Game Company’s Description: Welcome to Destination Far Cry. You are Jack Carver, running your own boat charter business in beautiful Micronesia. With a past best left behind you, you’ll be focusing on your present assignment: escorting an ambitious journalist named Valerie Cortez to the island of Cabatu. It seems like a piece of cake, but you’ll soon learn: paradise can be hell.
The meticulously designed next-generation CryEngine pushes the threshold of action gaming with proprietary Polybump mapping, advanced environment physics, destructible terrain, dynamic lighting, motion-captured animation, and total surround sound. Unique game design encourages a combination of pure reflex shooting as well as intelligent stealth. Draw out your enemies or perform a full-on assault. It’s up to you to use the vast environment to your own advantage.
Autonomous A.I. 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. Unique proprietary physics and lighting, adaptive audio, weather effects, and day/night cycles provide a tropical setting so real you’ll never want to leave.
Thanks to the Sand Box Editor, you can easily create and edit your own terrain, foliage, textures, lighting effects, vehicles, missions, etc. Place enemies, build maps, and construct the world in which you want to play.
Look: The graphics are out of this world. This is the most powerful engine I’ve seen to date. Wow! The jungle has unbelievable detail. The trees, plants, water and beaches are astonishing. The characters are gorgeous.
Feel: The AI is wonderful. You have to stay awake or you get picked off. The jungle makes for a good place to hide and a great way to duck and cover from the enemy, yet you might find yourself becoming pray.
There is a wonderful array of vehicles; my favorite is the hang glider. You can carry only four weapons at once and some are better than others. The weapons aren’t gimmicky, they are real weapons so to keep this in the realm of reality.
Hear: The sound is important. When was the last time sound meant something in a game? If you make a sound in the jungle you can bet your ass is grass. The jungle is full of noise that can often blur out the sound of the enemies. The sounds of birds and insects that buzz you is superb.
Frankly: Far Cry has pushed the envelope for graphics, not to mention it has upped the anti for gameplay and AI. Brilliant.
+ Richie Wright
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