"Best game for PC EVER!!!!"

Introduction
Basically Far Cry is a game where you get stranded on an island with a bunch of mercs who have been hired by a man named Krieger. ***SPOILER ALERT**** Krieger is conducting experiments on monkeys and humans to make them larger, much stronger, and have no sense of control, these creatures, called trigens, are swarming the island from captivity and are killing the mercs and are trying to kill you. You have to find a way off of the island or you will die.

Gameplay (10)
I LOVED this games gameplay. I have been playing it for about 3 months now, and I can't get tired of it. There are so many different things that can happen. You can take any approach you want, stealthy, run and shoot, or just ambush everybody you can see and worry about your health later. If any of you have played and mastered Splinter Cell, you should have no problem with stealth, but instead of light being your friend, the bushes and water will be. If you are a person that likes Painkiller and Doom games, you will have fun with this game because of the varriety of weapons there are. You get everything from a machete to rocket launchers, but if you are a person that just likes to shoot people and not have to aim, get used to aiming because shooting someone in the foot wont do as much damage as a shot in the head. I have taken on each tactic and beaten the game on every difficulty. Rushing takes a longer time to beat levels with because the enemy will try to flank you!

Story Line (9)
I kind of explained this in the intro. But the story line is easily one of the best there is right now. I love it because its not the classic story like. Most FPS lately are based on wars, or they take place in the future and on Mars, like Doom 3, I'm sorry but isn't anyone sick of that yet?

Graphics and Sound (10)
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These are easily the best graphics that most people will see this year! I have a Athlon 64 3400+ with 512 Ram and a 128 mb Radeon 9800 Pro. My computer runs Far Cry better than my friends does and he has a Pentium 4 3.2 GH, 1GB ram and a GeForce FX 5800 258mb. So if your an Nvidia person, sucks to be you cause unless you have a 6800, its not going to be as good cause Nvidias don't have pixil shader 2.0. If you have a computer similar to mine, you should be able to run everything on the highest settings. My friends can only have the lighting, texture, water detail and AA on at low settings while mine are on Ultra. As for the sound I have a 7.1 and I couldn't be happier with it than now. No matter what approach you take, if you have surround speakers, you will love them because you will hear every enemy coming at you, and every step you take will sound differently depending on what type of material you are standing on.

Play Time, Replayability (10)
Like I said before, I have been playing this game for 3 months and not sick of it. I usualy play a game for about 2 weeks and get sick of it so its well worth your money if you are trying to find something to play for a while. Play time will vary on which approach you take. The shortest playing time for me was about 5 hours and that was skipping all of the cut sceens. The longest I'm not sure but I think it was about 40-50 hours so you will be play it for a while.

Over all everyone should go out and buy this game unless you are absolutly against shooters.

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 09/02/04