06-21-2004, 08:36 PM
I completed Far Cry twice. I really enjoyed playing through the game, and I chose the "sniper from far far away"-tactic every chance I had. What really ruined this game completely, were the lack of a decent baddie.
If you haven't played the game, but plan to, you might want to skip the rest of this post.
Up until the 2nd or 3rd last level, your villain is some sort of mad scientist who became one of his own creations (as far as I remember). His raison d'être was to make sure his Darwinian ideas of 'survival of the fittest' resulted in the end of the human species, and the herald of a new beginning for these mutants. Now, there's nothing wrong with this really, but towards the end, this guy is betrayed by one of his allies; one who is purely in it for the money, and is killed. This new guy becomes the new villain for the last 1-2 levels of the game. At the very end of the last level, right before you put a bullet in Mr. "I'm only in it for the money", he calls out something like "You can't stop the future" or something to that effect. Now excuse me, but what the hell just happened here? Did the writers simply forget that they had changed the villain? Suddenly the personality traits of Mr. Mutant-Darwin were imbued into this commercial, capitalist little twat!
This really annoyed the crap out of me!
If you haven't played the game, but plan to, you might want to skip the rest of this post.
Up until the 2nd or 3rd last level, your villain is some sort of mad scientist who became one of his own creations (as far as I remember). His raison d'être was to make sure his Darwinian ideas of 'survival of the fittest' resulted in the end of the human species, and the herald of a new beginning for these mutants. Now, there's nothing wrong with this really, but towards the end, this guy is betrayed by one of his allies; one who is purely in it for the money, and is killed. This new guy becomes the new villain for the last 1-2 levels of the game. At the very end of the last level, right before you put a bullet in Mr. "I'm only in it for the money", he calls out something like "You can't stop the future" or something to that effect. Now excuse me, but what the hell just happened here? Did the writers simply forget that they had changed the villain? Suddenly the personality traits of Mr. Mutant-Darwin were imbued into this commercial, capitalist little twat!
This really annoyed the crap out of me!
