Windows

Far Cry

Description

You play Jack Carver, a charter-boat businessman in Micronesia, on a job to escort Valerie Cortez, an ambitious journalist, to the island of Cabatu. The next thing you know someone's blown up your boat (and with that, everything you owned in the world), kidnapped Valerie, and left you for dead. Your job now is to rescue Valerie and get back at the soldiers who destroyed everything you had.

Proprietary Polybump mapping, advanced environment physics, destructible terrain, dynamic lighting, motion-captured animation, surround sound and the ability to render an entire kilometer of actual terrain in real time all showcase CryTek's new CryENGINE.

Advanced A.I. means enemy soldiers make realistic decisions based on observations of the current state of the world. These highly trained mercenaries are designed to utilize environmental features, attack in groups, divide and conquer, respond to player actions, and call in reinforcements from air, land, or sea.

Far Cry ships with a Sand Box Editor, allowing you to create and edit your own maps with an easy drag and drop interface.

Alternate Titles

• "孤岛惊魂" -- Chinese title (simplified)
• "X-Isle: Dinosaur Island" -- Early development title
• "X-Isle" -- Working title

Part of the Following Groups

• 3D Engine: CryENGINE
• Anti-Cheat Technology: PunkBuster
• BPjS / BPjM indexed games
• Far Cry series
• PC Gamer Presents Games
• Scripting language: LUA
• Technology: amBX

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User Reviews

A Far Cry from your typical FPS	Terrence Bosky (5237)
FPS (First Paradise Shooter)	NeoJ (280)
Fun is Inversely Proportional to Difficulty	Matt Neuteboom (941)
One more step along the world I go	Ashley Pomeroy (227)
Rough around the edges but an under-rated, ground breaking achievement.	Tibes80 (1498)
Absolutely incredible. Sets a new standard. Blew away all my expectations.	kbmb (399)
A delicious, well-designed, well executed example of what a 3D shooter should be.	Marty Bonus (41)
Stunning environments play host to a half-witted plot	Chris Wright (92)
Good looking FPS	Grov (637)
A great piece of first person shootery	Charles Auger (3)

The Press Says

G4 TV: X-Play	Apr 11, 2006		100
Game Chronicles	Apr 22, 2004	9.5 out of 10	95
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Mar 26, 2004	93 out of 100	93
JeuxVideoPC.com	Jun 27, 2004	18 out of 20	90
Jeuxvideo.com	Mar 22, 2004	18 out of 20	90
GameSpy	Apr 12, 2004		90
PC Action	Apr 19, 2004	89 out of 100	89
Game Shark	Mar 26, 2004	B+	83
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Mar 26, 2004	8 out of 10	80
Netjak	Jun 18, 2004	7.1 out of 10	71

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Trivia

In July 2004, patch 1.2 was soon recalled after the release, due to unexpected behaviour on specific hardware configurations. There was no fix released afterwards. Users had to revert to 1.1 and then wait until October 2004 for a new patch (1.3).