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Far Cry is a first-person shooter computer gameA computer game is any sort of game that is played using a computer. General Although often associated, computer games are not necessarily video games although all but the earliest video games (such as Pong, which used dedicated analogue circuitry) are co developed by Crytek Studios and published by Ubisoft on March 23, 2004. Known for its striking environments, graphics, and draw-distances, the game raised the bar for first-person shooter graphics. It is the first so called Next Generation ShooterIn computing, a game engine is the core software component of a computer game. It typically handles rendering and other necessary technology, but might also handle additional tasks such as game AI, collision detection between game objects, etc. The most c to be released, preceding the releases of DOOM 3DOOM 3 is a first person shooter computer game developed by id Software and published by Activision. The version for the PC ( Windows and Linux) has been released, a Mac version will follow and a version for Xbox (developed by Vicarious Visions) may be re and Half-Life 2Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter computer game and the highly anticipated sequel to Half-Life developed by Valve Software. It received mainstream media attention when the game's source code was leaked to the Internet in September 2003. Valve sent a r. Far Cry is also sometimes lauded for its artificial intelligence. The story follows an ex-Special Forces man named Jack Carver who is stranded on a mysterious Pacific archipelago, who is searching for a female journalist he was escorting after she went missing when their sailboat was destroyed by mercenaries.

Crytek developed a new game engine called the "CryENGINE" for Far Cry. Reportedly, the game was born out of a technology demonstration made by Crytek to showcase the capabilities of the then newly released GeForce 3.

On April 7, 2004, CryTek announced Far Cry: Instincts for video game console systems.

A month before its release, a former CryTek employee told the German criminal police (Kripo) that the studio was using unlicensed copies of Maya and 3D Studio Max for developing Far Cry. CryTek denied that anyone had been arrested, but admitted that the police had raided their offices. If CryTek did perform such actions, UbiSoft were not legally responsible for CryTek's actions. A senior staffer at Ubisoft's Paris, headquarters was quoted as saying, "What we've read in published reports is that Crytek had not paid for the sufficient number of licenses."