Overview
Far Cry™ is set in the near future that features exciting new elements and 3D worlds set in both vast detailed outdoor and indoor areas. Far Cry™ will showcase the latest AI and physics technologies to recreate the most believable character movements, as well as realtime 3D atmospheric sound rendering, weapon bullets and footsteps as if you were there, in the game.
Story
You are Jack Carver running your own boat charter business in beautiful Micronesia. With a past best left behind you, you'll be focusing on your present assignment: escorting an ambitious journalist named Valerie Cortez to the Island of Cabatu. It seems like a piece of cake, but you'll soon learn: paradise can be hell. Experience a new style of FPS gameplay featuring massive outdoors environments and unprecedented long range gameplay.
CryEngine 1
The meticulously designed next generation CryEngine pushes the threshold of action gaming with proprietary PolyBump™ mapping, advanced environments physics, destructible terrain, dynamic lighting, motion captured animation and total surround sound.
Gameplay
Experience unprecedented drama and realism with incredible lighting and shadows, adaptive audio, weather, and day/night effects. Far Cry’s gameplay offers true player freedom. Stalk through the jungle, swim past the docks, or grab a hang-glider and fly past your enemies. The balance between stealth and action is entirely up to you.
AI
Autonomous A.I. makes realistic decisions based on observations of the current state of the world. These highly-trained mercenaries are designed to utilize environmental features, attack in groups, divide & conquer, respond to player actions, and call in reinforcements from air, land or sea.
With the release of Far Cry in March 2004, Crytek brought a breath of fresh air to the FPS genre by moving away from sticky, dark corridors to beautiful, sunny beaches. And the success proved them right...
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