My old band brother did the soundtrack and sfx for that. Before he went for the interview in Germany we had a long talk about it. I propsed to him to try and make the soundtrack more dynamic, so we came up with an approach were everything was a soundchannel which could be turned off or on. If you went into area of danger music would intensify without you hearing any fade in fade out between entire pieces.
He went to do the interview and got the job because of this suggestion. He later went on to do hitman and Hans Zimmerman took over on FC2
Oh I didn't mean it like that. I genuinely enjoyed the story. Your last sentence made me think that your friend worked on FC1, since you named the composer for FC2, that's why I pointed out that while the essay is called Far Cry, actually it's about Far Cry 2. But then I googled around that Hans Zimmerman wasn't the composer for FC2, so now I'm just confused.
He went to do the interview and got the job because of this suggestion. He later went on to do hitman and Hans Zimmerman took over on FC2