Far Cry 3 game review
In a few simple beats Far Cry 3's accidental hero, Jason Brody, goes from being nervy, spoilt rich kid to John Rambo, as his extreme sports holiday takes a turn for the worse. It’s a forgivably quick process for plot development purposes, if an abrupt one, but made palatable by the use of subtle tricks skilfully employed to pull …
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Well to be fair in FC3, you can create both multiplayer maps and single player sandbox levels... ;-)
Sorry, but since when is Wikipedia a "definitive proof" of anything ? Wikipedia does not yet hold any academic laurels that I know of.
The only thing you're proving is that there is a user-based truth-by-consensus website out there that agrees with your point of view.
Pascal Monett... "Sorry, but since when is Wikipedia a "definitive proof" of anything ?" Pascal misses the obvious sarcasm in the statement, and even a smiley isn't a big enough clue. Let's miss the joke and post-mortem the comment ad nauseum; I despair.
I liked Farcry 2
Bought it for £10 at Tescos
Kept me going through the PSN hack
I actually enjoyed it, a stealth game, but I could not get away from carrying a sniper rifle.
I will buy it in the next couple of months, but just bought GoW3 for £5
Re: I liked Farcry 2
+1
I'm still busy in Skyrim and there's a queue of games on my Amazon wishlist, cheapest gets bought first.
Surely you should be reviewing the PC version?
Starting to get annoyed an people trying to play FPS games on consoles. They just suck. Especially considering the console hardware is nearly 10 years old now. Even the game developers are getting annoyed at that.
PC version. Thats your demographic here anyway! Better graphics, easier to play, and much easier to review & create screenshots etc.
Re: Surely you should be reviewing the PC version?
Yawn, I have both a Games PC and a console, the console is better for FPS mostly due to the lack of a keyboard. Yes I have a PS3 type gamepad for my PC.
I played FC1 and FC2 on the PC and the graphics were 'as good' as the console version as far as I could see. The same goes for Just Cause 2.
Re: Surely you should be reviewing the PC version?
Keyboard and mouse are far superior input devices to a gamepad for controlling a FPS. It's irrelevant on a console, since every player is handicapped to use a gamepad.
Re: Surely you should be reviewing the PC version?
@ Miek, how ironic then that consoles have aim assist to account for the crudeness of the game controller.
I want to see your review of Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 was such a piece of sh(t that I've been vastly turned off to the idea of Far Cry 3 since it's announcement. It's only the pleasant memories of the original Far Cry that even garnered my interest.
I'd love to know the reviewers opinions of Far Cry 2 so I have a comparison to Far Cry 3. If he thought it was good, then I know to avoid this game.
And so El Reg costs me money ;)
I kinda forgot it was out and with the holiday season up so close I kinda figured what the heck. Thanks for the review; IMO it summed up the game pretty nicely. And I also like how some points are also picked up on other reviews while you lot also picked up some specifics..
The only thing I hope for is that this game doesn't fall into the "level up trap"; Assasins Creed Brotherhood is a very good example of that "flaw" (well, not really a flaw but....). In AC-B you need to destroy Borgia towers. But the fun part is that you can start doing that really soon in the game, at a point where some of the stronger enemies aren't yet introduced. I guess the designers meant for you to follow the tutorial (-like) missions, but if you started exploring instead you could unlock a lot of stuff. When I entered the first dungeon of the sons of Romulus I had already destroyed all but 3 or 4 Borgia towers.
And when the stronger enemies eventually appeared I had already massed a nice group of assassins to meet them :-)
But, can't wait to give this a spin tomorrow evening. I really liked FC2, even with the repetitive scenes, because of what it allowed you to do. And it seems they kept a lot of the good parts (charge in guns blazing or fight from the shadows) and added lots of better graphics and AI.
So you played Far Cry 3 and everything was just peachy ?
Isn't there just one niggling point that annoyed you ? Can it be that so complex a game did not have a single fault worth mentioning ?
Frankly, this review strikes me as way too smooth to be valid. Come on ! Where's the Bite ?
@Pascal
Well, in this case I think its an honest review; but you're right. There's always a catch. My take is simple; when you first play a game its easy to get overwhelmed; so much new stuff, so much beauty, so much diversity (in comparison to the previous version) and so you're left a little bit in awe.
Then you start working on your review because well; modern reviews need to get released as soon as possible. Not after the reviewer got, say, a week or so to really dive into the game and get a full impression of it. Gotta beat or at least keep up with the competition...
Its the main reason why I think a lot reviewers suck by definition; they review stuff as soon as its out, but then never take the time to pick it up again later and do, say, a "Game xxx revisited" to look at it once more but this time after a longer period. For example a month or two. Enough time to have also experienced the bad stuff.
But that's what user reviews are for; IMO they're always better than commercial funded ones,
The verdict is in
I am saddened to have to report that unfortunately this one is just like number 2, with another story strapped to it. If you liked 2 you'll have a great time. Me ? Not so much.
Looking forward to Crysis 3 though.
What I fail to understand...
Is that most reviewers didn't spot a rather nasty bug in the game wrt. the somewhat lineair missions. When you accept a mission you need to get to the mission area. But if you happen to come across your opponents outside that area (or if you lure them there by sniping some of the cronies) then you're out of luck since your mission is almost certain likely to fail, even if you met all criteria (like stabbing your target): You were supposed to enter the mission area first and only /then/ start killing people.
Sorry, but that's such a major flaw that I can't believe no reviewer picked this up. I came across this only 3 - 4 hours in the game, and I'm not even a die hard gamer.
But apart from that; FC3 is a very cool and awesome shooter. I LOVE how you can run into all sorts of problems. Like, for example, you're ready to "storm" a base after doing remote scouting and all of a sudden find a huge tiger standing a few meters away from you. "uh oh". And by the time you killed it you can be sure that you alerted the entire base of your presence :-)
Awesome game, but a little bit too much hyped for my liking.
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