History VideoGame / FarCry1

** The console spinoffs are the more immediate example: on top of ''being'' [[ReformulatedGame spinoffs designed specifically for consoles]] (from ''2'' onward the main games came in the same form on both consoles and PC, and spinoffs have A) mainly been in the realm of standalone DLC, and B) massively different from their parent games, e.g. the '80s fever dream of ''[[VideoGame/FarCry3BloodDragon Blood Dragon]]'' and the prehistoric adventures of ''[[VideoGame/FarCryPrimal Primal]]''), they actually follow on from or are retellings of the original game's story. Later games in the greater ''Far Cry'' series have not had any concrete story links, at best sharing a few secondary characters (particularly in ''VideoGame/FarCry4'', which features a gun runner heavily implied to be one of the feuding warlords from ''[[VideoGame/FarCry2 2]]'', CIA agent Willis Huntley from ''[[VideoGame/FarCry3 3]]''... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Hurk]]). The ending of ''Far Cry 5'' seems to pretty conclusively rule out any more sequels set in the same universe, unless they're set in the past or far future.
** The original PC game is the more lasting example, as later games in the series have been [[ThematicSeries sequels in theme]], with one of those themes being man's descent into savagery. Even the console versions of the first game did this, though they took it [[HalfHumanHybrid much more literally]]. It also had several gameplay differences, such as your movement speed being determined by your currently-equipped weapon (later games would focus more on the SprintMeter for your maximum movement speed, with games after ''2'' even removing the limit and letting you sprint forever), and while it had the [[LimitedLoadout four-slot inventory system]] all the later games kept up, it didn't give any [[WeaponOfChoice special consideration]] for the series' now-iconic {{machete|Mayhem}} - whereas ''2'' dedicated the first slot solely to it, and ''3'' onwards shifted to always having it on hand for QuickMelee, this game allowed you to drop the machete whenever you wanted - and, in fact, it's not even the first weapon you get: that honor goes to the Desert Eagle, itself another perennial fixture of the ''Far Cry'' arsenal, but not famously so because it's a perennial fixture of video game arsenals in general.

There was also TheMovie ''Film/FarCry'' made by... Uwe Boll. Most notable in that Stuttering Craig and Handsome Tom of ''Website/ScrewAttack'' are in it (though not in the main, cut feature).

* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Jack wasn't exactly dressed for jungle combat when the mercenaries blew up his boat, so he's stuck trekking across the islands in a red Hawaiian shirt that makes him extremely easy to identify. He's able to partly cover it with a black bulletproof vest before the fighting starts, but some enemies still recognize him as "You! In the shirt!" This is only in the original game, as Jack wears a plain red shirt in ''Instincts'' and ''Evolution''.

* HarderThanHard: Realistic difficulty. Made easier if you know how to take cover and dodge shots efficiently, and know the enemy locations, but good luck if you can't find any armor... the last levels are straight up NintendoHard.]

* DarkerAndEdgier: The ''Instincts'' storyline is noticeably darker than the original ''Far Cry'', with all the characters generally being much bigger jerks.

* HarderThanHard: Realistic difficulty. Made easier if you know how to take cover and dodge shots efficiently, and know the enemy locations, but good luck if you can't find any armor... the last levels are straight up NintendoHard.

* BadBoss: In ''Instincts'', Crowe releases the mutants all over the islands, causing his own men to be overrun. Not to be outdone, Krieger sends in his personal [[EliteMooks elite troops]] to kill ''everybody'' to clean up Crowe's mess.

** The console spinoffs are the more immediate example: on top of ''being'' [[ReformulatedGame spinoffs designed specifically for consoles]] (from ''2'' onward the main games came in the same form on both consoles and PC, and spinoffs have A) mainly been in the realm of standalone DLC, and B) massively different from their parent games, e.g. the '80s fever dream of ''[[VideoGame/FarCry3BloodDragon Blood Dragon]]'' and the prehistoric adventures of ''[[VideoGame/FarCryPrimal Primal]]''), they actually follow on from or are retellings of the original game's story. Later games in the greater ''Far Cry'' series have not had any concrete story links, at best sharing a few secondary characters (particularly in ''VideoGame/FarCry4'', which features a gun runner heavily implied to be one of the feuding warlords from ''[[VideoGame/FarCry2 2]]'', CIA agent Willis Huntley from ''[[VideoGame/FarCry3 3]]''... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Hurk]]).

* BorderPatrol: If Jack tries to leave the islands at anytime, he gets blown out of the water by Kriger's helicopters.

* ClosedCircle: For the first half of the game its just you, a voice on the radio and a massive island chain filled with about a thousand different things that want you dead. Having your boat blown up and ending up stranded in a [[MadScientist Mad Scientist's]] personal playground will do that to you.
* CollapsingLair: See above.

** ''Instincts'' has a ''four''-way fight between Jack, Crowe's Mercs, the Mutants, and Kriger's personal [[EliteMooks elite troopers]] who he sends in to kill all of the above.

The original ''VideoGame/FarCry'' is a PC game that was perhaps the first of the "next-gen" first-person shooter games from around 2004, exemplified by the likes of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2, Videogame/{{Doom}} 3'', and ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R]]''. It was released a few months before ''Doom 3'' and ''Half-Life 2'' by the then-unknown developers Crytek, for whom it was their debut title. The game was critically acclaimed for what was at the time truly mind-blowing graphics, wide-open open-ended levels set in lush tropical jungle islands, and advanced enemy A.I.

The original ''VideoGame/FarCry'' is a PC game that was perhaps the first of the "next-gen" first-person shooter games exemplified by the likes of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2, Videogame/{{Doom}} 3'', and ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R]]''. It was released a few months before ''Doom 3'' and ''Half-Life 2'' by the then-unknown developers Crytek, for whom it was their debut title. The game was critically acclaimed for what was at the time truly mind-blowing graphics, wide-open open-ended levels set in lush tropical jungle islands, and advanced enemy A.I.

A console port of the PC version, entitled ''Far Cry Classic'', was released in February 2014, 10 years after the release of the original game. It features updated weapon models (though somewhat inferior texturing and the removal of almost all in-game physics) as well as a number of gameplay updates to bring the game in line with modern shooters, such as the inclusion of a dedicated melee attack and the replacement of the zoom-in mode with iron sight aim. The gameplay balance is also more arcade-like compared to the infamously unforgiving PC version.

** Played straight in the console version ''Far Cry Instincts'', where guns are referred to generically such as "Handgun" (alternately a Desert Eagle or a Beretta 92), "Carbine" (a tricked-out M4), etc. The "Assault Rifle" in particular is actually [[http://www.imfdb.org/images/a/a8/46322213.jpg a bizarre mashup of several different weapons]] designed to somewhat resemble an M4 of some variety.
* TheAllSeeingAI: The ability to avoid detection by hiding behind thick foliage was a much-touted feature. Nevertheless, a bug in the last official patch in the game broke this, so generally anything that you can shoot through is something that the AI can see you through (mods have been made to fix the AI so they can't see you through things they shouldn't). This is not present in ''Far Cry Classic'', which uses the detection system from ''Far Cry 3''.

** The original PC game is the more lasting example, as later games in the series have been [[ThematicSeries sequels in theme]], with one of those themes being man's descent into savagery. Even the console versions of the first game did this, though they took it [[HalfHumanHybrid much more literally]]. It also had several gameplay differences, such as your movement speed being determined by your currently-equipped weapon, and while it had the four-slot inventory system all the later games kept up, it didn't give any special consideration for the series' now-iconic {{machete|Mayhem}} - whereas ''2'' dedicated the first slot solely to it, and ''3'' onwards shifted to always having it on hand for QuickMelee, this game allowed you to drop the machete whenever you wanted - and, in fact, it's not even the first weapon you get (that honor going to the Desert Eagle, itself another perennial fixture of the ''Far Cry'' arsenal, but not famously so because it's a perennial fixture of video game arsenals in general).

** The original PC version zig-zags this. About half of the weapons avert this, with things like the [=MP5=], P90, OICW and Jackhammer going by their real names. Some of the rest go for generic names, like the "Sniper Rifle" (a hybrid of various Arctic Warfare models), the "Machine Gun" (an M249 SAW), and the "Rocket Launcher" (a vaguely-fictional design based on the M202; the ''Classic'' HD rerelease renames it to the "RLX-9157", after text that was visible on the original game's model). Most of the last few go for ''almost'' correct names - the "[=AG36=]" is named after the grenade launcher, rather than the G36 rifle it's attached to, the "M4" in the original version is actually the older but similar Colt Model 727, and ''Classic''[='=]s "[=MP5SD=]" is actually a regular [=MP5=] with an attached suppressor. The only real weapon with a straight-up fake name is the Mark XIX Desert Eagle, which is the "Falcon .357" in the original game and the "Jungle Falcon" in ''Classic''.

* TheAllSeeingAI: The ability to avoid detection by hiding behind thick foliage was a much-touted feature, but other than that (and even including it, depending on just how thick it is), generally anything that you can shoot through is something that the AI can see you through. This is not present in ''Far Cry Classic'', which uses the detection system from ''Far Cry 3''.
** This was due to a bug introduced in the latest patch of Far Cry 1 that was never fixed for whatever reason. Mods have been made to fix the AI so they won't see through anything that can merely be shot through.

* ArmorIsUseless: Massively averted, especially on the PC version. There it's pretty much the key to survival, especially on the harder difficulty settings where armor can take several hits, but one or two bullets will outright kill you if you don't have any armor left. Also, the hard armor breastplates worn by enemy soldiers actually ''completely deflect bullet hits'', but only protects their upper torso (leaving everything from the stomach down vulnerable). The P90 even remains a viable weapon despite being introduced ''after'' something with better range and firepower because, true to reality, it penetrates armor better.

** The console spinoffs are the more immediate example: on top of ''being'' [[ReformulatedGame spinoffs designed specifically for consoles]] (from ''2'' onward the main games came in the same form on both consoles and PC, and spinoffs like ''[[VideoGame/FarCry3BloodDragon Blood Dragon]]'' have mainly been in the realm of standalone DLC), they actually follow on from or are retellings of the original game's story. Later games in the greater ''Far Cry'' series have not had any concrete story links, at best sharing a few secondary characters (particularly in ''VideoGame/FarCry4'', which features a gun runner heavily implied to be one of the feuding warlords from ''[[VideoGame/FarCry2 2]]'', CIA agent Willis Huntley from ''[[VideoGame/FarCry3 3]]''... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Hurk]]).
** The original PC game is the more lasting example, as later games in the series have been [[ThematicSeries sequels in theme]], with one of those themes being man's descent into savagery. Even the console versions of the first game did this, though they took it [[HalfHumanHybrid much more literally]]. It also had several gameplay differences, such as your movement speed being determined by your currently-equipped weapon, and while it had the four-slot inventory system all the later games kept up, it didn't give any special consideration for the series' now-iconic {{machete|Mayhem}} - whereas ''2'' dedicated the first slot solely to it, and ''3'' onwards shifted to always having it on hand for QuickMelee, this game allowed you to drop the machete whenever you wanted, and in fact you don't even ''get'' one until the third level.

** The original PC version zig-zags this. About half of the weapons avert this, with things like the [=MP5=], P90, OICW and Jackhammer going by their real names. Some of the rest go for generic names, like the "Sniper Rifle" (a hybrid of various Arctic Warfare models), the "Machine Gun" (an M249 SAW), and the "Rocket Launcher" (a vaguely-fictional design based on the M202; the ''Classic'' HD rerelease renames it to the "RLX-9157", after text that was visible on the original game's model). Most of the last few go for ''almost'' correct names - the "[=AG36=]" is named after the grenade launcher, rather than the G36 rifle it's attached to, the "M4" in the original version is actually the older but similar Colt Model 727, and ''Classic''[='=]s "[=MP5SD=]" isn't actually an integrally-suppressed version of the [=MP5=]. The only real weapon with a straight-up fake name is the Mark XIX Desert Eagle, which is the "Falcon .357" in the original game and the "Jungle Falcon" in ''Classic''.

* TheAllSeeingAI: Enemies in the original game cannot "see" any two-dimensional object in the game world, including most ground-level foliage. They can also see straight through tents. This is not present in ''Far Cry Classic'', which uses the detection system from ''Far Cry 3''.

** The original PC game is the more lasting example, as later games in the series have been [[ThematicSeries sequels in theme]], with one of those themes being man's descent into savagery. Even the console versions of the first game did this, though they took it [[HalfHumanHybrid much more literally]].

* MookChatter: The mike in the binoculars lets you listen in on all sorts of talks between the mooks, some of which are actually pretty clever.

** The console spinoffs are the more immediate example: they actually follow on from or are retellings of the original game's story. Later games in the greater ''Far Cry'' series have not had any concrete story links, at best sharing a few secondary characters (particularly in ''VideoGame/FarCry4'', which features secondary characters such as a gun runner heavily implied to be one of the feuding warlords from ''[[VideoGame/FarCry2 2]]'' and CIA agent Willis Huntley from ''[[VideoGame/FarCry3 3]]'').
** The original PC game is the more lasting example, as later games in the series have been [[ThematicSeries sequels in theme]], with one of thosee themes being man's descent into savagery. Even the console versions of the first game did this, though they took it [[HalfHumanHybrid much more literally]].

* RareGuns: The Pancor Jackhammer and OICW appear as quite common standard weapons, the Jackhammer as the game's default shotgun, and the OICW as the weapon of choice for the game's EliteMooks.

* UpdatedReRelease: ''Far Cry Classic'' is the original PC version of ''Far Cry'' finally ported to consoles after 10 years, with significant tweaks to the gameplay and presentation to make it more console-friendly as well as in line with modern FPS games. This includes the addition of a dedicated melee attack, the ability to aim down sights, a more modernized sprint function, and more forgiving difficulty by significantly decreasing enemy health, damage output, aim, and awareness. Unfortunately it is also weaker graphically, removes almost all in-game physics, and the added iron sights do not duplicate the zoom of the original weapons, making long-range combat with the M4 much harder.

There was also TheMovie ''Film/FarCry'' made by... Uwe Boll. Most notable in that Stuttering Craig and Handsome Tom of ''Website/ScrewAttack'' are in it (Though not in the main, cut feature).

** The original PC version zig-zags this. About half of the weapons avert this, with things like the [=MP5=], P90, OICW and Jackhammer going by their real names. Some of the rest go for generic names, like the "Sniper Rifle" (a hybrid of various Arctic Warfare models), the "Machine Gun" (an M249 SAW), and the "Rocket Launcher" (a vaguely-fictional design based on the M202; the ''Classic'' HD rerelease renames it to the "RLX-9157", after text that was visible on the original game's model). Most of the last few go for ''almost'' correct names - the "[=AG36=]" is named after the grenade launcher, rather than the G36 rifle it's attached to, and the "M4" is actually the older but similar Colt Model 727. The only straight-up fake name is the "Falcon 357", a Mark XIX Desert Eagle.

* ArmorIsUseless: Massively averted, especially on the PC version. There it's pretty much the key to survival, especially on the harder difficulty settings where armor can take several hits, but one or two bullets will outright kill you if you don't have any armor left. Also, the hard armor breastplates worn by enemy soldiers actually ''completely deflect bullet hits'', but only protects their upper torso (leaving everything from the stomach down vulnerable).
* ArtificialStupidity: The Feral Warriors in ''Evolution'' will occasionally overshoot their super-jumps and end up flying off cliffs Wile.E Coyote-style.

* EnemyScan: One function of the binoculars is the ability to tag enemies so they appear on your radar.

** The original PC version zig-zags this. About half of the weapons avert this, with things like the [=MP5=], P90, OICW and Jackhammer going by their real names. Some of the rest go for generic names, like the "Sniper Rifle" (a hybrid of various Arctic Warfare models), the "Machine Gun" (an M249 SAW), and the "Rocket Launcher" (a vaguely-fictional design based on the M202; interestingly, the ''Classic'' HD rerelease renames it to the "RLX-9157", after text that was visible on the original game's model). Most of the last few go for ''almost'' correct names - the G36 combined with an AG36 grenade launcher is named after the launcher rather than the rifle, and the Colt Model 727 is referred to as the newer M4. The only straight-up fake name in the original release is the "Falcon 357", a Markk XIX Desert Eagle.
** Played straight in the console version ''Far Cry Instincts'', where guns are referred to generically as "Handgun", "Assault Rifle", "Carbine", etc. The assault rifle in particular is actually [[http://www.imfdb.org/images/a/a8/46322213.jpg a bizarre mashup of several different weapons]].

* MadScientist: Krieger. {{Lampshaded}} by copies of ''Evil Science'' magazine found here and there throughout the game.

** Jack vs. Mercs vs. Trigens. Mercs vs. Soldier Trigen fights are pretty static, though, since AI [=NPCs=] do dramatically reduced damage to other AI [=NPCs=], so if you just hide and wait for them to kill each other you'll be waiting a LONG time.

* NoGearLevel: One of the final levels has Dr. Krieger taking away all your guns and dropping you into a jungle full of battling Trigens and mercenaries.
** He does give you ONE weapon. An assault rifle with ten rounds in it, just enough to kill the first trigen you see. After that, it is a NoGearLevel.

* AKA47: Mostly averted, although the desert eagle is referred to as the "jungle falcon". Played straight in the console version, where guns are referred to generically as "pistol", "assault rifle", "carbine", etc. Also, on the console versions the primary assault rifle is not a real-world gun, but rather a mash-up of several different weapons.

* ArmorIsUseless: Massively averted, especially on the PC version. There it's pretty much the key to survival, especially on the harder difficulty settings where armor can take several hits, but one or two bullets will outright kill you if you don't have any armor left. Also, the hard armor breastplates worn by enemy soldiers actually ''completely deflects bullet hits'', but only protects their upper torso (leaving everything from the stomach down vulnerable).

The game's popularity spawned a console version, ''Far Cry: Instincts'', which was made by Ubisoft instead of Crytek and had the same characters and basic plot premise, but markedly different gameplay, levels, and story. Besides simplified A.I. and graphics and more console-style gameplay, ''Far Cry: Instincts'' also gave the player character access to special mutant "feral powers" which included regenerating health, super-speed, super-jumps, and super-melee attacks. ''Far Cry Instincts: Evolution'' was the sequel to the console version, and switched from fighting mercenaries and mutants in a fictional series of tropical islands to fighting pirates and feral warriors in Indonesia. The story for ''Evolution'' has Jack being lured into a gunrunning scheme by half-native FemmeFatale Kade, which ultimately leads to him battling pirates and government soldiers while being hunted by Westerner-hating native warrior Semeru and his tribe of feral warriors, who all possess the same feral powers as Jack.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: In ''Far Cry'', Crowe the mercenary leader is a bit tougher than his men (partially because he has a bit more health, but mostly because he has an [[{{BFG}} M249]]), and Krieger himself [[spoiler: mutates into a ClimaxBoss supermutant]]. In ''Far Cry: Instincts'', Crowe [[spoiler: outright mutates himself to a similar degree as your own character, becoming the final boss]]. Likewise, in ''Far Cry Instincts: Vengeance'', both the Commando Leader and BigBad Semeru put up a much bigger fight than their standard {{Mooks}}.