Far Cry 3 Review

Background

Far Cry 3 starts of with a group of spoiled westernised friends basically having a great time on an island, however things take a turn for the worse and the protagonist, Jason Brody and his friends get captured by pirates and are about to be sold for ransom. Eventually Jason escapes and his quest to rescue his friends begin.

Graphics

Far Cry 3 looks beautiful especially if you're on the PC. The console version don't share the same standard of graphics as the PC version, as they are incapable to do so, however the console version still looks as pretty as ever. I'd recommend you watch some youtube videos to check out the graphics. However there are a few bugs sometimes within the game, but it's natural to happen with any open world sandbox game, none of the bugs I've experienced have ruined my experience playing Far Cry 3.

Gameplay

I'm not sure on where to start with this.

Well lets start with the nature and wildlife of the island. Far cry 3 has plants which you can harvest and animals, which can be carnivores that want to eat you or just herbivores you can kill and skin all types of animals found on this island (you can't skin chickens though but who needs to anyway). Also unlike many games, harvesting and hunting is actually very useful and rewarding! Getting animal skins helps you do have a bigger back back, hold more ammo, carry more money ect, and harvesting plants can give you stimpacks, an injection that will make you more wildlife friendly, be able to hold your breath underwater for longer and much more. There is quite a few ammount of weapons, which you can customise, giving them things like red dot site, extended mags, those kind of things, you can also give your weapon its own paint job. Finally there is a few vehicles which you can use in Far Cry 3, however there are no air vehicles which you can control (you do go in a helicopter/aeroplane a few times in the mission but you don't control it), but there are still boats and cars. There are some other ways to travel above land which have hardly been used in other games and is a welcome addition, these includes things such as the wing suit which helps you glide (it's hard to find a  screenshot of it because you can't acutally see it) you're parachute, both of these can be deployed at any time. Finally there is a hang glider which is pretty fun.

A Hang Glider in Far Cry 3.

The combat and action in Far Cry 3 is just amazing. Some missions had me literally feeling like James Bond on an hostile island and had my heart pumping as I just managed to escape the hordes of enemies after blowing up a bridge, jumping off a cliff, deploying my wing suit  deploying my parachute, then taking a dive down a waterfall and emerging onto land quickly jumping in my getaway car, it was awesome! Check out this mission from Far Cry 3 where you get to burn weed and enemies with a flame thrower while Skrillex is playing! However the storyline isn't too emerging, but it's still good and is enough to drive you on. The first enemy you face, Vaas is one of the best video game villains this decade, in my opinion, many others thing so too, the later villain, is meh, but sitll quite interesting.


There is also an aspect of stealth and park-our in Far Cry 3. You can choose to go through a mission or outpost (outposts are places which you can take over and have your tribe run, kind of like how gangs owned places in San Andreas) silently taking out all the enemies one by one or you can run in guns all blazing. You will have to climb up radio towers to reveal a piece of the map, similar to syncing in Assassin's Creed. As you progress further in the map, the harder it becomes to climb up these radio towers and it stars to become a kind of puzzle.

My Personal Opinion

Personally I think Far Cry 3 is one of the best games to come out of 2012 and was not expected to be this fun. If you're looking for an open world game with many things to do, a good story and a decently sized map, Far Cry 3 is for you! I enjoyed this game quite a lot, even though the story only took me about 9 hours to complete, I still think it was worth my money. I give Far Cry 3 an 8.5/10, note that I'm not like IGN and give any good game a 9 or 10, I don't actually think a 10/10 game exists, every game has its flaws.

Far Cry 3 8.5/10! A must buy!

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