Well it uses the CRY engine(From Crytek of course, hehehe). Theres no reason for me to post screenies when Theres is an excellent supply here:

http://onesneakymouse.com/farcry.html

The maps are vast, the landscape is very realistic, with trees and grass which all sway in the wind. The AI is truly challenging (at times), and the textures and artwork are way cool also. You can drive (or fly) most vehichles, except the choppers, Doh! and since they patched it, the multiplay is actually fun now. Amazing looking and playing game. No quicksaves though, just check points, so if you are playing on the most difficult setting(there are 5 of them) it can get hairy.

The game comes on 5 disks also. Rather large. There is actually a topic in the forums about how much people are spending to upgrade their rigs just to play this one, although the minimum specs suggest a PIII would work. You can also switch to a cel shaded version at the click of a button to tone down the hefty requirements.

The gameplay is anything but linear, and you can usually travel as far as you can see(like up to a mile, no kidding). There are certain areas which will call out the gaurd choppers who quickly mow you down, but there are few if any other limitations.

definitely one to have.

Ditto, got mine Thursday.

I reviewed it, find the review Here.

It will load in a dvd or a cd player, but Note!:

Older DVD and CD-ROMS may not load this game. You need a minimum of 4X DVD, and 16X CD-ROM. I suspect thats why a certain amount of people are having rouble loading the game from their CD's.

Juim, a reason most people cant start up I heard is due to the protection on UBI softs dics. Basically, it wont let them load the game, even they have it legit, because Ubisoft has a protection system on their CDs, which is sometimes to powerful. It sees stuff on your PC that it doesnt like (Like Nero, or Dameons Tools), and then tells you to insert the CD.

Yet, while I am awaiting my game (comes monday), I downloaded the RIP, and got no problems. A lot of people complained about how the legit customers cannot even play it, while the people who burned it are having the times of their lives.

LOL!

Agreed.

yeah, UT2k4 is a bit like plastic sometimes. I think the problem is with smeshes that are not well-textured. I see that in DOOM3 videos, too. The wall may have all these amazing round pipes etc. on it, but they are barely textured at all and come off looking strangely monochrome or smoothshaded, and thus 'plastic'. I've looked through the smesh packs, quality varies a lot, some are great others are godawful plain.

Still, I think part of what you are talking about is the colorfulness of the game, water animations, etc.. I think a lot of it is the look they go for in the retail UT game, more than the engine. I mean, complaining that a game called "Unreal" doesn't look realistic is kind of silly