Far Cry Instinct / Predator Xbox game!

Bill Marsh · May 31, 2006

When I got the Xbox 360 I thought that Quake 4 was the most incredible game I ever played. Quake 4 saves take about 20 - 30 seconds and that is a long time when you are playing a fast-paced first person shooter.

Then I got Halo 2 and it is worlds better. Much faster on the graphics and saves. I love the sci-fi blasters and space ships.

Now I am in the middle of "Far Cry." Seems like a dopey name, but I have to tell you that this IS light years ahead of Quake 4 and Halo 2. The scenes are BIG.

Mostly conventional weapons, shotgun, M16 with grenade launcher (a favorite); 50 cal sniper rifle (another favorite); various other rifles, pistols and SMGs. Pipe bombs, molotov cocktails and standard grenades.

In this, the hero, Jack Carver can take on "feral abilities" or super powers, somehow mystically linked to shamanism, but not really. Sniff out hidden enemies, one shot blow will kiill about anything, run and jump like the wind.

Anyone else tried "Far Cry?"

Anyhow it is a really fun game that will keep you going for many hours. Mine is an Xbox 360 format, but I think they have it for the regular xbox also. I knw they have it for the PC.

munk · May 31, 2006

Come de Revolution, all you Xbox 360 owners will be shot....

How much did the 360 cost, and how good is it?

I think I read a review that said instead of the 'next generation' it was a 1.5, or half way there.

munk

Sutcliffe · May 31, 2006

and managed to get half way through it on the Original Box. I found operating a vehicle to be a royal pain in the ass. Didn't care for it all that much. My brother got the 360 and has invested hundreds of hours already into Oblivion. Role Playing Games aren't my thing. I'm gonna pick me up one when Halo3 comes out.

eswartz · May 31, 2006

I finished it on the PC last year. Although I played the original version. The one you talk about sounds like a sequel. You mention a lot of things the version I played didn't have.

edit - Oh yeah, this is Far Cry "Instinct"

My 3 year old (girl) likes to shoot monsters in the head with it these days. Ha.

When I play now just to look around, I set it so the monsters and other enemies ignore you. That way you can run around and shoot them without problems.

Eric

Bill Marsh · Jun 1, 2006

munk said:
Come de Revolution, all you Xbox 360 owners will be shot....

How much did the 360 cost, and how good is it?

I think I read a review that said instead of the 'next generation' it was a 1.5, or half way there.

munk

Bullets bounce off my titanium xombie-kicking knee!

It cost about $470 at Costco, with two games (Perfect dark Zero and PGR car racing game, have not opened it). Also has two wireless controllers, recharge unit for controller and a 29gig hard disk. A LAN cord connects me to my network and the Internet. It could be used to play DVD movies.

Really like the wireless controller.

"How good is it?" Don't know how to compare it. I like it lots better than the PC, but I am playing it on a big screen, Sharp projector and full home theater sound system. Should outshine a 19" monitor!

I think it has something like three 3.2Gz processors. Don't flame me if I am off here. Don't feel like going online and finding specs right now.

I know it is VERY fast.

The wireless controller easily penetrates a wall and connects with the Xbox system in another room about 20 feet away. All I have in my home theater is the controller.

Controller took some getting used to, but is much more felixible than a keyboard and mouse.

munk · Jun 1, 2006

Alright; mark your door with the blood of one of those dead marmots and the revolution purge will spare you.

470 is too steep right now, but it'll go down.

We don't have any big screen.
Actually, we are quite primitive since my stereo quit.

My mom's going to get a new knee.

munk

Bill Marsh · Jun 1, 2006

munk said:
Alright; mark your door with the blood of one of those dead marmots and the revolution purge will spare you.

470 is too steep right now, but it'll go down.

We don't have any big screen.
Actually, we are quite primitive since my stereo quit.

My mom's going to get a new knee.

munk

munk,

I wish I still had a mom. I wish that I had great kids like you. I'd trade a hundred big screens and stereos for what you enjoy in your home life.

I have worked hard, given up too many friends, lost family connections and my children ---they are now in their late 30's and we just don't talk. Remember "Cats in the Cradle?" --- to be able to buy the things I can only now afford. But I have lost a lot of good people, hurts to admit it.

Trying to start anew, but it's not easy

you are a lucky guy.

munk · Jun 1, 2006

I've lost a lot of good people too, Bill, and that's why more than ever I judge not lest I be judged. Do onto others, etc etc.
I used to think of this forum as a place of redemption. Rusty felt Bill gave him a new lease on life- moderating the forum. Bill whispered to me, "Rusty says I saved his life." Bill was no holy man, but because he shrugged off coats, he was able at times to give real wisdom. Some people resent that. Wisdom comes from perfect people, does it?

When I sobered my best childhood friend and I lasted only a few years. I became conservative, he was liberal, and the arguments were heated. There was more to it than that, of course, but shortly after the birth of my first son, with us broke, my Wife unjustly and evily let go from her position, we headed out to Wyoming in a Dodge Ramcharger to start a new life. And my old bud wrote a letter and wrote us off. I'll never forget reading that letter and making that drive in the middle of the night after packing and cleaning and not sleeping for weeks- the new baby.

Then there are the deaths. Seems like whenever I find a true light on this planet it's not long for this world.

I'm very good at understanding, but not very good about rules, and I've a life of stepping over them and paying.

Seems like when I'm ready to quit, a little something always shows up, 'if you look at it right'. Nasty kept me from bailing in the early days after Rusty left.
Seems like a new light or two always manages to show up in time.

I don't know why that is. Frankly, I'm doing it all wrong, and those who've gone ahead know that, though of course they have their own wrongs to hold. I wonder about that sometimes; all my friends and relatives passed away and arguing about munk's latest move or bungle.

Course, they want you to head to the good stuff and lose the torment. I can torment about that, too.

There's a good Jerry Garcia line, (or is it Hunter's?) about fair weather friends, connections and love; 'Any bird that sings a song that sweet is surely passing by', and 'dry your eyes on the wind'.

I hate to say it, because people are everything, but if all else fails, the wind, land, rain and snow will take you in. The forest doesn't know if you're a important banker, a fool, or a movie star. Without the mountains and desert I wouldn't have made it this far. But without friends, well, without the lights along the path I'd be lost, or at least in bad humor.

munk