Interestingly different. That’s what came to my mind when I finished Far Cry. All the gaming essentials in one.
If Crytek set out to make a different mind-altering game, then they did manage to make it that far.
The start seemed to have no beginning, just being thrown into flat out war with no explanation. It did make me wonder where on earth the story was getting to, until I managed to run into the Trigens, which did freak me out.
The game had it dull moments and its exciting moments, though the whole "mutated animal and human" thing really did rub off on me. Besides that the whole game looked to be interesting. The graphics and sounds were very up to scratch. The one thing that put me off was the AI, I tried it on all different levels balancing them all out, and they seem rather stupid, especially the Rocket-Launchers, if you stood under a tower they would shoot at the floor, killing themselves.
If you want to play games because you can endurance hours of blistering gunfights and puzzling forests where anything can and does happen the Far Cry is for you. It collaborates all the essentials of gaming, FPS, TPS, vehicles, realistically modelled weaponry and a whole lots of bad guys to shoot at. Far Cry is a great game, my only wish to Crytek and Ubisoft is to continue the Far Cry Series onto PC, like recreating Far Cry Instincts: Predator for PC. Gotta love Far Cry.
Overall I'll give it a 8.1 out of 10.