Your mission: get the girl, kill the baddies, and save the world. The year is 2007 and you are Sargent Rex Colt, a Mark IV Cyber Commando. Which will delight those who prefer their games more cerebral. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is THE Kick-Ass Cyber Shooter.Welcome to an 80’s vision of the future. The game's AI is still pretty rigorous, though, so you have to use your brains – going in all guns blazing is rarely an approach that succeeds, so instead you have to even the odds with stealth takedowns, disabling alarms and so on. Previous versions of Far Cry have required pretty hardcore first-person shooter skills, and that's true of Far Cry 3, although it leads you into its gameplay much more gently in the initial stages. Unlike in many previous open-world shooters, all the subsystems mesh beautifully, in context with the story. Derelict radio masts cover the island, and when you climb them and activate them, the surrounding areas show up in great detail on your map. Plants can be picked and crafted into health and fire-resistance potions. After all, there's a lush island to explore, and countless side-missions, including a whole set that play out a back-story showing what happened to Rook Island in WWII.Ĭlever open-world processes reinforce the feeling that you're reinventing yourself as a survivalist: if you want to carry more than one gun, for example, you have to craft holsters out of the hides of various animals, so it pays to seek out and slaughter examples of the island's varied wildlife.Īs you complete missions and kill Vaas's soldiers, you earn XP, which can be spent on a huge number of skills, which become increasingly useful as the game progresses (and, sensibly, few are unlocked in the early stages, so the system never feels overwhelming).
Naturally, Jason sets about rescuing the surviving members of his holiday gang – including his girlfriend, Liza, encountering along the way helpful characters like Dr Earnhardt – a brain-fried psychotropic alchemist – and Citra, the female leader of a tribe resembling the Mayans.įar Cry 3: 'buoyed by some fantastic performances.'įar Cry 3's story is vivid and characterful, yet you can dip into it whenever you want. Even though the tropical setting resembles the. A military expert prone to mysticism, Dennis instructs you, as Brody, in the art of becoming a guerrilla warrior. Far Cry 3 is an open world first-person shooter set on the fictional Rook archipelago in the Pacific. You're rescued by Dennis Rogers, a Liberian immigrant trying to mobilise the one village on Rook Island not in thrall to Vaas, and end the latter's reign of terror. Playing Jason Brody, you manage to escape with the help of your similarly incarcerated and Army-trained brother, who is gunned down as you flee.
But after a parachute jump, things go unspeakably wrong, with the party captured by Vaas, a gloriously characterised and very believable psychopath, who has an ego the size of a planet and is given to philosophising about the nature of madness and random acts of chilling violence.
Far Cry 3 starts brilliantly, with a montage of phone and video footage documenting the high holidaying jinks of a bunch of moderately obnoxious American students on Rook Island, an apparently idyllic Pacific paradise.
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