One of the best of the genre.

User Rating: 9 | Far Cry PC
I've played many, many First-person Shooters and I am sure more or less everyone played one FPS too. So we pretty much know the cliches of the genre, some scripted events or cut scenes that makes your adrenaline pump, enemies that are there for you to kill them and unseen/seen corridors that block your freedom. What Far Cry does, is to destroy every routine a FPS has ever done. There are no scripted events save some talks between the mercenaries, and very few cut scenes. There is an island, fully at your service and there are many mercenaries that after some point, don't give a damn about what you do. The graphics are exceptional for their time and so are the sounds. The AI seems to do OK, although there is a similar pattern to what they're doing and when you understand it, they are not really that smart. Story is full of cliches, but it does ok for a game where action matters more than the plot. And the action is just mind-blowing, you can't even blink. But what Far Cry fails to do, is again graphics. While the outdoor maps are fantastic, the indoor maps can't do the trick. They are boring and dull, also the textures seem to be faulty. But still, it's a classic.