Far Cry 3 Review

[RobfromtheGulag]

Story reminds me of the movie Turistas.

I hope that there's no "respawning badguys over zones under your control" glitch, to which one production guy from Far Cry 2 said "it's a glitch we couldn't solve, if you don't like it, fuck you". That was the main reason why I didn't pick up the last game.

That game was just bad in so many aspects.
-Find cheesily hidden (on top of rocks you could not jump on) diamonds in order to buy weapons and upgrades. Thankfully you could easily make due with some of the most basic weaponry. And if you got the little DLC pack with the silenced shotgun, well, nothing I ever purchased from the arms merchant ever trumped that.
-Spend 50+% of the game travelling from mission to mission, or being ambushed while you travel.
-Your character apparently has no morals.
-Your 'friends' backstab you altogether, en masse, at the end of the game

 

[blackrave]

Well, call me interested
Seriously- as soon as I'm done with TES5 I'll play FarCry3

 

[Grabehn]

-snip-

That game was just bad in so many aspects.
-Find cheesily hidden (on top of rocks you could not jump on) diamonds in order to buy weapons and upgrades. Thankfully you could easily make due with some of the most basic weaponry. And if you got the little DLC pack with the silenced shotgun, well, nothing I ever purchased from the arms merchant ever trumped that.
-Spend 50+% of the game travelling from mission to mission, or being ambushed while you travel.
-Your character apparently has no morals.
-Your 'friends' backstab you altogether, en masse, at the end of the game

While I didn't buy the game, I did got to play it, and I agree that the story was... not good and you just went through it without any choice whatsoever. I did feel bad when your first group of friends die and you can do nothing about it, especially when the old guy was amongst them But other than that I found that the game, while not being "good", was pretty enjoyable at times.

 

[IceStar100]

Question I know it's odd but I always like how realist Farcry 2 was. Things like you had to pull out a map to find the area and how it stayed first person when you drove. Can you turn off the Hud in this. How important is it to the game.

 

[Shocksplicer]

Any story at all is definitely a step up from Far Cry 2.

YOU ARE IN AFRICA AND YOU HAVE TO KILL THIS GUY BUT YOU'RE NOT REALLY THAT PROACTIVE ABOUT IT ALSO YOU HAVE MALARIA!!!

 

[DoctorObviously]

It would have played it if it didn't have uPlay, which is a shame.

 

[Weaver]

So, what the fuck is up with Vaas? I just don't get who greenlight his character design. He's just hilariously goofy looking. I know they were going for intimidation, but eyeliner and eyeshadow, and clown hair don't really instill fear into me.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Can't wait to get my hands on this one.Most of the reviews I've seen have gotten very high reviews.

I think it's one of the few multi-platform video reviews that show the PC version.For that,I thank you!

 

[Buizel91]

I was so hoping this game would be good, glad to see my wish came true!

Honestly the amount of stuff to do in this game seems overwhelming, cannot wait to pick it up!

 

[Revolutionary]

Disabling the radio towers looks remarkably similar to the synchronisation points in assassins creed.

 

[major_chaos]

Far Cry should win an award for being the only franchise I can think of that has three games with almost nothing in common other than being FPSs.

 

[StormShaun]

Looks great so far, grabbing it when it comes out...which is my birthday. Yay for me...

Least it looks like they don't have the respawnable checkpoints I hated about the last one.
Still I loved the last one up till the ending.

So it looks like once more I take up my machete and flamethrower to take on some bad guys. Dis gonna be fun...

 

[nexus]

Well, this is an early review.. you don't really see early reviews these days. Except for magazines so they can get it out on publication date.. but still.

I'll probably pick this up on release, I didn't realize it was more than just a standard FPS.

 

[Netrigan]

Well, this is an early review.. you don't really see early reviews these days. Except for magazines so they can get it out on publication date.. but still.

I'll probably pick this up on release, I didn't realize it was more than just a standard FPS.

That's probably why they did early reviews. Far Cry isn't exactly a major franchise, so getting a lot of good word-of-mouth prior to launch will help drive up pre-orders.

I ended up pre-ordering after seeing the "Skyrim with guns" quote. This sounds like the shooter I've been waiting for. The closest I've come are action-RPGs like Fallout 3, but the combat mechanics tend to be ass in those games.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

I'm glad to hear it's a good game. I think the Far Cry series has had a lot of potential.

Though is the stealth actually any good? I've heard that it was awful in the previous game, and I'm on the fence about buying it.

 

[Metalrocks]

hmm, maybe i give this one a try once i have nothing better to play. dint like the first game and part 2 dint interest me at all. but part 3, sounds actually good. but im busy with other games now. so i might get it when its cheaper.

 

[Infernai]

Looking at this video, i just realised something:

Who else wants to see a new PROPER Turok game done with this style of gameplay? Cmon, admit it, if they did it right it could be easily 96 different flavors of awesome.

 

[ExtraDebit]

This game sounds like a fps version Assassin's creed 3, it shared A LOT of AC3's designs.

 

[HaraDaya]

I hate all of you who thinks Far Cry 2 was a bad game.

Everything in this game looks like an improvement, only thing that's really sad to see go is the organic interface of Far Cry 2. Pausing the game to look at maps only reminds you it's a game. Pretty much everything in Far Cry 2 was done in first person, it never took you out of the experience, and I wish more games would learn from that. It's the same kind of cool as Dead Space's holographic menus popping out of Isaac's suit.

 

[IronMit]

Go up to a high place and unlock surroundings...where have I seen that before..
way to innovate your game mechanics Ubisoft Montreal