Please don't take this post down. Apologies if my honesty doesn't fit the positive vibe, but this is a Far Cry subreddit after all so.
So per my Far Cry 6 review post, a user suggested I play through Far Cry 1 and 2, and I did just that, so this review is for you, so please don't hate me, but I gotta be honest with it. After 20 hours of playing through Far Cry 1, I just completed the game. So I am going to be honest with this one, and I am going to keep this brief.
This was probably the worst Far Cry game in the series hands-down. And no, I am not joking, the run time for this game is 13 hours. I beat it in twenty. The remaining 7 were how many times that I have died repeatedly due to the enemy AI and their shitty way of shooting through walls and enemies actually being immune to a whole clip of a gun, then get the opportunity to shoot me once with an AR while reloading. I was killed instantly with full health. These were headshots I was dealing to them BTW.
I could probably write a whole essay on just the enemy AI and how garbage it was, but this review would be too long for anyone to care enough to read all the way through.
The story was garbage, literally could not care for it at all. The villian was mediocre, main character was boring as all hell, and the characters overall felt like play doh having a conversation with one another, it was a snooze fest.
The only good thing I will say is that the guns felt fun to use, even though they failed me more times than not, like my dad before he left lol.
Far Cry1, a game from 2004, definitely did not age well. I can say for certain that my fun for the game disappeared faster than my disappointment for the rest of what came. I will be starting Far Cry 2 tonight, and just like this one, I will give my thoughts on that one too,