Far Cry for men – the impression with the elements of the review, with the elements of memes
Initially, having passed the game with great pleasure, I had potency to write a large factual review on it, with the consideration of all the accompanying elements of gameplay, their synergy and influence on the narrative, the perception of the game, and so on. But, when I climbed on Utub, I was surprised to realize that I did not understand the game at all, and much in it was unknown to me. I do not see the point of retelling other people’s conclusions and discoveries and I have no desire, because instead of a review I will share what I saw in the game and how it was remembered by me personally, with jokes, tricky statements and a common impulsive-emotional tone. Ultimately, I see the purpose of any journalistic text is not a scrupulous study of the topic, but the formation of the reader of an emotional response and interest in it. I do not write an encyclopedia, in other words.
And as an extravagant literary solution, I will arrange a further narrative in the form of a dialogue between me and my wonderful friend Vitaly Gusev, whose penetrating grades are unlikely to leave an indifferent honest audience.
It’s worth a reservation right away, I went through not quite original far crry. As I understand it, for the PS3 and Xbox360 consoles, a patch was published at one time, transforming the graphics and adjusting the intelligence of enemies, which my dear people have already adapted on their own for the blessed Omnissia of personal mowers. Under his influence, the game not only acquired a large -format resolution and a full -fledged range of drawing, so that palm trees and enemies are no longer materialized from the air in the player’s vision, but also received a very pleasant picture, a rejuvenated game for 5 years. This is especially noticeable at least against the backdrop of the fact that the CGI rollers in the game look worse than her own visual. Infrequent phenomenon.
I can’t confidently say anything about the transformation of the opponents, but I went through the 2nd out of 4 possible levels of complexity, and the enemies put my ass with special perseverance and skill-they are mobile, aggressive and shoot a fragile protagonist, the more effective, the closer it is, sometimes taking the giblets in a couple of hits. Although the patch is “console”, the game is in no way simple even on basic complexity, and how to play in such a gamepad I personally cannot imagine.
What do you say about Far Cry as a shooter, Vitaly?
“Far Tero” is a game in the shooting shooter genre, in which we must kill enemies from machine guns and pistols. There are shooters in which to kill enemies is uninteresting and inconvenient – these are bad shooters. But there are, on the contrary, good shooters. “Far Tero” good shooter.
Vitaly Gusev, Game journalist, genius, favorite of women
Well noticed, Vitaly. Far Cry shooting over the years did not lose its enthusiasm and dynamism. This is a purebred shooter in which the weapon in the hands of the hero is deadly, and he himself is moving and rapid, although it is exhausted almost faster than Sebastian Castellanos from The Evil Within. The weapon lacks the proper “weight” and the impact from use, and it looks plastic, but with its help the enemy is a very satisfactory and exciting occupation. Few genre is so dependent on the implementation of its main mechanics as a “shooter”, and here, I will decide to say, Far Cry shows itself much better than many of its contemporaries. This, of course, is not F.E.A.P., in which you almost physically feel your enemy and how his body gutting and carries a slaughter volley from a shotgun, but also very at the level. Playing projects like Far Cry, I often come to the idea of how sterile and cardboard are the games of the Call of Duty series, its followers and imitators, for example, the same Modern Warfare 2, in comparison with the creations of the beginning of the century.
The pleasure of shooting is achieved not only https://space-wins.co.uk/ due to fire contact with the goal, but also due to the circumstances of the battle. Far Cry is an unusually diverse game, not only because it offers to shoot mutants along with people, and alternates open spaces with bunker corridors. We are talking about the environment as such, about the situations that it looms. Despite the fact that the game -mechanically the hero does nothing else how he runs and shoots, Far Cry does not turn to call a monotonous game, since the situation in which he has to act is changed regularly. The terrain factor, the very ill -fated jungle, where both you and the enemies are sometimes blind – this alone transforms the gameplay radically.
Jungle is not only the decoration, but the full -fledged element of the environment. As they said, enemies often do not know about the presence of the player, but the opposite situation happens regularly. Already being discovered, and entering the battle, you often do not know how many enemies are around you, how far they are from you and in which side. Damed vegetation masks the enemy no worse than in real tropical forests. And this is not felt by a flaw – the enemy does not merge with the terrain in a graphic mess, it is precisely what is hidden by elements of the environment.
Regarding the ability of the player himself to wage a secretive war – hypothetically, the game has stealth. I say, hypothetically, because its implementation very often broke off on the first murder. The only possible option for me to eliminate the target and remain unnoticed by a sniper rifle – the distance did not allow me to detect. Otherwise, I gave my location immediately. After I learned that the most lousy weapon in the game, a MP5 submachine gun, was just equipped with a muffler murder. That’s just at least a citizen from Utuba claimed that in Far Cry, you can take entire locations for stealth, I have hard to believe in it. If only because you do not have the main element of any stealth game-information about the enemy’s location.
As they said, the jungle is everywhere, and often the enemy found me faster than I. What kind of condition can there be for such condition? Not to mention that even a machete requires one of the four slots for weapons, and you are guaranteed to find the gun more useful in this place. The main character knows how to throw stones to “distract the enemies”, but, having evaluated the game reality offered to me, I did not even try to do it.
We should talk a little more about enemy enemys in the game. I don’t know, again, the consequence of the “console patch”, or it was such, but the mercenaries in Far Cry are inclined to play human behavior more or less, such as, for example, an attempt to get to a stationary machine gun when the alarm is announced, or moving stealthily with weapons. Because the enemies move semi-wrapping, getting into them even easier, and in general it is very difficult to call their behavior tactically-vulnerable or at least “smart”, but this is a lively reaction of computer men to the player’s invasion of their space-someone sits still, someone combs the jungle, while choosing their personal route.
I had a situation when, being in the next bunker, I looked at the bugs with the regdol of the enemies I killed and was surprised to find that I had come for me another detachment. Did not materialize from somewhere out of the outside, and did not meet on the script, namely that he came from somewhere from a distance. In any case, it looked just like that, for I killed all the goals met and nothing portended a second attack.
Finally, opponents, having fallen under fire, immediately take the position of lying, though they do it literally in one frame, which is why I often took those for the already dead. But this is an insignificant flaw.
Of course, there is no open world in Far Cry, but the game very skillfully creates a feeling of open space, although almost every level of it is a kind of corridor. As already noted, in addition to spacious jungle in the game there are closed rooms, and who would have thought, but the gameplay in the new conditions changes dramatically. If, under the hot equatorial sun and at a respectful distance, enemies-mercenaries do not show high accuracy, and the player reaches only a few shots, then in the isolated rooms of bunkers, laboratories and other confrontation with the enemy is a rapid duel and may end the immediate death of the main character. So, with the same shooting mechanics, you behave and move already in a completely different way than if you are fighting in the jungle.
Completely complement, Vitaly?
Enemies shoot painfully, but I shoot even more painful. The main thing is to adopt. As soon as you get up, you will immediately kill everyone, because you are a cool protagonist from an action movie, winning villains and saving your woman. I am playing my life in shooters, I know how to think and where to shoot. Into enemies.
Vitaly Gusev, professional mercenary, focus cook
Thank you, Vitaly. Indeed, there are few modern video games in the Shooter genre entirely should this direction, trying to impose all kinds of craft, pumping, some inappropriate exploring to the player. Far Cry in this sense is ingenuous, and copes well with what he should be – a solid, difficult scouring that does not carry away the “depth of possibilities” and the flexibility of the gameplay, but with the simple fact that you need to adapt one or another to each way – quickly evaluate the situation, choose the right ways of movement, and accurately shoot, by itself.
Continuing the theme of enemies-people, several times Far Cry still decides to surprise and leads the player a very non-trivial combat units. They are noteworthy not by the fact that they are very strong in the body and powerful with a rifle, but, again, the place of action in which such a skirmish occurs. For the first time, the player finds himself in a closed hangar, a huge number of containers in which they form something like a maze, according to which these highly effective bastards rummage. Visibility is very limited, and errors turn out to be fatal, and therefore it is necessary to be extremely careful and, surprisingly, navigate by ear. Special forces move slowly, but nevertheless creaks with shoes, and it is precisely what happens to determine their location for a preemptive strike. I do not remember a single other shooter where it would happen to look for enemies by hearing.
Later, these citizens will appear with shields at the ready, which will present even greater difficulty in their elimination. Especially with the moment that for the whole game I did not learn about the presence of my under -barrel grenade launcher. Yes, this is one of those features of the game that I have discovered for myself much later, on YouTube on YouTube. And not that I am an idiot – the game in no way illustrated the presence of such a device, and in the settings I did not see anything like it, but I was there often, because after each session the game forgot the purpose of the keys. The lack of this knowledge played a cruel joke with me further on the game, and in general it made my passage somewhat more difficult.
The game has a technique, water and ground transport, as well as their highly, helicopters. That deeply pleased me is the property of these same helicopters. Flying machines are very reminiscent of these from the Orthodox GTA5, where, with proper dexterity, it was possible to remove the arrow and thereby deprive the turntable of combat efficiency, or completely kill the pilot and send this thing in a free fall. You can’t kill the pilot in Far Cry, but it is very possible to shoot militants aboard the ship. Yes, and the helicopters themselves are quite fragile and begin to burn even under an intense onslaught rifle.
But I was somewhat hastily rejoiced, because the same canonical, unknown and ubiquitous boss-vertota in the game also has. And its appearance is an ode of the worthlessness of the local RPG – four charges, and the sense of zero. I fed this reptile of pieces of eight or nine missiles, and still I had to supplement with automatic bursts. The duel itself is invented quite spectacularly, we fight with this beautiful boss-vertion on board the drowning barge with the need to climb higher on its skeleton. And this boss drove me out of his leisure, I even began to think that he simply could not be killed until a certain point that these are scripts. I’m not sure now, but given the stories from Utuba about how this fight can be broken, it is unlikely that.