Far Cry®

It is nice that Far Cry 1 is still running perfectly on the newer Windows versions. I wanted to find out the origin of the Far Cry series and felt well entertained with the first part

played through on realistic difficulty definitely one of the hardest games I've ever played its a buggy mess and constantly get shot through walls probably wont it play again but im glad i played through it

Played on Legendary Difficulty

Bruhh! Ubisoft used to be able to make really difficult games back then.

FC1 Legendary Difficulty > FC6 Guerilla Difficulty

The first far cry.

Has a very good story, also fun to play

Had no issues playing

This game really needs a remaster for modern computer's.

Would recommend this to any far cry fan.

7/10

Proof that Ubisoft games have always sucked dick

mofos go wall hacks shooting thru the damn walls, leafs made of steel stopping my bullets dude Fk this game lol

age plays a huge factor in the downsides of this game but also the story is pretty stupid and the villain tries waaaaaaay to hard to be a resident antagonist still a decent game tho

3/5 Fun game for those who like a challenge but there are terrible bugs and balance issues.

-Enemies can shoot through walls. I used a 64-bit patch to fix this.
-Sometimes story won't progress when specific plot points don't occur. EX: When trying to plant a bomb in the armory, the door stays locked when it should open. I sniped all the enemies from outside the camp so I might have missed a check or trigger. I had to reload a prior checkpoint.
-Enemies can spot and shoot you across the map. They all have sniper vision.

Overall, once I installed some patches, I had fun.

this is cliche retarded old ass game. i do understand it was made in 2004 which is a long ass time ago, but half life 2 was made in 2004 too, and its FAR and i mean FAAAAAAAR from half life 2 in any way with quality :) this game is trash. i really hope that at least Far Cry 3 is good, i guess it must be otherwise wouldnt be this popular and thats why i became interested with these series. but this one is just trash.
P.S. talking about half life 2, it costs really close to this shit, go better buy half life 2 instead of this.

i really liked this game, good gameplay, good story and good music. 8/10 cant wait to play the sequels. if this game got a remaster i would def play. YOU SHOULD GET THIS GAME if you don't mind the graphics

Good game I remember playing it in 2012 when I was 9 years old with my cousin's computer brings me memories I finally finished the game after 12 years I wish ubisoft will make Far cry 7 like they did with Far cry 1

What a great classic! And still a chalange... at least to me. So, that's fun.

This Far Cry is very different from the other Far Cry games in the Series, because it's much more a linear and tactical Shooter.
It's also not as easy as other Far Cry games.
I would suggest getting a fix mod, because there is a bug where enemies can see and shoot you through some walls.
It's overall a great action game, weapons like the M4 or the desert eagle felt nice, the night vision gadget was also very cool, and I enjoyed the different locations of the game.
The best thing were the good enemy AI, the enemies feel a lot smarter in this game.
What I did not like were all the scope weapons, cuz they feel like shit and the enemies turn to only damage sponges at the end. I generally didn't like the monster type enemies as much.

7/10 still.

It's fun, and definitely a feat for when it was made. it's a much more linear game than the newer open world games, but still fun.

Peaked around a corner for half a second. Every mercenary within a 2km radius immediately knew my blood type, zip code, and favorite hiding spot.

Yes.

The best Far Cry.

Thank you.

classic games are always nice man.

The one that started it all. Honestly great game, still holds up to this day. Very Half Life esque in a great way.
10/10 Game, a legendary classic

Game is fun and frustrating at the same time.

Story- Game starting with good story around chapter 10 story changed little by little but in the end it just change the whole game. i was still hoping for better story but only last scene in the end was fun/good.

Those NPC are brutaly insane even on normal difficutly they have AIMBOT or something.

I recommending this game but play this only one time and never more.

Be warned this game is not "Ready to Play" after purchase. You absolutely NEED to download the Far Cry Advanced Launcher for this to be actually playable. Without it the AI is broken, the Scripts are broken, the maps are broken, the controls are broken, the FPS is too high causing physics to break, Graphics are broken. Literally everything is broken

I love the Farcry series. Perhaps this game was released very long time ago, there are so many issues: Enemies can see throurgh lots of wall or building and shoot us , but we cannot. Besides, when you zoom your scope (with sound from a away rang), they see us, but if no zoom at far range, they cannot see us. a LOL game for 2025

I love this old school game. go realistic and good luck

Meh, now with the other far cry games out there this one parallels as garbage. I cant count how many times this game pissed me off to the point where i just up and quit. I really tried to enjoy this game, but time AFTER TIME I JUST CAME BACK TO LEAVING. This game has bad voice acting, bad story, and bad gameplay. If you just came here to see where far cry started, don't bother this game straight up sucks.

This is old school. Graphics hold up suprisingly well. Still one of the best AI opponents you will face in a FPS game. If you select to let it adapt to your tactics and put it on hard, prepare for some serious battles. The other great thing, back in the days the games were made to last. I thought I was almost done, barely over 50% there. One of the best games from it's time period.

This is a rage game. Enemies are placed in spots that will kill you instantly if you are not paying attention. Units with rocket launchers are placed in every other tower. Throw a grenade in every tower; the rocket units will shoot the ground they stand upon and die. The military tents ARE NOT SAFE! The enemies see through them! Driving sucks. Movement is janky. The voice acting sounds like the Dragon Ball Ocean dub. The main characters interactions feel like a porn flick. I get softlocked every 5 minutes. I hate this game.

This game is pretty fun:
- I like the story
- the game transitions from open spaces to vehicles to tunnels to open spaces againg

However, it's very hard, the save games didn't sync between my steam deck and desktop.

At some moment it gets prohibitively hard to play, it's almost comical to think that somebody decided that this level would be appropriate for a game.

The only way to progress is to save games: hit console (`), then \save_game ...

6.5/10
7/10 for nostalgia.
Far Cry 1 is a classic example of an old video game. Easy mechanics, a very rigid playstyle, ironically hilarious dialogue, cheesy ending and surprisingly difficult on moderate difficulty. If you haven't played Far Cry 1, give it a go if it's for sale on discount. A good 8-15hrs of gameplay with an interesting story.

There's defiinatelyworse games to play.

Just beat the game on Realistic difficulty, definitely was a fun challenge! :D

Ok let me just star off by saying i love the farcry games. Even the modern ones but this game just mega pissed me off. Im playing on the hardest setting, and i noticed on a few occasions that enemies can see and shoot through walls. ( Specifically the tents and or military tents that hold beds and stuff. Even if the enemies cant see you physically. He knows your there and will shoot through the tent materials and it will kill you. It doesnt matter if they are inside the tents or if you are inside the tents. They will just keep shooting you till you are dead. Even if one of the enemies is is metal hanger with the rounded roofs. these ones you cant normally enter. but they will just shoot you and kill you and you cant do anything about it. 1 star for the enemies that can kill you even without line of sight, 0 stars for never fixing it or patching that stuff.

One of the greatest games of all time. Showing it's age but still playing this classic.

I played this game back in the day and it blew me away. Having come back to it I can still recommend it but only just, simply because the last patch they gave this game messed up the AI and enemies, making the game MUCH HARDER. Seriously this is like dark souls for FPS games. There's mods that allow you to get past this but unfortunately I found out about them when I was already near the end. You don't really notice it that much for most of the game but some moments (swamp on rails part and final boss ) are brutal.
I don't know if it's worth playing for someone's first time, maybe if you like the novelty of an old game that started a franchise. But otherwise for old guard FPS gamers it's worth a shot.
Acting and story is not worth much, just salad dressing. the music does its job, the gunplay is fun and the general jankiness of the AI and death animations are actually funny.

got some great memories, only thing left to add is the achivements

Tell me another game where the enemy ai can both stand next to you doing nothing while also spotting you from across the map and shooting you through walls.

I can't say I recommend to play this game if you are interested in it's story, it is a highly difficuly game even in medium difficulty, and as people have said the last three levels are just stupidly difficult, almost impossible to do without cheats, but to each their own.

Down when it comes to the plot and story I personally enjoyed it even if I really didn't understand what was happening most of the time.

Game freezes sometimes and I had to restart a checkpoint to get Val to move, but I like her so she gets a pass.

For an old game I gotta say the graphics are nice to look at and it runs pretty smoothly.

The Far Cry series is famous for it's open world games, but Far Cry 1 is the only game that's non-linear. For a game that came out in 2004, it still looks extremely impressive. The gameplay is extremely fun as well and it makes me feel like an action hero with a big machine gun cutting through hordes of enemies.

Far Cry 1 does have it's flaws though. First of all, you need to download a couple of mods to fix the AI and allow widescreen support. The difficulty in the final few levels feels extremely artificial to me, the game throws the tankiest enemies at you and give them rocket launchers.

Other than those few issues, it's a solid game and I highly recommend giving this game a try.

Played on Linux (Xubuntu)

Hey you in the shirt!

Far Cry is basically a cheesy 90's action movie in video game format. It ends as abruptly as it begins.
A cookie cutter story:
Retired and then recently un-retired super special forces action hero. -- Yes
Evil genius developing something evil on remote tropical island. -------- Yes
Endless mob of hired goons to shoot through. --------------------------- Yes
Blowin' stuff up. ----------------------------------------------------------- Yes
Hot babe. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Yes
Betrayal ------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes
Revenge ------------------------------------------------------------------ Yes

Besides the slightly cheesy story the gameplay is pretty solid. The game changes as it progresses and forces you to adapt your tactics to new threats and mechanics. Some of the missions especially the last couple are pretty difficult. There's a decent variety in the levels ranging from jungles to small islands to large underground facilities. I found that it was longer than I expected but didn't drag or feel overly repetitive.

It's easy to see how Far Cry was seen as revolutionary when it first came out with it's large, wide open levels full of trees and vegetation, realistic water and water reflections, vehicle combat both on land and at sea, object physics and semi-smart enemy AI. It obviously doesn't keep up technically and graphically with modern games but it's still a fun, challenging and sometimes frustrating game that any FPS fan should try.

I know that there are a lot of reviews and discussion topics about how horribly broken the game and enemy AI is but it's really not as bad as they make it seem. Yes enemies can see you through tents and office cubicle dividers but they're only encountered a handful of times. You can usually play around that bug without much issue.

This game was peak until the last 3 missions. The ass-fuckery is just unreasonable there. Also, the game features stealth mechanics, but enemies literally see you from across the map and can even hit you with regular ARs like that. It's still solid, though, a lot of attention to detail I didn't expect to see in such an old title. The gunplay was also surprisingly good. 7/10

so much fun to replay this game after all these years. works really well on recent pc, decent graphics. I forgot how hard this game was, I died at least a hundred times...

good game plenty of missions dragged a bit tho save yourself the trouble unless you want the challenge just go an easier difficulty its very hard but very rewarding

Absolutely love the difficulty, you die quick! The shooting is super satisfying, with multiple paths to approach each encounter. The atmosphere in the jungle levels is top-tier.

Not like the newer Far Cry games, this one's raw, tactical, and way more intense.

I watched VideoGameDunkey's video on this game and I thought it would be chaotic but fun. And it's chaotic for sure, but unfortunately I did not have a great time playing this game. Enemies seeing you and shooting you through walls was funny at first, but it gets old really quick. The gun-play is okay, but I found myself just using the assault rifle for almost every situation, only switching off when I didn't have time to reload. The stealth in this game is pretty spotty, but I'll chalk it up to my growing impatience that I had.

I liked the overall game concept, it reminds me of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune a little bit, so while I have never played this game before it looked nostalgic. The open map approach to objectives is pretty neat too; wish more contemporary games did that. But with all that being said, there were just too many technical problems for me to enjoy this title. Hopefully I can come back to this later and feel differently.

Extremely tough game even on normal, stealth is not an option so dont try it XD

From 2004 standards, its a masterpiece, nut from 2025 standards, its Janky and frustrating. But is still a cool game. Had to use several mods to make it fun. But yeah its a classic

[SPOILERS] (summary and overall review at the bottom with no spoilers)
STORY (7/10): The story was pretty decent with a solid plot line. It was a little confusing around the middle but i did take a break from playing for a week or 2. The game starting you off putting you in the middle of a random island and the only real goal was trying to kill the villain then BAM, the entire island is filled with these horrifying humanoid creatures doing all your health in one hit making some parts of the game have high tension due to no passive healing. Doyle's betrayal at the end was pretty predictable but also surprising at the same time. Jack Carver, the main character had the cheesiest bits of dialogue ive ever seen. The ending also is left in a void but i heard online they planned another game but didnt follow through due to ubisoft buying the rights

GAMEPLAY (3/10): i cannot hammer down on how bad this gameplay is due to its time, but the AI is ATROCIOUS. They can literally shoot you through walls and have aimbot. this game was so unnecessarily hard even playing on normal. the checkpoints seeming so rare to come across and with having no passive healing it can be a nightmare. The boss fights were pretty bad too, barley felt like a boss.

GRAPHICS (4.5/10): for a game made in 2004 its got some pretty okay graphics, has good vibrant colours for the brighter levels as well as dark and gloomy lighting for the darker levels. it really sets the scene for being on a tropical island and invested with trigens.

SOUNDS (5/10): the music is what you would think from any action shooter from the early 2000's, its good, but i wouldnt say its catchy. The ambients was pretty creepy at some points in the darker levels but also quite tropical reminding us as the players that this is on an island. some of the enemy's noises got very repetitive having the same voicelines and same grunting from the trigens.

SUMMARY: i would say the game is okay, i would only recommend the game if you wanted to experience all the far cry games and see how they have evolved over the years. if you do decide to play it keep in mind it is old and doesnt follow the same formular as the far cry games we know and love. if not however, you wont really be missing out on much.

OVERALL RATING: 5.5/10

Update back to 1.33 for a solid gameplay as it was always meant to be! In current 1.4 state, the truck mission on realistic difficulty can't be completed no matter what.

While it might be interesting to play to get an understanding of the series' roots, the story is too trite and the gameplay too archaic to be enjoyable by 2025 standards.

Pretty dated at this point, was fun in its time. worth maybe a couple bucks

game goes from being fun with fair enemy placements to making you fight 500 of each enemy in a single room with zero cover and no break, but still i suggest giving it a go.

This game is amazing but the npcs are horrible they are tricky and can see you through walls. And be ready to fight armies your just a single dude in an island with weapons

I was playing on realistic. A PIECE OF SHIT EXPERIENCE,
full of shit bag with bugs, when AI see you through the walls
dropped on a car mission (mission 17)
cutscenes are awful