Context: Far Cry (2004) was developed by Crytek, who have given up on the Far Cry IP in favor of Crysis (2007), so the rights were sold to Ubisoft, who in 2005 released an XBOX Exclusive version/port called Far Cry Instincts, which while sharing some similarities with the original such as tropic jungle setting, character names, and being a First Person Shooter, is an entirely different game, design and story wise.

The Problem and Predator: The game and its sequel, Far Cry Instincts Evolution (2006), remained an XBOX Exclusive game until Far Cry Instincts Predator released in 2006 for the Xbox 360. It was a remastered port of Instincts and Evolution combined, making use of the more powerful Xbox 360’s hardware to include more detailed textures, higher poly 3D models, more advanced effects and higher resolution. And you can play that version of the games on modern Xbox consoles, however despite the increased graphical fidelity this remaster offers, it also comes with downgrades and looks and plays worse than the original XBOX versions. The most glaring issue upon release (Before it was fixed with a patch) was worse laggier unresponsive controls. That patch was the first and last update the game would receive and only fixed multiplayer specific issues in addition to the controls fix. While certain textures were improved/replaced with higher detailed ones, others were simply broken and didn’t function properly or just straight up didn’t show in-game, the higher poly 3D models were a nice addition, but the higher poly Character models looked worse and less expressive than the originals, and it looks like they didn’t bother to reanimate them, so character rigging, facial and body animations that were made with the original lower poly models in mind, did not transfer smoothly to the new higher poly ones, Leaving character animations broken. The new lighting also looks worse, and it is clear to see the new lighting was slapped on without much thought, the User Interface was also worse, more generic and uninspired than before. Predator is a lazy remaster that despite leveraging better hardware and newer technologies, manages to look and play worse than the original XBOX versions. and the original XBOX versions were never ported to the PC.

Solution?: we need to show Ubisoft there is a demand for a PC Port of the original xbox version of both games (Far Cry Instincts and Far Cry Instincts Evolution). contact Ubisoft support or people there in general, complain and be loud, spread the word, raise awarness of these awesome games so that they may be preserved on the PC Platform.

Current official means of contacting Ubisoft: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/help