Far Cry Wii

[Gadfly2317]

Do NOT buy this game.

I had not seen ANY reviews out there, which is always a bad sign, but I really wanted to see what a FPS could be like on the Wii. The controls are actually fairly decent, but this is so damned ugly its WORSE than a GC title. And I mean that literally. I have no idea why. . . I am not exagerating when I say the GC launch PORT of Time Splitters II looks way way way better than Far Cry Wii.

I know we "kitties" are not the graphics whore crowd, but this is unforgiveable, especially since the Wii is clearly capable of better than this.

I'll talk about the gameplay more later, but no matter how great the gameplay, for a game in this genre that sports no online to ALSO be UGLY UGLY UGLY like N64 ugly is SCREWED!!!!!!

I think Ubisoft was just cashing in by being first with its so called "launch support."

[Cuddly Knife]

Some choice quotes from the IGN review:

But just as Far Cry initially set a new graphic high on PC, so does it set a new graphic low on Wii, with visuals so blurry, smeary, sluggish and ugly that you'll question whether the title could realistically run on Nintendo 64.

But how much fun you ultimately have with the game will be directly related to how forgiving you are of its many technical and content related inadequacies. Easily the biggest offender is the visual presentation, which we only touched upon earlier in the review. The awful graphics unfortunately do not stop with the cut sequences. Upon booting Vengeance, one truth becomes immediately visible: this game was rushed. Wii is theoretically more powerful than Xbox, but it doesn't have the pixel shading benefits of Microsoft's first generation hardware. Despite the fact that it has released more than a year after Instincts, Vengeance doesn't even look half as good -- and we're not exaggerating.

Other Far Cry staples, including a robust multiplayer mode and a map editor, have both been sacrificed, if not slashed completely from the Wii version. Vengeance features only a two-player split-screen mode that is as fundamentally flawed as the single-player experience. And the map editor - an option that would have helped extend replay value, just as it has for Konami's Elebits - is altogether gone. Shame, as WiiConnect24 is practically designed for such an addition.

Ubisoft is a very talented development studio – one of the best in the world. Far Cry Vengeance does not represent even half of the company's potential. I can only imagine that the franchise's originator, Crytek Studios, is looking at this port and laughing… or maybe crying.

If you want an action-filled FPS, get Call of Duty 3. And if you just want something pretty to look at, you're better off with Red Steel.
4.0

Ouch.