Far Cry®

Oh, man, this game is such a massive nostalgic hit for me. I used to play with my uncle, we would run around the field killing the NPCs and enjoying the best game we had at that time (This was around 10 years ago, if not more). I remember loving how the car sounded with its machinegun, then how we accidentally came across those monsters even without progressing through the story. We would play it as people play GTA nowadays, but we had so much fun. It was a shock for me to find this game on steam. As soon as i saw it, i immediately bought it and it did not disappoint. An amazing game, which was far beyond its time. Great story, immersive environment, stressful fights, outstanding audio for guns and to sum it all up a great story, especially for its time. Nowadays, Ubisoft has a bad REP, but back in the days, they were the giants, who made those gems that shaped our childhood. This game awakened a child inside me with those sweet moments. In addition, Steam being one of the best at it, if you think that the game is old and it will not run on your system, thats what i thought too, but it ran like butter. A few things i did not like though. One, way too many enemies at once, Second, your character being too sensitive to even one bullet, i die instantly and even though the game is around 3-4 hrs long, it took me almost 9hrs, because i died so many times. and third, shutting the game off and turning it back on causes the system failure, meaning, if my movement was set to W,S,A,D it goes blank and i have to manually adjust it. It does get annoying, but overall, it was a decent experience. Fourth, if you are recording videos of this game and you want it to be smooth, just do it in Windowed mode, you will get better FPS and your game will not Freeze while recording. I had moments where my audio was going through the video, but the gameplay was frozen, putting the game on Windowed helped it.

Yeah, so i haven't written any reviews on steam for quite some time. But i just had to write one for this game. I beat this game out of spite. Had a CD-version of it many years ago, but haven't really played it that much, only the first couple levels. I remember that back in the day it looked phenomenal, and the gunplay felt really decent as well. So when i saw it on sale for a buckaroo or so on Steam, i decided to get it and finally beat it. I should have just beaten my meat instead. The game aged horribly. The steam version is the exact patch where enemy AI got broken and they became able to detect and shoot you through tents and sometimes even walls. But even if you fix this particular issue the game itself is still stinky doo-doo at times. I played it on the "Challenging" difficulty, so i understand that the game is supposed to be hard. But some levels and their specific parts are so talentlessly designed it is baffling. It feels like no one even playtested them (at least not on every difficulty setting). You just have to get lucky to finish these stages, or play them so many times that you remember every single enemy and their routes and just cheese your way through by trying to play around the enemy AI. Your adversaries will shred your MC's health in seconds with sniper-like precision from a really long range, but the damage your character deals is highly inconsistent. And don't forget that you have to do some difficult sections all in one try, because the checkpoints are your only way of saving progress if you are not willing to trick the game into letting you save manually. I'm not going to comment on the story and the voice acting. Those things are to be expected from a 2004 game. I would even say that they are endearing in a way, as they remind us of days gone by when games did not take themselves too seriously. When people say that games today are too easy and pamper the players too much - they are usually right. But games that are hard not because of the player's low skill level, but because of the level/game designer's low skill level - are not something that we should treasure and commend. Don't waste your time and money, find something better to play instead. But if for some reason you bought this digital torture device or own it already and have decided to play it - do yourself a favour and just uninstall it after a couple levels.

This game is a freakin' mess. It handles incredibly well for an old game. The controls and the shooting actually feel good, even by today's standards, but the stealth mechanics and enemy AI are legitimately broken. As an unintended consequence of patch 1.4 (that the Steam version starts on), the enemy soldiers have literal wallhacks whenever you are inside a canvas building (like a tent). Luckily, I was able to find a patch online that fixed this. Even afterwards, the AI is essentially prescient. They will alert to your exact location with anything you do. If you throw a rock or grenade from behind cover, they will start shooting at your hidden position before it even hits the ground. You can be walking in a separate room of a concrete bunker, and they will alert to you through the walls, even if you are literally crawling. In one of the checkpoints, I loaded in and instantly hear the soldiers in the other room ask "Did you hear something?". I'm encased in shadows in an entirely different room and I've yet to move. No. You couldn't POSSIBLY have. I had the game on ultra graphics, which I had to lower, because the ground foliage is nothing but a hindrance. It does not conceal you, but it certainly conceals them. Ultimately this didn't matter much, as whether you're on ultra or lower, enemies will often refuse to pop in until you pull up your iron sights, even at mid range. They will also absolutely shoot at you further than the max draw distance, and their aim is incredible. They will also pre-fire doorways and corners before the two of you ever see each other, chipping away at your low health bar before you have time to even react to their presence. One time, I crawled toward a lone enemy in a sniper tower for quite some time. As soon as I started climbing the ladder, he killed himself by firing a missile at his own feet, since he could sense my presence through the floor. So stealth is broken; just go loud, right? It's basically your only option. I found the best strategy to be hiding in some sort of chokepoint/corner/behind an object and slowly waiting for the entire camp to funnel in one by one. Attempting to do anything else turned me into a pincushion in a three seconds or less. In one level, I alerted a single enemy and hid behind a rock. By the end of the encounter, I had killed 30 enemies without moving from that spot. I had my body despawn timer set to 30 seconds, but the game still crashed before I could finish my slaughter. My only guess is, despite the despawning bodies, the amount of loot sitting on the floor was too much for the game to handle. Given that I had already patched out the wallhacks, I'm confident that this is NOT the intended experience. However, I am not going to continue to experiment with various patches until the game functions properly. I'm not even exactly sure what that would look like....but it is not this. I wanted to make my way through the Far Cry franchise from start to finish, but I think I may just watch a plot recap on this one.

[h1]Far Cry — класика чи погана технодемка?[/h1] Одразу скажу, що моє бачення гри спотворено відчуттям ностальгії за її дизайном, геймплеєм та фантастичною на момент виходу графікою. Колись давно нові відеокарти перевіряли саме на ній і дивувалися якості води. А можливостей у самій грі скільки! Великі простори, можна кататися та стріляти на машинці або плавати на човнах. Хочеться стелсу? Теж є: ховайся в кущах, відволікай ворогів камінням, знищуй їхні генератори, щоб ті не увімкнули тривогу. Знову ж таки, усе це на тлі приємних краєвидів тропічного острова. Ну й на додачу — простенький сюжет про битву з найманцями та пошуки зниклої напарниці. То чому тоді я гру не рекомендую? Бо вона, м’яко кажучи, погана. Особливо там, де закінчується ностальгія (а це десь через годину), і починається провальний геймдизайн. У певний момент атмосфера «Рембо на острові» перетворюється на Resident Evil із вірусами, мутантами, лабораторіями та темними коридорами. Хотілося красивих локацій? Чим далі, тим їх менше. Цікавий шутер? Кожні кілька рівнів додаватиметься новий тип ворога з ще більшим запасом здоров’я, ніж до цього. Мало? Так ось: вони ще й швидко стрибають, інші спамлять з гранатометів, а хтось узагалі невидимий... Ну й так далі. Гра взагалі не цінує гравця, чим далі він її проходить. Тут справа навіть не в хардкорному геймплеї, бо одразу помітно, як дві частини гри відрізняються за опрацюванням. Якщо перші рівні спонукали вигадувати тактику й користуватися стелсом, то наступні не дають нічого нового, окрім затискання гравця в похмурих підземеллях із можливістю йти тільки вперед. Crytek порізали останні кілька рівнів, які стали короткими й складними лише через величезну кількість ворогів із купою здоров’я. У певний момент грати стає просто невесело. На мою думку, час для оригінального Far Cry вже минув, тим паче що він потребує модів та фанатських патчів для стабільної гри на сучасному залізі. Воно й на краще, що Crytek перейшли до Crysis і залишили серію, бо хтозна, куди їхні сценарії з мутантами завели б нас далі. Гру не рекомендую для повноцінного проходження — хіба що пів годинки побігати на перших рівнях і подивитися на еталон графіки 20-річної давнини.

So let me put it this way if you dont have any nostalgia for this game dont play it. 1. NPCs can see you through walls and even shoot you. 2. They can somehow spam RPGs at you. 3. Your gun accuracy is sh*t. 4. You have to headshot enemies (with your sh*tty accuracy) otherwise they take way too many bullets to die. 5. The FOV sucks and you cant change it. Maybe this was impressive back in 2004 but it definitely didnt age well.

[b]Люблю, когда всё идёт по плану. А плана-то и не было..[/b]

Как по мне игра незаслуженна забыта хоть нервы на средней сложности страдал,все таки это первая игра которая начала серию игр FarCry и Crytek в будущем сделают игру у которых многих сгорело с пк того времени, правда есть свои минусы и очень серьезные Иискусственный интеллект врагов странный отворачиваются куда то но стрелять умудряются в гг, техническое состояние я молчу игра либо не запустится в мощных и даже на слабых пк как у меня и либо русская озвучка с текстом не будут работать корректно(она если что была официальная ее прост убрали стим версии),мультиплеер умер как и Ubisoft(ну это база) С управлением это пипец оно после того как перейзайдешь сбрасывается Вроде все перечислил в целом терпимо даже так можно ее пройти 7/10 ставлю