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Far Cry WAYYY too fun!

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 1:56 pm
by FlyingPenguin
i am SOOOOO digging this game. So many nice touches. I have never had this much fun playing single player since Half Life.

HL2 got SERIOUSLY owned by this game. They just had the bar raised for them.

I just went on a hairy ride across the beach with monsters chasing me. Meanwhile some human out there was taking pot shots at me and I swerve and see two bullet holes get stitched in the windshield.

It's so damn well done!

Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 2:15 pm
by PreDatoR
Just a pointer... the assault shotgun takes care of the monsters quick. even the big ass ones. they are slow so just dance around them unloading. The machine guns aren't as effective on them.

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 2:28 pm
by rogue
Originally posted by PreDatoR
Just a pointer... the assault shotgun takes care of the monsters quick. even the big ass ones. they are slow so just dance around them unloading. The machine guns aren't as effective on them.


Well, the 100 round SAW is a very nice gun, too bad you only get to use it twice during the entire game.

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 3:15 pm
by FlyingPenguin
SHEET. I'm at the long bridge leading to another part of the island. Monsters all around and after I manage to kill them off, the bridge is heavily defended by mercs. Tried and failed that level 8 times so far.

Back at it tonight... :)

Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 7:24 pm
by PreDatoR
the sniper rifle is your friend on that bridge if its the one i'm thinking of :D

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 9:27 am
by HitDoS
This game is now in my top 10 games of all time. Seriously. I had an absolute blast.

Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 4:21 pm
by FlyingPenguin
Pred. I dropped the sniper rifle a while back unless there's one on that map :(

Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 4:09 pm
by khyron
multiplayer is pretty sweet too
I like playing as an engineer standing by the ammo crates and spamming smoke grenades. The players with slow machines dont dare come near your base and if they do you pwn them with a pistol as they walk around at 7fps.

Also dropping the explosion packs around the flag ~3 seconds before you touch it on offence is cool. Drop them touch the flag run off and hide. Watch as the fools rush to touch the flag only to get blasted by your time bombs.

I heard sniping is fun in multi but i dont sniper i run off into the field and put time bombs on top of idiot snipers LOL now that is fun shit. They are snipin away i just lay a time bomb right next to them and they dont have a clue.

Vehicles are pointless in Farcry though they tend to blow up randomly im guessing its gas tank hits or something.. either way your better off on foot.

Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 9:19 pm
by Lazlo Panaflex
Was thinking of picking this one up...how are your frame rates for this game? What's the highest playable resolution(s) you're running? Is this game the "system killer" that all the reviews are gushing about?

thx !

Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 11:19 pm
by khyron
i have no issues with it but im running intel 3.25zh with a radeon 9700 pro

i have most of my settings on high @ 1024x768 id say its bumping up and down from 35~70fps as i play the game online

Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 12:16 am
by blade
Can anyone post a screenshot showing the monsters? I thought this only had humans as enemies.

Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 1:16 am
by PreDatoR
about half way through the game you get to meet up with some nasty monsters/mutants. no screen shots i can't remember how to take screen shots of in a 3d game lol

Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 2:26 am
by FlyingPenguin
Running an AMD XP2400+ w/Radeon 9800 and it's smooth at 1024x768. Far Cry automatically configures itself for best performance on your hardware.

Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 2:57 am
by ©LINT
Originally posted by blade
Can anyone post a screenshot showing the monsters? I thought this only had humans as enemies.


Trigens
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They also have some other guys with rocket launchers..Couldn't seem to find those though.

Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 11:18 am
by sethpa
finally picked it up yesterday, only played a half hour or so....... I suck pretty bad at FPS types, but I REALLY suck at this game! These guys are pretty dam good....... :D