DH: Farcry review

***Zardon*** · May 8, 2004, 12:30 PM

Steve "Chaos" Ruxton has put together a review of the incredible Farcry for our membership.

"The huge levels, great image quality and amazing artificial intelligence make this a candidate for Game of the Year in my honest opinion. Remember we never even touched on the multi-player side of this game so that will add even more to the reply quality of this game."

I couldnt agree more

read his review here

**Asmoday** · May 8, 2004, 12:32 PM

Damn i really loved playing this game...!!!

Judas · May 8, 2004, 12:32 PM

excellent review

Yard Waste · May 8, 2004, 12:38 PM

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Originally posted by Zardon
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Remember we never even touched on the multi-player side of this game so that will add even more to the reply quality of this game."

Actually, the MP play is the worst feature of this game. I was on the USA east coast server with a ping of 31 and no one else there and I was still warping. MP has alot of problems and offers nothing special, imho. It was bad when in beta and only mediocre game play when it works. It hasn't changed much in the final version.I have played through the SP game 4 times though. Hopefully their will be some SP modes/maps to keep up the interest in the game.

**MIG-31** · May 8, 2004, 12:42 PM

yet another great dh game review. im still wanting to get my hands on far cry.

***Zardon*** · May 8, 2004, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Yard Waste
Actually, the MP play is the worst feature of this game. I was on the USA east coast server with a ping of 31 and no one else there and I was still warping. MP has alot of problems and offers nothing special, imho. It was bad when in beta and only mediocre game play when it works. It hasn't changed much in the final version.I have played through the SP game 4 times though. Hopefully their will be some SP modes/maps to keep up the interest in the game.

Thats Steves opinion, he reviewed it.

snake · May 8, 2004, 12:47 PM

Great game but i can't play it with full detail

Anyway, i have a lot of fun playing it

The best FPS since Half Life

Chaos · May 8, 2004, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Yard Waste
Actually, the MP play is the worst feature of this game. I was on the USA east coast server with a ping of 31 and no one else there and I was still warping. MP has alot of problems and offers nothing special, imho. It was bad when in beta and only mediocre game play when it works. It hasn't changed much in the final version.I have played through the SP game 4 times though. Hopefully their will be some SP modes/maps to keep up the interest in the game.

That is one reason why I didn't include information about the multi-player action. I have not heard many positive responses when asking others about it, however I did not want to take any attention away from just how enjoyable the Campaign or Single Player mode was.

fireball · May 8, 2004, 02:25 PM

Very Nice Review

Danhill · May 8, 2004, 03:49 PM

Nice review

snake · May 8, 2004, 04:59 PM

-->"Thanks to a recent discovery of an undocumented feature contained within ATI's Catalyst drivers, end users can now enable a more efficient method of Anti Aliasing called Temporal AA. Without going into detail on this topic all I will say is that I am now able to run this monster game with the ingame display settings turned to high, the level of Anti-Aliasing set to medium and yet maintain a very exceptable frame rate @ 1024x768."

What does it mean ???

I'm really interested in knowing the trick

PLZ TELL ME HOW I CAN ALSO ENJOY SUCH SETTINGS

zerodamage · May 8, 2004, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by snake
-->"Thanks to a recent discovery of an undocumented feature contained within ATI's Catalyst drivers, end users can now enable a more efficient method of Anti Aliasing called Temporal AA. Without going into detail on this topic all I will say is that I am now able to run this monster game with the ingame display settings turned to high, the level of Anti-Aliasing set to medium and yet maintain a very exceptable frame rate @ 1024x768."

What does it mean ??? I'm really interested in knowing the trick
PLZ TELL ME HOW I CAN ALSO ENJOY SUCH SETTINGS

You will know soon enough.

nighteyes · May 8, 2004, 05:41 PM

Singleplayer really rocks!

I've played multi-player and I did have decent servers to play on (I live in The Netherlands, Europe). The FFA (free for all aka deathmatch) and TDM are kinda bland, but I would really recommend the assault mode. It's great to play, especially as an engenier!

Dom · May 8, 2004, 10:10 PM

Good review.

Dyre Straits · May 9, 2004, 01:52 AM

In my opinion, this game is one of the top games to come out since Max Payne 1.

I've had it about a week and have installed the Patch 1.1. Patch 1.2 is coming soon!

There are so many various types of environments throughout the game that makes it so many different things.

The SP simply ROCKS!!! Kudos to Crytek for an incredible adventure. (And I only paid $29.99 for it, too.

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**MIG-31** · May 9, 2004, 01:56 AM

i will be finding out for myself very soon,just discovered i'm a winning bidder on ebay for far cry.£21 cheaper than any stores that i know of.

mainman · May 9, 2004, 02:21 AM

Just got the game yesterday and im lovin every minute of it, simply GORGEOUS!!! And it runs like a dream on my system with everything set very high!!

Now about the review, like Zardon said, its a personal view of Chaos, so it counts what it counts, still, thumps up for a job well done.

Exterminas · May 9, 2004, 07:00 AM

you could've mentioned that it was developed in Germany! ;D

ah well but I just had a closer look at the team.. not a pure German team lol! ^^
They got teammembers from Australia, Estland, Spain, England, Italy, Ukraine, Finland, Germany, Holland, the USA, Russia, Macedonia, Israel and Turkey.

~Exter

mainman · May 9, 2004, 07:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Exterminas
you could've mentioned that it was developed in Germany! ;D

ah well but I just had a closer look at the team.. not a pure German team lol! ^^
They got teammembers from Australia, Estland, Spain, England, Italy, Ukraine, Finland, Germany, Holland, the USA, Russia, Macedonia, Israel and Turkey.

~Exter

Well my friend you forgot Portugal, yes, theres a Portuguese programer on Crytecs team!!!

~~HawK~~ · May 10, 2004, 08:52 AM

Thanks Chaos for reviewing Farcry, I bought the game today, on the openingdemo I was thinking hm yah well nice, but then I came outside, now some of the plants i saw i have in my room! only looked better in the game!! and were all waving at me, so i waved back.. shooting for fun at the chopper, immediately waked the locals up, for an warm island welcome

who needs anything else!! who is to buy a sea-aquarium when you can swim between them

what a game & amazing scenery, great game indeed

Dexsal · Jun 1, 2004, 11:43 PM

Great review .........Far cry demo has breathtaking graphics . it looked like i was back in thailand wandering through its beaches dense jungles . ........ outdoor environments are positively breathtaking just cant afford it at the moment

BobtheGoat · Jun 5, 2004, 06:09 PM

This game gives me trouble when I set the lighting to anything above "Low". Without lighting, it runs like butter, no slowdowns, hiccups, or crashes. I can turn pretty much everything to the max EXCEPT lighting. I guess it is because of the bump mapping...

I have a Geforce FX 5600 Ultra 128 MB, a 2.6 Ghz Pentium, 1024 MB DDR RAM, and an onboard sound card (meh

)

I had so much fun playing through the campaign though, even without the decent lighting, only my progress was halted when I encountered that nasty bug at the very end of the Cooler level where Val justs sits there, and I'm pretty much stuck. Can't wait 'til I can finish it so I can play it on a harder difficulty than medium.

In summary then, any tips on how to smooth out the game with lighting turned on (tweaks and whatnot)? And more importantly, how the hell can I get around the Cooler bug?

And great review! On par with mainstream review outlets.

Vampyromaniac · Jun 5, 2004, 06:57 PM

If I recall correcly, the lighting uses Shader 2.0, which the 5600 is poor at. That might be it right there.

BobtheGoat · Jun 5, 2004, 07:02 PM

Ah damn... if I downgraded to PS 1.0 would that make it smoother? Or just botch the lighting all together?