When Crytek revealed that a remastered version of the original Crysis would hit all platforms last year, including the lowly Nintendo Switch, people were equally enthusiastic and.
The video game landscape is filled with long-running first-person shooter franchises, from the incredibly popular Call of Duty and Halo, to Doom and Battlefield. But few have left an indelible mark on the industry quite like Far Cry.
From what began life as a tech demo, the series has endured for over 16 years, producing 14 games (including Far Cry 6) that have sold over 50 million copies and spawned an utterly atrocious movie.
This is the story of Far Cry.
Origins
Way back at the 1999 E3 conference, Crytek was a newly founded German gaming company, showing off a tech demo called X-Isle: Dinosaur Island that demonstrated the capabilities of the CryEngine. Aimed at Nvidia s hardware, the graphics card maker was so impressed by what it saw that a deal was made to distribute X-Isle alongside its cards as benchmarking software.
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