Far Cry Instincts

[Frezzato]

Far Cry 3 comes out soon, so I got nostalgic about Far Cry Instincts for the original Xbox. Super speed, super strength, and smell-o-vision! What a great game! So I started doing some research and only now, years after the first Far Cry for PC has been pretty much forgotten did I come to the mind-blowing conclusion that in the original Far Cry for PC, you don't have feral superpowers.

WHAT???

I may be wrong though. Maybe you do have freak powers in the PC original, but I've never played it. So imagine my surprise when I had to force myself to finish Far Cry 2, hoping it would have something, anything unusual in the game, but no. What a GRIND that game was. Checkpoints that repopulate five minutes after you clear them? What a terrible idea. How could you not want super powers?

So, was Far Cry Instincts just a fluke? Arguably, no. Eventually we got games like Bioshock, or werewolf abilities in Skyrim (and Morrowind as long as we're talking nostalgia).

I'm sure FC3 will be fine, but doesn't anybody remember Instincts? It was so over the top, not the 'Grinding Mercenary Simulator' that FC2 was. Wouldn't that be great to have something different in your FPS formula?

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

Instincts was alright, but I much preferred the original Far Cry. That game was ludicrously fun. The feral powers didn't really add much to Instincts to me, but they were fun enough to use, I guess.

 

[hazabaza1]

I think I played that on the Wii.
It was alright. Prefer FarCry1 though. Just a lot more polished it seemed.

 

[Frezzato]

Instincts was alright, but I much preferred the original Far Cry. That game was ludicrously fun. The feral powers didn't really add much to Instincts to me, but they were fun enough to use, I guess.

I think I played that on the Wii.
It was alright. Prefer FarCry1 though. Just a lot more polished it seemed.

Whoa, don't know how I missed these posts. I don't want to ruin what might be Far Cry 3 for you, but there's a trailer out there that hints at something...different.

So, I finally got my answer. Far Cry PC and Instincts are very different. It never even occurred to me to check if there were any fundamental changes, aside from the AI and the feral things. Thanks, you two.