A well designed first person shooter with outstanding and innovative graphics.

User Rating: 8.1 | Far Cry PC
The first big game to fully harness the graphic potential of new pixel and vertex shader technolgies on the new generation of graphic cards. Reflective water, an underwater world of corals, fish and swaying seaweed, and superb exoctic jungle locations featuring complete undergrowth coverage and perfect real-time shadows of everything (even the leaves on the trees) all combine to seduce the player with a visual feast. We are looking at paradise. After twenty hours our so, when you've got into the single player game play, and have got used to the fancy graphics, the fact remains that this is essentially a traditional first person shooter that uses a level system and follows a linear structure, and has a pretty average plot. As you progress through the levels, you have to fight wave after wave of baddies and eventually you wind up inside kind of Jurassic Park compound being attacked by series of increasingly powerful and numerous monster mutant thingies. The AI is disturbing clever, however, and the single player is quite a challenge to complete. Unfortunately a lot of it comes down to just sheer keyboard skill, which involves some swift mouse action and hitting the keyboard repeatedly for hours on end. I perosnally got bored of this and did not bother to complete it, but got hooked into the multiplayer instead. Multiplayer works well but due to the nature of the game is pretty impersonal - you just drop in , stay for an hour or so, and then leave, and again, lots of manic, frenzied killing, but good fun. Multiplayer allows you to choose from several well designed maps and several multiplayer game types. Players can join and leave games whenever they wish, and there's a lot of fun to be had if you're looking for far fetched fun and quick thrills á la Quake III style.