Farcry was an absolute dream to play. It broke new ground in the FPS genre by introducing a lush tropical paradise.
Although the 'Mutant human experiment gone wrong' script has been killed to death in gaming - the areas of innovation in graphics and AI make up for its few weak points. A solid FPS.
For the Creative Beast - The game shipped with an amazing sandbox editor to help you extend your fun with Farcry by designing a level of your own and share it with the extensive online community. Both of these elements stretch the replay of this game into the hundreds of hours as it's easy to spend many of them pouring over maps and mods released through the community.
I can attest to that as I spent months learning the mapping tool and writing my own level. Going through this process I found a new respect for the designers and scripters of Farcry. http://www.michaelkosmatka.com/farcry.html
A highly recommended title. Gamers will be reference back to this game for years as a benchmark in FPS gaming.