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First Impressions ...

I first heard about this game while watching an episode of the screen savers ( see http://www.thescreensavers.com / ). So when I was in walmart picking up a copy of Doom3, and UT2004, I decided to get this game as well.

The environments are lush and heavily populated with trees, plants, and grass, which makes for some stealthy sniping action.

There are also a lot of subtle in the engine that may go unnoticed, such as proper lighting. For example when you look at the sun as you are walking under a building the suns rays are properly rendered.

Thankfully this game does not play like doom 3. There are only a few areas where the map is too black to see anything without your flashlight. And unlike doom 3, you can turn on your flashlight, and still shoot your weapon!

Game Play ...

What I liked:

1. Vast beautiful outdoor scenes (2km view distance)

2. Many ways to travel, hang glider, boat, forklift, buggy, 4x4, flatdeck transport truck

3. Game play is well balanced allowing you to choose weather or not to be stealthy or mow down enemies with a 4x4. Many different ways to achieve your objective.

4. A number of different guns in the game but you can only carry 4 at a time.

5. Your characters dialog through the game is quite decent and not too over the top

6. The physics worked well but were not showcased very often.

7. Decent sound effects/music.

8. The final cut scene hints at a possible sequel aka FarCry 2, not that I will ever be playing that game if it comes out.

What I did not like:

1. If I had to grade this game on a scale of 1 to 10 it would be a low score indeed. I played this game on "Challenging" difficulty, with auto leveling AI turned on. There were times when I spend hours, literally hours! trying to get past a section of the map. I'd get so far, die and have to restart, die again, restart, die, restart, die, restart, die ... well you get the picture! If you have to keep restarting from your last save point thirty times or more it means those game testers were not doing there jobs.

I would be able to understand and let it go if I only died say five times or so, at least I could deal with that. If you have the above average gaming skills, and over two decades of gaming experience like I do, and you went through the same experience I did, then you know just how ticked off I was at this game. I play games to have fun not to have the game kick butt repeatedly, "Please sir, can I have some more." Grrr! This and this alone ruined my overall experience I had

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