Absolutely, I am really upset that people never mention the map maker either, that thing was really damn good for time, it was leagues ahead of the Timesplitters one even though that was also great for the time.
The one thing thats terrible is the gun functionality and enemy AI. But only reason to play this game is the animal predator mode. That one is super fun. And one reason why i cant stand Far Cry after this because its all about dumbass commentary on social politics. Whats wrong with just running around in the jungle or places as a animal human predator thingy, sneaking or assault mode type of gameplay? Thats what matters to me is the fun gameplay elements, a mix of stealth and action. Thats why i love the first game (But yeah the gun gameplay is very bad). Thats probably why lot of people just turned it off before they got to the fun part!
No, it's sort of the other way around The reason Far Cry is spelled like this is because it was made by Crytek and is the same reason their engine is called CryEngine. Their studio name predates Far Cry.
@@qlum ‘the reason Far Cry is spelled like this’ what are you on about? You realize it’s spelled correctly and that ‘far cry’ has a meaning outside of the game series, right? It’s not a made up or original name, at all.
Far cry Instincts predator had a pretty thriving multiplayer community back in the day with the custom map maker editor. Alot of creative maps, game modes and activities (obstacle course maps were fun!) were created from that tool in game. Holds a special place in my heart.
People still play. Some others as well as I still make maps, and almost every night there's a game going. I played Instincts and Evolution since the OG Xbox, been making maps since. Love this game 😍
I remember legitimatley liking instincts on the original xbox. Never got the chance to complete after my younger brother deleted my save file after we got into a fight.
If you liked it then, its all that really matters :) Im sure there are many of my childhood games i would find mediocre now, but the memories will always be good.
@@noelienoelie8425 Pretty sure I called him fat or something, we were like 8 and 10 at the time so I wasnt entirely innocent lol, better that than him breaking like 2 og xbox controllers after beating him in that godzilla fighting game
If I'm being honest, I honestly liked the more serious tone in Farcry Instincts. The voice acting was really good and I enjoyed the dialogue quite a bit. I enjoyed Carvers dispassionate sarcasm and I liked how they portrayed the story in general here better then the original. I also loved how they maintained the 1st person perspective in cutscenes. While the controls could have been a little better, it was always immense fun to run after someone at full super speed sprint while following their scent trail and just absolutely obliterate them with your claws. As well, the stealth wasn't half bad...if not broken sometimes and it at least gave you different options in some sections. The canyon level is a personal favorite of mine.
Yeees! I completely agree 100%. That hand-glider section was so much fun, and the cool radio broadcast about Dinosaurs at the beginning is so cool too. I love the Far Cry games but hadn't played this one until I beat it's campaign the other day for the first time. I genuinely loved the story a lot, and I think Jack's voice actor for Instincts is way better than that Peter guy from Classic. Its cut scenes help keep the F in F.P.S.👌♥️🎮
@@Gruntvc I think Blood Dragon worked because of how it wasn't too long. If it got a sequel, the level of cheese and camp would stop being endearing and would turn annoying.
I don't believe you mentioned anything about the map editor or multiplayer, they were definitely the highlight of this series! Nothing was more awesome then playing the predator game mode on custom maps made by the community and myself on Xbox live. The sense of exploring new jungles, caves, islands and labyrinths plus the dread of being stalked by the predator in these unknown locations, created one of the most memorable and enjoyable gaming experiences I've ever had!
Dude, I remember creating a bunch of obstacle course maps for FC Instincts Predator, one of which was called TheThing. The multiplayer was some of the best at the time imo, especially that creepy predator mode where you could hear your heartbeat if the predator was close.
There's no reason for having to play it There were better FPS on the Wii, you had the mainline Modern Warfare titles, Black Ops, The Conduit and Goldeneye
@@JulianBo188 Actually, most of those came several years *after* Far cry Vengeance....Still, all of the games you listed definitely blow Far Cry Vengeance out of the water in terms of quality.
I miss the predators, I wish newer far cry games stuck with that concept. It’s gotten to the point where far cry is a far cry to what far cry used to be... if that makes sense
One critical aspect that was overlooked: "The Most Dangerous Game" influences. Addtionally the theme of man versus nature and the subtle questioning of what it means to be human (Are we really better than the "brutal" survivalist nature of animals when we ourselves succumb to nonessential desires of wealth, status, and power?) really set the re-envisioned game apart from the original.
Farcry Instincts holds many of my favorite multiplayer memories. I remember having a blast making custom maps that my friends and I would play in my parent's basement, on dad's newly acquired Sony Bravia 1080p 55''. I would design the maps with my friend's playstyles in mind and make traps for them, like putting a vehicle in a particular spot hoping my speed-loving friend would pick it up and run it off the cliff I conveniently hid nearby. My best memory is from when we played one of my extremely unbalanced maps. Two of my friends and I decided to cooperate to kill my one friend, who was abusing the imbalance to the fullest by camping in the sniper tower. We ended up climbing the ladder at the same time when my camping friend accidentally fell down, landing on the guy furtherest up the ladder, who then fell down creating a chain reaction resulting in all of us falling down to die. We were so shocked as all of us assumed there wouldn't be any collision. We literally rolled on the floor laughing for at least 10 minutes, and every time we were on the brink of collecting ourselves, my friend with the most contagious laugh would break out in laughter, again and again. I don't remember exactly but I think the guy in the tower actually won because of that as well, since he got the kills he needed before he hit the ground. Or maybe the time just ran out. I can't remember honestly Anyways, awesome times!
I met Stephen Dorf @ Guitar Center in Chicago back in '06... I screamed "Frost!!" Out all loud & then he gave me a fist bump... Quite random, he was in there looking @ guitar accessories.
Finally a Farcry Instincts and a Farcry Evolution review! I thought I was the only one who knew about this game. This was my first Farcry. Ps: Bring back Jack Carver! 👍
Considering that the latest iteration of the "Thematic" approach has not been done well (Far Cry 5/New Dawn), I think a return to the old mythos might be a possibility.
Stephen Dorff was also great in Cecil B. Demented, a 2000 dark comedy from John Waters involving "cinema terrorists" who kidnap a Hollywood starlet to create their no-budget guerilla film about a group of cinephiles who go on a crime spree. There's obvious nods to the Patty Hearst case, ironic since Hearst herself in in this (she's been in Waters' films since Serial Mom). The film also includes Alicia Witt (Urban Legends), Jack Noseworthy (Event Horizon) and even Michael Shannonn (The Runaways, Man of Steel).
Woah, wait, was that music from 3D Movie Maker? Also, if you're doing Far Cry, there better be a moment where you take the opportunity to shit on Uwe Boll.
I hope i aint the only one but i just noticed Carver keeps being ambushed when alone First in the boat when cortez leaves and Secondly at the dock when Kade leaves and Third Times when Kade leaves the bar he gets punched in the face by unknown guards
I feel bad for all of the people who didn't grow up playing Far Cry Instinct/Predator's multiplayer mode. It had incredibly detailed mapmaking tools and you could make your own levels, including an incredibly fun mode where a few players play as Predators, and the rest as mercs. With custom levels and incredible creativity, you could have so much fun recreating Predator (the movie) scenes.
Far cry instincts: evolution was my life for a good while after it released. I spent SO much time making maps, I got a few featured multiple times as map of the week which was awesome. We made our own game-modes too. Man that feels like an eternity ago, seeing these clips brings so much back. Gotta find a way to play it again sometime.
I don't even remember playing the campaigns in these but I DO remember my friend and I using the xbox games impressive map editor to make stupid boat race levels which was great.
Man, Instincts was a fantastic sendoff to the OG Xbox if you ask me! Shame it was held back by the tech (Although it absolutely pushed it to it's limits!) but the gameplay was fucking ace. If any game deserves a remake, it's Instincts! I'd even settle for a crappy PC Port!
I really enjoyed it at the time too but I played through the Predator version last year and the gameplay hasn't aged that well at all. It was a stark reminder that console shooters have come a pretty long way since 2005/2006.
Considering it was running on 64mb unified memory, a GeForce 2.5 & a midrange Pentium 3, these graphics were absolutely insane! The gameplay hasn't aged well in execution, but the featureset was great for the time. The map editor & multiplayer were great & would've been superb if they managed to get the controls as smooth and functional as the Halo games. As it is, it's a set of great features held back by janky execution.
@@ThisBirdHasFlown You're a big Finest Hour/Big Red One fan huh? But yeah fair enough! I really like the TimeSplitters games as well, they're still fun.
@@InnuendoXP Oh yeah, most of the time when we revisit a game we forgot how bad the graphics were but honestly I forgot how good Instincts looked running on such an old piece of hardware! Considering how refined controls have become on consoles it honestly stuns me Ubisoft hasn't considering incorporating Instincts feral mechanics into their pseudo-RPG Far Cry entries!
A PC port of instinct would be good, the xlink people still play this game and evolution online... If you still have your original xbox or a 360 as instincts can be play backwards compact..
Far Cry then - Cheesy 80's action B-movie schlock with horror elements, always set on an island, linear but large levels. Far Cry now - Open-world collectathons set in the mountain wilderness with tons of animals and some weird guy as the villain calling all the shots.
Stephen Dorff has several cult movies under his belt too including grunge-era S.F.W. and satirical Cecil B. Demented. There's also the over the top early 2000s action heist movie called Steal.
With those little creature thing's that come out of a while on the families backyard ?, I remember it vaguely from my childhood, sure do miss those 80's movies that we're so wacky and stupid but so geniune and entertaining at the same time
I remember getting Far Cry for the Wii back in 2008 while I was in a different town, came back home popped the game in and it just didn't work. The Wii straight up couldn't read the disc. Seems fair to say that was a blessing in disguise...
Instincts holds a special place to me. The very first XBOX game I played. Predator was my very first X360 game. I didn't play the original FarCry on the PC until many years later. I loved them all.
@@NoMooreMercyClips see I thought season 3 was good but it didn't have me connected with the characters and story like I was with the other 2, season 2 was no season 1 but I loved Collin and vinces characters, there was a lot I liked about season 3 but just didn't hit me like the others. But every season is good, its a great show.
I think I'm the only one who had fun with Vengeance. I actually enjoyed playing it with the Wii controls. (And Far Cry Instincts + Evolution I had a lot of fun with the multiplayer. Using the map editor, and playing Predator mode which Ubisoft needs to bring back
I used to spend hours playing Instincts and Evolution, to me they were perfect, hours on level editor, replaying my favourite missions. Good memories, regardless of the games quality.
The fact that Far Cry Instincts looked and played like it did on the original Xbox was astonishing by itself. I still play it on my original Xbox, and prefer it to the remastered versions. You are right about the last section of the game though, but in overall back in the day it was a great feat having this on a console.
After playing Instincts: Predator, I wish we had more weapon diversity around the beginning of the game. It was mostly just the MP5 in the game. I have no problem with the MP5, but seriously, I was like "when are we gonna have M4's, Desert Eagles, and M249's?". We got to them eventually, though. I do agree that Crowe was a problem.
@@Kenya_Sokdeez35 In this game. They're not useless, it's just really hard to find other weapons in the first half of the game, other than the M9, the mp5 and the shotgun. You'd probably be lucky to find a sniper rifle, but in the first half, that's about it.
@@pixelpowder8371 damn i see. Its kinda stupid to see that most mercs would carry a sub machine gun when a merc's signature weapon is usually an assult rifle or a machine gun. But i guess its still fine since you have mutant abilities to compensate for that. But what i really actually liked about this game was its stealth gameplay, atleast you had creative stealth skills that made you feel like a real silent killer, more Predator like. The PC's version of stealth is only possible if you have the silenced MP5 and bushes around you, almost non existent
Coolest part of instincts was being able to go prone, then lay on your back and shoot upwards through floorboards and such. Shame such dynamic stealth stuff wasn't used past the first level or two
FCI was one of those games that was an Xbox exclusive not through any sort of exclusivity deal, but because it was the only console powerful enough to run a port of it. Another example of that is Doom 3.
I really enjoyed the early Far Cry games. 1 was definitely my favourite of the bunch, but I enjoyed instincts for providing a completely different experience and it looked pretty gorgeous on my xbox 1. (it was easy to be blown away by graphics back then imo :3) My favourite part of instincts was the map editor. I'd spent hours with friends just making levels and then goofing around in them. Whether it was races on hang gliders or jetskis or just hide and seek and where one had the predator serum and the other just had to survive. The ability to make "gorgeous" tropical islands on the xbox was truly fun.
Evolution was the first farcry game I ever played.. there’s a hidden feature where u go prone, hold A, and now u can lay on ur back and shoot behind u.. I say “hidden feature” bc they actually never teach u to do it.
The map editor and local multiplayer was so good and fun they inspired me to become a game developer. I haven't seen another game do it so well ever again. Halo forge was close. The following far cry's, while having a cool editor, didn't have versus multiplayer anymore sadly.
ever played Far Cry 5? It has without a doubt the best map maker out of any game and has pvp, FC2 and FC3 also had pvp in map editor, the FC4 is only one which didnt had pvp in its editor
I remember getting farcry vengeance at the gamestop next to my grandpa's house. All he had was a Nintendo Wii; I got it just so I could laugh at it, and I knew I could return it no questions asked. Even worse farcry 3 had just came out.
Great video, thanks, bastard guy! THE POWER OF ONE. ... starring Stephen Dorff, with John Gielgud and Morgan Freeman. It was also the first movie Daniel Craig ever appeared in.
"... Computer melting tech demo..." Nah, Crysis was basically cold war 2; electric boogaloo. ... _it turned PC's everywhere into nuclear warheads. It was glorious._
Oh boy Instincts has a special place in my heart. I played the original on PC beforehand and was really looking forward to this console version. Also I really liked how you can build your own map. Constructing levels was way easier and less complicated for me to do it compared to the PC version. I invited my friends over and we would play on each other's custom maps. Hell even my sister was down with it. I just remember one of the map so I made was called Conquistador and it went high in the sky. Never had XBL so I couldn't upload it on there but I was damn proud of that map. One thing I do remember is the scene where you are injected. You are tied up and it is dark out and you start to hallucinate. I remember talking about this to my teacher Mr. Robertson. I still remember him after all these years. We swapped CDs (he was a hard-rock kinda guy), he played guitar in class, and to appeal to the student majority he played Snoop Dogg. The thing I remember most about him was a joke he told in class. He's a geometry teacher and to get us to understand what a 180 degree angle looks like he told us it is similar to his girlfriend he had in eighth grade.They are both flat. If by some miracle you are reading this Mr. Robertson thank you for high school fun. Now that the pleasantrys are out of the way, I have to say this game drags on. Your review was very fair. It also took me a damn near 3 hours to complete one level. It was the fuckin Sub-Aquatics level. One point you forgot to mention is the UNSKIPABLE INTRO GLITCH. Holy fucking hell that was like a 3-minute intro that you could not skip. Add that to the list when you want someone to really hate your game, next to the Kamikaze enemies (**cue Serious Sam**) Thanks for the video Gman! 👍
Oh my God! It took me forever to figure out where the memories from my childhood of a game that looked like Instincts but was not instincts. I must have rented Evolution from Blockbuster or Movie Gallery on a Friday after school.
Honestly surprised you enjoyed evolution more then instincts, I find it way more generic and much less fun then instinsts. I never had any issues with checkpoints and I actually feel like instincts was amazing and a lot of your complaints are why I love it. The immersion and music is great and the levels are great. And the levels do have a lot of variety when you can go different ways, cliffs especially I’m still finding different ways to go to this day. Also Doyle was working for the CIA in instincts
The levels of instincts are all great in my eyes excluding mines where it is average, they all felt unique while evolution had a couple good levels while the rest felt a lot worse with more generic enemies and a worse atmosphere and music. I also don’t see why you want all the powers from the start of the game, the gaining of powers is cool in instincts and I found evolution with all the powers from the start liked a progression through the campaign. In instincts every level you gain something or get something new
Also as a last thing doubt you will see this, but with your adrenaline complaint in the first campaign. You can stealth and stalk enemies to gain it back quickly. I actually found the stealth traps and all that quite fun and love trying to be as stealthy as possible.
I can 100% get behind all the criticisms with the benefit of hindsight, but I cannot stress enough how utterly fucking amazing Instincts was on original Xbox. The map editor in particular and being able to play and swap maps on Xbox Live. To be fair by the time they made it to the 360 it was kinda played out but for the original Xbox it was a-fucking-mazing.
I honestly don't think Farcry got any good until Farcy 2, Farcry 3 was the best one and then after that they just ruined it by remaking Farcry 3 twice (4 and 5... They're literally just FC3 but again) they're not bad games but 🤷🏻♂️ they're literally just FC again. FC 2 and 3 are by far my favourites, would love to see remastered versions of them both.
@@cookiesontoast9981 Feel like you haven't played the 5th one than, or at least not properly And i say that by having played Far Cry 3, 3 times. 5 just recently, and... nothing more to say about that.
@@cookiesontoast9981 4 and 5 (and all their redundant expansions) fell victims to ubisoft's trends of same shitty open worlds design with millions of towers and icons for generic busy work
I was watching this like "Man, I'm glad people don't review games in this style anymore. Gman's come a long way". Then the video finishes and I notice the upload date...
I feel like a spent an entire year when I was thirteen just making maps on Instincts. In reality it was probably a few weeks, but in my memories it was years.
Instinct had good 4-player split screen VS. Especially the Hunter mode thing where 1 dude is a monster (and can respawn) while the other 3 must race from the starting point to the ending where they must defend a sound generator for a while. The opposite of EVOLVE. Fun but broken as shit. The monster is crazy OP. It has high HP and an insta-kill melee attack so it can just run up to you and waste everyone. The only way to win is to cheese the monster by pulling bullshit tactics. The best one was when I laid 4 mines (or C4) and then hit it with a rocket when the monster when over it. And then I had to shoot it with my MP5 a bit.
Loved these games, I also spent a lot of time in the map editor making levels and sharing them with friends and vice versa. I agree the Evolution story is miles better than Instincts. Also worth noting the aiming in Predator seems to be bugged since the Original Xbox version of the game the aiming is far superior. Weird!
Instincts was my first experience with the Far Cry series and I remember liking it a lot. I dont really care how good it actually was now, those fond memories will always remain fond to mee.
shout out to MR FARVO and all the other excellent map makers/collectors from Instincts Predator, you helped create and foster one of the greatest online communities I ever experienced
My dad bought my siblings and I an xbox, with this as one of our first games. The Melee lunge in an FPS might have been what flicked the switch in my brain to start smashing shit when I probably Shouldn't. Krieg in BL2, Amara in 3, Titan with Wormgod Gauntlets, it explains it all
26:44 complaining about having to play the game in order to earn your abilities therefore gain progress in a video game sounds like the dumbest thing ever,if you want to have every ability/item from the very start in a video game then you won't have fun in most proper games with that logic
Charlie Vetsworth So I’m a dickhead for criticizing him because he’s talking shit just so he could complain without making sense? he complains about basic shit like this for other games too,in his alyx review he literally complained about having to move around in the wire puzzles..IN A VR GAME
instincts on the og xbox was my first farcry game. but it crashed for me the first time i beat it so i had to redo that bastard of a boss fight again. had the same issue with shellshock nam 67, there was a part where a gas tank explodes and it would lock up my console. i figured out that if i looked away before it blew up i could make it past that part. same issue in fallout 3 broken steel. when liberty prime gets blown up the game would freeze.
The map editor was the bees knees back in the day. Lots of good memories building maps and playing split screen with buddies, all the while I knew where all the health packs and good guns were stashed.
@@isgodreal1337 Imagine the pure testosterone of 2009 xbox live. Saying the n word and shooting people in Halo and CoD. Pavlov VR is like that on steroids.
Highly recommend using the cheats for these. "UnleashHell" gives you unlimited ammo while "Bloodlust" gives you unlimited adrenaline, making the games WAY more fun by letting you use your abilities all the time. I don't see myself ever playing without those on.
Keep in mind: when this game came out on XBOX, it was an extremely good game. It's very memorable for me.
Back then, these graphics were cutting edge.
Absolutely, I am really upset that people never mention the map maker either, that thing was really damn good for time, it was leagues ahead of the Timesplitters one even though that was also great for the time.
and considering how large the game was for an xbox game it was amazing
Game needs a remaster imo it’s worthy of it
I mean Halo 2 arguably looks way better
The one thing thats terrible is the gun functionality and enemy AI. But only reason to play this game is the animal predator mode. That one is super fun. And one reason why i cant stand Far Cry after this because its all about dumbass commentary on social politics. Whats wrong with just running around in the jungle or places as a animal human predator thingy, sneaking or assault mode type of gameplay? Thats what matters to me is the fun gameplay elements, a mix of stealth and action. Thats why i love the first game (But yeah the gun gameplay is very bad). Thats probably why lot of people just turned it off before they got to the fun part!
When I look at the Wii version of Far Cry, I would always think of AVGN christmas episode
Thanks, now I can't stop thinking about the nerd dancing to I'm walking on sunshine lol
Can someone send us the link to that episode
@@BalmoraBabe BOOGIE BOOGIE BOOGIE BOOGIE
@@Yebby__ Here you go: th-cam.com/video/7dDAyl9Hx0Y/w-d-xo.html
Nergalsama01 thanks
Now I know why they called it the CryEngine...
Yep
No, it's sort of the other way around The reason Far Cry is spelled like this is because it was made by Crytek and is the same reason their engine is called CryEngine.
Their studio name predates Far Cry.
@@qlum Thanks For The Info
@@qlum Far Cry still predates Crysis.
@@qlum ‘the reason Far Cry is spelled like this’ what are you on about?
You realize it’s spelled correctly and that ‘far cry’ has a meaning outside of the game series, right? It’s not a made up or original name, at all.
Far cry Instincts predator had a pretty thriving multiplayer community back in the day with the custom map maker editor. Alot of creative maps, game modes and activities (obstacle course maps were fun!) were created from that tool in game. Holds a special place in my heart.
For real. The mazes and the obstacle maps were fucking incredible
forge before halo did it
Yes, that was the real strength of the game in my opinion
People still play. Some others as well as I still make maps, and almost every night there's a game going. I played Instincts and Evolution since the OG Xbox, been making maps since. Love this game 😍
@@jayceneal5273 and way way better than forge
Never heard of Space Truckers, gonna watch it later.
Crow got same face treatment as Shepard in Hunt Down the Freeman
It’s amazing. Charles Dance has a robot dick 😆
I remember legitimatley liking instincts on the original xbox. Never got the chance to complete after my younger brother deleted my save file after we got into a fight.
Your bros an asshole.
If you liked it then, its all that really matters :) Im sure there are many of my childhood games i would find mediocre now, but the memories will always be good.
Rip
@@noelienoelie8425 Pretty sure I called him fat or something, we were like 8 and 10 at the time so I wasnt entirely innocent lol, better that than him breaking like 2 og xbox controllers after beating him in that godzilla fighting game
It was amazing to it's time. The graphics, sounds, expansive levels, etc. It may not hold up but I'll always appreciate it.
I loved Far Cry Instincts as a kid. Me and my cousin had so much fun with the map editor.
10:48
You referencing that one conversation you had on Twitter where someone was defending Crysis 1 A.I? It was hilarious lmao
Crysis 1 A.I wa perfect
I...actually really liked Instincts and Evolution
They were super impressive console FPS games for the time
You're not alone, when i was younger i played through this game so many times...
So did I, not sure what this guys problem is.
Yeah I understand his gripes about it it's also important to remember that these games are pretty old lmao
You will pay for that
Far Cry Instincts and Evolution will always be my favorites.
If I'm being honest, I honestly liked the more serious tone in Farcry Instincts. The voice acting was really good and I enjoyed the dialogue quite a bit. I enjoyed Carvers dispassionate sarcasm and I liked how they portrayed the story in general here better then the original. I also loved how they maintained the 1st person perspective in cutscenes. While the controls could have been a little better, it was always immense fun to run after someone at full super speed sprint while following their scent trail and just absolutely obliterate them with your claws. As well, the stealth wasn't half bad...if not broken sometimes and it at least gave you different options in some sections. The canyon level is a personal favorite of mine.
Yeees! I completely agree 100%. That hand-glider section was so much fun, and the cool radio broadcast about Dinosaurs at the beginning is so cool too. I love the Far Cry games but hadn't played this one until I beat it's campaign the other day for the first time. I genuinely loved the story a lot, and I think Jack's voice actor for Instincts is way better than that Peter guy from Classic. Its cut scenes help keep the F in F.P.S.👌♥️🎮
I love the sci fi elements in this spinoff. Sucks the last scifi Far Cry game is Blood Dragon.
Blood Dragon was the best Far Cry in my opinion. Sucks it didn't get a proper sequel. Really don't care for any other game after it.
@@Gruntvc I think Blood Dragon worked because of how it wasn't too long. If it got a sequel, the level of cheese and camp would stop being endearing and would turn annoying.
Actually, the last sci-fi Far Cry game is Far Cry 5 Lost on Mars.
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*spits blood*
I'm hoping you don't mean to say that Blood Dragon was bad.
I don't believe you mentioned anything about the map editor or multiplayer, they were definitely the highlight of this series!
Nothing was more awesome then playing the predator game mode on custom maps made by the community and myself on Xbox live. The sense of exploring new jungles, caves, islands and labyrinths plus the dread of being stalked by the predator in these unknown locations, created one of the most memorable and enjoyable gaming experiences I've ever had!
Shout out to HurricaneWilky he was probably the most well known mapmaker on far cry back then!
Dude, I remember creating a bunch of obstacle course maps for FC Instincts Predator, one of which was called TheThing. The multiplayer was some of the best at the time imo, especially that creepy predator mode where you could hear your heartbeat if the predator was close.
yeah that should reaaally be included in the review, the MP Predator gamemode and editor is what really made Instincts unique imo
@@akrmki3389 I remember there were popular "storm the beach" maps made by players. I think I still have them saved on my xbox.
The map editor and multiplayer was basically the only reason I played Instincts and Predator.
I still have nightmare about that one called "the test. Jesus I loved the puzzle maps hahahahaha.
OldeVikingOriginal I remember making a series of maps called Hawaii and got pissed off when one of my friends made Hawaii 2 without crediting me lmao
Far Cry Instincts Predator will always hold a nostalgic place in my heart simply because it was one of my first Xbox 360 games.
Feel bad for you having to play Far Cry Vengeance.
What do ypu mean?
@@Beengus He means it's shit
There's no reason for having to play it
There were better FPS on the Wii, you had the mainline Modern Warfare titles, Black Ops, The Conduit and Goldeneye
@bigevilworldwide1 The children don't care, shut up any problems are shippable. I bet they said that in the air of J. Jonah Jameson.
@@JulianBo188 Actually, most of those came several years *after* Far cry Vengeance....Still, all of the games you listed definitely blow Far Cry Vengeance out of the water in terms of quality.
I miss the predators, I wish newer far cry games stuck with that concept. It’s gotten to the point where far cry is a far cry to what far cry used to be... if that makes sense
I mean new dawn does something similar to the feral powers
Far cry 2 is nothing like the first the farcry we all know is completely different from the original ones it kinda has the friday the 13th effect
First game had the best vibe, I love the Rambo jungle adventure style feel to it. I wish they made another game to return to the series roots.
One critical aspect that was overlooked: "The Most Dangerous Game" influences.
Addtionally the theme of man versus nature and the subtle questioning of what it means to be human (Are we really better than the "brutal" survivalist nature of animals when we ourselves succumb to nonessential desires of wealth, status, and power?) really set the re-envisioned game apart from the original.
Stephen Dorff also stars alongside Ben Stiller in the intro to the Limp Bizkit - Rollin' film clip, as well as Britney's "Everytime"
"I'm not that kind of rebel pal"
"I'm not your pal you bastard guy"
"I'm not your guy, friend"
"i'm not your friend, pal"
I'm a simple man. I see a Gman video and I watch.
us 90s boys stick together.
"Put the word Vengeance at the end of anything, and it's sure to suck!" - Old AVGN
Farcry Instincts holds many of my favorite multiplayer memories. I remember having a blast making custom maps that my friends and I would play in my parent's basement, on dad's newly acquired Sony Bravia 1080p 55''.
I would design the maps with my friend's playstyles in mind and make traps for them, like putting a vehicle in a particular spot hoping my speed-loving friend would pick it up and run it off the cliff I conveniently hid nearby.
My best memory is from when we played one of my extremely unbalanced maps. Two of my friends and I decided to cooperate to kill my one friend, who was abusing the imbalance to the fullest by camping in the sniper tower. We ended up climbing the ladder at the same time when my camping friend accidentally fell down, landing on the guy furtherest up the ladder, who then fell down creating a chain reaction resulting in all of us falling down to die. We were so shocked as all of us assumed there wouldn't be any collision. We literally rolled on the floor laughing for at least 10 minutes, and every time we were on the brink of collecting ourselves, my friend with the most contagious laugh would break out in laughter, again and again.
I don't remember exactly but I think the guy in the tower actually won because of that as well, since he got the kills he needed before he hit the ground. Or maybe the time just ran out. I can't remember honestly
Anyways, awesome times!
In Stephen Dorff’s defense, he’s actually a decently underrated actor; he was awesome in True Detective’s third season.
I met Stephen Dorf @ Guitar Center in Chicago back in '06... I screamed "Frost!!" Out all loud & then he gave me a fist bump... Quite random, he was in there looking @ guitar accessories.
i remember making maps with my friend's and play in splitscreen in our maps we all made damn.. i miss these times
Finally a Farcry Instincts and a Farcry Evolution review! I thought I was the only one who knew about this game. This was my first Farcry.
Ps: Bring back Jack Carver! 👍
Considering that the latest iteration of the "Thematic" approach has not been done well (Far Cry 5/New Dawn), I think a return to the old mythos might be a possibility.
@@NebLleb I really hope so. I had a blast with 5 and New Dawn, but the mute microtransaction barbie doll of a character is lame.
It's was a great games did you ever play online? I use to play it a lot and then predotor when that came out...
@@JoshGloverMusicandEvents I actually did play online.
@@kino9356 cool what was you gamer tag? Back then? Did you play predator?
I found instincts to be really gritty and fun the custom level building was super fun
Stephen Dorff was also great in Cecil B. Demented, a 2000 dark comedy from John Waters involving "cinema terrorists" who kidnap a Hollywood starlet to create their no-budget guerilla film about a group of cinephiles who go on a crime spree. There's obvious nods to the Patty Hearst case, ironic since Hearst herself in in this (she's been in Waters' films since Serial Mom). The film also includes Alicia Witt (Urban Legends), Jack Noseworthy (Event Horizon) and even Michael Shannonn (The Runaways, Man of Steel).
Don't forget True Detective Season 3, where he was great.
Her - “come over”
Me - “nah I can’t”
Her - “my parents aren’t home”
Me - 23:59
This shit had me crying. I did not see that coming.
Bryce Czirr wat
Bryce Czirr so I guess the possibility of 25 year old (like myself) who still live with their parents are considered children then 👶
Bryce Czirr uhh me and every other young adult on this planet lmfao why is the idea of that so crazy to you? 😂
Bryce Czirr i mean if ur living with your parents your gonna be having sex in the house that’s normal ....
Glad I waited until the very end. I was waiting for the "Bastard Guy!"
Great reviews
the hemp burning mission in farcry 3 was one of the most iconic gaming moments in my childhood dude, and the soundtrack still bangs to the date
Woah, wait, was that music from 3D Movie Maker?
Also, if you're doing Far Cry, there better be a moment where you take the opportunity to shit on Uwe Boll.
Actually, Far Cry is one of the few Uwe's good movies. Postal being another example.
I hope i aint the only one but i just noticed Carver keeps being ambushed when alone First in the boat when cortez leaves and Secondly at the dock when Kade leaves
and Third Times when Kade leaves the bar he gets punched in the face by unknown guards
I remember when Classic Game Room reviewed Far Cry Vengeance, as well as the AVGN lol!
I miss classic game room...
@@winlover37 Me too :(
Didnt he turn into a shitty cartoonist?
I feel bad for all of the people who didn't grow up playing Far Cry Instinct/Predator's multiplayer mode. It had incredibly detailed mapmaking tools and you could make your own levels, including an incredibly fun mode where a few players play as Predators, and the rest as mercs. With custom levels and incredible creativity, you could have so much fun recreating Predator (the movie) scenes.
Ranked hunter mode was fun af
Far cry instincts: evolution was my life for a good while after it released. I spent SO much time making maps, I got a few featured multiple times as map of the week which was awesome. We made our own game-modes too. Man that feels like an eternity ago, seeing these clips brings so much back. Gotta find a way to play it again sometime.
I remember instincts being stupidly hard at times, especially those godamn snipers
"I'd use my feral speed in real life - to get a refund". Really got me, good one mate.
I don't even remember playing the campaigns in these but I DO remember my friend and I using the xbox games impressive map editor to make stupid boat race levels which was great.
Man, Instincts was a fantastic sendoff to the OG Xbox if you ask me! Shame it was held back by the tech (Although it absolutely pushed it to it's limits!) but the gameplay was fucking ace. If any game deserves a remake, it's Instincts! I'd even settle for a crappy PC Port!
I really enjoyed it at the time too but I played through the Predator version last year and the gameplay hasn't aged that well at all. It was a stark reminder that console shooters have come a pretty long way since 2005/2006.
Considering it was running on 64mb unified memory, a GeForce 2.5 & a midrange Pentium 3, these graphics were absolutely insane!
The gameplay hasn't aged well in execution, but the featureset was great for the time. The map editor & multiplayer were great & would've been superb if they managed to get the controls as smooth and functional as the Halo games. As it is, it's a set of great features held back by janky execution.
@@ThisBirdHasFlown You're a big Finest Hour/Big Red One fan huh? But yeah fair enough! I really like the TimeSplitters games as well, they're still fun.
@@InnuendoXP Oh yeah, most of the time when we revisit a game we forgot how bad the graphics were but honestly I forgot how good Instincts looked running on such an old piece of hardware! Considering how refined controls have become on consoles it honestly stuns me Ubisoft hasn't considering incorporating Instincts feral mechanics into their pseudo-RPG Far Cry entries!
A PC port of instinct would be good, the xlink people still play this game and evolution online... If you still have your original xbox or a 360 as instincts can be play backwards compact..
Far Cry then - Cheesy 80's action B-movie schlock with horror elements, always set on an island, linear but large levels.
Far Cry now - Open-world collectathons set in the mountain wilderness with tons of animals and some weird guy as the villain calling all the shots.
You should try playing The Conduit/Conduit 2 for the Wii.
Stephen Dorff has several cult movies under his belt too including grunge-era S.F.W. and satirical Cecil B. Demented. There's also the over the top early 2000s action heist movie called Steal.
Steven dorff was in a 80s horror film called the gate, it's pretty good lol
With those little creature thing's that come out of a while on the families backyard ?, I remember it vaguely from my childhood, sure do miss those 80's movies that we're so wacky and stupid but so geniune and entertaining at the same time
@@chillhour6155 yeah that's the one lol
there it is!
I remember getting Far Cry for the Wii back in 2008 while I was in a different town, came back home popped the game in and it just didn't work. The Wii straight up couldn't read the disc. Seems fair to say that was a blessing in disguise...
Is that Bela Lugosi from Ed Wood at 7:01? LOL
LMAOOOOOO
Instincts holds a special place to me. The very first XBOX game I played. Predator was my very first X360 game. I didn't play the original FarCry on the PC until many years later. I loved them all.
Stephen Dorff was amazing in True Detective.
the worst season of that show
@@austinscherzberg4569 nah 2 was pure unfiltered garbage
@@NoMooreMercyClips we can both agree that season 1 is art
@@austinscherzberg4569 oh yeah, definitely. I go back and watch it from time to time.
@@NoMooreMercyClips see I thought season 3 was good but it didn't have me connected with the characters and story like I was with the other 2, season 2 was no season 1 but I loved Collin and vinces characters, there was a lot I liked about season 3 but just didn't hit me like the others. But every season is good, its a great show.
8:23 this is when he knew...he was Loving it lol
Great coverage and video. Awesome commentary man
Stephen Dorff got that Cliff Bleszinski vibe about him.
He's the poor man's Christian Slater, who is the poor man's Jack Nicholson.
i remember the black n white commercials of him vaping
yeah that overcompensating vibe
Judgement Night is my favorite Dorff flick. Not sure if you're familiar with it, it came out in 93
your original Far Cry video was how I found your channel many years ago. Great to see you revisit it
27:14 Thank you so much for this. It really made my day.
I think I'm the only one who had fun with Vengeance. I actually enjoyed playing it with the Wii controls. (And Far Cry Instincts + Evolution I had a lot of fun with the multiplayer. Using the map editor, and playing Predator mode which Ubisoft needs to bring back
I used to spend hours playing Instincts and Evolution, to me they were perfect, hours on level editor, replaying my favourite missions. Good memories, regardless of the games quality.
The fact that Far Cry Instincts looked and played like it did on the original Xbox was astonishing by itself. I still play it on my original Xbox, and prefer it to the remastered versions. You are right about the last section of the game though, but in overall back in the day it was a great feat having this on a console.
"Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?" "Sounds huge." "It is." "I know." "Are you complaining?" "Don't keep me waiting." "I know."
I've been asking you for the FC: Instincts Predator for years, and you did not disappoint. Thank you, good sir
After playing Instincts: Predator, I wish we had more weapon diversity around the beginning of the game. It was mostly just the MP5 in the game. I have no problem with the MP5, but seriously, I was like "when are we gonna have M4's, Desert Eagles, and M249's?". We got to them eventually, though. I do agree that Crowe was a problem.
Wait so other weapons are practically useless? I really wanna know cuz i never played instincts. I've only stuck with the og pc version of FC1
@@Kenya_Sokdeez35 In this game. They're not useless, it's just really hard to find other weapons in the first half of the game, other than the M9, the mp5 and the shotgun. You'd probably be lucky to find a sniper rifle, but in the first half, that's about it.
@@pixelpowder8371 damn i see. Its kinda stupid to see that most mercs would carry a sub machine gun when a merc's signature weapon is usually an assult rifle or a machine gun. But i guess its still fine since you have mutant abilities to compensate for that. But what i really actually liked about this game was its stealth gameplay, atleast you had creative stealth skills that made you feel like a real silent killer, more Predator like. The PC's version of stealth is only possible if you have the silenced MP5 and bushes around you, almost non existent
Coolest part of instincts was being able to go prone, then lay on your back and shoot upwards through floorboards and such. Shame such dynamic stealth stuff wasn't used past the first level or two
It was a cool feature but was ultimately useless. There's maybe two or three instances in the story where you have the opportunity to use it.
I played the hell out Instincts back in the day. Spent days on mapmaker. This and Timesplitters Future Perfect
Saaaame these were very good games
FCI was one of those games that was an Xbox exclusive not through any sort of exclusivity deal, but because it was the only console powerful enough to run a port of it. Another example of that is Doom 3.
I really enjoyed the early Far Cry games. 1 was definitely my favourite of the bunch, but I enjoyed instincts for providing a completely different experience and it looked pretty gorgeous on my xbox 1. (it was easy to be blown away by graphics back then imo :3) My favourite part of instincts was the map editor. I'd spent hours with friends just making levels and then goofing around in them. Whether it was races on hang gliders or jetskis or just hide and seek and where one had the predator serum and the other just had to survive. The ability to make "gorgeous" tropical islands on the xbox was truly fun.
Evolution was the first farcry game I ever played.. there’s a hidden feature where u go prone, hold A, and now u can lay on ur back and shoot behind u.. I say “hidden feature” bc they actually never teach u to do it.
The map editor and local multiplayer was so good and fun they inspired me to become a game developer. I haven't seen another game do it so well ever again. Halo forge was close. The following far cry's, while having a cool editor, didn't have versus multiplayer anymore sadly.
ever played Far Cry 5? It has without a doubt the best map maker out of any game and has pvp, FC2 and FC3 also had pvp in map editor, the FC4 is only one which didnt had pvp in its editor
I remember getting farcry vengeance at the gamestop next to my grandpa's house. All he had was a Nintendo Wii; I got it just so I could laugh at it, and I knew I could return it no questions asked. Even worse farcry 3 had just came out.
Great video, thanks, bastard guy!
THE POWER OF ONE. ... starring Stephen Dorff, with John Gielgud and Morgan Freeman. It was also the first movie Daniel Craig ever appeared in.
Great video mate, keep the great content coming, your awesome (also sunburnt Voldermort made me chuckle lol)
"... Computer melting tech demo..."
Nah, Crysis was basically cold war 2; electric boogaloo.
... _it turned PC's everywhere into nuclear warheads. It was glorious._
Oh boy Instincts has a special place in my heart. I played the original on PC beforehand and was really looking forward to this console version. Also I really liked how you can build your own map. Constructing levels was way easier and less complicated for me to do it compared to the PC version. I invited my friends over and we would play on each other's custom maps. Hell even my sister was down with it. I just remember one of the map so I made was called Conquistador and it went high in the sky. Never had XBL so I couldn't upload it on there but I was damn proud of that map.
One thing I do remember is the scene where you are injected. You are tied up and it is dark out and you start to hallucinate. I remember talking about this to my teacher Mr. Robertson. I still remember him after all these years. We swapped CDs (he was a hard-rock kinda guy), he played guitar in class, and to appeal to the student majority he played Snoop Dogg. The thing I remember most about him was a joke he told in class. He's a geometry teacher and to get us to understand what a 180 degree angle looks like he told us it is similar to his girlfriend he had in eighth grade.They are both flat. If by some miracle you are reading this Mr. Robertson thank you for high school fun.
Now that the pleasantrys are out of the way, I have to say this game drags on. Your review was very fair. It also took me a damn near 3 hours to complete one level. It was the fuckin Sub-Aquatics level.
One point you forgot to mention is the UNSKIPABLE INTRO GLITCH. Holy fucking hell that was like a 3-minute intro that you could not skip. Add that to the list when you want someone to really hate your game, next to the Kamikaze enemies (**cue Serious Sam**)
Thanks for the video Gman! 👍
Me: I should study for tomorrow's exams.
Gman: Uploads.
Me: Maths can wait.
School isn't over for you yet?
@@ohioboy1878 It is now.
@@TheMC1102 ah
all the obstacle courses maps that people made for multiplayer on instincts predator... i spent most of my childhood playing custom games online XD
Far Cry Instincts Primal was my favourite Far Cry. I bought the first one on PC and was incredibly pissed that it wasn't the same game.
rawr xD
Same - especially annoyed that it felt like it had been replaced with a worse game
@@GuyIncognitoIV it wasnt replaced on pc, the pc one came first before xbox exclusive so they made different one for xbox.
"Felt", not actually
Oh my God! It took me forever to figure out where the memories from my childhood of a game that looked like Instincts but was not instincts. I must have rented Evolution from Blockbuster or Movie Gallery on a Friday after school.
Honestly surprised you enjoyed evolution more then instincts, I find it way more generic and much less fun then instinsts. I never had any issues with checkpoints and I actually feel like instincts was amazing and a lot of your complaints are why I love it. The immersion and music is great and the levels are great. And the levels do have a lot of variety when you can go different ways, cliffs especially I’m still finding different ways to go to this day. Also Doyle was working for the CIA in instincts
The levels of instincts are all great in my eyes excluding mines where it is average, they all felt unique while evolution had a couple good levels while the rest felt a lot worse with more generic enemies and a worse atmosphere and music. I also don’t see why you want all the powers from the start of the game, the gaining of powers is cool in instincts and I found evolution with all the powers from the start liked a progression through the campaign. In instincts every level you gain something or get something new
Also as a last thing doubt you will see this, but with your adrenaline complaint in the first campaign. You can stealth and stalk enemies to gain it back quickly. I actually found the stealth traps and all that quite fun and love trying to be as stealthy as possible.
The map editor in Instincts was FUCKING AMAZING!!! Literally have not seen one on that scale in a console since
I still believe in that theory that Jack is Jackal, look at that Hawaiian shirt and African shirt, LOOK AT IT. *xfiles theme*
I can 100% get behind all the criticisms with the benefit of hindsight, but I cannot stress enough how utterly fucking amazing Instincts was on original Xbox. The map editor in particular and being able to play and swap maps on Xbox Live. To be fair by the time they made it to the 360 it was kinda played out but for the original Xbox it was a-fucking-mazing.
Honestly, I've always thought the Instinct series was way more fun than regular Far Cry 1.
I honestly don't think Farcry got any good until Farcy 2, Farcry 3 was the best one and then after that they just ruined it by remaking Farcry 3 twice (4 and 5... They're literally just FC3 but again) they're not bad games but 🤷🏻♂️ they're literally just FC again.
FC 2 and 3 are by far my favourites, would love to see remastered versions of them both.
@@cookiesontoast9981 Feel like you haven't played the 5th one than, or at least not properly
And i say that by having played Far Cry 3, 3 times. 5 just recently, and... nothing more to say about that.
@@cookiesontoast9981 4 and 5 (and all their redundant expansions) fell victims to ubisoft's trends of same shitty open worlds design with millions of towers and icons for generic busy work
I was watching this like "Man, I'm glad people don't review games in this style anymore. Gman's come a long way". Then the video finishes and I notice the upload date...
"FarCry's ambitious and magnificent console exclusives" - minimme
I feel like a spent an entire year when I was thirteen just making maps on Instincts. In reality it was probably a few weeks, but in my memories it was years.
Here I was looking up videos about this some time ago thinking when you would eventually cover these ports.
I've watched you review so many old school games, just hearing your voice gives me nostalgia lol.
Oooo, remember playing a few of these pirated on my modded Xbox as a kid. Had completely slipped out of my memory
Instinct had good 4-player split screen VS. Especially the Hunter mode thing where 1 dude is a monster (and can respawn) while the other 3 must race from the starting point to the ending where they must defend a sound generator for a while. The opposite of EVOLVE.
Fun but broken as shit. The monster is crazy OP. It has high HP and an insta-kill melee attack so it can just run up to you and waste everyone. The only way to win is to cheese the monster by pulling bullshit tactics. The best one was when I laid 4 mines (or C4) and then hit it with a rocket when the monster when over it. And then I had to shoot it with my MP5 a bit.
One of the few review channels that includes memes without inducing cringe most of the time
I just got into Far Cry, played 5 first, then New Dawn, now 4. Being that I just started getting into your videos this was great to see!
Largentina TM I just saw I could get that on Xbox for free, I’ll try it out!
Loved these games, I also spent a lot of time in the map editor making levels and sharing them with friends and vice versa. I agree the Evolution story is miles better than Instincts. Also worth noting the aiming in Predator seems to be bugged since the Original Xbox version of the game the aiming is far superior. Weird!
I played instincts and evolution on the xbox so much through middle school. I would spend hours making maps
Instincts was my first experience with the Far Cry series and I remember liking it a lot. I dont really care how good it actually was now, those fond memories will always remain fond to mee.
Me too. I was almost obsessed with the game. I felt like no one knew about it. I loved making maps and bringing my friends over playing it
shout out to MR FARVO and all the other excellent map makers/collectors from Instincts Predator, you helped create and foster one of the greatest online communities I ever experienced
I really wish they’d bring back Predator Mode.
My dad bought my siblings and I an xbox, with this as one of our first games. The Melee lunge in an FPS might have been what flicked the switch in my brain to start smashing shit when I probably Shouldn't. Krieg in BL2, Amara in 3, Titan with Wormgod Gauntlets, it explains it all
26:44 complaining about having to play the game in order to earn your abilities therefore gain progress in a video game sounds like the dumbest thing ever,if you want to have every ability/item from the very start in a video game then you won't have fun in most proper games with that logic
Charlie Vetsworth So I’m a dickhead for criticizing him because he’s talking shit just so he could complain without making sense? he complains about basic shit like this for other games too,in his alyx review he literally complained about having to move around in the wire puzzles..IN A VR GAME
instincts on the og xbox was my first farcry game. but it crashed for me the first time i beat it so i had to redo that bastard of a boss fight again. had the same issue with shellshock nam 67, there was a part where a gas tank explodes and it would lock up my console. i figured out that if i looked away before it blew up i could make it past that part. same issue in fallout 3 broken steel. when liberty prime gets blown up the game would freeze.
I love how i get roasted while watching your videos. Feels like home 🙂
The map editor was the bees knees back in the day. Lots of good memories building maps and playing split screen with buddies, all the while I knew where all the health packs and good guns were stashed.
Ah, motion controls. The pinnacle of gameplay. Totally not a gimmick at all.
VR is the supreme warrior, it would easily kill Kinect and Wii on a fist fight.
Pavlov proves it isn't a gimmick, actually. Try actually shooting someone and calling them the n word. Peak Alpha Male Big Think Gamer Energy.
@@GatorMilk What the exact laser-guided quack are you talking about?
@@isgodreal1337 Imagine the pure testosterone of 2009 xbox live. Saying the n word and shooting people in Halo and CoD. Pavlov VR is like that on steroids.
@@GatorMilk physically tea bagging now that is offensive for real!
Highly recommend using the cheats for these. "UnleashHell" gives you unlimited ammo while "Bloodlust" gives you unlimited adrenaline, making the games WAY more fun by letting you use your abilities all the time. I don't see myself ever playing without those on.