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Farcry

Description: You are Jack Carver, running your own boat charter business in beautiful Micronesia. With a past best left behind you, you'll be focusing on your present assignment: escorting an ambitious journalist named Valerie Cortez to the island of Cabatu. It seems like a piece of cake, but you'll soon learn: paradise can be hell.

In Far Cry you'll explore a vast island chain rendered in exquisite detail through state-of-the-art graphic technology. Outwit hordes of mercenaries, annihilate threats from more than a kilomete away, and use every vehicle, weapon, and strategy at your disposal to outlast the island's evils and escape with your life.

Far Cry runs on the meticulously designed next-generation CryEngine pushes the threshold of action gaming with proprietary Polybump™ mapping, advanced environment physics, destructible terrain, dynamic lighting, motion-captured animation, and total surround sound.

Experience a new style of FPS gameplay featuring massive outdoors environments and unprecedented long-range gameplay.

Far Cry Blog

October 28, 2004 -

Farcry patch v1.3 released

The long awaited patch for Farcry has been released, it includes all of the fixes from the previous releases plus new enhancements to game-play and graphics.

August 13, 2004 -

Far Cry Screenshots added.

Some 2 dozen Far Cry screenshots have been added showing various action scenes from the game.

August 13, 2004 - Far Cry Blog Created. The FarCry blog has been created to keep you up to date on the latest resources added to the site. Check below for previous entries on Far Cry.

May 23, 2004 - Far Cry Cheats added. Some Far Cry cheats have been added. There aren't a whole lot, I'll be adding more as we receive more details.

May 23, 2004 - Far Cry Research Demo #2 The Far Cry Research demo continues where the first demo ends. It's quite a bit shorter than the first demo but it sports some great graphics.

May 23, 2004 - Far Cry Fort Demo #1. The first of two Far Cry demos has been added, this demo include the Fort mission.

April 25, 2004 - Far Cry Review My review for Far Cry has been posted. See the next generation FPS that's beaten Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 to the punch.

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