Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Melbourne, Australia
I recently finished the game and it was worth the time I put into it. The graphics on my computer caused a bit of problems at the start but after some tweaking, it ran without any problems. I haven't tried multiplayer though..
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Aug-08-2004 23:46
Matt
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Toronto, Canada
I can't get it to work properly
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Aug-09-2004 02:06
BadBadNeil
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: CT, USA!
I never beat the game but I got to the last room of the game where you have to kill all those trigens and snipers and then I just quit because I couldn't beat it.
I thought the game was excellent, nice mix of weapons, and interactive things like hanggliding, sneaking, swimming, using boats, etc. Had a bit of everything. Comparing it to doom though isn't really fair as doom is a very pure shooter and far cry was more of a fps war sim more in the same level of Front Line Assault and Vietcong.
I'd say the exteriors are the best i've seen, I'd really like to see what the doom3 and unreal3 engines can do with a realistic exterior environment since so far all we have seen are dark mechanical interiors.
Aug-09-2004 03:02
Magnus
I'm getting old
Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Seattle, WA
It was a fun single player experience. I played it non-stop, night and day, until I beat it. It was incredibly long but I enjoyed every minute of it. Haven't touched it since I beat it...
i completed it on harest setting. so nothing to do in it anymore was a damn good game tho. very half lify which i liked alot. i just loved the feel of the weapons.
I'm just worried about one thing, with those graphics, does it run smooth on older rigs??
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Aug-10-2004 12:15
BadBadNeil
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: CT, USA!
It runs ok on older PCs (well maybe a PC that is a couple years old). The problem is that when you turn down the options you really really lose the visual impact of the game because it removes things like birds, foilage, animals in the forest, fish, transparent water and waves at beach, certain other effects, blood in the water. So its definetely playable just don't expect it to look quite as good as the screenshots with an older PC. I thought it looked great on mine until i saw screenshots of it from a better pc.
I had to set to medium settings at 1024x768 with no AA on my AMD 2600+, 1GB PC2700 ram, GF4TI42100 card. I'm pretty sure the video card was holding me back.
Aug-10-2004 14:07
nrjizer
vive le deep
Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Bumfuck, GA
It's pretty fun but nothing spectacular. The retarded AI really spoils this game for me.