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Speaking of which, the overall sound quality in Farcry is decent at most. You know, sound effects are OK, there's even some 3D positioning, environmental effects are actually nice, but somehow I feel that Farcry has let me down in this area, I was expecting marvellous sound alongside extraordinary graphics and realistic physics, but I guess they just didn't really care, huh? I mean, come on, your avatar's voice is lame, he delivers stupid lines in a totally uncool way, and that lowers my feeling of immersion in the game. Most of the FPSs I've played were good enough to make me feel I could truly relate to the main character, and Farcry does that as well, in a certain amount that is, because when my avatar says something, man, I kinda feel ashamed.
She married money
I might be going out on a limb here, but here's my take on what Farcry really represents for Ubisoft. They spent a lot of time building the engine, and it was good, almost too good for today's market. So they said: OK, we'll make a game out of it, because we're supposed to do that, we can't just sell this engine to companies that haven't seen it work in an actual product. But what kind of game? Shooters are popular and in some ways easier to do and sell.
Hooray, they said, and they started work on Farcry. Simple story, standard setting, standard weapons, they didn't experiment too much design wise, they just made sure their graphics and physics engine stands out as much as possible, and what a great job at that. So other companies saw it was good as well, and bought it from Ubisoft, as you can read in our interview with them.
What I said earlier about them making Farcry just to show off their engine is not actual facts, just speculation, but even if it were so, the final product came out OK, Farcry is a sweet game and it's worth playing, especially that it's out now when there isn't really much happening.
Graphics: 98
Sound: 79
Resources: 80
Gameplay: 88
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| Reviewer System Specifications |
| AMD Athlon64 X2@ 2500Mhz CPU, 2048 Mb RAM, Radeon HD2900XT, Creative Labs Soundblaster X-FI Music Edition, Windows Vista X64. |
| System Requirements |
| CPU: 1000 MHz, Video: 64 Mb, Memory: 256 Mb, HDD space: 4 Gb, SO: Windows 98 or better |
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| Posted by Viracocha [Joi, 25 Martie 2004 - 00:55] |
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