Far Cry

Plot synopsis:
Jason Brody is on vacation with a group of friends in the Rook Islands, celebrating his younger brother Riley getting a pilot license. However, on a skydiving trip, they land on a pirate-infested island and are kidnapped by a pirate lord named Vaas, who plans to extort ransom money from their parents, and then sell them into slavery. With the help of his older brother Grant, Jason breaks out of captivity, but Grant is killed by Vaas in the escape. Jason is rescued by Dennis, who is part of the Rakyat (the island natives who suffer due to the activities of the pirates). Dennis recognizes Jason's potential as a warrior, and gives him the Tatau, the tattoos of a Rakyat warrior. Jason then helps the Rakyat in a number of missions and ends up finding one of his friends, Daisy, at the house of Dr. Earnhardt. Impressed with Jason's prowess, the Rakyat allow him to be the second outsider to enter their sacred temple (Dennis was the first being born in Liberia) and their leader Citra initiates him into the tribe, after Jason finds and returns the Silver Dragon knife, a Rakyat relic, having seen it in a previous dream. He runs a series of missions during which he rescues his captive friends Keith, Oliver and Jason's girlfriend Liza while simultaneously helping the Rakyat retake their island, helped at times by Dr. Earnhardt and Willis Huntley, a CIA agent. After a few run-ins with Vaas, Jason discovers that he is employed by Hoyt Volker, a slave trader and drug lord, and that Vaas is Citra's brother. Throughout the adventure, Jason matures into a fearsome warrior and is revered by the Rakyat, begins to enjoy all the killing, and grows more distant from his friends, especially after receiving information that Riley is dead. After Citra asks him to stay in the island, Jason returns to Dr. Earnhardt's house (where his friends are hiding and preparing their escape by boat), and tells them that he is staying, completely distant from his friends and family, leaving them disturbed. Meanwhile, Jason has an affair with Citra after she drugs him and has sex with him while he is in a hallucination.
After bidding goodbye to his friends, Jason goes to the pirates base where Vaas is. Believing that Jason was dead after a confrontation between the two, Vaas is celebrating Jason's death, although it transpires he was actually waiting for him. After Jason kills numerous pirates and reaches a warehouse, he and Vaas fight, but Jason enters a delusional state, fighting multiple duplicates of Vaas in his dream. He reaches a final Vaas, and after a brief struggle, he impales him through the chest with the Dragon Knife and collapses right besides him. He wakes up to Citra in the Rakyat's temple, and promises her that he will kill Hoyt for her. After Huntley helps him get into Hoyt's island, Jason infiltrates Hoyt's personal army with the help of Sam Becker, Huntley's fellow operative. During this time, Jason discovers that Riley is alive, but a prisoner of Hoyt. Jason works his way into Hoyt's confidence, until Hoyt eventually invites him and Sam to a poker night. After making a plan to kill Hoyt, Sam and Jason sit down at the poker game, but Hoyt stabs Sam in the throat and kills him, knowing the two are traitors. After Jason gets one of his fingers cut by Hoyt, the two have a knife fight, with Jason emerging victorious and killing Hoyt. Jason then goes to rescue Riley; he receives a call from Liza, but the signal is cut before she can say anything. Jason rescues Riley and the two escape by helicopter.
The two then fly to Earnhardt's house, but find it burning and the doctor dying on the ground. With his last words, he tells them that the house was attacked by the Rakyat, and that they have captured Jason's friends. Jason and Riley arrive at the Rakyat Temple. Jason asks Citra why his friends were captured, but she sprays him unconscious with a sleep powder and captures Riley. Citra has fallen in love with Jason, believing him to be a powerful warrior of Rakyat legend, and that she will free him. He starts dreaming of walking a fiery path with the Dragon Knife, and having Liza as a monster in his dream. He wakes up holding Liza at knife point with the Dragon Knife, and is given the choice either to kill his friends or to spare them.
=== Endings ===
If Jason kills his friends, he stays on the island and has sex with Citra in a ritual. However, Citra then stabs Jason in the chest. As he dies, Citra tells him that his child will lead the Rakyat to glory and that he "won".
If Jason spares his friends, he prepares to leave the island, telling the Rakyat and Citra that he is done with killing. As Citra begs him to stay and proclaims her love for him, Dennis is outraged for what he considers a betrayal by Jason and tries to stab him, but Citra jumps in front of Jason and is stabbed. Citra once again proclaims her love for Jason before dying in his arms, as a horrified Dennis breaks down over what he has done. Jason and his friends then leave the island by boat, with Jason narrating that despite becoming a monster from all the killing, he still believes that in some place in his heart he is still better than this. The game ends with a still image of the boat and the Dragon Knife in the beach while the credits roll.

Tags: violence

Review:
One of the best FPS games in the past five years..
Farcry has got it all, monsters, mayhem, and personality.
Unlike the usual mute superhero Jack Carver talks, and has plenty of sarcasm to dish out.
But what makes this game stand out from the others is the setting.
Most FPS games are either based on real life warfare or grim and gloomy sci fi.
A case in point is Doom III, where you get to spend 12 hours wandering around dark corridors.
Farcry is set on a series of tropical islands, and it's amazing simply how beautiful it all is, brightly colored and radiant, except that people are shooting at you.
Later on you get the dark and scary stuff, but it doesn't take up the entire game.Farcry also mixes very well military combat with monsters.
The mercenaries are only slightly predictable, usually when a scene stretches on too and long and they start looping voice commands or actions, and the trigens are downright scary to face off against.
This was also I think the first game to introduce a realistic looking water, which now is a requirement for every new game.Playing the game will take up the better part of a week, and that's before you start tinkering.
There's a few different rendering modes to use, and Nvidia 68X0 series cards can enable a primitive form of HDR lighting, which makes things substantially different.
It may not be obvious at first, but most levels have a few different ways they can be played, whether you prefer stealth, sniping, or up-front and personal combat.
The only flaw Farcry has to me is it's already starting to age.
Half-Life 2 brought us synchronized lips and facial expressions, and some things like twisted metal pipes look very blocky, being made out of low-poly count shapes.
Still, I can't wait for a sequel..
Great if not superb 3D perfect.
For the purposes of this review Farcry 1 was re-installed just to check 3D capability.
Absolutely perfect 3D.
That doesn't mean the game looks great because as one can imagine the game is now quite long in the tooth so the graphics are rather dated.
All that aside this game is really a blast, many hours of gameplay with quite a nice degree of variation between locations.
There are a couple of problems in that you cannot save a game anywhere.
Its the old 'Get past a certain point and wait for an automatic save' type system which can certainly put a person off especially at the end where you are on a ship that is sinking.
getting past that point was very hard but definitely doable.
This game is definitely worth playing even though it is quite old now.
The dated graphics do not take away from the experience enough to warrant playing something else.
For any 3D game review requests please email me at ratcat@live.com 9 out of 10 rubber chickens..
Trouble in paradise.
Far Cry is one of the most overrated games in 2004.
Some people say that this game is the best FPS game after legendary Half Life from 1998.
I disagree.
Far Cry is just an average FPS game with boring story, stereotypical characters and annoying game play.Now, the game really looks fantastic.
Most of the game takes place on tropical islands in South Pacific and the islands are just beautiful to watch, the sea, waterfalls and jungles look really good and breathtaking, but good graphics doesn't bring good game.
The story is boring and typical even for the worst FPS games: we have one guy with a lot of guns against the army of bad guys and (of course) genetic mutants.
Most of the time you are just walking from one island to another, shooting and killing everyone you meet without having a clue what's going on.
The enemies are ten times stronger than you, they can see you from a mile away, hear one little sound and they put the entire place on full alert, knowing exactly where you are, I even heard that they can see you threw the walls and rocks which is really stupid and unrealistic.
There is no strategy while approaching to the enemy, all the time you are just shooting at them.
And sometimes you'll have to shoot at them in different directions, because they can attack you from the air, water and jungle at the same time.
The game become very boring after a few hours, because it's all the same; you come to the island, start shooting at the enemy, enter a base or laboratory, shoot new bunch of enemies, push the button or something like that and in the end shoot some more enemies.
Maybe it's fun and challenging game for young players, but for me (I like the games with story and challenge, not "shoot to kill" games) it was just a waste of time.
There are some cool things in the game, you can switch walking on foot and driving with jeeps, boats,...
but that's not enough for a good game.Far Cry is overall an average FPS game with bad story and terrible voice acting, annoying game play and after a few hours it become boring and predictable.
Trouble in paradise for teenagers..
Best FPS for a long time(possible mini-spoiler).
The scope and relatively non-linear game play have made this my favourite game.
Half-life 2 is good but long load times and often slow frame rates made me prefer Far Cry with its short and infrequent loads and huge levels with superb rendering distances.The AI in Far Cry was outstanding, and makes you think about how to approach, as you cant run in guns blazing, sometimes, you have to go metal gear solid to get past.
However, even on easy it is a difficult game in some points, and with no quick save, only save points, it makes it more difficult but a worthy challenge.10/10 All aspects of Far Cry were brilliant, superb story that draws you in, scenery that makes you no_clip just to see the land from far away and enemies that are genuinely difficult..
The best FPS I've played in years.....
Not that I've played a lot since the days of Doom 2, but recently getting a decent PC upgrade inspired me to check out the latest offerings in order to test what my system was capable of.Far Cry is a rare game.
Although a simple FPS on the face of it, there is a lot more depth to the gameplay than, say, Doom 3.
True, you can just run around shooting like a lunatic, but that'll only get you killed before too long.
And not too long, either.
The mercenaries you face on most parts of the island are fully capable of outflanking you and possess the sharpest eyes anywhere!
Simply blatting away with the M4(M16?) will quickly attract hordes of bad guys to your location.
Of course, strategy-wise, sometimes you want them to come to you....The level design is also well done.
Plenty of variation in elevation and foliage cover and usually more than a few ways of accomplishing each level.
Part of the fun (for me at least) was going back over levels again later and trying different approaches to see how things worked out differently.
Some levels reward gung-ho Rambo-style assaults.
Others require careful sneaking and positioning to work to best advantage.
Some levels take a number of attempts before you figure out what is the best way to approach them.Also, some levels lend themselves to "out of the box" thinking.
For instance, one level has you clearing out a small dock area in order to rendesvous with your informant.
By far the best way I found to do this was to drive (yes, you can drive a number of vehicles in Far Cry!) your jeep right down at the dock , up the ramp and into the dockside warehouse, firing as you go (the jeeps are all equipped with machine guns) right through to the water side, then leap out and use the mini-gun on the dock-side to mow down the hapless mercenaries standing about open-mouthed on the dock.As I mentioned, there are a number of vehicles available, from jeeps and trucks, to boats and even a hang-glider or two!
And you can happily run down the mercs and blow up gas cyclinders and fuel tanks as you go.The game is good, and one that I'm happy to revisit for a bit of gunplay now and again.
But there are a number of things that are not good.Firstly, there is no manual "save game" option.
The game saves automatically at certain, pre-defined points.
If you get killed before you reach one of these, there are few options except to replay the previous areas again, which, in some instances, can be a considerable amount of effort.
Luckily there is a workaround for this available on the internet.Secondly, the monsters are more than a little bit lame and rely on the "can take hundreds of rounds of ammunition to kill" mentality.
This is particularly evident with the merc leader, who corners you on a sinking ship at one point with a helicopter gunship.
To say it takes a lot of ammunition to see him off is an understatement and I suggest you resort to cheat codes in order to get past what is otherwise a very tedious moment in the game.But otherwise this is one of the best games I've seen in a LONG while.
The AI, combined with a good story and excellent levels, day and night levels, indoor and outdoor settings etc.
all combine to make this a great gaming experience.Recommended..
Cheesy,and fun.
Welp basic plot villian wants to crest bio monsters calls trigen the friend is a twist villian,some spy mission with badassnes with some good exploration así is funny shoot every enemy get a hot and sexy spy to help you and save the world against terrorist and trigen mutants.If you like cheesy and pioneered far cry this game is for you.
Fun fun fun.....
Forget the plot this was fun.
Well I thought so anyway.The game was a ton of fun.
Lots of exploring and fun things to do but aside from that there's not much that kept me coming back.
I do love the locations and the look and feel of the game.The way all the islands look and how you move about is simply fantastic.
But that I'm afraid is window dressing.
All you seem to do is explore from place to place, shoot anything that moves that isn't already shooting at you, and that's about it.
Then the game ends when you finish the last level in the Volcano.Some of the atmosphere is also good.
One scene in particular when you are in a tunnel like area and these monsters called Trigens jump out at you.
That does kinda scare me sometimes when playing this, and it's not that often a game or such can do that.There are some frustrating parts in there for me too like one part where you venture into what looks like a kitchen area with mercenaries in it.
They'll shoot you but you can take them out, then from in the back of the room out a toilet door hordes of these monsters jump out at you making it a little hard to kill them all and escape unhurt.But I had to keep returning to this spot and kept trying, and eventually did beat that level.Overall can't say I didn't have fun but would have liked it had they given the game a bit more story and that would have helped make the islands feel that much more real.