{"id":86,"date":"2008-06-21T02:52:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T02:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/62\/"},"modified":"2016-08-24T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T20:09:44","slug":"62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/62\/","title":{"rendered":"Far Cry 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked the original Far Cry! Released in 2004 by German developer Crytek Studios, nobody had any idea what to expect. Far Cry offered some of the most amazing tropical visuals to ever grace my monitor. It also happened to be pretty darn fun running\/swimming\/driving\/asploding my way around tropical islands and camps of evil mercenaries and science experiments gone wrong.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-306\" src=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Far-Cry-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Far Cry\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Far-Cry.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Far-Cry-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Far-Cry-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>FAR CRY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crysis, released last year by Crytek, was supposed to be the Far Cry&#8217;s successor, and while it did raise the graphical bar into the stratosphere, gameplay wasn&#8217;t spectacularly innovated over Far Cry&#8217;s. Crysis is one of those games that will be around forever, considering even the mighty GTX280 can just barely run it at an acceptable framerate while at high resolutions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lJK-Uns31ho\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>CRYSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough, none of them share ANY storyline whatsoever. Far Cry 2 is being developed by Ubisoft, not Crytek. Far Cry 2 isn&#8217;t even using the same graphical engine! Also, unlike to the first two, Far Cry 2 should be completely open-world, a feature usually relegated to RPGs and Grand Theft Auto.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DMTDjKusVqY\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>FAR CRY 2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked the original Far Cry! Released in 2004 by German developer Crytek Studios, nobody had any idea what to expect. Far Cry offered some of the most amazing tropical visuals to ever grace my monitor. It also happened to be pretty darn fun running\/swimming\/driving\/asploding my way around tropical islands and camps of evil mercenaries &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/62\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Far Cry 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[91,130,131],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-crysis","tag-far-cry","tag-far-cry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}