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Reasons Far Cry Kicks

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Far Cry Demo /game

Anyway, here we go-

Things that are Kick-A** about Far Cry

1. The human modeling and in particular the ragdoll physics when capping someone are phenominal, it just looks "real"
2. The useage of multiple angles to approach the enemy/ objective
3. The texture quality for the island and the grass and bushes and trees and water are some of the best ever done
4. The weapon effects and sounds are really well done, with no stupid overdone "kick effect", once again they feel "right"
5 .Grenades and rockets will toss guys 30-40 feet =)
6. The sniper rifle and the binoculars w/ eavesdropping are done nicely
7. The attack boat, and helicopter, and hang gliders, and God-know what else they will throw in, are cool. (Jump the boat dock!)
8. The voice acting is pretty good/funny
9. The way someone drops when you place a single silenced Mp5 round at the base of their neck when they are just standing there, (I tried about a dozen different angles and heights, and got the same # of different ways the guy fell =)
10. The Ai is pretty unpredictable.
11. Explosions and acompanying sounds are sweet
12. You know they are going to have some huge creepy freakish monsters to kill.
13. The bullet holes you leave in guys
14. Dynamic music that changes with game action
15. The Wild Pig

Feel free to add to the List, I will be after playing awhile.
 
i agree totally with the ragdolls and stuf... my favorite thing is probably gonna have to be the bullet holes you leave in guys.. i dont know why more games dont do that, its just so awesome! i love mowing a guy down then running up and seeing where i hit him

-warsaw
 
15. Sandbox editor and Lua scripting language make the engine the most easiest and powerful engine to mod. The demo already has few mods.
 
I'll just second this one..

"The useage of multiple angles to approach the enemy/ objective"

Sneaking up on those bastards is the main reason I love the demo and will be buying the game.
 
Great atmosphere all around. The tree's swaying, the birds and animals in the forest, the wisping of the wind across the island. Very very cool. And changing scenario music adds alot
 
Definitely an enjoyable demo. In addition to Unreal Tournament 2004 and Battlefield: Vietnam, it's at the top of my "Must Buy in March" PC games list.

I've got my preorder in for UT2k4 and I'll buy BF:V and Far Cry when they come out. Far Cry just seems so much different from other shooters out there, primarily for the reasons mentioned. One of the cool things that happened the other night was when I got to the second dock of the original demo and picked up the sniper rifle. I picked off a couple guys to the right of the dock off to the far left (where the patrol boat is). Suddenly I was being shot at from close range--the guys near the patrol boat saw the shots, noticed where they came from, and took the boat over to kill me off.

Of course, they were unsuccessful, but it was pretty cool. :D
 
How about the fact that the game went gold which other games can seem to accomplish. Plus the fact that we will be getting a 3rd demo!!
 
I have not played the new demo. Is it a lot more bug free then the last demo? Are the fps any better? I figure the FPS may not be any better but the first demo was so full of bugs that I stopped wanting the game after it.
 
there is 2 different demo's out now? where can i get the other one? i have the one they used in the 9800xt review on the [H] main page.. where u start in the boat.. what does the other one consist of and where can i get it?
 
Whats online gameplay going to be like anyone heard much on their modes?
 
The island and graphics are just awesome. I love the rendering. Just watching fish around the lagoons is awesome.

I just dl'd the original demo last night and after just completing it I am very impressed. I will be buying this game. I'm probably going to have to buy an n52 speedpad since my n50 doesn't have enough keys for this game or for UT2K2! No I will not use the keyboard to whoever is thinking "why don't you just use the keyboard?", speedpad>keyboard!
 
love it because it has ...'semi' accurate weapon holding stances.. (not rambo style with machine gun holding near abs)

and it has the P90.. a gun overlooked by just about every FPS game.
 
Why is everybody convinced that BF:V is going to be such an awesome game, when we haven't had so much as a demo yet?

Just seems a bit presumptuous. Maybe there's a reason there's not a demo.
 
How does the second demo compare to the first? I played the first and really enjoyed it.
 
I just finished the FarCry demo(PC Gamer Mag Disk) and it is awesome to say the least. I was able to swim to and just explore the nearby islands. Never saw one fish after all of that swimming. Maybe this is bacause my settings were all medium and low and fish are removed????

I had only 6 mini pauses in the outdoor enviroment playing @1024x768x32 w/no aa or af. But I due have digital vibrance up one notch(Geforce 4 TI4400). The infamous caves were smooth as butter for my little system, zero slowdowns.

My weak old system handled this demo just fine.

I'm buying this one for sure.



Darn it, I want some fish in my lagoon:( :(
 
You must have environment detail on high or very high to see the fish, birds and more grass.

Oh Demo 1 and 2 use older builds of engine. I tried the levels on my beta which uses a newer build of engine and they ran better.
Demo 3(coming Mar.15) I think will be using the lastest build, so it should run great.
 
The water detail is the most spectacular thing about the game.

Another reason Far Cry kicks ass is you can be an ecologist's worst enemy. Fishing with guns can be a lot of fun and the really tiny fish are quite a challenge. I killed all the fish and seagulls in the demo after getting bored replaying it (you can still hear the gulls after ther're all dead, lol).

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These tiny fish swim fast and are hard to hit.
 
Well, not sure if this is news to anyone but I readon the Far Cry forums that no demo will be released. Instead a MP demo will be released just after game release.
 
But.. there are 2 demos that have been released.. MP after the release is understandable, netcode is what makes/ or breaks many games. They need to take their time on it.
 
A reason why it kicks butt? 'Cause it's got an old guy in a dress sitting by a fire in a hidden cave.
 
The use of sound plays a big part.

If you silently kill a person you can move along undetected. Crack off a shot and the fight is on. Everyone in the area, and I mean big area, hears it and comes running.

This happened when I shot a rocket across the map and blew up a few guys standing around, next thing you know a helechopter shows up and a boat comes up the river. And here I thought I was going to have smooth sailing.
 
My favorite thing so far is the different rendering modes, such as paradise, improved, and cartoon. Cartoon makes it look kind of like XIII, using cell shaded textures. Paradise utilizes HDR techniques and just looks awesome, its kinda blurry but thats part of the effect, not being able to see clearly after you look at the sun and stuff. This is my favorite rendering mode. Improved really isn't that much better than normal.

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Wow I agree 110 %. But about the 3rd. It IS the best ever created really there is no comparison.

What more can I add? I would like to add everything in the game.

I can add this.

- The incredible framerates you get with everything turned up to max is just incredible. When hearing that Radeons runs about as fast in dx 9 mode and dx 8.1 mode I was like yeah right but apparently it´s true.

I mean the image quality is soo much better than any other game before and yet with everything maxed at 1024x768 on my rig that was identified as medium getting 30 fps and above all the time (mostly 43 for some reason) is just unbelievable.

The only minus I wished they could have some moving skybox at least in MP with some real day/night cycles and perhaps real world weather would be nice. From what I have heard the tech demo had day/night cycles at least.
 
..its to bad you couldnt eat the pigs and then get some health back, or maybe even eat the freak monkey carcasses ...and I think it would have been cool to have a few random sharks in the water to pop up on yuh JAWS style and add to some of the tension/freakyness of the game ...

I'm having a blast in this game , and have to keep stopping and taking a breather ...

I really like the steam effect ..looks very real

random thoughts/end
 
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