers you also get to use the crew mounted weapons while driving dune buggies, hummers, and patrol boats.
Another neat feature is that many times you can choose to hang glide from the mountain top over the various islands and jungle valleys to get from one point to another.
Also rather than a quick save feature, the game automatically saves for you at various stages of each of the many levels.
While some may not like this feature, it actually makes the game more challenging which in turn makes the game last longer. Believe me it works for this game.
One warning though--system requirements are pretty heavy if you want the eye candy. I had to take most of the effect settings down to medium or low on my 1.7 gig machine just to get decent frame rates.
I am in the process of ordering a new state of the art CPU, so I plan to play through this game again in all of it graphic glory when the new rig arrives.
Anyway if you have the system, I can highly recommend this game.
Cheers
This is an FPS that you will not finish in a couple of evenings like Call of Duty or Max Payne, so at only $40 it is really a much better value.
I got my copy on sale at Sam's Club for only $34.96 which was even better.
The graphics are absoulutely superb, the effects and physics outstanding, and the A.I. is some of the best I have seen in such a game.
It is set on a series of tropical South Pacific jungled and mountainous islands, and the maps are huge. The water, the sky, the jungle, and the mountain vistas are just gorgeous and make you almost forget that you are playing a game. Many times I stopped playing the game and found myself just walking around like an awe struck tourist. Of course this kind of lolly-gagging will usually get you killed pretty quickly.
Without giving the plot away you are fighting lots of mercenaries working for an evil geneticist who has created some pretty nasty creatures that you also will eventually have to confront and deal with on many levels.
Besides the usual pistols, grenades, rifles, shotguns, machine guns, and rocket launchers you also get to use the crew mounted weapons while driving dune buggies, hummers, and patrol boats.
Another neat feature is that many times you can choose to hang glide from the mountain top over the various islands and jungle valleys to get from one point to another.
Also rather than a quick save feature, the game automatically saves for you at various stages of each of the many levels.
While some may not like this feature, it actually makes the game more challenging which in turn makes the game last longer. Believe me it works for this game.
One warning though--system requirements are pretty heavy if you want the eye candy. I had to take most of the effect settings down to medium or low on my 1.7 gig machine just to get decent frame rates.
I am in the process of ordering a new state of the art CPU, so I plan to play through this game again in all of it graphic glory when the new rig arrives.
Anyway if you have the system, I can highly recommend this game.
Cheers