FarCry or FarCry 2 - Page 2

Originally Posted by mechtech 

Far Cry 1. I went back and played it a few years ago and it was surprisingly good. The AI is still very solid, and on the higher difficulties it's a very hard game.
Install these mods to increase draw distances, etc:
http://farcry.filefront.com/file/FC_64ecu_to_32os_conversion;50861
http://farcry.4thdimension.info/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=605

Originally Posted by brettjv 

Far Cry the original is a far more entertaining game in my book. It was, when it came out, hands down, the largest graphical leap vs. any other game made that I've EVER seen in the history of gaming.
It's obviously not especially impressive-looking now, but in 2004 when it came out, it was the first 'serious' DX9 title that came out, and everyone was BLOWN AWAY. Crysis was also very impressive for it's time, but ... not like Far Cry was.
That game was the first time I'd seen real dynamic lighting and shadows ... places where a light fixture is hanging from the ceiling, and it's moving around due to wind or whatnot ... and the shadows cast by that light would also move around in response to the lights movement ... there was NO game I'd ever seen that had that feature, and I sat and stared at the effect for like 20 minutes, tripping out on it. It was SOOOOO cool.
The specular effects it had (the shimmer on the metal pipes and such) were never before seen, and the WATER, are you KIDDING ME? There'd never been water REMOTELY that good looking in a game before. We take stuff like that for granted now, but ... at that time? It was friggin stunning as a total package.
THe game's pretty fun too ... decently gripping story, the AI is still never been significantly surpassed in quality, and lots of levels are big sandboxes (also never seen before, not like that) with multiple paths to the end points ... but then some of the corridor crawl levels sprinkled in are a bit on the boring side, for sure.
Basically the outdoor parts rock, the indoor parts are meh. And it's LONG AS HELL, like three of your average SP FPS games nowadays in length. It's hard too, in part due to a fairly brutal checkpointing system.
I really couldn't stand FC2 ...aside from very nice graphics (esp. given that you didn't need THAT much hardware for it to look REALLY good ... I wish other games used Dunia engine cause it rocks) ... it's an annoying and repetitive snooze-fest to me. Never finished it (not even close actually) though so maybe it gets better ...

Originally Posted by .nikon 

The draw distances in the first however, Holy crap....
I'll have to check out the mods. +rep