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 (254)
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 (90)
Good looking FPS	Grov (637)
A great piece of first person shootery	Charles Auger (3)

The Press Says

Withingames	Mar 26, 2004	5 out of 5	100
Game Chronicles	Apr 22, 2004	9.5 out of 10	95
Pelit	Apr, 2004	94 out of 100	94
Armchair Empire, The	May 02, 2004	9.2 out of 10	92
IGN	Mar 19, 2004	9.2 out of 10	92
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Mar, 2004	91 out of 100	91
Game Informer Magazine	May, 2004	9 out of 10	90
2404.org PC Gaming	Apr 15, 2004	9 out of 10	90
PC Action	Apr 19, 2004	89 out of 100	89
Game Shark	Mar 26, 2004	B+	83

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Trivia

Patch 1.3 of the game adds support for HDR lighting (high dynamic range lighting) on the new nVidia GeForce FX 6xxx line of graphics cards. Its inclusion makes Far Cry the first commercial game to support HDR lighting!

This feature increases visual quality in the game tremendously, improving the detail and dynamic range between light and dark, and simulating lens exposure effects between light and dark areas of the image.

The feature is not accessible from the game configuration screen, but must be enabled via the command line, console or config file. The feature is not available on ATI's competing generation of graphics cards due to the implementation/hardware limitations.