Be One With the Jungle and Your Grenade Launcherįar Cry 3 features an excellent balance of stealth based gameplay and all out fire fights. Both systems added a great amount of depth to what would have been a fun although less full featured experience without them. It was a surprise along with the game’s skill system in what I expected was a pure shooter experience. The crafting system is a great mechanic that will prove useful time and time again during your quest for revenge. Specifically the various forms of plant life are used to craft syringes which in addition to healing your wounds, will also grant you special abilities depending on the crafting recipe used. Throughout the course of the game you will need to hunt animals and forage for plants in order to upgrade things like ammo and loot capacities or the amount of weapons you can carry. I would recommend doing so because hunting and skinning animals is actually the basis for the game’s crafting system. If you’d rather be the hunter than the hunted you can take it upon yourself to go and hunt down some of the island’s abundant wildlife. It’s not just humans with guns you need to watch out for, there are several predators like, komodo dragons, leopards, sharks, and packs of wild dogs that would be more than happy to have you for a snack. All these elements together along with the gorgeous visuals provided by Ubisoft’sDunia Engine 2 give the world an organic feel that makes Rook Island a beautifully serene, yet extremely dangerous place. The world is populated by native islanders, a band of indigenous warriors known as the Rakyat, mercenaries, pirates, and an amazingly diverse set of flora and fauna.
The expansive jungles of the North and the rolling hills of the South are a great setting for Ubisoft’s trip down the rabbit hole. Having now played the entire single player campaign and explored a fair amount of Rook Island, I have to say that Far Cry 3 is the best game I’ve played all year.įar Cry 3 takes place in a vast open world spanning two main islands located in what I assume is the South Pacific. That said, when it came time to load Far Cry 3 into my disc tray I had very few expectations but was still willing to see whether the series had or hadn’t changed for the better. I found the game’s insanity laden marketing angle to be more annoying than effective, and the brief demo of Far Cry 3’s multiplayer I received at PAX East last April left me feeling rather underwhelmed. Far Cry 2 had some cool ideas but ultimately felt like it was lacking something, let’s call it heart.īecause of my previous disappointment with Far Cry 2 I decided to ignore the hype that Ubisoft has been piling on for the series’ latest entry Far Cry 3. Unfortunately, what I got was an open world that didn’t feel organic and a story that completely missed the mark of what I would call interesting or well written. Before the game’s release I was incredibly hyped for what promised to be an amazing open world adventure with a story that was supposed to be comparable to Joseph Conrad’s Hearts of Darkness. Like most people, I found Far Cry 2 to be a bit of a let down.
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