The "original" Far Cry game.

Rroff said:
LOL first time I think I bought a graphics card from there as well and the last - got home in anticipation to play the game too impatient to get one delivered, and the GPU didn't work. Fortunately managed to get one through where I was working at the time.
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Me too, I forget the details, but I think I just picked up the most powerful one they had, not even knowing about AGP(?) and had to go back and swap it for one compatible with my system.
 
Luv'd Far Cry, IIRC had an Athlon CPU with ATi 9800 GFX card, ran pretty well. May have to have another run of it on current rig just for nostalgias sake.
 
I'm going to have to install it again after reading this thread. The game is in my top 5 FPS and there haven't really been many games like it since.

It was definitely irritating in places though.
 
I remember it, I remember not liking it. The enemies saw you even when they shouldn't have, I didn't enjoy the AI and it felt like they had eyes in the back of their heads. It was like they saw you, if they got to see a single pixel of your hair, or your boot. I don't mind difficult games, but when it's silly like that I just go onto something else. Think I got about 5 stages into or something. Silly game mechanic in my opinion.
 
I played through it again not so long ago.

Rocket launcher into full helicopters is always fun.

How about boats in the cove below shooting rockets/mortars at you far too accurately?

Great game - one of my all time faves.
 
I_M_Weasel said:
I don't remember it being too difficult when I first played, not easy but not impossible.

I've got the steam version now and it feels like the games broken, bad guys can hit you from anywhere, LOS and cover make no difference, everyone in the map irrespective of location can and does shoot at you.Even in the corridor sections they shoot through the walls. It's like playing against a team of hackers.

I'm sure it wasn't always like this, it's not fun.
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Somethings up with the Steam version despite AA turned up to the max there are jaggies you could saw logs with and the graphics in general looks terrible, colours look washed out too.

I remember the graphics looking really nice and clean nothing like this and it isn't just nostalgia.
 
The enemies in this game could always spot you from miles away, even crouched down deep in foliage they had a habit of pin pointing you with ease. The game went off the rails near the end with the Trigens, similar to how Crysis went off the rails with the Aliens.
 
Fantastic game in it's day. I loved that island, it was beautiful place to run, gun and kill people LOL :p

The only things I remember were the first time you used the hang-glider it just took your breath away...the fact that if you could see a far off part of the island and you could get to it. Also the bit where you had no where to go and realised the only way was over the waterfall and even without VR I was scared I was gonna die if I jumped. Thirdly, the level in which you had to go down into a valley and up the other side while avoiding the patrols as there were so many of them you would only last a few seconds once discovered.

Really amazing in it's day, but as lots of people have already said...the story went all mutants and monsters and it kinda spoilt it. I am going to have to re-install it now as I just cant remember the Volcano level.....aghhhh damn you all.
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This is the game, which I first played at a friends house, that made me spend £1500 on a PC to play it.

Only game I have completed on every difficulty. It's wonderful in SP and was such fun in MP.
 
I'm still ploughing my way through this, I'm at the "steam" level at last. There was one preceding part to it that took forever to get through, I really didn't have enough health but I found if you're sneaky and crawl around on you stomach where needed, then you can complete the level, going in all guns blazing deffo does not work!:)
And I hate the Trigens, fast powerful and only takes a coupla hits to kill you.
 
I think that bit near the start when you fisrt see the actual island when you come out from behind a rock (I think!) is one of my all time favourite gaming moments.

Jaw + floor etc :p
 
pestt;30478074 said:
£1500 in 2004?! :eek:
Hell of a rig then. :D
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Those were the days :D I spent about that on my first proper gaming PC around 1999 or so (one of those Gateway 2000 machines lol).

EDIT: Tell a lie that was my second build - my first proper gaming PC was a P166 MMX setup around 1997 - also cost around £1500.
 
I remember being bitterly disappointed the ATI Rage Fury 32MB wasn't in stock and I had to settle for a TNT2 instead - dunno why as my experiences with ATI to that point and after weren't exactly inspiring - my Rage II+ 3D or whatever it was I had to change drivers depending on which game I wanted to play literally.
 
Rroff;30490021 said:
I remember being bitterly disappointed the ATI Rage Fury 32MB wasn't in stock and I had to settle for a TNT2 instead - dunno why as my experiences with ATI to that point and after weren't exactly inspiring - my Rage II+ 3D or whatever it was I had to change drivers depending on which game I wanted to play literally.
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Sounds like a right pain. I didn't start buying ATi products until around 2003/4, and by then I think they had improved a fair bit.
 
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