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A tropical paradise seethes with hidden evil in Far Cry®, a cunningly detailed action shooter that pushes the boundaries of combat to shocking new levels.
Freelance mariner Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island. A week ago, a brash female reporter named Valerie had offered him an incredible sum of cash to take her to this unspoiled paradise. Shortly after docking, however, Jack's boat was greeted by artillery fire from a mysterious militia group swarming about the island.
With his boat destroyed, his money gone, and the gorgeous Valerie suddenly missing, Jack now finds himself facing an army of mercenaries amidst the wilds of the island, with nothing but a gun and his wits to survive. But the further he pushes into the lush jungle canopy, the stranger things become.
Jack encounters an insider within the militia group who reveals the horrific details of the mercenaries' true intentions. He presents Jack with an unsettling choice: battle the deadliest mercenaries, or condemn the human race to a maniac's insidious agenda.

Feel the Far Cry engine - The meticulously designed, next-generation Far Cry engine pushes the threshold of action gaming with proprietary Polybump mapping, advanced environment and character physics, destructible terrain, dynamic lighting, motion-captured animation, and total surround sound.
Unparalleled long-range gunplay - Battle to the ends of the earth with Far Cry's utterly unique, 800-meter scalable view system. Lock onto enemies from a distance with motion-sensing binoculars. Then choose your style of attack - from long-range sniping to ballistic close-quarters firefights - and everything in between.
Cunning and complex AI tactics - Battles never become repetitive when you face Far Cry's unpredictable, intelligent AI mercenary units trained in advanced adaptive group tactics. Units include snipers, stalkers, scouts, and grenadiers who engage you from all angles, distances, and terrains in coordinated strikes. Commanders will even call for reinforcements by land, sea, or air.
Diverse combat action - Master a dynamic slate of combat skills - close-quarters combat, long-range shooting, search-and-destroy tactics, stealth operations, and combat driving skills through indoor and outdoor environments.
Heart-pounding atmosphere - Experience unprecedented drama and realism in a misleadingly perfect setting, with incredible lighting and shadows, adaptive audio, and weather effects.

System Requirements

Minimum:

Supported OS: Windows® 2000/XP (only)
Processor: AMD Athlon™ 1 GHz or Pentium® III 1 GHz
Memory: 256 MB
Graphics: 64 MB DirectX® 9.0b-compliant graphics card (see supported list*)
Sound: DirectX 9.0b compliant PCI card (Sound Blaster Audigy series recommended)
DirectX: DirectX 9.0b or higher
Hard Disk Space: 4 GB
Multiplay: Broadband with 64 Kbps upstream (512 Kbps upstream to host 8 players)
Mouse/Keyboard: Windows compatible mouse and keyboard required

Recommended:

Supported OS: Windows 2000/XP (only)
Processor: AMD Athlon 2-3 GHz or Pentium 4 2-3 GHz
Memory: 512-1024 MB
Sound: Sound Blaster® Audigy® series (see supported list*)
Graphics: 128 MB GeForce™ 4 128 MB to GeForce FX 5950; ATI Radeon 9500-9800 XT
*Supported video cards at time of retail release: NVIDIA GeForce 2/3/4/FX families ( NVIDIA based cards must have ForceWare drivers 53.03 or later; GeForce 2 and GeForce 4 MX cards do not support all graphics features). ATI Radeon 8500/9000 families (ATI Radeon 9500-9800 XT recommended; ATI-based cards must have Catalyst drivers 3.9 or higher). Laptop models of the listed cards are not fully supported. For an up-to-date list of supported chipsets, video cards, and operating systems, please visit the FAQ for this game at: http://support.ubi.com.

© 2004 Crytek. All Rights Reserved. Published by Ubisoft Entertainment. Far Cry, Ubisoft, ubi.com, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. CryEngine, Polybump and Crytek are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Crytek GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Posted: 7 August

This game was really a big let down for me. Back in the day in school I've heard of the great new shooter Far Cry. Everybody was so hyped about this.

I finally played it since I got it in a game collection. I immediately noticed some things that really bugged me. But the real bad things came later throughout the game.

First of all this game clearly sets the difficulty level high. So even on Normal difficulty I experienced quite skilled enemies with XRay vision and a not really clear priority list. You got to parties fighting each other and you, the Tridgen and the Mercenaries. They are in an all out war together, but once you just peek around the corner everything doesn't matter until you are dead, the teamed up on me every time, which made it really really hard to get past some choke points.

The next thing is the far sight, which was highly praised by the developers, seemed to be only for the landscape (which really is beatiful, good job there). The enemies were faded out over long distances, which didn't seem to bother them at all to snipe me down with an M4, while I HAD to zoom in with the sniper to just be able to see them. This thing alone cost me about 2 hours in whole.

Then came the glitches. Having two armies standing in a room, fighting each other, while staying back in order to thin them out worked like a charm. But once I entered some specific rooms the dead where still standing making it almost impossible to figure out the real survivors before getting shot. But this just adds to all the other things I encountered, like, invincible enemies to a certain trigger, recurring sounds once you step over the tirgger again, stuck sounds which sounds like someone just keeps shooting even so you got him already, strange rackdoll effects which block you view etc etc. the list goes on and on.

That wouldn't be much of a problem, since many game encounter those bugs, even so not many have almost all of them , but once you are dead you have to start from the last autosave which can be about 30 minutes in the past. I had to play for 2 hours to get past a certain point in the river chapter, since you have to take out about 40 guys with choppers, patrol boats and rocket launcher, without having the game savin even once.

The story itself is quite what you expect from a shooter this scale, but the cutscenes always cut out a second to early so you sometimes miss the last word.

Well after all this game is quite old, so maybe I judge to hard, but I definetily can not recommend this game to anyone who is no masochist.

Finished in 11 hours on normal, which could have been done in about 6 hours without the problems above...

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Posted: 5 August

This is sadly the only *true* Far Cry game (to me).

In this game, while you have a lot of free roam space, you slowly work yourself from one campaign story location to the next while fighting in a (loose) jungle. A proper feeling of being hidden between the bushes and creeping up on the enemy (which the modern FC games also have, but imho to a somehow significantly weaker degree).

No "YOU'RE LEAVING THE MISSION AREA!" crap, just gameplay.

No obvious gameplay-stretch collector's items spread all over the map.

No always same-y activities. *Of course* this game has a game loop where certain things repeat again and again, but repeating/similar on a much different fractal level (Think Mandelbrot fractal zoom.) than the same-y repetitive stuff of modern Far Cry games.

No long unskippable cut scenes.

Saving whenever you want (OMG!).

No questionably simulated civilians shooting in the air each and every time you complete a same-y activity involving them.

THIS Far Cry is like the good old campaign first person shooters, except with the open world jungle and beach and diving in the water feeling. (Boy, when I played this back then on a 2.5 meter projection, it was like a vacation, for real!)

Bring back the old school Far Cry already!

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Posted: 5 August

In the past much played this game on a CD ROM. And this game is amazing! The storyline and graphics are awesome. Also, plenty of missions in this beautiful game.

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Posted: 3 August

nice game

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Posted: 2 August

Good game as long you're OK with not running it at max settings (bug in game causes black screen at launch when set to max settings).

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Posted: 2 August

This is an extremely difficult game to complete. It is fun though.

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Posted: 30 July

Puts game on realistic.

Spent an hour playing.

Spent an hour crying.

Repeat for 100+ hours.

Finally beat game.

Smile.

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Posted: 27 July

It's like the Dark Souls of FPS. Good luck beating this game for your first time on normal or higher difficulties.
At least it looks good too.
The things the mercenaries say alone is also why this game is one of the best older FPS out there.

"Suck it down"
"I got a bullet with your name on it"
"You're ♥♥♥ is grass"
"Gonna open a can of whoop-♥♥♥ on you"
"I'm gonna tear you a new one"

God why can't all FPS human enemies be like this?

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Posted: 24 July

Maybe this game is an acquired taste.
I haven't acquired it after 17 hours.

Far Cry is difficult for the wrong reasons, in my opinion. I played it on medium, with adaptive AI turned off (maybe that was my mistake).
Enemies will shoot accurately at you before you can even see them (at max render distance).
Enemies with rocket weapons will shoot your face from 6 feet away; they'll be fine, and you'll be at half health.
Enemies fighting each other will switch targets to you, even if you're just passing by.
As you progress through the game, ambushes become more and more frequent.

The control scheme is good, although driving is a little wonky.
The story is decent, but it's hard to enjoy when you fight the same set of enemies 7 times in a row.
Graphics are dated (obviously), but not distracting.

I wanted to like Far Cry - the feel of it worked really well. You're not some glorious hero, saving the world. You're a guy, killing lots of people on an island because you don't want them to kill you.
The guns, the vehicles, the enemies and sneaking around all felt right, strengthening the game's atmosphere.
I wanted to like Far Cry. It just seemed to hate me.

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Posted: 23 July

Don't play this in 2016 unless you played it as a kid. It's painful graphics are hard to like when there a hundreds of graphically superior games for less money with a better story

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Posted: 20 July

Basic Information

Title: Far Cry®
Genre: Action
Developer: Crytek Studios
Publisher: Ubisoft
Release Date: The 23rd of March, 2004

General Impression

Far Cry® is a pretty nice action-based game. The graphics are relatively nice, but for 2004, they are spectacular. The textures are not very special either, but for 2004, they are well-made. The atmosphere varies a lot, from enemy camps and military bases, forests, waters and mountains. There are health kits, weapons, ammunition, binoculars, and even other useful items along the atmosphere. Also, sometimes you will be able to drive jeeps, and in certain missions, small air boats. The audio is pretty nice, I like the sounds of the guns. It sounds realistic. The music is also ambient-type and nice. The voice acting is alright. The gameplay is relatively an open-world style, where you need to go to specific places, to either kill your enemies, put a bomb on a place, or simply reach the evacuation point, and even other types of objectives. There are many scenarios, which will take at least one hour to complete (each one of them). Be aware: this game is pretty hard. Even on the easiest difficulty. If you are a casual player, I do not recommend this game to you. The story is well-thought, everything has a chronological order and it’s pretty interesting. The user interface is well-optimized, with no bugs and a pretty nice design. For less resourceful people, this game might be harder. You need to figure out ways to get to the place of fighting and what to do. The controls are neat. The engines are alright, I haven’t met any bugs, crashes, screen freezes or frame drops. Hence I have found several minor bugs, they will not bother you at all. The mechanics are pretty sophisticated, everything moves pretty realistic. Also, when you kill your enemies, they fall pretty realistic. Overall, Far Cry® nice action-based game, with relatively nice graphics, a fantastic atmosphere, enjoyable audio and music, a good gameplay and pretty nice mechanics.

Positive Points

Relatively nice graphics and pretty well-designed textures
Pretty nice audio and nice music
Fun and challenging gameplay
Many missions throughout the scenarios available
3 difficulties available (even on the easiest one, this game is pretty damn hard)
A pretty nice designed user interface
Open-World gameplay alike
Some pretty stable engines
Some pretty nice mechanics

Neutral Points

Steam achievements and trading cards would be some nice features
A note to casual players: You will rage a lot on this game

Negative Points

This is only a negative point for less resourceful gamers: Hence this game does have a waypoint system (a bar with the cardinal points), you will still have a pretty hard time finding the places/objectives
It has several minor bugs, but they are not very important

General Ratings

Feature	Rating
Graphics	78/100
Atmosphere	87/100
Audio	86/100
Music	88/100
Gameplay	91/100
Story	89/100
Content Quality	89/100
Content Quantity	90/100
User Interface	85/100
Controls	85/100
Engines	78/100
Mechanics	83/100
Price Tag	100/100
Personal Rating	86/100

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Posted: 30 July

Puts game on realistic.

Spent an hour playing.

Spent an hour crying.

Repeat for 100+ hours.

Finally beat game.

Smile.

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Vlad Tonight

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Posted: 13 July

This game left an important legacy, I'll give it that. It was one of the better-in-class during its day, but ultimately it hasn't stood the test of time. It's not a bad game, but it's not great either. I understand the "cult" following - it was and still is a beautiful game in its own right, the levels are quite large and sprawling, it's got tons of content, and it has a 90s pulp craziness about it.

Honestly though, it's just not a well designed game. The movement is too sluggish for the level sizes, vehicles handle fairly bad, the ai are really stupid but equipped with incredible vision and aim, and it's unjustifiably difficult at times. I started to wonder why it was such a mess until I realized it was Crytek's first game. Ubisoft Montreal has improved the series dramatically, lack of innovation in the present titles aside. If you're coming from Far Cry 3-4 or even Far Cry 2, this game is completely different aside from some general level design motifs.

Don't get me wrong, It's absolutely worth the current 10 dollar asking price and it can be quite a lot of fun, but do yourself a favor (if you haven't already played this) and dont treat it as a game to be played through to completion. It's not worth your time and energy. Just treat it as a fun FPS sandbox to play around in. Once the mutants show up it all goes down hill pretty fast (actually somewhat slowly since god damn, this game seems long). There are some mods to check out too, so if the free form open-ish world gameplay wasn't enough, theres that.

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Posted: 24 July

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Posted: 22 July

The story and characters in this game are so bland and clichéd it borders on parody and the game itself felt like discount Half-Life.

But I liked it for what it was, the shooting was very enjoyable as well.

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The Days when Uplay never existed.

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SHARKE BYTE

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Posted: 4 December, 2013

3,062 Hours since I first bought it in 2004...

Ruined my life. Five stars.

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RIP Rojo

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Posted: 4 June, 2015

Easy = Medium difficulty
Medium = Hard difficulty
Hard = Extremely hard ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Veteran = Impossible
Realistic = Don't even try

Pros:
+Looks great for how old it is
+Rewarding to complete a mission
+Varied terrain
+Runs well on even non-gaming PCs
+Badly voiced one-liners
+Some weapon variety
+Not at all short

Cons:
-AI with x-ray vision
-Sometimes can be frustrating
-3rd person vehicle camera is drunk

9/10

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Posted: 26 December, 2014

It doesn't have UPlay

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