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Far Cry Preview

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2004-02-23 00:00:00.0


GameSpy has shot-up a preview on the multiplayer portion of Crytek Studios' upcoming first person shooter, Far Cry. Here's a taste:

With the game's outdoor setting and deliberate pace, the powerful sniper rifle quickly became our worst enemy. While most of Far Cry's automatic weapons have some form of zoom (think Battlefield 1942's or Call of Duty's iron sights), the sniper rifle has four zoom settings from 3x-18x allowing would-be snipers to see most of the level at once. As a result, most of our automatic weapons weren't that useful, because our enemies usually weren't foolish enough to get caught out in the open. The level turned into a bit of hide-and-seek, with teams trying to control the areas with the sniper rifles, or at least stay off the rope bridges or other spots that all-too-often made for easy sniper kills. However, sniping isn't exactly easy: the more you zoom in, the more your breathing causes the scope to move around, and it's a skill that takes some time to get the hang of.


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