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| ASIN | B0050SYV70 |
|---|---|
| Release date | December 4, 2012 |
| Customer Reviews |
4.5 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | #27,581 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games) #456 in Xbox 360 Games |
| Pricing | The strikethrough price is the List Price. Savings represents a discount off the List Price. |
| Product Dimensions | 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches; 1 Pounds |
| Type of item | Video Game |
| Rated | Mature |
| Item model number | E3 2011-ASIN 287 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 1 pounds |
| Manufacturer | Ubisoft |
| Date First Available | June 6, 2011 |
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Journey Into The Heart Of Insanity
Far Cry 3 is an open world first-person shooter set on an island unlike any other. A place where heavily armed warlords traffic in slaves. Where outsiders are hunted for ransom. And as you embark on a desperate quest to rescue your friends, you realize that the only way to escape this darkness…is to embrace it.
Key Game Features
An Open World First-Person Shooter
Create your own FPS adventure. Customize your weapons, your skills and your approach to each mission, whether you favor intense run-and-gun action, stealthy close-up takedowns or long-range sniping.
An Island Of Danger And Discovery
Explore a diverse island playground, from mountain ranges and swampy grasslands to white sandy beaches. Discover relics, hunt exotic animals, play mini-games and travel quickly by land, sea or air. Fight your way through the island’s towns, temples, river ports and more!
Uncover A Memorable Story And An Insane Cast Of Characters
Encounter an engaging and disturbed cast of characters as you take a gritty journey to the dark side of humanity, written by a Writers Guild Award winner.
Play With Friends In A Full Co-Op Campaign
Play online or split screen and team up in a four-player campaign which challenges you to be your best and work together to prevail. Experience the island through the eyes of a wayward crew in their own quest to survive against the odds.
A Different Breed Of Multiplayer
Innovative multiplayer rewards skill and team play. To level up, players must support each other by boosting with battle cries, reviving teammates and calling in support weapons. After each match, players have the choice to punish or show mercy for their foes in fun and twisted ways, choreographed with interactive cutscenes.
Use The Map Editor To Create And Access New Content
The powerful and easy-to-use Far Cry Map Editor is back, with new and improved features. A community of mapmakers ensures a constant stream of all-new content with the very best being showcased for the whole world to enjoy. Using the included tools, you too can make amazing maps, quickly and easily.
Cutting-Edge Graphics And Gameplay
Far Cry 3 is being developed by the world-class game designers who brought you such critically acclaimed titles as Assassin’s Creed 2, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, and World in Conflict.
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STORY: You play as Jason Brody, a rich college graduate from California on the vacation of a life time with his two brothers, girlfriend, and closest friends. As the final part of their trip through Asia, they go skydiving onto an island located somewhere between Indonesia and Australia. When they land on the beach they are horrified to discover that the island is controlled by pirates and they are captured. The pirates and the PMC that handles them are lead by a man named Vaas (pirate leader) and a man named Hoyt (PMC leader). They control human trafficking and drug trading in this part of the world and use these islands as a base of operations. Jason and his older brother try to escape the camp however Jason ends up fleeing into the jungle and is nearly killed. He is saved by a man named Dennis and explains how the island's natives, the Rakyat, are leading a guerilla war against the pirates and need his help. Jason reluctantly joined as it seems to be the only means to save his friends.
Now I usually try to avoid spoilers in my reviews but I will have to mention some borderline spoiler things here and there. So if you don't want any spoilers, skip down to the game play section. First of all, Far Cry 3 has hands down the best story and characters of all the Far Cry games. I can't help but feel there is some social commentary going on here with these privileged white Americans getting thrown into the situation. Jason, while I really didn't like him at first, changes a lot of over the game and the change is a believable one up until a certain point. Vaas is one of the best villains in a video game this year. He reminds me of the Heath Ledger Joker, when he's on the screen, you can't take your eyes off him. Now this game is divided into two halves and I have to say, the first half is stronger than the second. The game starts out strong and ends strong but the 2nd act, it kind of falls flat and feels pretty different from the first half of the game. It doesn't make it so you will want to stop playing but you'll definitely notice the change and it makes Jason's character development feel less believable though this does come to a head at the very end of the game. Also this is when Hoyt becomes the main villain and he's just not nearly as interesting as Vaas. Jason's friends are very believable as they react to the situation they are in and you meet some other messed up characters along the way. As I said, the strong characters that this game has sets it apart from the other FC games. I should also mention that there is some very heavy subject matter in this game. In addition to all the usual violence you see in an M Rated FPS game, there are also drugs, human slavery, and implied raped.
The tropical island setting is used well as for the story and game play and seems to use it better than the first game. While this game tries to be realistic much like Far Cry 2 was, there are some mystical elements to it as well. There are bizarre drug induced segments and boss fights and this subtle Alice in Wonderland motif going on. The game also has a lot of Rambo references. If you've seen the 4th movie, you'll know what I'm talking about. This is a pretty long game, around 20+ hours especially if you try to do all of the side quests, which there are many. As I said, the game has a strong start and finish but the 2nd act is where the game kind of falls flat as it just seems to take on a new tone. Also the game has a very long credit roll at the end. Might be one of the longest credit sequences I have sat through since Metal Gear Solid 4.
GAMEPLAY: Much like Far Cry 2, it's an open sand box world but because of the island setting, it gives you freedom to REALLY explore everything. The shooting is pretty basic if you're familiar with most FPS games these days and you have a large variety of weapons to acquire in this game which are all customizable. They range from assault rifles, machine guns, launchers, bow and arrows and flamethrowers. The flamethrower is fun. All the weapons can be customized and are fun to find creative ways to use them which leads to the best part of the game: the assaults. Observing, planning, and making attacks against enemy positions are a lot of fun in this game because you are given complete freedom on how to go about it. You can try storming in with guns blazing but most of the time that will end with you dead. You have to plan your attacks, make use of the environment and the weapons at hand. You can sneak in and disable the alarm and then attack or sneak in and take down enemies one by one with knife (which is a lot of fun to do) or set the camp on fire or shoot open the cage of a predator in the camp and have the animal attack people. There are many possibilities to play with.
Hunting and gathering is another major game play point. Unlike in other games like Red Dead Redemption or Assassin's Creed 3 where hunting wild life can be done but isn't needed unless you want to make some extra cash. In Far Cry 3, you must hunt if you want to be able to progress through the game. At the start, you have very little on you and you must craft rucksacks, bandoliers, holsters, wallets ect. If you want to be able to carry more stuff and you will need to be able to do so or else you're going to have a bad time. Everything requires certain amounts of animal hides to make so it's a good idea to try and get most of your hunting done as early as you can in the game and be aware, you're not the only one hunting. Predatory animals will hunt other wild life, humans, and you which add a much more realistic feel to the game's wild life. You need to watch out for leopards, bears, and tigers on land and watch out for sharks and crocodiles in the water. You can kill these creatures, of course, but they do not go down as easy as many of the human enemies in the game. You also gather plants for making health items, combat and hunting items as well.
Plants and hunting grounds are clearly marked on your map which is handled differently from the previous game. This is where some of the rawness from FC2 is taken away in FC3. In the previous game, your map was literally a map that your character pulled out and looked at while holding a GPS device. In FC3, it's just a map screen that gets pulled up when you press select. There is nothing wrong with that but the map screen and menu screen for crafting and item management will take you out of the immersive feeling the game is going for. The map itself is easy to read and has easy to use fast travel stations that you unlock by liberating enemy camps across the island so that's another reason you want to assault enemy positions. Your map is not all there however. You must unlock more sections of the map by finding and climbing radio towers. The more you turn on, the more of the map you see. These are pretty fun as they act as mini plat forming segments and are sort of like climbing vantage points in Assassin's Creed games. Other side missions include assassinating specific enemies with your knife, hunting animals with a certain weapon, and odd jobs you'll find from other people on the island. You can also find and collect relics, WWII letters from dead Japanese soldiers, and memory cards that give you drug recipes. You get some exp points from these but not really worth collecting everything unless you're an achievement hunter.
You level up like you would in an RPG and you do it fairly often. When you do, you gain a skill point which you can spend to unlock new skills and gain more on your arm tattoo. Some of these skills are helpful but some of these are throw aways like faster turret cool down or shooting from zip lines. You're never really going to use it. You get the most exp points from killing enemies and completing main missions. The game has a much improved money system from the previous game as it uses actual cash instead of diamonds and the money is much more plentiful. There were many times when I had too much money and I had to just spend it on stuff to free up my wallet. Driving vehicles is much more realistic in this game. Take that as a good or bad thing. Some cars have trouble driving on rough terrain and some roll over pretty easily. Thankfully the hang glider is much easier to control in this game and not just a death trap like it was in FC2. The weapon selection inventory is the last thing I'll hit on. It's kind of confusing to use as it is never explained and if it is, it's not explained well. I had to check in the instruction pamphlet. You hold the left bumper to make it appear you use the joystick to select the weapon. However, if you switch between weapons like normal it will go back to whatever weapon was previously selected. It's kind of confusing to explain but it can be annoying especially in the middle of combat when pulling up the inventory screen isn't easy to do. While the game play over all is fun, it runs into the similar problem I find with games like Skyrim that there are a limited number of different types of side quests and once you get the hang of how these missions go, it gets kind of repetitive. This is more evident the 2nd half of the game as well.
GRAPHICS: Visually Far Cry 3 is a beautiful game. The landscape, water, people, animals, plants all look amazing and life like. There is nothing here to honestly complain about. However, if you are someone where the best possible graphics are a must, then you should definitely play this game on PC if your computer can handle it. The 360 version looks good but kind of has this weird slight flickering when you're looking around sometimes. Also the game did freeze on me once but I am using a used game so if you get it new, hopefully you won't have that issue. Like the games before it in this series, FC3 is very easy on the eyes.
SOUND: All the sounds of the jungle and combat sound great in FC3. The audio is very helpful in hunting animals as you can maybe get the drop on them by hearing animal grunts and growls through the brush. It can also be tip off as you turn around to see a tiger jumping into your face. There is this sound you where whenever you pull up the map or menu screen that sounds like a picture being processed out of a Polaroid camera. It sounds cool at first but considering how often you will be pulling up those screens, it gets annoying after awhile. The music of Far Cry 3 is odd. The main theme is the airy electric rock song that kind of reminds me of the theme from Mirror's Edge. The majority of the music you hear though is this foreboding, suspense building music you hear when walking around in the jungle or you just hear nothing but the wild life. I'm not saying FC3 has bad music, I'm just saying hearing the good music is fairly rare. The voice acting is the best in the franchise so far. As I said before, Jason and his friends sound and act believable to people in this situation and the more corrupt characters are also fun to watch and come to hate them but in the good way you should come to hate a bad guy. Vaas is the one who steals the show however. Like I said, he's like the Heath Ledger Joker, when he's on the screen you can't take your eyes off him because you're terrified and also mesmerized by his insanity and the crazy things he is saying. Ubisoft knew he was an awesome character and it's why he's on the cover of the game. Sadly, he's only in the first half of the game. Notice a pattern here?
Overall, Far Cry 3 is the best game in the series so far in terms of story, characters, and general survival game play. There are a couple things I wish they had kept from Far Cry 2 but it doesn't hurt it much. As I've said multiple times in this review, the 1st half of the game is stronger than the 2nd. Survival with the elements becomes less of an issue by then and your character's objectives change but it does start and end strong. If you're tired of typical CoD like FPS games and like big open world games then you should check this one out. It can be repetitive but it's the kind of repetitiveness that makes you feel like you're moving towards a greater goal and it's rewarding because of that so come take a trip to this island of madness. If you're going to play one Ubisoft game this year, let it be Far Cry 3, not AC3.
OVERALL: 8.5/10
Single Player Free Roaming:
Absolutely the best aspect of the game. If I could cut out the Story missions entirely and ignore the co-op and multiplayer, this would be a 5 star game. No questions. Exploring the two islands is a load of fun. There are hidden relics to find, radio towers to unlock, enemy outposts to take over, hidden letters to find, and tons of generic loot to sell so you can buy and upgrade your guns. The guns are all good, the bow is amazing, and the melee "Takedown" system makes stealth kills fun and useful for once. The one drawback of exploring too much is you get free guns from unlocking radio towers, and you get a ton of cash and sellable items, so it's very easy to max out your cash very early in the game, even with the biggest wallet upgrade. It's a blast to climb up the taller hills and mountains and find a hang glider to swoop down across long distances, and about halfway through the game you gain access to a permanent wing-suit and parachute so you basically have a mini-glider at all times, and can parachute to safety when needed. At that point in the game it starts to feel a lot like Just Cause, but in all the right ways. Especially with the enemy outposts and random races and stuff, not to mention the VERY similar settings. I've already traded my copy back to GameStop (towards a pre-order of Bioshock Infinite of course!), but if Ubi Soft announced a massive new island to explore as paid DLC I would buy the game again without hesitation. And with the latest patch as of this review, you can reset all captured outposts. While this also takes away most of your fast travel destinations and puts more enemies back onto the islands, it gives you the option to keep playing and exploring the island and to keep using those awesome guns (especially the unique unlockable guns!). Oh, and for anyone who cares, the graphics on 360 are not very good... at all. It's very obvious that this game would look stunning on a good PC, but was never really meant for consoles. As far as the landscape and weapons are concerned, though, it's still a pretty good looking game. One last thing, the locations of all collectible items can be added to your in-game map by purchasing maps from the in-game stores. No real money involved, no hassling with video guides and location lists, it's all right there built into the game if you don't feel like searching for the items on your own!
***Rating here: 5/5 - hours upon hours of fun for anyone who likes open-world exploration, first person gun combat, optional stealth mechanics, and especially those who love collecting stuff.
Single Player Story Missions:
Bad. That's the only word I can think of to justify the story missions, and the only word they deserve. First off, most story missions put you into situations that are outside of the normal mechanics of the game. One mission takes away your ability to use Takedowns, but expects you to sneak through a base undetected. There are several cheap "escape before the timer runs out" missions. A lot of potential is lost on poorly scripted events and lack of detail. One set of missions is a complete rip-off of Uncharted or Tomb Raider. Another bunch missions are auto-failed when a friendly NPC takes too much damage (a friendly NPC that stands out in the open while waves of enemies rush at you). This happens with different NPCs at different times in the story, mind you. The "boss" encounters are all scripted drug-trips full of boring dialogue and quick-time button presses. You don't get a single satisfying boss in the whole game, it's all taken out of your hands and put into cutscenes with those quick time events. The only interesting character in the ENTIRE game, Vaas, is not a particularly important character in the story, which you find out fairly early on, and he doesn't get the dialogue or interaction that a character with his level of detail and depth deserves. Jason Brody (your character), his friends, the quest giver NPCs and enemies are all annoying as hell with a few exceptions for humorous inclusions such as the CIA agent you meet, his German undercover partner, the drug-addled "doctor" and a few others, all of whom play rather minor roles in the ultimate plot. I'll admit I didn't buy this game expecting some spectacular storyline, but I was definitely disappointed. The two endings are especially disappointing, as the choices turn out to be "bad" and "worse", and those are the only 2 options you get for endings, and which one is which is not exactly clear at the time the choices are presented. If it matters to you in any way, yes, there are two scenes in the game in which one particular female NPC is seen topless. But seriously, don't let those cheesy scenes influence your decision, for better or worse.
***Rating here: 2.5/5 - I've seen worse, but this is such a frustrating disappointment.
Co-op Missions:
If the story missions were bad, these are awful. Terrible. It's like a Left 4 Dead style co-op where the co-op campaign is segmented into shorter missions/chapters. Unfortunately, the mechanics (such as healing syringes) are a bit different from the single player. It's also very obvious that the co-op runs on a different engine than the single player or at the very least was developed and designed by a separate team from the single player stuff. I played split-screen, which I'm sure didn't help my experience, but the graphics were several times worse than single player, to the point of not being able to see distant enemies at all. The maps are bland, uninspired, and boring. The gameplay is the same. The characters aren't interesting at all, and the story is completely expendable. While I'm sure there are people out there who love these missions, I couldn't stand them. My advice is don't buy this game expecting to enjoy the co-op. Buy it for the excellent single-player experience (minus the story missions, at least).
***Rating here: 2/5 - If you're patient and have low standards, it might be a tolerable experience, but I hated it.
Multiplayer:
After trying the co-op missions, I decided not to even bother with multiplayer. I'd played the game I wanted to play, done all the stuff I wanted to do, and multiplayer did not sound worth my time even if it turned out to be better than expected. Can't say anything good or bad here, folks. It could be amazing for all I know, but I've got other games to play for now.
***Rating here: n/a.
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A masterpiece in my opinion. Looking forward to the next in the series.
Trust me, you cant go wrong with this one.










