Far Cry Review

Far Cry Review - Overview

Longer than the average shooter, it took this reviewer approximately twenty-five hours to complete the single-player campaign. In an age when games seem to be getting shorter and shorter, it's refreshing to see a game with a bit more meat on its bones.

Load times are not really a problem here. The game will load between levels, but the levels are massive and once loaded there are no pauses in the gameplay, only momentary flashes when the game lets you know it has autosaved. These are so inobtrusive you will sometimes not even notice them. You cannot quicksave your progress, if you die you have to load from one of these predetermined autosave points, but the placement of these is usually pretty intelligent, and not having to worry about constantly saving can actually be a refreshing change of pace.

The plot of the game is barely worth mentioning. You play as Jack Carver, a former special ops soldier who quit the millitary to become a civilian sailboat captain. However, your peaceful life is interupted by the evil machinations of a mad scientist and his army of goons, who blow up your boat and kidnap your hottie passenger Valerie. Val comes from the Lara Croft school of female game characters, she's similarly physically endowed and even sports a similar "fashion mole" on her lip. She appears in several gratuitous booty scenes, emerging dripping wet from the surf, bathing in an island waterfall, etc... Sometimes you'll feel as though you're playing an episode of Baywatch. The story takes a few predictable twists and turns, and contains some sci-fi elements, and generally serves to put you in situations with lots of baddies to shoot at. Action fans will be pleased to know it does this well and often. Fortunately, the game is so pretty and so fun to play, you won't be paying much attention to the mediocre story.

Previous Page   Next Page  

There are no comments on this article. Become a member and post one now!