Jack Carver is cursing the day he ever came to this island. A week ago Valerie, a brash newspaper reporter, offered him an incredible sum of cash to sail her to this unspoiled paradise; but shortly after docking he was greeted by artillery fire from a mysterious militia group swarming over the island. With his boat destroyed, his money gone, and Valerie suddenly missing, Jack now finds himself facing an army of mercenaries amidst the wilds of the island with nothing but a gun and his wits to help him survive. And the further he pushes into the lush jungle canopy, the stranger things become...
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This game is just perfection of its time. That was summer in May-June of 2004 year when I played this first time.
And that was insane feelings about it. Water and design are awesome for that time.
My favorite levels in this game are: training, steam, archive, cooler, swamp, river and carrier. This is a game of century 100%
Atmosphere is 10/10⭐ Because you can feel how gradually, from the initial level, it gracefully moves from heavenly friendly landscapes to more and more depressing and bewitching locations with super original own style.
First mission - paradise little island with camps and bases, the next one - very interesting carrier with great atmosphere where is a good music which is like a salt in a soup. And whole game was done in such way.
It's was incredible and awesome times of life when I met this game.
The ending of the game clearly hinted at a sequel....
Developers made this cult game the best game for me still. And I love CryTek for this. It was a genious idea for the cool game with such name, island thematics, genetic experiments and so on.....
Of course, in addition to praise, I would like to note the disadvantages of the game engine, but, to be objective, at that time, these disadvantages were not noticeable, as they are noticeable now, on modern hardware. But, minuses of the game and engine: unstable framerate, flaw in some systems, such as: sprites, reflections and buffering of render information, unfinished entity system, incorrect shadow render callback, static connection to many limits; in many places, updates were made hastily, which clog the engine’s memory; I won’t go into details - in general, there are such things which now can be fixed finally. Thanks to CryTek that they leaved ability to mod this game - They did everything as competently as possible.
Nothing else to say, just perfection of its time.
A nearly perfect tribute to both oldschool shooters and innovative ones, with excellently cheesy story and great atmosphere. And it's really long by today's standards, with beautiful, semi-open levels and variety of enemies and weapons.
It just can prove frustrating at some parts, especially near the end (10 fatmans and 30 mercs with rocket launchers, wtf!?), but it's definitely an unforgetable adventure.
Totally one of the best games ever made, a masterpiece of golden years of gaming :)