Far Cry Instincts Predator | 
 enlarge | From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 4533
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Rating Pending
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 100730
Model: 52161
UPC: 827307931208
EAN: 0008888521617
ASIN: B000CQNWH0
Release Date: March 28, 2006
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| Features:
| • | The ultimate predator evolves - Become stronger, faster and more powerful than ever with new, enhanced feral abilities | | • | Destroy enemies with poisonous darts, Molotov cocktails and explosive pipe bombs | | • | Take control of powerful new vehicles like pirate sampan boats, armored technical pickup-trucks and heavy transport trucks | | • | Create custom maps to play and share on Xbox Live - backwards compatible with the original Far Cry - Instincts | | • | Updated and more customizable multiplayer - Includes the new Seek and Secure mode, as well as classic multiplayer modes like Chaos, Team Chaos, Steal the Sample and Predator |
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Product Description
Far Cry: Instincts - Evolution lets you become Jack Carver again. In this follow-up to the critically acclaimed firsttitle, Jack Carver thinks he's found paradise. When a gorgeous woman draws him in on a dangerous heist, their sun drenched days take a chilling turn. Hunted for a murder he didn't commit, Jack must draw on his most savage instincts to make his predators his prey.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 bla August 29, 2008
CONS: graphically not that impressive. achievements that aren't really that easy. half-life style vehicle driving, but worse. repetitive gameplay. shoot a helicopter a million times and it won't die unless the game agrees it's the helicopter's time to go. far too easy to get killed a million times by someone/something you can't even see. 2 steps to the left, the screen fills with red and you're dead instantly - why? what killed me? oh it was a sniper i can't even see in the dark, again, for the 29th time. better checkpoints could have helped that, but no luck, so you'll be repeating the same stupid thing over and over and over and over and over again. really no different than any other average shooter out there.
PROS: the disc spins in the tray. the game loads and works.
 Kills Any Fun It Creates December 12, 2007
There is much to like about this game, but it's all smashed to giblets by the things it does wrong.
The good things include a fun storyline, attractive (if sub par for next-gen) graphics, and cool animalistic powers.
Now, the bad.
I got my X360 about a year ago. This game was the first I bought. I have yet to finish it, because each time I've tried to play through, I've been utterly frustrated in short order and inspired to pick up something else.
Since I began Far Cry, I have completed Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3 (all several times, on normal and hard difficulties), Dark Watch, Gun, BioShock, Red Dead Revolver, Viva Pinata, Overlord, God of War, God of War 2, The Simpsons Game, Crackdown, Prey, Dead or Alive 2, 3, and 4, Guild Wars, Half Life 2 (my second time, on hard), Conan, Kameo, James Bond Nightfire, Tomb Raider Legend, and a fair amount of World of Warcraft.
My latest attempt at Far Cry just ended, and is likely my last.
I'm playing at normal difficulty (Hunter), but the game is too hard for several reasons:
First, there is no quick save feature and the game relies on automatic save points. That in itself isn't bad (the Halos use auto-saves to good effect, for example), but in Far Cry the saves are too far apart, and there's no way of predicting where the next one will be. So if you play a while, but need to stop soon, odds are you'll need to quit before hitting the next save, and may well lose all you've accomplished in that session. Also, all too frequently, I've spent a good deal of time getting through a treacherous area, only to have a moment of bad luck which kills me and puts me right back where I started, at the last save. I've lost up to a couple hours progress to this nonsense at times.
Next, the clunky controls all by themselves can create those moments of bad luck. Maybe you accidentally throw a grenade when trying to hold your breath for a tricky sniper shot. Maybe you inadvertently leap to your feet from a stealthy crawl, in plain site of the enemy, simply because you brushed up against a weird angle in the ground. Maybe you tried to use one of the various vehicles in the game, which have the sloppiest freaking controls I've ever used for vehicles in a game, and which are usually a sure ride to your death.
As noted by many reviews, the AI is unpredictable, often stupid and not very aware, but sometimes eagle-eyed and more aware of their surroundings than is humanly possible. You're left with no true sense of what you can and can't do in approaching and dealing with the enemies, or what tactics will be effective.
Worst of all, the game CHEATS. You're presented with an illusion of choice in where you go and how you approach challenges, but in fact you're very obviously herded along on rails, straight into forced confrontations in which you are funneled by the landscape into inescapable fights with the enemy. Sure, we're all used to that, and even the best of games often play that way. But in this game, you're in a jungle, on a large island, and to be stealing along through the leafy wood only to suddenly find that there's a wall of leaves to one side that looks no different than the growth you've been moving through, mirrored by a similar leafy wall a short distance to the other side, is really destructive to immersion, becoming bluntly frustrating as both invisible walls grow closer and closer, funneling you directly into your enemies.
And don't bother scouting out where the enemies are with the binoculars and sniper scope the game gives you, or making cool tactical plans on how to approach these dangerous situations, because you'll just get annoyed when the time and effort turns out to be pointless. This is the kind of game in which you can locate all the mercs in an encampment, kill them all, and then be attacked as you move through the camp by a fresh horde of them springing from absolutely nowhere. It's like looking in a closet as you search a room, finding it empty, then suddenly being attacked by five bad guys who leap out of the closet. It's ridiculous, and it makes your strategies and tactics completely moot and a waste of time.
I wish I could play through this game. I'm intrigued by the story, and I want to play more with the feral powers. But, alas, no; life is way too short.
Far Cry Instincts Predator could have been great, as I understand its PC predecessor to be. But the developers designed it to constantly kill any sense of fun the game might manage to create. Go to a game store and throw a rock in any direction and you'll probably hit a better game.
Blehh Get the Original FC for PC. July 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I must say that when i downloaded the demo for this game i was HIGHLY dissapointed, where are the beautiful water effects, the awesome folige, awesome sunny skys, and even realistic looking weapons. None of these things are to be found here, i could not believe this came out for something with one of the best ATI chipsets in the world runninng it, this looked more like a 800X600 resolution game for a PC with some old Nvidia X4000 card in it. My advice stay away from this one and get the original PC version and if your PC can handle it crank it up and see paradise.
On the fun side it was on par with the first but the AI was still pretty crappy. I think Far Cry Instincts on regular Xbox was much much better than this.
 Far Cry is a far cry... July 13, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is not as fun as I had expected it to be after playing the original Far Cry. The graphics and game controls are not as good, and there is absolutely no story line or originality. The title is not an accurate description of the game and the characters do not respond realistically. It is simply a follow on shoot'em up move to the next guy type of game. I still recommend playing it, but I would wait until the price comes down before buying it.
Pretend You Still Have the Old Xbox! June 23, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
When you purchased your 360, I'll bet one of your first thoughts was, "I wonder if they have any games that look like it's 2002 again." Well the answer is a resounding YES!
First there was "Far Cry." Then "Far Cry:Instincts." Then obviously there was the need for "Far Cry:Instincts:Predator." There is actually nothing wrong with that name that couldn't be fixed by changing it to "Far Cry:Yes This Really Is That Same Game From Before:No Really I'm Not Kidding."
Anyway, you played this game on your old Xbox, and THE GRAPHICS HAVE NOT CHANGED AT ALL. So you get to relive all that low-polygon goodness, not to mention sluggish and unresponsive control. I remember this game being a lot of fun on the original Xbox.
What else... Oh yeah, there's apparently TWO games on the disc, the original, and a new one which is very.... similar. (Apparently the games don't require, you know, all that much room on the disc.) They made sure to retain all the same awkward character animations and interminable cut scenes, because you don't mess with the what works.
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