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Day 4: Remember when the Far Cry series was a joke? I do. I remember that Uwe Boll made a terrible film based off it too. Vengeance is far too appropriate a word to describe what I want to seek upon this game. So without further ado...I present....Far Cry: Before it was good...I mean Vengeance.

Okay so this game is essentially a port/remake of Far Cry Instincts: Evolution for the Xbox which sits at a 78/100 on metacritic. That isn't bad. So, how is that a remake/port of that receives a 38/100 on the same website? I mean that is a 40 point differential. What got lost in translation? Well let's take a look at the plot. Keep in mind this is a remake so the plot doesn't really follow the original.

PLOT:

The game begins with Carver, the protagonist, in a bar, when a woman named Kade asks him to meet her later. He agrees, but is arrested before he can meet her. While in prison, he learns that Kade is working with a group of rebels. He soon escapes while a man with supernatural speed named Semeru attacks the police station. Carver eventually meets Kade on the beach.

She takes him to an island where the rebels asked Kade to perform a gun run. In the middle of this mission, the rebels turn on her and Carver. They escape from the rebels, and much of the time after that is spent attacking the rebels.

Later, Kade is captured by Semeru, who plans to take her back to the rebel base. Carver tries to stop him, but is stopped by a large number of rebels. He flees through the forest, and meets a man named Kien Do, who asks for Carver’s help against the rebels. He agrees.

After several battles with the rebels, Kien Do is captured by rebel forces. Carver pursues them to the main rebel base, where he finds Kien Do at the foot of the mountain the base sits on, dead and bloodied. Carver climbs the mountain, battling rebel soldiers along the way. When he reaches the base, he finds Semeru and Kade, who Carver finds out is working with Semeru. Carver manages to defeat Semeru, and then Kade...You can get two endings. If you fight Kade and kill her you get the bad ending...if you don't kill her you get the good ending. However, both are bad anyways.

Now the plot would be kind of interesting if the fmv's weren't overly compressed and the voice acting laughable. I mean we're talking golden dialogue. Stuff like "You look like a woman I'd like to handle." and "I'm not your pal you bastard guy!"

Now for another complaint. The graphics are substandard. I mean let's take the gamecube, which was generally up to snuff in terms of graphical abilities as the Xbox and the PS2. So why in the hell is a remake of a similar title worse in comparison? It baffles my mind. Though I will say it's probably because this was one of the many substandard launch title the Wii received.

Amaze at your jungle surroundings as you look at the grass and trees pop in! Meanwhile below...the much better Instincts: Evolution....Clearly a difference in quality.

 

The Enemy A.I. is also ridiculously unintelligent and broken. Often at times you will sneak up behind an enemy who won't notice you even from a foot away. You can throw rocks at them, punch them, shoot them...they don't even react. You'll feel like a bully thinking to yourself "Hey stupid ass!"

The graceful predator hunts his incredibly oblivious prey. He laughs out loud in glee as even when pelting him with rocks the prey doesn't detect him.

Now even though the Wii version adds three new maps and guns it leaves out another aspect. No online play and a watered down multiplayer. The popular map maker mode is absent from the Wii version of the game, and no WiiConnect24 features are utilized. This is highly unacceptable of a game that featured these on a previous generation Xbox console.

Now despite this game having every flaw imaginable...the actual controls....work. It's actually a pretty fun shooter and the Wii controls feel great. You'll be driving like a maniac through the jungles, and roaring along in feral mode, swatting enemies like you're hitting a home run...and it's actually fun....so even though the rest of the game stinks something awful...there is a small bit of treasure at the end of the pile of crap. And usually I complain about controls.

Score: 3/10 because of responsive controls....not much else though...

You know surprisingly I didn't hate this game as much. Like I said it had responsive controls and it's playable. It's not a good game by any means though...trust me on this.

Well since I obviously had something positive to end on, what possible negative trash can I give myself to wash that small victory away?

Yeah...that's more like it.