Far Cry

Developer: Crytek Publisher: Ubisoft Entertainment Technology: CryEngine Release Date: March 24, 2004 Chat-Room: #lobby Buy Physical: ebay.com Buy Digital: Steam GOG

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A tropical paradise seethes with hidden evil in Far Cry, a cunningly detailed action shooter that pushes the boundaries of combat to shocking new levels.

Freelance mariner Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island. A week ago, a brash female reporter named Valerie had offered him an incredible sum of cash to take her to this unspoiled paradise. Shortly after docking, however, Jack’s boat was greeted by artillery fire from a mysterious militia group swarming about the island.

With his boat destroyed, his money gone, and the gorgeous Valerie suddenly missing, Jack now finds himself facing an army of mercenaries amidst the wilds of the island, with nothing but a gun and his wits to survive. But the further he pushes into the lush jungle canopy, the stranger things become.

Jack encounters an insider within the militia group, who reveals the horrific details of the mercenaries’ true intentions. He presents Jack with an unsettling choice: battle the deadliest mercenaries, or condemn the human race to a maniac’s insidious agenda.

Features

• Feel the Far Cry Engine - The meticulously designed, next-generation Far Cry engine pushes the threshold of action gaming with proprietary Polybump mapping, advanced environment and character physics, destructible terrain, dynamic lighting, motion-captured animation, and total surround sound.
• Unparalleled Long Range Gunplay - Battle to the ends of the earth with Far Cry’s utterly unique, 800-meter scalable view system. Lock onto enemies from a distance with motion-sensing binoculars. Then choose your style of attack - from long range sniping to ballistic close-quarters firefights - and everything in between.
• Cunning and Complex A.I. Tactics - Battles never become repetitive when you face Far Cry’s unpredictable, intelligent A.I. mercenary units, trained in advanced adaptive group tactics. Units include snipers, stalkers, scouts, and grenadiers that engage you from all angles, distances, and terrains in coordinated strikes. Commanders will even call for reinforcements by land, sea or air.
• Diverse Combat Action - Master a dynamic slate of combat skills - close-quarters combat, long-range shooting, search and destroy tactics, stealth operations, and combat driving skills through indoor and outdoor environments.
• Heart-Pounding Atmosphere - Experience unprecedented drama and realism in a misleadingly perfect setting, with incredible lighting and shadows, adaptive audio, and weather effects.

taken from the publisher’s website

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How-To-Play On-line

Ubisoft shut down their original on-line service for Far Cry, rendering only LAN games possible even on the latest patch. You can grab a fixed library that will allow you to connect to servers outside of a LAN, at your own risk.

Note: You need to forward the port 64100 on UDP in order to host a game over the Internet.

Downloads

Notes

• There’s 3 multiplayer modes. Free For All, Team Death Match and Assault.
• There’s 3 classes to play in Assault. Grunt, Sniper and Engineer. Their loadouts differ.
• When patched to v1.4, you can turn on high-dynamic-range rendering with iris adaptation and flares. Open the console and set r_hdrrendering to 7. Anti-aliasing the game provides can conflict with it, so turn that off if you are having any rendering issues.
• The last patch v1.4 introduces a bug with the game its artificial intelligence, allowing them to see through models like tents. The GOG version has a fix, while the Steam version does not.
• Due to the intense difficulty, CryTek at one point added the (unsupported) \save_game savegamename console command. Keep in mind that Actor/NPC behaviour usually gets scrubbed, breaking combat/firefights and making them easier.
• The game was re-imagined on the Xbox as Far Cry: Instincts. It follows this one, until doing its own thing. It comes with Feral Abilities which like the Crysis Nanosuit giving you different types of combat interaction. CryTek however did not develop Instincts, that was done by Ubisoft Montreal.
• The game was given away to North American residents for free by Ubisoft on September 1st 2007 in a Labor Day promotion with a version that displayed adverts during loading screens.
• On February 4th 2004, the CryTek offices in Coburg (as well as the residence of CEO Cevat Yerli) were raided by police to check for warez. Nothing was found. It delayed the work on the game by 3 hours.
• The AMD64 Upgrade and Content Pack files add exclusive levels that can only run on the 64-bit version of CryEngine. Check them out.