Yeah, the Ubisoft analogy isn't very good...also, Far Cry can hardly be called free, maybe "ad ridden" would be a better description.
About the topic at hand...I'm still scratching my head about the situation. I don't know where this French page gets off saying it's abandonware, but I'm inclined
not to believe it. After all, any random website can say "here's an abandonware game" and offer up warez
On the other hand, if it's legit, that would be pretty cool.
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