Recent reviews by Lychy

I would not recommend this game to anyone, especially not on Realistic difficulty. The game starts off pretty decently with a nutty, wonderfully-aged intro FMV and a nice first few levels. However, you may notice that the mercanaries are omnipotent and can see you through grass, tarpaulin and even buildings, making stealth pretty much unviable. Enemies can see you, but you can't see them (even with binoculars). They also have the tendency to immediately react upon seeing you and shoot you, giving you no chance to shoot them first. Their first shot tends to hit you in the head, killing you instantly, and leading you to have no clue where it is you were shot from. This would be frustrating but what completely ruins it is the checkpoint system. There is no manual saving in this game, it completely relies on autosaves. Halo does this too but it does it well as the autosaves are based off some criteria, but Far Cry has the checkpoints placed in fixed positions. This makes the game feel like a complete chore to play through, you have to do things again and again, and you have no clue where the next save is. At that point the only release of joy or fulfilment is reaching a checkpoint, not actually playing the game for what it is. I just felt happier that I was closer to being done with this game. The other enemies were fine, except for the Stealth Trigens, they were 99% invisible. I had to completely rely on the binoculars to actually see where they are. The Fat Boys with rocket launchers were quite tanky but they were always a nice fright. The guns in this game are pretty decent, though half of them just became unviable. The OICW, Sniper Rifle and Missile Launcher was all I really needed, they got the job done. The visual design on them was alright. The sound design on them was below average, they did not feel very strong, they sounded more like slapping a piece of paper. The mechanical sounds (reload, charging) were laughably weak and quiet. The sound design for the rest of the game was pretty nice though. The voice acting is so cheesy that it's awesome, the mercenaries all sound like whiny brats. There was some weird (UbiSoft™™) voice compression, especially on Valerie, it made her sound like a robot. The soundtrack was pretty decent. The story is alright. The game's engine allowed for some nice graphics and allowed for some nice freedom. The game is buggy but I did not witness anything game-breaking except for a few crashes. The levels get quite repetitive as there are 20 chapters, many of which are too similar. It feels like the game has had its playtime artificially inflated with all the pointless levels.

This game is a waste of time.

A nice, forgotten game...
Great sound/music and artstyle...
The graphical presentation is not very good though, especially the character models, and considering that Unreal and Half-Life came out the same year.
It is a shame though, the art is spectacular and I would love to have seen it released a few years later and on a more capable engine.
A catchy theme song.
The weapon variety is quite nice.
There is a miserable difficulty gap between Normal and Hard: Normal is a bit too easy but Hard is actually impossible (final boss insta-kills you).
Hard mode is reminiscent of Halo 2 LASO, where you can be one-shot by peeking around a corner.
I played through nearly the whole game on Hard and it is quite painfully fun, but I had to use God-mode at the end.
Story is alright but not presented very well, I'm not a big fan of these intermission text scrolls.
Dialogue is very cheesy but kind of cosy.
It's very nice how you can break nearly any prop.
The game does not fully work without Windows 98 compatibility mode. I didn't know how to fix it and I played throughout the game with no in-game music and I wish I hadn't.
It has an immense amount of soul, and that is important in a game. I like it...

One of the best games of all time ❤

I love having to spend all my ammo on Knights and still run out of ammo before they die

Damn Mastapeice, i Love halo

aaa soo goood

gaaang

"Do you suck ♥♥♥♥♥?"
"Sir, no, sir!"
"Are you a peter puffer?"
"Sir, no, sir!"

Everyone else - Can kick the opponent's head off.
Me - Can slap them and fall on them.