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Far Cry was a runner up to DOOM³ in the 2004 Golden Joystick Awards for PC Game of the Year.
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As in many games, the boss enemy has a German name: Dr. Krieger (Warrior).
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Awards

• At the event "GameStar/GamePro Leserpreis 2005" (February 2004) Far Cry received the trophy "Best German PC Game in 2004" after the reader's voting of German gaming magazine GameStar.
• Far Cry was ranked # 18 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.
• Far Cry was a runner up to DOOM³ in the 2004 Golden Joystick Awards for PC Game of the Year.

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The game became a movie in 2008. The main character Jack Carver is played by Til Schweiger. Although it does not stick to the game's storyline, it cuts close with the setting and game elements. German investor Boll KG bought the rights to turn the game into a movie franchise in February 2004, a month before the game hit stores.
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Far Cry seems to be on its way to become the most longevous game in history. Following the rather impressive visual change that patch 1.3 meant by enabling HDR, two patches were released to bring the game up to the wonderful (¿?) world of 64 bits. While they don't really take advantage of any 64-bit specific features, these patches do improve graphics even further, and they add a couple of new levels and some other stuff.

What, you didn't make the jump to 64-bit yet? Fret not. Most of those graphical enhancements are available for 32-bit users as well, via a little thing called the FC 64ecu to 32os conversion patch.


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Far Cry uses Safe Disc v.3.20.022 copy protection to stop people making illegal copies of it.
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Uwe Boll has been selected to direct the Far Cry movie based on the game, slated to debut somewhere in 2008. So far Jack Carver is going to be played by Michael Pare with writing credits going to Michael Roesch and Peter Scheerer.

Uwe Boll has been credited with making many movies out of video games, including the upcoming Dungeon Siege, Bloodrayne, and House of the Dead movies. All of which were poorly done.

[Source: www.imdb.com]
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Far Cry was ranked # 18 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.
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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.


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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).
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Far Cry fans have created an unofficial modification that adds a Capture the Flag multiplayer mode and comes with five new maps. Download the 35 MB file on websites such as Far Cry Headquarters.
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On May 28, 2002, developer Crytek changed the game’s name from X-Isle to Far Cry. The “X” was too allusive of Microsoft’s game console X-Box.
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The game allows you to set a way to render it, such as the bright "Paradise," the dim "Cold," or the cel-shaded "Cartoon."
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