Far Cry Instincts (Pal XB)

[Lurch]

Thats what i love about this place - other people as weak as me. There're too many games that i want at the moment, and there's no way i'll be able to resist most of 'em, including this, dammit!

[Mardigan8]

Go on boys it will rock the box on live and will be a solid single player... no more games after it I still plan to get a few more, hehehe!!

[nonny]

I picked it up here in australia this morning... its officially out.

Mapmaker is sweet, thats the first thing I checked. Very simple to use and although it seems similar to the one that was in Pariah it seems far more comprehensive and I reckon people are going to be able to really go to town and make some impressive levels with this thing.

Colour me impressed. Glad to hear the rest of the demo issues seem to be fixed in the final version as well, I cant wait to get home (damn work) and give this thing a proper XBL dust off.

[Paleface]

I'm going to hold out - still got Fahrenheit and BO:L to finish off. Once I've heard enough of a report back from Live, etc, I might consider this. I really enjoyed the demo; online, especially Predator mode, look fun.

[Yoshimax]

Gonna pick this up today. Anybody fancy a game of predator tonight ? I'm dying to get this online now. This and Halo2/Burnout4/Forza should keep me happy till 360.

Plus Colossus obviously

Anyone else kinda glad about the Zelda delay now ?

[Bleeders]

If I can source it tonight, then I'm game.

[Hodge]

Think I`m gonna pick this up, always enjoyed Farcry on the PC even though I never finished It due to the huge difficulty spike towards the end. Plus the twist half way through instincts sounds interesting aswell.

[Plisken]

Yeah i've clocked the PC game and this (in regards to level design) is nothing like it at all, and that's not a bad thing.

it's really long as well, i've put in about 6 hours so far and am only on level 6 of 14 - so a minimum of 14 hours play is expected, but the levels seem to get longer now.

special mention goes out to the landmine traps, these work absolutely superb and you WILL NEED to set traps to thin out the numbers of enemies. if say there is a squad of six marines up ahead at least 2 of them will try and flank you, and there's nothing better than seeing one of them go up in smoke for treading on your mine and the other getting bitch slapped by a tree whip. haha.

The sunset/night effect progression is superb and the new weapons really pack a punch, the Shotgun in particular is abosolutely cracking, really does some damage as well.

Vehicles handle well and there's a good amount of them (8 in total) the ATV is great fun and so is the hovercraft, nothing more fun than a hovercraft gun battle through the swamps at sunset with those amazing water effects and high powered guns. sweet.

the mapmaker is a very powerful tool and works great, i made an ATV stuntpark in about 10 minutes.

I'm not getting live till next week so i can't give any impressions but if the combat is as satisfying and dynamic as the single player game it should be tops.

edit: oh yeah something rather important, when you first play the game it shows a 2/12 minute trailer that can't be skipped as the game cache to the xbox hard disc ala Halo 2. However if you don't have your xbox set to the right date the game automatically thinks it's the first time it's powered on and you can not skip it. so make sure your XB date is set correctly!

[Yoshimax]

Plisken your impressions have me foaming at the mouth.

Gonna go start the Far Cry Online thread and get the gamertags taken down.

[EvilBoris]

I finished the PC one yesterday note: I had to enable god mode for the last 4 levels, I got so bored. The final level melted my graphics card...almost.

[Mardigan8]

I played the the PC version right through to when all hell broke loose and there was mutants and Mercs EVERYWHERE!! At that point I was getting slaughtered repeatedly so as Boris said had to enable GOD mode to venture forward to the end.

The sections in the PC version where it goes to night were awesome. Hope the XBox version uses simialir environments to the PC version as they were an outstanding feature of the PC one...

->Open Spoiler<-

like the cliff where you get the Paraglider and the big ship in the water and the fort where there is the HUGE firefight between Mercs and Mutants.

It was a superb piece of game design as Yoshi said the above impressions have me groaning for more.

I am WIHTOUT DOUBT picking this up tonight and will try get on tonight for a bit and tomorrow FOR SURE!!

[Plisken]

that final area in the pc game did my head in, i managed to do it by going prone and sniping the jumping ones first, then if you look to the right of the door you come through there is a space just about big enough for jack to hide in. wait for big trigen to come up and shoot them with the shotgun and they can't shoot you back, hahaha. could only do it on normal difficulty without cheating tho, bloody hard game

[Concept]

Gonna pick this up today. Anybody fancy a game of predator tonight ? I'm dying to get this online now. This and Halo2/Burnout4/Forza should keep me happy till 360.

Plus Colossus obviously

Anyone else kinda glad about the Zelda delay now ?

Kind of. I don't intend to enter the next-gen for at least a year though, so the landscape is looking a little barren.

Only Colossus, Liberty City Stories, Aftermath, Resident Evil 4 (PS2) and Psychonauts really have me interested over the next few months (no doubt I'll be forgetting some).

As for Far Cry... you're getting it today? Do you know which store is selling it early? I was one of the few who was impressed with the demo here.

[EvilBoris]

if anyone knows who is selling it early tell me!
I might take a walk over to morrissons to see if they have it in a bit

[Gerry Helmet]

I think its a Glasgow only chain selling it early, some indies should be punting it too.

Im picking this up tonight if possible, if not defo tommorow !