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View ArticleC’Est Le Trippy Far Cry Mod
This blog (scroll down if you don’t read French) has the details of an artful Far Cry mod that references Samuel Beckett and Fritz Lang alongside Rez, Shadow Of The Colossus, and Fahrenheit, in its...
View ArticleHow To Make Far Cry Look Like Crysis. Ish.
Once upon a time, Far Cry was the great hope of modders everywhere. Its paint-like world-building tool appeared joyously easy to use, and its incredi-graphics seemed malleable to all sorts of visual...
View ArticleCrytek On Fusing Crysis 1, Crysis 2, And District 9
Many people set their furrowed brows to maximum anger (known in some places as a warface) and rallied against Crysis 2. I wasn’t one of them. It was, in many ways, a far more directed experience than...
View ArticleFar Cry Classic Is An Updated Version Of The Original
As part of my continuing display of ignorance, I hadn’t realised that the upcoming Far Cry The Wild Expedition – a bundle of all the previous Far Cries in one imaginary box – was going to contain...
View ArticleHidden Himalayas: Far Cry 4
Know what Far Cry needs? A villain so kerrazy that he takes a selfie right after he murders a bunch of people. Thankfully, that’s precisely what the series now has in the shape of the mad despot who...
View ArticleWot I Think: Far Cry 4
Far Cry 4 is a funhouse mirror. I love pointing it in in different directions and seeing the way its design reflects the videogames around it. Angle it one way and the first thing you’ll see in its...
View ArticleUbisoft Survey Reveals Potential Far Cry Locations
Psssst! You wanna hear some gossip? WELL! So, Eurogamer told me that some friends of theirs told THEM that a marketing research survey told them – the friends not Eurogamer – that they wanted to talk...
View ArticleBeast Master: Cat Cuddling In Far Cry Primal
There’s a scene in the new Far Cry Primal [official site] trailer in which the player character instructs his pet owl to eat someone’s face. It’s amazing how inconsequential the lack of vehicles and...
View ArticleWot I Think: Far Cry Primal
A week later than consoles, because apparently Ubisoft have abandoned that promise already, Far Cry Primal [official site] is out on PC tomorrow. I’ve donned my wolf-skin coat, daubed random lines of...
View ArticlePlaying Far Cry Primal Like A True Caveman
When Far Cry Primal [official site] was unveiled, I shrugged with semi-feigned disinterest, aware that the series has hit milking point, but unable to dismiss the inner teenager tugging at my inner...
View ArticlePrehistoric Permadeath: Far Cry Primal Adding Survival Mode
Hot on the heels of Fallout 4’s Survival Mode, which brings exhaustion and dehydration back to the world of post-apocalyptic entertainment, Ubisoft have announced that Far Cry Primal [official site]...
View ArticleHave You Played… Far Cry?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. I have a confession: I’ve never played as far as the mutant stuff in Far Cry. …...
View ArticleWot I Think: Far Cry 5
Ah, a new Far Cry has appeared! Having torn up the Himalayas, Polynesia, Central Africa and The Past, in Far Cry 5 Ubisoft’s lidlessly searing eye for endless open-world violence has turned to the...
View ArticleMurderous pet friends are the real meaning of Far Cry 5
There are many reasons why Far Cry 5 has wormed its way into my cold heart far more than I’d ever expected, but foremost among them are its recruitable animal followers. Why have a crack-shot sniper...
View ArticleWhat Works And Why: Unfair intel in stealth games
What Works And Why is a monthly column where Gunpoint and Heat Signature designer Tom Francis digs into the design of a game or mechanic and analyses what makes it good. Games about one player...
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