FARCRY IS OUT WOHOOO

[Sir Degrader]

I just got it today from bestbuy for free!! (with the purchase of a 75$ wireless mouse that kicks a$$), it's awesome, if a bit more difficult then the demo. What do you think of it?

[Thoran]

Best single player shooter since Unreal 2 and Half Life before that, the multiplayer games are fun but not a lot of levels or modes of play. I finished the campaign last weekend and have been replaying fun levels and playing mp since. If you just got it and think it's hard wait till you get farther on, the first 5 or 6 levels are pretty easy, the last 3 are darn near impossible.

Graphics are awesome, gameplay intense. The storyline has lots of gaps and mis-steps but it's acceptable (not as good as HL IMO). The story through 4/5th's of the game is VERY clean and tight, but then it starts jumping around and making weird shifts. It almost seemed that they were going to have fewer levels but decided at the last minute to tack on a few more. The added levels are awesome to play but they just don't fit into the storyline as well as the early ones.

[Sir Degrader]

Where do you find the scientist in the vivatorium treehouse map?

[Sythe]

Hey if any of you guys are playing multiplayer keep an eye out for a guy called Pvt.Sharpshot thats me!

[Thoran]

Originally posted by Sir Degrader: Where do you find the scientist in the vivatorium treehouse map?

Once you get out on the tree scaffolds you have a couple options. The first time I went through that level I walked as close to the target building (was it called the research building? can't remember) and noticed that there was a big rock that was pretty close to one of the platforms, I jumped to that and then killed the beast below... then I slid down the rock and walked toward the target building on the ground... there's a ramp that goes from that enclosure up to the building entrance. The second way is to follow the walkways around until you get to a ladder that heads down to the ground (more stuff to kill this way). On the ground you walk around to the backside of the building and there's a fallen walkway that you can jump onto and climb up to get up to the upper building entrances. Once you get to the building's top entrances you'll find two doors, one straight forward from where you leave the walkway and one around to the left. If you take the door around to the left you'll pass a small entryway and enter a larger room with a beast in it. There's a hall kitty-corner to the entrance that leads back to the front entry and a door almost straight accross from where you enter. Take that door and you'll come accross the body of the scientist. Grab his keycard and go through the next door and you'll find a window and a switch. You'll need to pull the switch to open a gate outside and then head downstairs past the front entrance.

This is all from memory so there may be a few detail errors.

[Thoran]

Originally posted by Sythe: Hey if any of you guys are playing multiplayer keep an eye out for a guy called Pvt.Sharpshot thats me!

I've never gotten into multiplayer online... it's a lot more fun to kill people you know. [img]smile.gif[/img] I've got a bunch of buddies, we all used to live in the same town, and although we're spread out all over the East coast now we still get together regularly (online and lan-party) to frag each other.

I've been playing around with the sandbox... very cool program. I want to build a level with a big track and a bunch of vehicles, have some auto-jousting. Hopefully someone will do a mod that makes it so you can keep track of laps... then you could do a proper racing game, that would be a hoot.

[Dalamar Stormcrow]

Originally posted by Thoran: Best single player shooter since Unreal 2 and Half Life before that

Unreal 2 was terrible

[Xen]

Great game no doubt.

[Thoran]

Originally posted by Dalamar Stormcrow: quote: Originally posted by Thoran: Best single player shooter since Unreal 2 and Half Life before that

Unreal 2 was terrible [/QUOTE]I thought it was pretty decent, great graphics (for it's time) althought the later levels were a bit too weird for my taste, fast gameplay with decent weapons (the security fence and remote guns were pretty cool). The story was too linear but at least it was coherent (more than most shooters can claim). I still go back and play a level on occasion.

[Sir Krustin]

Originally posted by Dalamar Stormcrow: quote: Originally posted by Thoran: Best single player shooter since Unreal 2 and Half Life before that

Unreal 2 was terrible [/QUOTE]Unreal 2 was great. Stunning graphics, great gameplay. It had quite a few moments of drama too - things that would be cutscene material in most other games but are inserted seamlessly in play. It gets a little weird towards the end, as others have said but no worse than Half-Life or Quake.

If anything, Far Cry is a step down from Unreal 2 in terms of how interesting it is to play.

Far Cry is impressive though. It's the reason I upgraded my computer to an XP 2600+ with a gigabyte of dual channel DDR400 ram after I found out FC brought my 1.2 to it's knees....

[ 04-15-2004, 06:01 PM: Message edited by: Sir Krustin ]