Far Cry 1
is a first person shooter video game developed by Crytek Studios and
published by Ubisoft on March 23, 2004, for Microsoft Windows. Far Cry
sold 730,000 units within four months of release. It received positive
reviews upon release. The original game has since spawned a series of
sequels and spin off games and a movie. Far Cry isn’t just a stunning
technical accomplishment. It’s quite possibly the best single player
first person shooter experience for the PC since Half Life.
Far Cry game’s story follows a former
U.S. Army Special Forces operative Jack Carver, who is stranded on a
mysterious archipelago. He is searching for a female journalist he was
escorting after she went missing when their boat was destroyed by
mercenaries. The game includes thematic elements relating to the dangers
of weapon zing genetic engineering and the genocide of local islanders
as can be seen by the deformed creatures created by a mad scientist
named Krieger.
Without a doubt, Far Cry has the most
advanced graphics seen in any PC game to date. Everything in this game
looks amazing, and the level of verisimilitude is unprecedented. Jungles
actually feature dense foliage that consists of trees, plants, and tall
grasses, and this foliage is filled with birds and insects. Beaches
have blinding-white sand, and the surf slowly laps ashore. The character
models are some of the best we’ve ever seen in such a game, and they’re
richly detailed and animated. The game also incorporates real time
lighting and shading effects to a degree rarely seen before, so when you
walk in the jungle, you actually see the shadows of overhead leaves
flickering on your rifle. In some of the larger indoor levels, the
shadows of oncoming opponents are projected in larger than life form
onto walls. Intense heat blur from lava streams distort the atmosphere.
And a near miss from an enemy rocket will black out your vision as if
you got the wind knocked out of you. You can’t help but be pulled in by
the sheer immersiveness of the game.
As expected, you’re going to need to
have some serious hardware to run Far Cry as it’s meant to be played.
While the game will run on lower-end machines, you’ll have to tone down
detail settings. And with older video cards, you won’t get much of the
graphical eye candy in the game. From our experience, we recommend a
2GHz machine with a DirectX 8.1 or 9.0-compliant video card. However,
Far Cry could very well be the killer app people have been looking for
to justify upgrading, because it looks that good. And, frankly, running
the game with a lower detail level means you lose a lot of the jungle
foliage, which reduces your level of immersion in the game. It should be
noted that Crytek’s execution is superb. Aside from the multiplayer
quirks, we experienced no stability issues and no bugs. This is an
impressive accomplishment considering the complexity and ambitious scale
of the game. The potential for this technology is exciting. Not only do
we expect third party developers to license Crytek’s engine to power
their own games, but Crytek also includes editing tools with Far Cry, so
modmakers will get to develop their own ideas.
Far Cry is a stunning game in so many
ways. It certainly raises the bar for graphics to new heights. And yet,
it’s not just a technology demonstration. In Far Cry, the graphics are
just one of the ingredients that submerge you into the experience. The
developers exhibit a growing sense of maturity throughout the game. It’s
as if they themselves were learning how to use the graphics engine in
conjunction with the AI, sound, and level design to create a superior
gameplay experience one that starts out impressively and, for the most
part, just keeps getting better. The result is an awesome thing to
behold, and it’s an even better thing to experience.
System= Pentium III CPU 1.0 GHz
RAM= 64 MB
Size= 2.67 GB
OS= Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8
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