Far Cry

[Anticrombie0909]

I got a demo for this game...it looks awesome. Beyond having great graphics a destructable environment and an impressive physics engine, where it really shines is it's open ended gameplay. Basically, if you can see it, you can go there. It's set on several islands and you can go to any one in any order, do whatever you want when you want to, and basically just roam around killing stuff Morrowind-esque. The demo only included one island, but in the real game there's several closely grouped large islands that you can literally swim to (provided you're willing to give up about a half hour while doing so). Check out the SS:

[chillywilly]

cool. is it just PC or is it on other platforms?

[Anticrombie0909]

Just PC...you think an Xbox could run those graphics?

[chillywilly]

no, but gamecube can

[Anticrombie0909]

B-U-L-Lshit. I'm sick of you cube fanboys...for reals. And while I hate to admit it, the Box does have the greatest processing power (because it's got a computer based processor and all). But not even the Box can handle this unless they significantly dumbed down the environments, the AI, the graphics, the textures, the physics engine, and the freeform action. So pretty much, everything about the game that makes it cool, and then they'd have to make it less fun (because that's just what Microsoft likes to do).

[VxDx]

Looks good, runs pretty good, but lacking in the gameplay dept.

[makaveli121212]

not worthy of a buy...seems liek repetiitvie gameplay, but it looks decent...too often programers focus on the game engine and not the game itself...this is one of those games...o hand the voice acting is ust horrible, probably the worst ever...its so bad its not even funny

[VxDx]

Yeah, "I'm going to shoot you in the face" isn't too good of a line to shout at me AFTER they shoot.

[chillywilly]

lol i was kidding

[Anticrombie0909]

Yeah, "I'm going to shoot you in the face" isn't too good of a line to shout at me AFTER they shoot.

That's true. Far Cry is one of those games that I hope they reeeeally polish up for the release, because the demo feels buggy and unfinished. None of it is major, but it's just a bunch of little things that detract from what could be a competitor with HL2 and Doom III. Wierd glitches, immensely huge system requirements (my friend's 2.6 with a 9700 XT couldn't run it on anything but all of the settings turned to lowest, although we think it might be a glitch), just stuff like that. You know, people shouting stuff after you kill them, your hands making swimming motions even when you're above the water, just crap like that. But if they shape it up, I'm really looking forward to this one.

[VxDx]

yeah, I definately agree about glitchy. At first mine ran really slow and all the real-time shadows were messed up, then I turned of my video card AA preferences and now it's good. I can run it at about 30+ fps with everything on medium and texture quality, water, shadow and sfx quality on high @ 1280x1024x32 and 2xAA. To see, I set it to very high everything, 1600x1200x32, 6xAA, and got a whopping 8fps. then I set it to low everything, 640x480, noAA, and it crashed.

Well, what do you expect. Oh yeah, XP 3200+, 512mb PC2700, radeon 9500pro (340/315).

Lighting at the end looks promising though, as does the water and other things. Speaking of which, if you turn everything on very high (well, not everything, but I'm not sure exactly what) and look at the scope of the sniper rifle while it's at your hip (not looking through the scope) there's a pretty cool little detail in there.

Also, if you do a bit of hacking, and get around to the back of the island (disable damage zones and heli flight paths) you find this...

[Anticrombie0909]

0_o effing random.