so there I was  (ode to the Fantastic Far Cry   AI )


I am crawling thru the vegetation bordering the beach rendered exactly from the paradise
islands in the equatorial heaven's - i spot up on the side of the valley hill to my right
front at 300 yards, a sand bag bunker with a heavy weapon manned by a Mercenary. - he
hasn't spotted me. I carefully and slowly raise my parkerized whembley-vicker sniper
rifle, until the 40x scope focus's to my crack shot eyeball.  At this range and the at the
height of my intended target - the casaba resting just above the kevlar flak jacket - i
miss, twice i miss, my situation down here behind and seemingly buried in the foliage is
getting critical, i'm losing my edge. The radar screen is indicating five DEATH BRIGADE
blips closing and in the yellow. One more shot - got him, now i can get the hell out of
here - my passage is secure from above.

I crawl as fast as i can to the left valley hill side just where the vegetation can offer me the best cover. The yellow blips have stopped moving towards me. I count five.  I know the Carrier is down this narrow valley somewhere. My next destination - that has five votes against me making it.



I move forward, having reloaded on my trek across the valley floor i have one signature round for each blip, i muse to myself.

Crawling is the order of the day, and coming into view as I slowly move forward is the
remains of a Japanese zero which the island jungle hasn’t quite claimed for its own. I
lose the blips on my radar screen. I stop, weight the situation, and change to a crouch, i
bring the binoculars i snagged from the table a few huts back to my eyes.  The sound
proximity indicator show movement of five on the other side of the zero. Three close and
two farther away, in fact those two are green on my radar, safe enough - for now. I had completely forgotten about the intense island jungle heat that has trapped me in these clothes.


I exchange the binoculars for the scope  2x click 4x there I have one - KRAA-ACK - missed
him HELL!!  I go prone again with just enough of a fall as to not shake my new close
friend the jungle bush. DAMN!! From this position behind the zero I get no radar blips. I
slowly backup the hill a little at a time.

No blips. I switch to my binoc’s again THERE to the left of the zero sound movement.

I bring up my sights and pan to the left of the zero NOTHING! I pan back lower to the
foliage there he is head low a slow crouching walk closing in on me - he doesn’t see me
but he is looking. KRAA-ACK! One more down. I quickly get back up to a crouch and swing my
sniper rifle to the right of the zero YES! KRAA-ACK! Winged one - he jumps back behind the zero. Jerking the binoc's up to catch the sounds
I watched the other two duck in behind the zero
I have them all pinned down behind the zero, I go prone again. I hear one yell GRENADE! And I see it being Lobed over from behind the zero and hit the ground far in front of me and roll down the hill away from me   KERR-BOOM! It goes off.



Whew Now THIS ! is AI !!!!!

I heard the panic in the AI character’s voices - "WHERE IS HE"  "COME ON IN"

"YOUR NUMBERS UP"  stuff like that.



The day was mine.

Right now in the FAR CRY game I’m prone behind some bushes on the left valley wall
overlooking the Carrier.  IF you go for this method of game play. Then I strongly suggest
you use the binoculars and listen to those six baddies conversations. Heh.  I sniped the
-action- man first.



 might I add that the shader in the ATI 9800pro brings a level of Paradise beauty to this
game.  I should know - most of my traveling is to Hawaii, Tahiti, Canary Islands, Guam,
Samoa.  I am truly impressed with the 9800pro and Far Cry.

If you have an ATI you've GOT to play this game.