Far Cry Vengeance Review by Eurogamer

This is an excerpt from the Review of the Nintendo Wii Game Far Cry Vengeance by Eurogamer

The Wii has one great FPS game to its name; unfortunately, that game is spread out over three distinctly disappointing titles. Combine the look and feel (and swordplay) of Red Steel, with the atmosphere, superb presentation and wonderful level design of Call of Duty 3, and pull it all together with the perfectly honed control system of Far Cry: Vengeance, and you’d have an amazing game. Right now, though, this is a mess. It’s terribly badly presented and utterly lacking in the areas which make the Far Cry franchise great - but through all of that shines a genuinely good, easy to learn and downright fun control scheme.

In deciding on a final mark for Far Cry, it would be easy to weigh up all the things which the game gets wrong and decide that they balance out harshly. However, it’s impossible to escape the fact that playing the game was actually quite compelling, in a sense; at no point was it an unpleasant game to play, it’s merely completely retrograde in several key areas and lacking any sense of presentation or style. It’s an ugly game, but one which, crucially, works as a game at its most basic level - which, to my mind, weighs heavily against the problems it has in most other areas. Be warned, though, that the just-about-average score is not even a particularly cautious recommendation - rather it is a tip of the hat to the key things that Far Cry does right, and a note of hope that better made games in future will learn from its successes rather than falling foul of its failures.

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don’t even bother renting this game, trust me.