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Hooo, boy, the jank!

Models acting up Garry's mod style, very brown maps. So why do I recommend it?

1. It is still fun!
Tough, fast, bloody FPS fun. Encounters with enemies are nicely paced for an open world by using chokepoints and limited flying (glider use)

2. You'll understand a lot more about the later installments
Some game mechanics in the following games feel so weirdly implemented because they exist mostly as a historical remnant.
An Example: why do you buy weapons in the later installments at all? In FC2 the enemies guns are junk and fail. so it makes sense
If you're a gaming mechanics historian type, you might get a kick out of it!

In short: loud, janky, old, but everything is tightly designed to create intense firefights.
Oh, story barely exists. FC3 is far better in that regard!

During the annual Far Cry binge, I felt it necessary to try one of the only games I hadn't played. This was a mistake. This game is bad, and not in a "newer games" elitist sorta way. It's just a bad game.

To put it simply, there's a reason Far Cry 3 was considered such a massive leap for the franchise. I'm just going to list out my grievances, in no particular order:

- There are no animals to hunt (in Africa!), which means no crafting. That was the most fun for me in FC3 and 4.
- There are no skill trees. Nothing to add a bit more oomph to the combat.
- The guns you do have can't have accessories. Or at least I didn't get far enough. You can upgrade your weapons, but I have no idea what that entails.
- The outposts are pitiful. They are literally just a hut with two dudes to kill and a save station.
- The game is ugly, even by old game standards. A victim of the late 2000s desaturation trend. Words I would describe this game would be desaturated, dehydrated, and desolate.
- Stealth seems to be not an option. Killed a guy point blank with a silenced shotty and the entire guard station knew exactly where I was.
- The HUD is basically non-existant. There's hardly anything to let you know you just got a new objective, or that your old one changed. The only way you can tell is by listening to dialogue...
- ...which, btw, is probably some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard. It's like Ubisoft hired random people off the streets and got them for one session to read off a teleprompter as quickly as they could. It's like they've never heard of a comma. No upward or downward inflections in the voices, no pausing for a breath, just rippity dippity rippity dippity. Awful dialogue. At least when games are dated they still can have funny characters or AI like an Oblivion or something. Far Cry 2 was released in 2008... it's downright sad.

TL;DR if you're someone like me who played all of the "main" FC games and wanted to give the older ones a fair shot, don't waste your time. If a game looks like poo, sounds like poo, and feels like poo to play, you're probably playing with a turd.