Far Cry PC Game Review

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Far Cry is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek and published by Ubisoft on March 23, 2004, for Microsoft Windows. Far Cry sold 730,000 units within four months of release.[1] It received positive reviews upon release. The original game has since spawned a series of sequels and spin-off games.
The tropical rain forest provides cover and concealment, of which the player and enemies can take advantage. Enemies react dynamically to the player's tactics and actions. If a lone mercenary spots a player, he occasionally runs for help, signaling reinforcements through use of flareguns. Enemies will work together to outmaneuver, outflank, surround, and provide suppressive fire, providing them a tactical advantage over the player, who, in turn, is able to spot and mark enemies on his minimap through use of special binoculars, which also grant the player the ability to listen to enemy conversations from afar, merely by pointing the binoculars in the direction of the enemies.
The environment includes land, water, indoor and outdoor structures, all during various times of the day. The player has the ability to jump, run, crouch and lie down, and look in just about every direction.
Sound plays an important part in the overall gameplay. For example, the general location of enemies can often be identified by hearing their footsteps.
Throughout the game, the player encounters a variety of weapons from which to choose, including automatic weapons and grenades.

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

Fun story: I replayed and beat this on the hardest setting when it was re-released on consoles, and as a result (since the console port has an odd scoring system and leaderboards for single player based on difficulty) i received 200+ friend requests in little over two weeks, since I was #1 in the world leaderboard.

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

+Ghost81 You beat this on realistic mode, you're the boss, bro

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

Psycho Machinery Oh this game is easy compared to some others I've been through, trust me. I dare anyone to beat CoD WaW on Veteran, for a truly miserable time.

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

Yep, that was a tough one along CoD II with its expansion. Back when the franchise was still red hot.

[@Ghost_Of_SAS]

@115219382536446129187 1, 2 and 3 are the only ones I haven't beaten on Veteran, I should probably get around to that. 2021 EDIT: I later beat CoD 2 and 3 on veteran

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

I highly suggest the second and it's expansion. It's by far, imho, the best entry in the whole franchise. And hard as nails, especially the expansion...

[@sevenproxies4255]

I loved the Trigens showing up. The game suddenly went from regular action first person shooter to becoming a horror game. Caught you completely off guard and really put a dent in predictability. :)

[@darrell840]

Exact. That has only been seen in from dusk till dawn before that

[@ashyoshicharizard3949]

Halo ce

[@jetranger131]

What I just love about Far Cry is that sticky feel of constant danger, being free to choose how to deal with the enemies, and clever challenges everywhere. To survive in Far Cry on the hardest difficulty you do need to use tactical approach, whether you're fighting against the mercs or the mutants, or the game will punish you for being a noob. )) There's just a couple of moments that are really ridiculously, illogically hard, and patch 1.4 makes the AI see you through tents for whatever reason... But other than that - Far Cry is my very favorite game for over 6 years, I've played it countless times and recommend it for everyone who likes smart FPS-challenge.

[@capscaps04]

there is a mod released that fixed that problem about enemies been able to shot you through tents. here is the link to it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2qoYoF9bJt-bM0

[@theleninistplaysgames1682]

I agree the difficulty spike is ridiculous. Great game though.

[@aboriginalmang]

+TheLeninistPlaysGames Yeah, with and only with god mode.

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

+TheLeninistPlaysGames For sure it is, but that's also the magic of this game. Pure old school action. Once you beat this in the realistic mode, you're the f*cking boss!

[@theleninistplaysgames1682]

Psycho Machinery Yeah, I should probably give it another go. Probably just didn't have the patience back then.

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

Since this is one of the toughest and most frustrating FPS of all time, finishing that in the hardest difficult is a big milestone for any gamer, i can say. It's worth for sure... just be ready for some stress, especially in the last level after you are dropped from the helicopter... it's HELL, literally. XD

[@thehorsetermite886]

TBH that never stood out to me, i played the game when I was 7 and really the only thing that I had a problem with are the jumpscares

[@aelphacom]

When I was a kid I loved this game, the graphics at that time looked amazing on CRT monitors. Also, the setting of the game - a tropical Island with old WWII bunkers, sunken ships, even a carrier. Then you get to those creatures made in a laboratory. The atmosphere of an old 80s action movie and main protagonist reminded me of Schwarzenegger at that time. This game had everything.

[@darrell840]

They don't know, because too young.

[@kkarx]

Yeah at the time it looked good but I tried to play it nowadays and it looks horribly. Something like Kingpin released years before Far cry still looks pretty appealing up today but Far Cry is just ugly.

[@111krolik]

The far cry 1 is my favourite game of all time. I finished this game 11 times (literally) and it never got boring. I loved and enjoyed every part of this game and finished it on the hardest difficulty. It was hell but its a perfect challenge if you are into these things.

[@help4343]

"Most annoying enemy in any video game ever made" Is it even possible for an enemy to be more annoying than the Cliff Racers in Morrowind?

[@cassandraking6603]

Fuck no lol.

[@RetroDeathReviews666]

You know, I think you're the only reviewer I've ever enjoyed enough to re-watch your reviews. I've said this so many times on so many videos but your views are perfectly spot on and you don't give criticism too easily or too harshly. I came back on here because I decided to dust out my copy of this and see your thoughts on it again. I , like usual, am gonna have to agree with everything you said in this video. I do still like it though and I think it's the best in the series.

[@Gggmanlives]

Thanks bro!

[@Paul939]

Are you australian? You said 'early nooenties' at the start and that made me laugh.

[@Gggmanlives]

Paul939 I'm Ausenglishian.

[@magnusm4]

Watch Lazy Game Reviewer and Peanut butter Gamer. They are hilarious and fun plus Lazy Game Reviewer goes into old Msdos games and the box arts and manuals of old games. He's obsessed with those old awesome boxes plus his thrift videos are fun to see what he finds

[@RetroDeathReviews666]

magnusm4 actually, I've made my reviews the same way. I show the box/manual if it's a larger boxed 90s game, I dissect the every little detail I feel should be explained, and I say if I recommended it or not, and who to. Im currently editing one off earthworm jim. I've only made a few and barely have any views but I love making them enough to say I'd do it for a majority of the games in my collection. I also love lgr and pbg.

[@brunoraspudic9367]

For me the trigens are what makes this game exciting and challenging.

[@Free_Palestine_419]

Nope they ruin the game. Fuck the mutants!

[@redtrychguy8676]

@@Free_Palestine_419 Only the giant mutants were a pain in the ass. The small ones, were easy to deal with if you had a shotgun.

[@lucas343]

@@Free_Palestine_419 But the Krieger Corps narrative and why they created all their facilities in Micronesia revolves around trigens, even because Dr Krieger was a former United States employee who had been fired because of his research and wanted to who wanted to do tests on humans, even because there are three stages in the game, there are several mutations and even mutations that appear in the game itself but do not appear as an enemy for you to kill even because the research was under development, so they did not ruin the game dude, it has a whole story, krieger was finished and became a millionaire and he wanted to make super soldiers and never had this chance to do theses at high scales, so the island and everything, including Doyle betrays us because of the money he could gaining from research and also creating an army of his own, Carver only did his dirty work and was sadly cheated.

[@fightingforce8498]

Correct.

[@Free_Palestine_419]

@@redtrychguy8676 i agree the small ones are not to difficult but the big ones can go fuck themselves!!!

[@rivolinho]

This was such a game changer back in 04. I had just gotten into pc gaming and the idea of exploring those huge tropical island maps was mind blowing.

[@DWTerminator]

I never really found Far Cry as crushingly difficult as you make it out to be, except on higher difficulty settings and on the last level or so. Challenging, sure, but not "the hardest FPS ever made." Honestly I found Crysis' endgame to be more unfairly difficult than Far Cry's. What I can say is that the game might be a bit over-reliant on patience and precision (which isn't much of a surprise if you've played German games before). Headshot rules still apply to the mutants, so what I found is the "go for the eyes, Boo, go for the eyes!" strategy tends to work best no matter what you're doing, and "spray like a madman" tends to get you killed. Said strategy is a lot harder to pull off when you're fighting enemies that jump around a lot, obviously, but not so hard on those lumbering, rocket-spewing ogre things. Usually what I ended up doing was switching everything to semi-auto to make it easier to get those headshots. We can all agree that the second half of the game is weaker than the first though.

[@Gggmanlives]

I just think the enemy designs are flawed by nature. A bullet sponge enemy that can rapid fire rockets is not a good idea. But I can see how some people enjoy the challenge.

[@Gggmanlives]

Zelousmarineinspace Well at least in sniper town the enemies are standing in one spot. They're not strafing all over the place like assholes.

[@Zelousmarineinspace]

Gggmanlives DAMN. What idiot designed those enemies?

[@filipbodnar2947]

Gggmanlives Being hard doesnt make any game bad. Also, i think that crytek is the best fps designer (or atleast, one of the best) because crysis rocks but i havnt played too much far cry, i first've seen it when a friend of mine lend me the game. I thought it was realy scary with all the trigens and all and i wasnt realy into shooters back then

[@gameragodzilla]

I never found Crysis's aliens anywhere near as hard as the Trigen in Far Cry, mainly because: 1. I have a nanosuit, which allows me to run really fast, cloak, hit harder, and take more damage than normal, meaning surviving being attacked or retreating to heal is much easier. 2. My health meter automatically regenerates, so if I manage to find a bit of cover or run away from the aliens, I can heal quickly. 3. I have access to Sci Fi weapons like the Gauss Rifle or Alien Machine gun that deals a ton of damage to the aliens. 4. Most importantly: QUICKSAVES! The thing is Far Cry 1's gameplay is built around a more tactical or guerrilla warfare approach, where you're supposed to move slowly, pick enemies off one by one, and constantly retreat and hide. This is reflected by the fact that enemies soak up bullets like a sponge unless you land a perfect headshot, you can't take very many hits, and firing while standing is about as threatening as harsh language. The Trigen, however, seem more like enemies out of Doom or Quake rather than a tactical FPS, where you fought them by running around everywhere and firing accurately from the hip. As a result, the Trigen end up being a contradiction in game design. Crysis, on the other hand, is far more like a Sci Fi, run and gun shooter than Far Cry, so when the aliens arrive, it's much less of a pain in the ass. Sure, the aliens segments of Crysis are still the weaker bits of the game (amazing antigravity section being an exception), but because I can run 60+ mph, jump around like the Hulk, cloak like I'm the goddamn Predator, and soak up extra rounds (with regeneration no less), I'm much more prepared to deal with the aliens in Crysis. Also, QUICKSAVES!

[@mbp1646]

Apologies for commenting 7 years too late. I fully agree about the difficulty spike but in spite of that Far Cry is one of my all time favourite shooters. One level in particular stuck in my mind. It was called Rebellion and after initially fighting your way out of a fortress under siege where both sides are trying to kill you, you are then faced with travelling to the far side of a huge island. You can take the road to the left of the mountain, you can take the road to the right, you can climb over the mountain you can take a tunnel under the mountain. You can drive you can walk you can swim (easy mode FTW), you can even take a hang glider. Every route has its own enemies and its own challenges. I had never come across open world freedom on such a scale in any game and it blew my mind back in 2004.

[@Curt_Randall]

I wish the Far Cry series would go back to its roots where the story deals with supernatural stuff. Now the series is on this maniacal tyrant kick. Yes the Trigen were a pain and I definitely had my share of frustrations. But in some way it made the game more tense or even frightening.

[@DenverStarkey]

I too would love to the Trigen's return to the series , maybe they could do far cry 6 where it starts out like the rest of the series , normal classic psycho , but mid way through the game the trigens start invading the area then you and said psycho have to team up to defeat them., the only question that needs askings is why did they wait 20+ years to leave the tropical islands they were created on ?

[@ThePedroalone]

The first areas where the Trigen appear, like the forest with the rope bridges, were genuinely terrifying for me

[@ragnardanneskjold6509]

Most people don't get this is more of a tactical thinker than a shooter. You gotta take the high grounds, scope out routes, capture distance weapons and use them first. When the Trigen show up, lure them into range of a static mini-gun or grenade launcher. Loved this on realistic level, but you gotta be prepared to do lots of hiding and tagging. And it's gonna take you over 50 hours. Peace

[@DenverStarkey]

@@Free_Palestine_419 them going to. Real world type stuff did that.

[@dogboy0912]

Yeah. It's got the crazy twist because it's the only FarCry game that CryTek actually developed.

[@yeti112]

A hard game is something positive. I'm so sick and tired of wasting 60 bucks for a game that's over after 2 days. This game did it right, finally some challenge.

[@TheKevlar4]

A hard game is positive only if it's fair.

[@tastycookiechip]

No one wants a game that's so unfairly hard and cheap that it's just tedious and boring eg far cry, dark souls 2 etc

[@albertwesker2583]

Farcry lacks zombies, zombie dogs and the umbrella corporation. I would only buy farcry if ubisoft teamed up with capcom.

[@corkytheclown2776]

This was back when FPS were about gameplay, such a legendary game

[@parallax8207]

Yeah. All do they care now is cutscenes, history, villains. Fuck

[@hansturpyn5455]

@@parallax8207 the annoying cutscenes kill it these days

[@parallax8207]

@@hansturpyn5455 yeah years ago we didn't need many cutscene to understand what was happening in the game and every story was memorable. I never forgot the adventure/story of those old games yet they were all about gameplay. That's how games should be

[@DriscolDevil]

@@parallax8207 Yeah, postal 4 and Doom have way too many cutscenes and.....history?

[@bluelotus2838]

1 of my fav game of that time :)

[@F0nkyNinja]

I think the Trigens are made scarier by the fact they're so tough. On some Trigens I think shooting the glowing blue/green stuff on their armor does more damage. Try the Matto mods, especially Matto 4. It's like a DLC for the game, adds new weapons and is fully voice acted.

[@Everts888]

we need another far cry like this one

[@jplegend98]

3?

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

^ good game, but not even close to this one imo.

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

Crysis isn't an old school FPS, tho...

[@jplegend98]

Psycho Machinery yeah it is.

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

With old school FPS, i meant precisely the basic dynamics on those games: health & armor bar, no Call of Dutiesque regeneration. Don't get me wrong, i love the Crysis series too, especially the first 2 (the original and Warhead).

[@neilhaupt489]

Early 2000's = Early "naught-ies." Love it.

[@RsKnDR0991]

Thanks, I couldn't understand what he said! xD

[@MaTtRoSiTy]

I personally liked the trigens (unlike the aliens in Crysis which made me lose interest in completing the game). It did make the game frustratingly hard at times but well worth pushing through. It certainly did mean dying quite a lot but it also created a sense of tension as every area had me on the edge of my seat, not wanting to disturb a trigen (especially the one with the lab where you are in the trees). It was a hard game but I still enjoyed it more than most other games at the time. Though the checkpoint system was a pain....

[@JamalAlb200]

I've been waiting for you to review this :'D review the next two if you can.

[@nodiggity9472]

"How d' ya like THOSE apples?" "I'm gonna paint your little red wagon" "Imma open up a can of whoop-ass on you" "There he is . . . . . . . .Where'd he go" Carver: "What the hell are those things?" Doyle: "Oh, you must mean the Tri-gens"

[@MarkaNgamer]

I actually liked that challenge and fighting supernatural stuff more than "wack-a-mercenary" game, that´s why I like FC1 and Crysis more than FC2 and 3. I hate "realistic" shooters.

[@hawks12thman]

Zelousmarineinspace Lmao Battlefield. Seems like someones never played ArmA.

[@Zelousmarineinspace]

hawks12thman Arma isn't a game. It's a war simulator. It doesn't count

[@IHateYoutubeHandlesVeryMuch]

Zelousmarineinspace You never heard of VBS2 then, made by the same developers, but targeted at Military consumers.

[@ajshell2]

Seeing that scene at 4:26 stirred up an old memory of me watching one of my dad's coworkers play this game. Thank you.

[@GameHistoryX]

Love your channel. What I wished I could do is what you are doing with your channel. Awesome man!!!

[@pRopaaNS]

It was fun challenge to play through all game on hardest difficulty. Except for the part of giving up on the very last level of the game.

[@libertydenied]

+pRopaaNS That volcano center. Horrendous..

[@Free_Palestine_419]

Whichever cunts and cocksuckers programmed those levels I want to nail those fucks to crosses.

[@kodemasterx]

This game is the reason why I converted to the PC Master Race back in 2004 well... this game is along with Doom 3, Half Life 2, Unreal Tournament 2K4 and the GLORIOUS PAINKILLER... lol This game kicked my ass back then and it is right now since I am playing it for the 3849596th time...

[@zeljo024]

I will always play this game because it simple has no competition :)

[@DarkturtleX]

Its called PC community not Master Race

[@superdrinkingpepsi]

Pshhhh, PC Master Race. Multiplatformers FTW!

[@DenverStarkey]

loved this game but for me the jump to pc was done almost a decade earlier and for MechWarrior 2 mercenaries. shame MechWarrior 5 falls short in so many ways today.

[@simongravel7407]

2004, best year for the FPS genre!

[@supersatanic]

Replayed the original DEUS EX again last month and am now on a nostalgia binge playing game after game from my childhood, meanwhile watching your videos side by side. They're doing wonders for me. I just finished Max Payne yesterday and now onto this!! MAN DO I MISS the late 90's-early 2000's PC shooters. They were just the best

[@nicholsjoshua15]

Play the Brothers In Arms (store.steampowered.com/app/15190/) and Ghost Recon (store.steampowered.com/app/15300/). I do think games used to be better than they are now, the last truly great game I played was BioShock and BioShock : Infinite - Burial At Sea.

[@Moon420]

I like the second half of the game where the monsters appears It gives a new feel and entertainment where as If It was just soldiers and islands over and over again It'd get boring I love this game absolutely 100% also the second part looks futuristic all the bases, underground all the things make for an epic game from the beginning to the end this game is absolutely epic especially for the time that It got released even to this day.

[@hellburger99]

Despite that, I still have fond memories of Far Cry. I actually like the idea of switching the enemy up half-way through the game because it radically changes how you have to approach situations. That said, these changes could have been handled much better, preferably without the psychic, bullet-sponge enemies.

[@QukopertTheSk8erBoi]

You think the checkpoint's in Far Cry are bad? then play XIII.

[@harshpherwani6590]

I know what you mean :)

[@someguy8951]

Xiii had bad checkpoints but it wasn't that difficult compared to Far Cry on normal difficulty.

[@Rod_Knee]

Wonderfully accurate review.

[@gilgamesh310]

I remember when I first played this game back in the day and I loved it. I found the difficulty to be manageable enough and the game to be very innovative for its time. I replayed the game a few months back and found it to be unbearably difficult and just a plain chore to play through. I reckon it's partially to do with my decreased skill with gaming as I get older but also to do with the fact that most games have simply gotten much easier. If I played Dark Souls about 10 years ago I probably wouldn't find it hard at all.

[@absisflying]

your commentary is absolutely hilarious and honest 😂😂

[@andreypitts7932]

This game is epic. And the difficulty is just right. I finished this game 3 times on the hardest setting and it was fun. Yes, it is challenging and that's why I love old games, you need to struggle to survive. Almost all modern FPS are boring, it feels like you are playing Iron Man against an army of morons.

[@harolrvez7124]

We dont have free time enjoy a game, most gamers nowsaday only have 2-3 hours for himself. Stop being a nostalgic fuck and appreciate modern titles you old-fashioned kid

[@harolrvez7124]

If you have to waste 5hrs just to complete a section, then its a bad game design

[@MegaSmouke]

@@harolrvez7124 maybe it's just you spending 5 hrs on section and other guy will beat it in 10 minutes.

[@lucas343]

@@harolrvez7124 it depends on man, depending on the section and the difficulty you can take the approach you prefer, because the game makes it available in some sessions so it’s not the game, but the player, Far Cry 1 is an excellent game, as well as everyone, but as I am from the time and I played at the launch I will always pay a fucking dick for this game and many others from the time that have marked me and still mark even current generations, anyway

[@Eljulitus]

@@harolrvez7124 Bs. It only means that it is not made for you. Not everybody are full time fathers/mothers with only 2 hours for themselves.

[@Dr.Kananga]

Nice stuff. I remember playing the multiplayer on xbox ten years ago, it was hilarious and the custom levels were a lot of fun.

[@matiasvazquez0001]

Good review man. I think spent hours trying to go past the final battle!! Impossible...

[@Shpuld]

One of the only reviews from you that I disagree with, I'm also one of the very few people who didn't mind the mutants in this game. Sure they were harder to deal with than mercs, but I didn't find them cheap if you knew how to handle them.

[@sinanapenka9748]

You should consider a list of the most annoying enemies in FPS games

[@Kokuyous3ki]

I loved how the supermutants are able to rip apart anything and tank rockets - but are kept in chainlink cages...

[@DenverStarkey]

I always assumed they were in titanium cages or some other harder than steel alloy.

[@fightingforce8498]

@@DenverStarkey they were titanium.

[@ArtHazard]

I always thought of Jack Carver as an underrated action game protagonist, because I played localized russian version of the game. Russian actor did a great job, his version of Jack sounded like a tired soldier with "I don't want to fight anymore, but I have to" approach and a little bit of sarcasm thrown in. Then I heard the original voice acting and understood why nobody remembers Jack as I do.

[@theleninistplaysgames1682]

To me the game only got super hard with the introduction of the super soldiers.

[@PinInCruiZ]

Finished it on hardest mode possible ("Realistic").

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

Me too, after ranting a couple of weeks at office... but a damn good feeling after beating it finally XD

[@thebunk8588]

Bullshit

[@bernardo4157]

Ironically enemies kill you trough walls in one shot

[@sainphony]

Same here. I'd fininished i TWICE on HARDEST difficulty ;) And, man, THAT was ridiculously mad

[@tanmayfadnis5440]

Seriously, man?... that's.....

[@Majthoub]

i feel like a legend that i finished FarCry 1 on a laptop with no mouse Dx

[@dr.seytan4310]

Congratulations bro.

[@gemsandlasers269]

Two levels in particular were crazy tough. The one where you are captured then dropped into the middle of a trigen-infested forest without a gun! Then the one you show near the end where you are in a narrow corridor with about 20 of the most souped up enemy soliders, many with rocket launchers. Those two levels I must have taken about 20-30 attempts to pass.

[@sixstringrebel]

I don't remember having that many issues with the game when the Trigen showed up, but it's been ages since I played this. I loved this game and was excited when they announced a port for last gen consoles but the port turned out to be absolutely horrible.

[@ABond008ABond008]

I don't get it either. The game was challenging but definitely beatable. Even on its hardest difficulties. I don't know why he wants an easy ass game. Also, the voice acting was good, it was a really good game and the I did like the trigens and super soldiers. Made it even more fun. But anyway that is just my opinion.

[@peterw1534]

I finally beat this game straight through on realistic w/o dying once. Took me 11.5 hours lol. I have a strategy for every situation now. Know this game like the back of my hand. Love this game. They don't make em like this anymore ☹

[@GuardianStriker]

Can you review the Far Cry Instincts series someday as well? Because if you haven't tried them yet, I'm very sure you'll love playing them.

[@TheArb1ter]

Still got Box release of this from ~18y ago, I remember when I first played it I was amazed at graphics, physics(not as good as HL2 but for the times they were really something) and semi open world. I guess I'm getting old and nostalgia gets me but I need to replay this one day when I get a decent gaming PC...

[@17MrLeon]

Its till the best far cry game out there till this day.

[@lowellhouser7731]

Uh, NO, that would be Blood Dragon followed by FC3.

[@RetroDeathReviews666]

Blood dragon was a stand alone expansion pack/dlc or whatever, not a full game.

[@someblackguy7371]

+'Murrican Oil Somebody... somebody actually have the same opinion as me! FUCK YES! I'm so lonely! YESS!

[@BluePieNinjaTV]

3 had a good story? HAHAHAHAHA 3 is pretty much some kid who went skydiving to the wrong island with friends and eventually became ultimate Bear Grylls killing everyone and doing drugs, all while eventually finding his other friends

[@someblackguy7371]

***** Exactly, it's an Everyman epic tale like how Gordan Freeman kills an entire military army and aliens with NO combat experience, Nathan Drake owned and slayed Pirates, Mercenaries, and mystical creatures with ZERO training in the army, Or that Random UNTRAINED engineer in the Dead Space franchise killing HORDES of monsters with skills more superior then the Space Marines sent to protect people.... Far Cry 3 is badass, and so is Jason, he follows a good trope I wish most games use today.

[@asterixobelix20]

Yeah I just replayed the game a little while ago and recognized that I forgot how damn hard this game is even on medium :) . But I still like it :) .

[@Celisar1]

Love this game just as much today then I did 20 years ago. The atmosphere is incredible and the deadliness of the mutants absolutely keeps you on your toes all the time. They are really scary because they are so strong.

[@RoseSupreme]

This game is in serious need of a remake. Put the constant sequels on hold, bring the first game into the modern age with stunning graphics, some additional things, features from FC1's many sequels and fixed difficulty so there's no insane difficulty spike during the Trigen phase, all that *sheeit.*

[@mudkipzuzu]

Far Cry map editor and Arcade with the first game's assets (NPCs, AI, guns, sounds) is what I've always wanted from a FC game

[@DenverStarkey]

if they remake it they need to keep the trigens as they were. the difficulty spike is what made the game stand out. back in the day i was able to beat it on hard myself , and i'm not that great at shooters. they don't need to dumb down the trigen levels , and definitely not the "helicopter" level. that level turned the game from a sci-fi shooter in to a freaking horror game and i loved it for it.

[@Skandalos]

My all-time fav first person shooter. 2nd doom2. Try Matto4 mod. Almost as good as the original campaign.

[@jackt7331]

I'll have to respectfully disagree with you, the game is almost 100% perfect in my opinion. The only things I didn't like in this game was the shooting which for some reason felt a bit weird, as well as the animations of human opponents. I think it is one of the best fps game ever made, especially considering it is now 12 years old. The difficulty is perfect on normal and very evolutive, stealth is great, various beautiful indoor and outdoor environments, one of the first fps solo campaign with semi open world which allows you to replay the game over and over again, awesome graphics, great variety of guns and vehicles, great action. Just overall a fucking great game,

[@AlbnskYY]

completed campaign several times. Died sometimes, but again I made it no matter what. It isn't even hard lol.

[@Axyo0]

So you dislike the shooting in a shooting game but its somehow perfect? You have weird priorities

[@1231231232972]

automatic shotgun works great withmutants. what's the problem, quickly running low on ammo?

[@keithfulkerson]

I love FarCry. It was tough as hell, but now I just go back and play certain campaigns over and over, mainly the outdoor ones. The campaign, "Rebellion" never gets old.

[@Bartolomeus002]

It wasnt that hard for me... and I loved it.

[@Christiansisco1]

buy the game again and play on the latest patch, and you will see what hes talking about. They broke the ai and it became really insanely difficult for no good reason.

[@dromeascr123]

It is actually not THAT hard as you say and I disagree on the part where you say it's mostly about luck (I've spent thousands of hours in this game and it's editor so I know something). The core game is not as much hard as you say, especially on Easy, I think it's kinda ridiculously easy. Only if you played on Realistic, I kinda agree on the part that the enemies have pin-point accuracy. On the easiest setting though, they spread bullets all over the place. The checkpoint system is extremely frustrating, I totally agree on that. All in all, I find this review honest, except the part where you talk about difficulty. It is not as much hard as you say, especially on the easiest setting.

[@DommHavai]

My main critisism towards the diffuculty is that it relies heavily on cheeky enemy placement (especially true for trident jumpers or whatever they are called). When I first played the game a couple of years ago I chose 1 difficulty below maximum, and I was mostly dying from enemies that wait for you around the corner or hide in a random bush all the way across the map. So to comfortably play on the last difficulty setting you need to learn enemy location, then it's alright. Apart from this aspect the game is reasonable difficult imo.

[@thejking]

I remember playing this when I was younger. The trigens are difficult yes but not impossible by any means really.. I remember feeling this real sense of accomplishment after beating a level filled with them. I think I never died over 7 times in one level (except for the very last one.)

[@Roboterpunk]

This has to be the review I most disagree with you. Yes, the Trigens are a pain in the ass and the game is unfair at times but I liked the second half even more than the already great first. Maybe it's about the challenge of exploiting the gameplay mechanics but I actually enjoyed getting wiped by those enemies and coming back from the check point. It's like the Dark Souls of shooters. Yet Far Cry mostly lives from it's level design which imho still is an outstandig mixture of tropic jungle and science fiction.

[@SpecShadow]

I remember the release time. Doom3 vs HL2, then from nowhere - FC. Doom3 sucked badly, HL2 is highly praised but for me, except few elements, like animations, it was boring. FC work nicely on my AMD Duron 850 MHz and (iirc) Radeon 9600. Mutants must be the idea to incease difficulty later in the game because elite troops was not enough. It remind me Silent Storm, WW2 game where they introduced big mechs/power armors called Panzerkleins. Bullshit for challenge.

[@r3tr4d]

+SpecShadow This game shits on HL2 so badly. FC is one of the best FPSs ever made.

[@dr.loomis4221]

1:17 I feel like this moment was the direct inspiration for the first time you emerge into the jungle in Avatar Frontiers of Pandora.

[@nskdnnm]

I remember there was a little mod that enabled quicksaves. It was still hard, but way more enjoyable and less frustrating than without.

[@matman000000]

One thing I don't understand are fans of Far Cry who bash Crysis, often calling it just a tech demo in comparison. I thought Crysis had a more refined gameplay. The AI wasn't telepathic and enemies didn't see you from a mile away in a jungle, the weapon customization gave you the ability to use weapons to their fullest potential and the nanosuit added a whole new level to the sandbox gameplay. The complaints about increased linearity may have been true about the level in the alien spaceship and the ending, but Far Cry 1 was far from an open world game. 80% of the levels in Crysis were very vast and open, plus you could get a lot closer to enemies without being seen, so even smaller objects and singular buildings affected the way you tackled the situation, unlike in FC1, where the best way was an attack from a distance. The second half, although weaker in both games, was also a lot more enjoyable in Crysis. At least there wasn't such a huge difficulty jump and the more action-packed parts prompted the use of different abilities of the nanosuit.

[@gameragodzilla]

I fully agree. Crysis was the Far Cry 1 formula refined and polished. Unfortunately, the sequels went straight into CoD territory, and disappointed as a result.

[@matman000000]

Kyle Batteson The suit was the most valuable weapon if you knew how to use it.

[@bagpuss121]

Max Payne Ive Been A Farcry 1 Fan Since It Was Released Fantastic Game Same Goes For Crysis 1 Another Fantastic Game They Are Both Masterpieces .... And 2 Of The Best Games Ever Made .... And Unlike A Lot Of People On Here I Dont Want Easy Games .....If You Want Easy Games Go Play COD ....

[@matman000000]

***** I like difficulty, just not bullshit difficulty, like enemies with super sight and 100% accuracy.

[@bagpuss121]

Max Payne I know Exactly What You Mean.....

[@kokovaleto]

ONE OF THE BEST GAMES EVER!!!

[@aaadj2744]

And Challenging !!

[@rvh1702]

No, just no

[@kokovaleto]

@@rvh1702 dude Iam talking only for the first part farcry1

[@dainbramage7]

I only noticed the "wall-hacking" from enemies in only a couple of parts. I did hear that this was a glitch introduced with the last official patch and it was never actually fixed, except with unofficial mods.

[@AlexM1983DHUN]

I used to play this on the hardest difficulty level with saving from the console. It was really very hard but I was proud to play all the games I came across on the hardest difficulty level. Though, I think Quake 4 was harder on its hardest difficulty level. I thought it was the hardest game till I came across FF Type-0 for which I had me to switch to the easiest settings and I would still dying like flies.I'd like to add to your review only that on its initial release the game was not just an unoptimized mess it was prone to crash and had memory leaks. I remember watching a debug message or a crash report in every hour or even more frequently on larger levels.

[@esswasim]

Those monsters is what made Farcry. How can you say they are bad and ruin the game? LOL

[@Gggmanlives]

+ess wasim I'm pretty sure I gave a good reason why. Try listening to the video. Also read the comments and see how hundreds of people agree with me.

[@esswasim]

+Gggmanlives I have completed the game well twice and for me its bitterness was what made me enjoy it. I don't like shooting practice against still targets

[@Gggmanlives]

ess wasim I don't like enemies with large melee range that kill me in 2 hits.

[@postit5725]

+ess wasim They're too boring to deal with, and extremely predictable. Definitely developers shouldn't have implemented those embarassing monster creatures

[@baconking1595]

+Gggmanlives uncharted did it

[@BannedIP]

Best FarCry by far. What Ubishit did with the franchise has nothing to do with the first, just the name.

[@thattypicalslimy8548]

Well, blood dragon does, they are Bullshit and made up lol. But the games are bringing back the supernatural, and all games in the serious were great except no 2.

[@ibanez2010]

Fun game. I just beat it for the first time on medium setting. The only spot I found truly maddening was in the catacombs where it's like a non-stop wave of trijens in close quarters. Not to mention, those stupid tanks spewing the green gas which ended up hurting me more than helping. A few spots on the river level were also tough due to check-points being spaced so far out. Definitely a game I will play again.

[@vampolascott36]

One of my favorite gaming experiences. If I start telling people about a game even though they couldn't care less, that means I love it. I was very proud to finish it. I replayed it too, just because the first half was so much fun. You're right about the second half though, it wasn't near as fun. I considered it a challenge I had to overcome. The developers are Germans if I remember right.

[@utubrGaming]

Dear that one person who thumbed down: Did I ever tell you the definition...of insanity?

[@PonzooonTheGreat]

What? I thought that fighting the aliens in Crysis was the best part! Until then it was just a somewhat above average fps.

[@DJBV]

i agree with you but for me crysis started very good then after the first level started to be worse because of the repetitive gameplay untill the fourth level when finally the us navy joined the fight and the objectives became more interesting and nanosuit ennemies joined the fight and then the level without gravity blew my mind and from there it was better and better fighting the aliens was cool and in crysis warhead they made them even better and varied and even enhanced the AI of the korean nanosuits dudes...crysis and crysis warhead are the best in the crysis series

[@LupusAries]

Agreed it was interesting to fight them, especially the reduced gravity level. And compared to the Trigens they were toned down a lot. Tough I played a lot with stealth and sniping, which tended to help a lot, these suckers don't seem to like the Gauss Rifle. ;) Yeah and I snuck into that digging site where the north korean general activated the seph without kiling any north korean.

[@netweed09]

Great review. Spot on regarding the difficulty. I didn't mind the crazy enemies too much but they seem to have made Jack underpowered for such a big guy and his 'armor' could've been upgraded along with his abilities but FC3 does fix this. But the daft OHKO aliens were stupid.

[@F10F11hm]

Far Cry came out before Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, so I played it first (after trying out the demo, which - suffice to say it - absolutely made my jaw drop) and to be perfectly honest, graphically at least, D3 and HL2 just felt so... well, still great, but not so amazing anymore after experiencing the sheer spectacle on display in FC. In that sense, FC was a true revelation for its time, at least for me. Before I tried out the demo of FC, I was obsessed with the D3&HL2 pre-release "war", hunted down every screenshot I could find, bought every magazine featuring a preview of either of these two games. Far Cry came out of the blue and in many ways, changed everything. It weren't just the jaw-dropping graphics, but the sheer scale of the levels (sure, we had Project IGI or Delta Force before, but that visual quality Crytek provided!..), the semi-freedom they offered, the physics. I didn't mind the Trigens. It's true that they introduced a giant difficulty spike (downright unfair in some levels!), but I found them SCARY, and that alone spiced up the entire experience for me. Then there's also that "The island of Doctor Moreau" aspect, which I enjoyed.

[@DenverStarkey]

fun fact Far Cry was the first game to apply normal maps to every thing in game . half life 2 itself only applied normals to characters and water. doom 3 like far cry also applied normals to every thing.

[@DethThrasher1]

Still the best Far Cry game.

[@Rpground]

As its the only real Far Cry game? Yes.

[@elliottapfel3609]

Lol no far from it..

[@mikeb8441]

Actually Blood Dragon is the best Far Cry game. This is scientific fact.

[@antoniocalimero1173]

@Ertan Soner no, the rest is shit! Far cry 1 is the real and best.

[@someguy8951]

@@antoniocalimero1173 No.

[@MartinKincl1993]

Beating Far Cry on "Veteran" difficulty was incredibly frustrating, but also rewarding. Can't imagine myself playing on "Realistic", though, since CryTek's idea of "realistic" consists of spongy enemies and you going down in 3 shots and - obviously - one hit from a trigen.

[@Mirandorl]

Something changed with this game. Back in 2004 on the hardest setting, playing the DVD PC release, diving into undergrowth would hide you from anything if you kept still. I never came across psychic enemies that always knew where you were, and I always used a stealthy approach, single shot mode and headshots as much as possible. This game made me miss leaning in every FPS that came after, because you could effectively use any corner as cover. That combined with a scoped assault rifle was super powerful. The trigens didn't seem impossible, though I do recall making liberal use of the autoshotgun. I believe there was some patch years after that which broke the difficulty. The fact you had only a checkpoint system confirms this - I made constant use of quicksaving, and don't recall ever using the console or any mod. It was just present on the DVD version, or possibly after a patch. There were one or two set pieces I never would have got past without it.

[@saisameer8771]

Apparently the latest patch breaks the difficulty with aimbot enemies that can shoot through walls. Thankfully the far cry addon mod fixes all of these problems and even adds a quick save option and iron sights. I am actually replaying it right now and so far really enjoying it.

[@kilroy987]

I don't recall playing very far into this game. I sought out a video of Far Cry 1 because I seemed to recall it having amazing graphics, especially the water animations. But time is a lens to look back through and the age shows.

[@SamuelVasilev]

I will disagree here !

[@lrmcatspaw1]

Playing this on hardest is the dark souls of FPS :D.

[@onetruekeeper418]

You can manually save and ignore the checkpoints by going into the console and type: \save_game but sometimes this can cause glitches to occur and make finishing the level impossible.

[@tommyho2530]

Entertaining review

[@esswasim]

Farcry is the best Farcry game ever made.

[@alanritchie7850]

ess wasim I agree the monsters are not what ruined the game for me but FarCry is faaaaaarrrrrrr from the best in the series FarCry 3 is my favorite followed closely by 2

[@manwe1532]

Far Cry 3 is the best Far Cry 3 game ever made.

[@Bloodynine606]

All the Ubisoft Farcry's are fuckin terrible. Climb a tower to view and area, clear an area. Rinse and repeat for 30 hours.

[@Bloodynine606]

exactly, since it was made by Crytek.

[@Bloodynine606]

Blood Dragon is worth a shot though, if you haven't tried it already.

[@Shokarneda]

I have a huge gripe with Crytek, they are without doubt the most overhyped development house in the industry the way the elitist community went on about them you would think they were the next Id or Valve. My problem is that they don''t make games instead they make over glorified tech demo's, which is perfectly illustrated in the second half of ALL their games, they no how to make a great first impression, but they have no idea how to carry a game past the initial 2 hours.

[@Avioto]

I agree, they should just stick to making and supporting an engine and let other developers make some awesome games with it. Although they did hire a bunch of developers who worked on Darksiders, so they might create the first good Crytek game :)

[@Gggmanlives]

"they have no idea how to carry a game past the initial 2 hours" Well said!

[@Hirnlego999]

I dunno, I think Crysis 2 perfectly placed the player inside a Hollywood blockbuster.

[@TheBoltrower]

@@Hirnlego999 Crysis 2 sucks mate

[@Hirnlego999]

@@TheBoltrower Well, I don't exactly love it, but overall it's better than Far Cry 1 and Crysis 1. The AI for instance is much better

[@skelejp9982]

On of the nicest things in this Game was...The Story,when getting close to Enemy Soldiers,or Scoping in with Binoculars,U Could hear their Stories,and later U could hear the fear and horror in their Talk,I really liked that. It had a true game atmosphere ,and unforgiving hard play. This Combined with the open environment made this Game a true Challenge,like STALKER later. One of my Top 3 FPS,also MoH Allied Assault ,and Return to Castle of Wolfenstein.

[@republicofsandles]

I remember the final stage of Far Cry! I died, respawned and retried that stage for about an hour before finally clearing it. I will contest the Trigen were needed to change the style of the game, but the rocket carrying heavies were like Barons of Hell from Doom but with blast radii and accuracy that made their very presence synonymous with defeat. Completing this game was an achievement in patience, but still I wouldn't trade that experience. Completing this game teaches you that games really are sometimes unfair and victory or defeat can sometimes be highly arbitrary, kind of like life most of the time.

[@EazyDuz18]

Completed this game at 14 years old on Hard, reviewer needs to git gud

[@Gggmanlives]

What age does finishing the game have to do with anything? I finished Super Mario Bros when I was 7, does that mean it's not hard? STFU.

[@civilwarfare101]

The first few hours of the game are average too. The stealth is nothing more than an illusion.

[@terminator572]

I remember this game with so much love. And even more because my dad beated it not once, not twice, not even three times, but FIVE with a touchpad.

[@Botix330]

i remember once i went offroad to explore the island in one part and found a big aircraft with 2 soldiers guarding it and a monster just coming over and destroying everything

[@stevenlornie1261]

Absolutely awful game. Looked nice but god damn!

[@comyxcon4gaming860]

Same could be said for DNF.

[@stevenlornie1261]

Kyle Batteson In your opinion. Me... my crude mind had a lot more fun with DNF than I did Farcry. It was short, simple and to the point. Dirty jokes and gore everywhere. Suited me.

[@stevenlornie1261]

Kyle Batteson I'm hitting 30 yrs old, I grew up with the first 3 Duke nukems, the ones on the PS1 and that cool platforming one. I didn't compared it to Duke 3D, that is just moronic naive nostalgia thinking that I hate.

[@stevenlornie1261]

Kyle Batteson nut i stll enjoyed it more than those ps1 games.

[@wrevilo]

I enjoyed Far Cry back in the day. However, the leaping mutants with the extendable claws are the most annoying enemy I have ever faced. I'd like to nominate Project IGI as the game with the hardest save system of all time. You had to complete the entire level without dieing to pass to the next. If you die you had to restart the entire level again. I'd love to see your review of it!

[@CybergurooWardha]

How about Hitman 1, huh?? It was freaking hard to even realize what shit is going on around you, without dying multiple times. But its still in my all time top 5, with all its twists and surprise elements and the "stealth" yeah don't forget the stealth.

[@qazyman]

I loved this game on PC. The later parts are hard, but for the time, amazing. It was like a rabbit hole from hell. I was really let down by the other FarCry games. No hair pulling, no weird science. There was one of the Stalker games that was harder it seemed to me.

[@wolfgangamadeus232]

I really neglect yhis game for years ,so I finally with the Fcam Mod. And it really improves the game in every single way ,I have quite fun. You guys should try the Fcam mod.

[@MarkoVuckovic32]

What does that mod do? I'm about to start playing this game but I hadn't decided if I want to use any mods or not?

[@wolfgangamadeus232]

​@@MarkoVuckovic32 fix alot of of issues and bugs , do some re-balence in weapons and enemies too ,and fix the most important issue that enemies see you trough walls , adds Iron Sight if this is your cup of tea and adds a fov slider .Fcam is the most close of a Vanilla+ you will find .

[@vesselinkrastev]

I just played the demo on ps3 which does not feature these mutated enemies and it seemed pretty hard. Enemies spot you too easily and they are insanely accurate. I'd still like to give it a try though. Which would you recommend: pc or ps3? The price on Steam is about the same as on PSN.

[@Vengeance19]

Those trigens were a pain in the ass at first, but I thought the auto-shotgun and grenades worked really well for me. The catacombs and that last level were so frustrating though

[@manzrzlshorts9105]

Ty for honest review.

[@mustekkala]

Could you review the Far Cry console versions? I think they were Far Cry : Instincts & Predator.