Graphically it's stunning.
That's where it ends, the story fucking blows, having to walk fifteen miles to find a vehicle that handles like a kid with downs on a skateboard, and turns into a gigantic fireball the second you collide with a small rudimentary object, like a bush...
If they hadn't been super retarded, and just built Farcry on the Cryengine (Crysis), it'd be hands down the best fps ever. It just seems they spent far too long obsessing over the graphics, rather than adding realistic properties, i.e: physics