Introduction

Far Cry is a tactical, first-person shooter set in an amazing tropical paradise.

The game begins with our main character Jack Carver, a charter boat captain based in the South Pacific. Jack has been hired to take an ambitious journalist named Valerie Cortez to the Island of Cabatu so that she can take pictures of the little known Japanese WWII ruins there. This is where Jack's journey begins. Along the way Jack will meet more enemies than you can ever imagine. They come in all shapes and sizes, both human and mutant.

Game Features

Feel the Far Cry Engine
The meticulously designed next generation CryEngine pushes the threshold of action gaming with proprietary PolyBump™ mapping, advanced environments physics, destructible terrain, dynamic lighting, motion captured animation and total surround sound.

Cunning and complex A.I. Tactics
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 & conquer, respond to player actions, and call in reinforcements from air, land or sea.

Astonishingly tension-filled non-linear experience
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.

Heart-Pounding atmosphere
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.

What you see is what you play
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.

Real-time editing, bump-mapping, static lights, network system, integrated physics system, shaders, shadows and a dynamic music system are just some of the state of-the-art features that the CryENGINE™ offers.

The CryENGINE™ comes complete with it's a bevy of internal tools and also includes the CryEDIT world editing system. Licensees receive full source code and documentation for the engine and tools. Support is provided directly from the R & D Team, and teaching workshops can be arranged for your team to increase the learning process as ongoing improvements to the engine are made.

The engine supports all video and hardware currently on the market, and new hardware support will be constantly added as it becomes available.

CryEDIT: A real-time game editor offering instantaneous "What you see is what you PLAY" feedback.

Renderer: Integrates indoor and outdoor technology seamlessly while offering rendering support for OpenGL & DirectX 8/9, XBox using latest HW features, PS2 and GameCube.

Physics System: Supports character inverse kinematics, vehicles, rigid bodies, liquid, rag doll, cloth and soft body effects. This system is directly integrated with the game and tools.

Character Inverse Kinematics & Animation Blending: Allows a character model to have multiple animations that blend in believable ways.

AI System: Enables team-based AI as well as AI behaviors defined by scripts. This features affords you the ability to create custom enemies and behaviors without even touching the C++ code.

Interactive Dynamic Music System: This system dynamically tracks and responds to the player's actions and current situation while offering CD Quality playback in full 5.1 surround sound.

Environmental Audio & SFS Engine: Accurately reproduce sounds from nature with seamless blending between environments and interior/exterior locations in 5.1 audio. Includes EAX 2.0 audio support.

Network Client and Server System: Manages all network connections for the multiplayer mode. It is a low-latency network system based on client/server architecture.

Shaders: A script system used to combine textures & produce visual effects in different ways. Supports real-time per-pixel lighting, bumpy reflections, refractions, volumetric glow effects, animated textures, transparent computer displays, windows, bullet holes, and shiny surfaces.

Terrain: Uses an advanced heightmap system and polygon reduction to create massive, realistic environments. The view distance can maximized to an unprecedented 2km when converted from game units.

Lighting and Shadows: Combines pre-calculated, real-time shadows, stencil shadows and lightmaps to produce a dynamic environment. Includes high-resolution, correct perspective, and volumetric smooth-shadow implementations for dramatic and realistic indoor shadowing. Also supports advanced particles technology and any kind of volumetric lighting effects on particles.

Fog: Includes volumetric, layer and view distance fogging to enhance atmosphere and tension.

Tools Integration: Objects and buildings created using 3ds max™ or Maya® are easily integrated within the game and editor.

Polybump™: Standalone or fully-integrated with other tools including 3ds max™.

Scripting system: Based on the popular LUA language. This easy to use system allows the setup and tweaking of weapon/game parameters, playing of sounds and loading of graphics without touching the C++ code.

Modularity: Entirely written in modular C++, with comments, documentation and subdivisions into multiple DLL's

System Requirements